Low player count and death

grep · **Joined:** Fri Apr 17, 2009 9:50 pm **Posts:** 5522

It's about as "Have a gold star for playing" as most of the rest of these ideas, with the notable exception of requiring active application of skill and reaction time to provide the player with a benefit.

I'm talking about some debuff on the level of a three minute stun at portal stones, anyway. In PVP it wouldn't be recall, it would be adding shame to failure.

Syn · **Joined:** Sun Jan 18, 2015 2:31 pm **Posts:** 172

grep wrote:

It's about as "Have a gold star for playing" as most of the rest of these ideas, with the notable exception of requiring active application of skill and reaction time to provide the player with a benefit.

I'm talking about some debuff on the level of a three minute stun at portal stones, anyway. In PVP it wouldn't be recall, it would be adding shame to failure.

Unless the person trying to kill you has to walk. Or is low on pe. Or is low on me. Or dies to your group. Or, or, or. Bad grep.

ProfessorMomo · **Posted:** Mon Jan 26, 2015 2:37 pm

I know priests are super special with their higher level requirement resurrection spell but couldn't shamans and warlocks get a less terrible experience drain on their equivalents? Like one tick? They already have the added drawback of having to find the body and face what killed them and it would open up two new classes people would be willing to go to.

grep · **Joined:** Fri Apr 17, 2009 9:50 pm **Posts:** 5522

Syn wrote:

Or, or, or.

A risk of consequences is still a superior choice to the outright removal of penalties if we're indeed talking about a tactical game: every tweak could be enriching the tactical environment.

I don't know if people remember this, but SK had a rewards program for a while. If the playercount reached a certain number, resurrections were free and instant. It was an earthly paradise.

Do you know what happened? People rejected it. Entire crops were lost.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

Lumiere · **Joined:** Wed Nov 05, 2014 9:19 am **Posts:** 309

Yes, please remove all exp penalties for raise dead and breath of life. Having to get to the corpse is enough of a penalty.

grep · **Joined:** Fri Apr 17, 2009 9:50 pm **Posts:** 5522

Am I the only person who uses the poltergeist command or something?

There's no challenge to corpse recovery these days unless you're doing it wrong or chose poorly.

Lumiere · **Joined:** Wed Nov 05, 2014 9:19 am **Posts:** 309

It's a huge penalty to the time that the shaman/warlock has to take to help a person out. A priest doesn't need to get up and go anywhere, dangerous or otherwise, to drop their no-exp-loss life spell.

grep · **Joined:** Fri Apr 17, 2009 9:50 pm **Posts:** 5522

I think we're going about this the wrong way.

Raise dead should cost the dead person xp.

Resurrection should cost the caster xp.

Situation fixed, from the point of view of Dulrik's long-standing and long-documented belief that resurrection should be a big deal.

TheX · **Joined:** Fri Oct 10, 2014 2:22 pm **Posts:** 455

Shush yourself

Syn · **Joined:** Sun Jan 18, 2015 2:31 pm **Posts:** 172

Put Resurrection on par with the xp lost from using the flee command. Not significant, but noticeable over prolonged use.

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