Wars, battles and countries in PlaneShift

[Pielgrzym]

Let\'s think about hipothetical situation: one guild decided to control one city and they\'re not lettin\' anyone in because, let\'s say, that\'s the only place where you can get some very rare magical robe. But the other guild thinks that it\'s not right and it\'s their guild that should control the city. And then we have war... Let\'s say that 30 guys on each side and we will see a real virtual battle or even we can take part in that! Completely new thing in the world of computer games! Now tell me that PlaneShift won\'t be special! Who will dare to say that?!

I will say more. Controlled city can became a country where one guild will rule and it\'s gonna be even better if it would be national guild... For example all Germans will be meeting there. Everyone will know that in THIS city you have to speak German or you can be killed by ruling guild members.  

Greetings!!!

If you\'ve got some other interesting ideas, please share them with me and others PlaneShift fans just below!

PS. I\'m not German. It was only example.

[Mehallie]

Then you haven\'t read much of the forums.  


There will not be PvP.  So anyone \"killing\" another character will not happen.  It\'s impossible.

I have a problem with people staking out \"turf\" in the game as it again turns into \"my guild against the world\" rather than \"my guild interacts with the world.\"  If this turns into some sort of anarchic mafia-run game, I won\'t be really interested in playing.

[shiningknight_terror]

and ain\'t it kindda races to kill all non german speaking players in city...like in ur example....but it is still kindda cool though....

[Kiva]

If you like the idea about having your own country/city with your guild, go get enough members and gold, and settle a whole country or just build enough houses to make a city... Simple?

[Caldazar]

I don\'t like the idea of gathering all, lets say germans, at one place. If you ask me, one of the best stuff with mmog is that there are no borders. Nobody cares if you are a muslim or an orthodox, american or russian.

[Vengeance]

Congratulations.  You just invented ShadowBane.

[kyp14]

Gronomist giuld war will be possible i beleave so if you run into a person from the giuld your at war with you can attack on site but unless everyone in the city was part of the giuld you had declared war on you couldn\'t clean the city out for your giuld only becasue there would be people you couldn\'t kill

[ghazkull]

yea, i must admit, seeing a massive battle on a mmorpg would be very impressive to see,but think of the reality, not everyone is in a guild, what would they do if they wanted the special robes, which your guild has held captive?? it would suck for them. Player killing really on causes problems, unless ofcourse there is a special arena created for those who want to player kill,  but walking around being able to kill another player would not be great at all.

[Tardin]

Originally posted by Vengeance
Congratulations.  You just invented ShadowBane.

Yepp - you?re damn right:   SHADOWBANE  is the best and greatest MMORPG for individual possibilities . . .

- even when the final version have cut away some nice features......  AND the european release will come (with MUCH luck) next year

Planeshift sounds great because its for free - and damn good work! But for future-MMORPG we need a persitent world where you can FIGHT for your ideas and MAKE them real.

[Nairan]

the company which bught the license of SB is gone into bankruptcy and the prceed wil lasst very long and if it come there will be a beta first so i dont have hope to play it (btw im beta in asia of sb *G* )

[Wormtail_]

As for the main idea, I think it is interesting, although it is kind of harsh. Perhaps it can be the character that counts, not the player. Guilds can control a city, although running a whole country may be a little far off into the distance. However, perhaps certain guilds that have recieved a great reputation and have great power can do such a thing, although unlawful characters entering cannot be killed. There will instead be a barrier that is magical blocking everyone not fitting in the qualifications out. It can also be a gathering place to look into the interests of the entire group of people instead of just a guild.

More of my confused thoughts on paper.

[explorer]

Racism in the game (in game races only racism) would be an interesting thing, which brings me to the idea, \"Mass battles\" Where people can sign up and fight with the rest, like a guild battle, execpt non guild people could all join together.

[explorer]

Player run cities would be cool, eventually someones house would become the center of town, then that town could file with the devs for cityzenship (which would make them a city) and part of that would have them elect a governor... It would be very cool to see guilds mold together to make their own countries.

[Kuiper7986]

I don\'t support the idea only because only members would go in probably. Other than that maybe a town or village would be fine, not a major city.

[Fanomatic2000]

It would be kinda fun to see race-wars like Enkidukai vs. Kran, or Xacha vs. Stonebreakers
Racist-clans would be fun too. Heh, it reminds me of Morrowind where the cat-race and the lizard-race (what was their name again?) often were used as slaves.