Okay so, rn one of the biggest issues of contention within the community is PVP. For half the Playerbase, it’s the only reason they still play AO, for the PVP. For the other half, ambushes are a major distraction and generally just ruin their day. I personally am in the group that despises PVP Ambushes. Lots of people have advocated for a PVP toggle, but this would not be a good solution.
HOWEVER: AO reaches its peak in a very specific circumstance of PVP, that being PVP Duels. There is nothing that gets me more invested into the game than having a fair honest fight in Munera. It is truly the bread and butter of the game, and if you haven’t done at least a couple you are severely missing out my friend. So I feel the solution is fairly obvious: Duels should be encouraged.
To accomplish this, increase the rewards from participating in a duel (which I’ll define as any fight that occurs at an arena island, as adding a whole PvP invite system would be clunky and unnecessary). Maybe you get double the fame and experience, or maybe it’s treated like you hunted someone down. Just do something to make it marginally more effective than ambushes. I’m not quite sure about this next point, but I feel that deaths from PVP shouldn’t cause galleon loss or fame penalties (maybe just a -50 if you lose or smthn, idk). 9/10 I wouldn’t be upset over being ambushed it I didn’t lose a bunch of money.
Doing this would help serve to reduce the number of ambushes that occur, as well as increase duels. Because seriously, duels are fun. Getting ambushed when I just want to fish is not.
Oh and one final change, make it so that you can only PVP people within 10 levels of you, because getting to level 50 and instantly getting jumped by 3 max levels is not fun.
this suggestion seems like it was made mostly to fit your own desire of not wanting to be ganked, likely for your renown otherwise i doubt people would ambush you to such an extent that you’d make a whole post about it
appreciate the attempt but nobody is gonna duel if consequences are doubled, or if it captures automatically
most duels are friendly to begin with, and you are usually very badly looked upon if you go there to capture people
Never in my entirety of playing this game, where I’ve made eight save slots and max leveled seven of them, has this happened to me. But it’s honestly dumb that this CAN happen anyways. This is one instance where Vetex should definitely NOT have followed in the footsteps of other Roblox devs.
I don’t think that’s the way to go, as others have pointed out that if the losing party has to lose double the fame, it’d drive people away from it. All in all, I like the idea of incentivizing duels, but not like this.
btw a small thing i read:
The fact is this place(forum) is like 60%-40% that think PVP needs no change (only bal) to people who think it does need change
means that the people who like PVP are smaller than you think I give it a 0.5% of the overall player base
(but but you just said that 60% of people here like PVP yea your right you’re not “most players” by JUST BEING here)
yea that right your the NOT “gamer” your mom/dad/baby brother/sister is the “gamer”
this same for most games most people who play games don’t read anything and just jump into games they don’t read guides or GO ON FORUMS
(you know what? I’m going round later and asking people IN game if they like PVP or not)
