Roy Batty68
Caldari
Immortal Dead
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Posted - 2008.09.01 15:44:00 -
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I used to play Dark Age of Camelot, and it had a couple things that might be worthy of lifting:
On rewards
Something worth fighting over is key. For instance, give all FW lowsec areas a one per faction entry point in to say a series of new 0.0 systems that can not have POS left in them. Put some new resoure there worthy of fighting over. Uber rats that drop godly tank mods or something.
Now let the various factions fight over "ownership" of said area. Take enough plexes or whatever and it closes down the previous owners entry points and makes your factions entry now open (and only available to the owning faction).
This gives people something meaningful to fight over and also creates cool situations where you blitz for ownership and then go wipe out anyone left from the opposing faction still in there blissfully farming away.
On blobbing
If you somehow incorperated points for opposing faction(s) ship kills, you could vary it by the X vs. Y amounts. So if group X, consisting of 60 pilots, kills off group Y, consisting of 2 pilots, group X will get very few to no points for it. If it's more like a 2 vs 2, then victor pilots could get full rewards like 100 pts per.
Make the points like LP worth trading in for decent gear. Also could be used for bragging rights. Players chest thumping motivation is the best cure for the blob. If it becomes uncool to blob, and your stats show it, it will sort itself out.
Only thing to be wary of in any sort of "Points for kills" scheme would be making sure that support players are properly rewarded. One of my pet peeves is the common, "I did the most damage so I'm the shit" attitude that dumbs down games like this while also demotivating anyone from playing support.
Just some ideas to kick around. Enough DAoC in space.
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Roy Batty68
Caldari
Immortal Dead
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Posted - 2008.09.01 17:59:00 -
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 Originally by: Roy Batty68
DAoC in space.
Now that I've gotten home and had a chance to slap myself a couple times, I wish to appologize for my previous post. Anything that makes FW like DAoC farming for RPs or WoW grinding the battlegrounds for prizes, would be terrible.
The problem with FW is it just doesn't matter. It doesn't do anything for the rest of Eve except be a novelty sideshow. It should be relevant somehow to the rest of eve.
How you would do that without making it a battleground grind, I don't know. My ears are still ringing from slapping myself...
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