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Gobbins
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Log off is always a delicate part of game balance, since on one end you do not want the player to be punished for attending to a RL emergency; on the other hand you do not want people to use log off as a get out of jail free card. For example, in the pvp centric, high death penalty mmo eve-online, the log off mechanics are still being tweaked 9 years in and can still be exploited to get out of the heat. I think with this anti-game of yours, you have a unique chance to experiment with how players react to really harsh log off mechanics. These changes would simply risk driving away too many players to be acceptable in a regular MMO. As it stands right now, panic alt+f4 will save you from a zombie horde 100% of the time, and save you from other players too as long as you have taken no pvp damage. Most importantly it allows you to escape when cornered, which I believe is a very important issue. It affects immersion greatly and gameplay as well. I wonder how the game would be like if your character remained persistant for a certain time after logging out no matter what. This would encourage finding safe spots to log out or players protecting each other as they quit the game. I think it would be a powerful boost to immersion and all in all interesting from an experimental point of view: has this ever really been done in any other game?
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Logoff mechanics in modern MMOs, and DayZ
Gobbins replied to Gobbins's topic in DayZ Mod General Discussion
For the record this isnt a post about people dodging pvp with the logoffski. The focus is the effect of logoffski on immersion, no just pvp but also the cheap trick of relogging yourself out of a huge trail of zombie trapping you in -
Logoff mechanics in modern MMOs, and DayZ
Gobbins replied to Gobbins's topic in DayZ Mod General Discussion
Huge part of this mods success is that it is not afraid to upset the player. The point of my post is that dayz has the unique chance to run an experiment no other game would ever dare running. -
You have earned you hookers and cocaine son. Seriously though I think people know that their donation has a chance to be completely void, it is still better use of money than buying another episode of cowaduty,
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Scrap the bandit system since it seems to cause more problems than they solve