PK rewards

[Groq]

But i'd never play then cut everyone down cuz that helps even more.

[Pops]

I'm sorry clifton I'm not really sure what you're getting at. I think we've moved past the merits of that particular idea, there isn't really a reason to try and defend it any more. As far as my "reputation" here goes, who cares? The only "reputation" that matters would be the opinions of the coding immortals i.e. Davairus. And as for copouts, how about holding your opinion till you're sure of the immortal reaction, then jumping in guns blazing long after the battle is over to show your support? If you knew the idea sucked when I first posted it, you shoulda said something:

[Ergorion]

To bring the topic back around to ways to make ranking a bit less of a hassle, I figured I'd throw in my two cents with another idea.

One thing that I think is worth thinking about is renewable quests, by which I mean quests that you can do multiple times. I recognize that this could be abused if there were no time delay between when you completed the quest and when you were given the opportunity to do it again, but I think if some time delays were instituted, being able to do a quest multiple times would help those guys sitting in the 40s and twiddling their thumbs waiting for a suitable ranking party to come around.

There were two methods I thought of as to when to reset the renewable quests. The first was to reset the quest whenever the character gains a rank(maybe every other rank, or every third rank) from 40 on. Obviously this couldn't be done for a quest that gives a ridiculous amount of experience but I think it would be reasonable for a quest or two that gives 1000exp to be reusable which would ultimately give a character up to 10,000 (if 1000exp worth of quests were gained each level from 40 to 50). Of course this number could easily be adjusted by how often those quests could be renewed and which quests are renewed.

The other method I was thinking of with renewable quests had to deal more with time, which I think is the better method. Again, I think that the quest restarts should happen starting at level 40, but in this case, instead of renewing the quests by ranking, they would be renewed every two weeks or so (again, the time period between quests can be changed).

[_Clifton_]

You guys talk about leveling as if it's hard. It's not.

You have surges. You have pets. And most importantly, you don't have people multikilling you at low levels. So all it really takes is a little bit of time. Ranking in every sort of RPG based environment requires a certain time commitment invested into grinding.

[Erlwith]

Ergorion, you clearly did not read Davairus's post at all. lol.

If you think the AR forums are bad (which I admit they can at times be) you should actually look at some of these MMO forums you speak about. It's like watching an army of little m1cos argue all day about who has the bigger penis.

[Kalist19]

" And as for copouts, how about holding your opinion till you're sure of the immortal reaction, then jumping in guns blazing long after the battle is over to show your support? If you knew the idea sucked when I first posted it, you shoulda said something "

Zing!


When I first read Pops' idea I didn't immediately see it as a way to level quickly. Hell, look at the PK stats. How many people do you see racking up 20 pk's in one month? Well, you'd need to do a LOT of pking at 1-2k per kill in order to rely on it as a leveling strategy.

I just thought that getting 1k-2k xp for killing a guy would be a nice bonus and perhaps encourage people to pk - this is a dangerous game, afterall.

Level 40 guy gets 5 pk's in one month, gains 5-10k experience...about an hour worth of grinding. To me that just seems like a nice bonus, not a way to make 'easy leveling waaaay easier'.

I don't think your idea was crap Pops.

[_Clifton_]

I'd farm noobs.

[Erlwith]

Poor newbies...

[Davairus]

Well I hope these forums don't compare directly with official MMO forums, although I'm sure there are some of you that care to visit those kind of places. But you should be able to see that kind of meaningless trash is not appropriate for here. It is a thinking man's game , and as far as exping goes, if its a race to you then you're playing the game wrong. Its supposed to have hobbyist appeal, whether getting something to 100%, or finishing out a level of exp, they're minor achievements to reach that give you something to do .. i.e. its part of "the game". Its not battle arena log on pk everyone til max level and turn in their ears to the juggernaut for uber swords.