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« on: October 31, 2003, 07:33:18 pm »
Okay here\'s my take on the situation.
- First of all THERE MUST BE A PENALTY, otherwise dying becomes meaningless and powergamers get all the fun.
To acomplish this penalty I can think of two ways to do it.
1 When you die you become a ghost semi-transparent to yourself but complete invisible to everyone else. (no actions but moving, and no walking through walls, maybe speed increased to x4, and letting the player fly) Then you should have to seek out a temple to be revived. You goto the temple and pray then your given a list of options. The different options can have different prices like revival wich will return your soul to your body with 5% hp, or revival in temple wich will bring your body to you and revive you in the temple, etc... This would be pretty nice for rp value since it would be like almost a pack with the gods to live again. Maybe even your ghost could seek out a high level priest an be able to comunicate with and ask for a revival or make a deal or something.
2 Or you should just respawn at the temple automatically with an xp penalty, but without the chance of going down in levels (very anoying) This way people will not freek out about loosing levels, but they also wont be fearless to fight anything they want on the odd chance they\'ll luck out and get mega xp.
I think that no matter what it should be a given that you can stay in your corpse dead and wait till someone decides to respawn you. If you don\'t want to wait then you go with whatever other respawn option is chosen.
I\'d like to not that I\'m strongly agaist the \"purgatory\" type ideas where you get sent to an alternative relm and have to complete a task. THIS IS THE MOST BORING THING IMAGENABLE. All it does is force a player to do something THAT THEY DON\'T WANT. I usually imediatley stop playing a game as soon as I run into this. It is really not fun at all in the slightest bit. Sure maybe if you make it only last 2 minutes at the max it\'s tolerable, but anything else is not fun.
But yeah to conclude I feel the most important thing is to have some sort of penalty whatever it maybe, as long as it doesn\'t take the fun out of the game.