you guys are so narrow minded. PvP is not 1v1. i dont know why people insist on 1v1 pvp because it IS boring no matter how you slice it.
These mmo's emphasise teamwork and what do people want to do? fight 1 on 1? stupid. Yes i thought scaling down the damage is a very good idea.
1 lvl 40 hunts level 10s, but what happens when you're messing around with 8 or 9 lvl -4 Tsoo? you get cocky and mess around on the phone or whatever and you get held or put to sleep and all of a sudden you're waking up in the hospital. same thing with hunting people, except they'll add you to their friends list and get their buddies to jump you every chance they get. and guess what? Mr. level 40 doesnt go around hunting level 10s anymore.
the thing that i want to know is how they are going to impliment a penalty for killing other players. Lineage had a pretty good system where if you hit someone you turned purple making you fair game to kill without penalty and killing another player you turn red making it so if you did die, you have a very high chance of dropping up to 5 items including your weapon.
but what can you do in this game that will make players think twice about running around killing other players? you cant drop items, i mean yes you can drop enhancements and such but who cares everyone is rich in coh.
The thing that deterred alot of people from pk'ing in lineage was to not allow anyone to actually see other people's level. Sometimes i would want to kill someone for being a jackass, but then i'd think twice and be like, hmm what level his he and does he have friends nearby? Thats what suprised me so much about coh is that everyone can see eachother's levels and know what the other guy has. attack powers and everything. This game is basically a poker game and once someone knows your cards, all they have to do is have a better hand.
I dont know really. All i know is i left Lineage 2 with 8 months left on my account for 2 reasons:
1.) the game was very basic with crappy stupid lengthy quests and very few different looking attacks and people (which coh has really really got me hooked for)
2.) I could NEVER kill anyone higher level than me. Not even one level. All i did was support my higher level people all the time and that is WAY boring. I was a shaman and by supporting i mean strictly healing only. I had other attacks and holds, but none of them would hit because i was lower level. If there is no scaling then only the higher ups will rule. Then it just turns into a "who doesnt have a life" contest. then i go back to dod where skill reigns over time wasting.
Scale it down! it takes me like 10-20 minutes to find a team of players my own level what more if i look for people to pvp in a consentual setting? gahh it would be like trying to start a team. Instead of using /invite it would be
/pvp dudeguy
dudeguy has refused your request
/pvp otherguy
otherguy has refused your request
/pvp thirdguy
thirdguy has refused your request
if i see that i'll say, well time to start playing Half-Life 2 again!
