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Revision as of 20:45, 13 May 2008
This article collects information regarding the conceptualisation of the gameplay of The Mana World
This article is currently only a proposal
The features or design guidelines described in this article are only a proposal made by one or some persons. It has not been evaluated or accepted by the core development team yet. Feel free to add your personal opinion about them or make counter proposals.
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My idea for PvP is to have an option in the player's setup window to switch on PvP or to keep it off. On a basic level this would mean that people who have activated PvP can attack and be attacked by other people who have PvP activated.
This would mean that people who wish to stay out of PvP can do so and the more competitive people can fight wherever and whenever they want to.
Guild Wars
This could be combined with Crush's proposal where guilds can declare war on each other and have raidable HQs. Either guild's status towards each other (allied/at war/neutral) could be in writing only and have no effect on their PvP rights, or, players in guilds who are at war with each other may attack one another freely and players in guilds who are allied with each other may never atack one another (and neutral obviously has no effect). I personally am in favour of the first option for realism.
Addressing Problems
Newbies
PvP would be mentioned in the tutorial (or whatever equivelent is implemented) and newbies would be introduced to the idea and warned of the possibilities. When a player then first goes to switch on PvP in their setup window they will be presented with a warning pop-up message which says something along the lines of "WARNING: You are switching on PvP. This means that you can be attacked by other players, even ones of a higher level, and you may be killed!". This warning should pop up each time PvP is activated, but there should be a "Don't display this warning again" option.
Unfair Kills
One problem presented by this system is that high level players could easily attack players of much lower levels if they have PvP activated. This could be solved by there being a restriction on the ability to attack players when there is a certain gap between their levels.
Ganking
Ganking (acting friendly and then back-stabbing) could be solved by there being a PvP block system. I.E. Players could block other players from atacking them (which would obviously work both ways - you could not attak someone you'd PvP-blocked).
Ganging Up
Players ganging up on each other could be solved by implementing a party system, where in players may not attack other players who are in combat already, unless they are in combat with another player who is in your party. Also, to prevent a party of people all attacking just one person, players may not out-number each other in one fight unless the out-numbered player(s) are part of a larger party.
