The PVP toggle will ruin the game. Here's my idea for an alternative that will 100% please everybody

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@AphoticGoblin

Vetex, you need to realise a catch with the 12,000-600 voting result. Only 0.01% of the 12k bots actually play the game. The 600 people are the majority of the 1k current players. I know this is true because when I stated this in chat the 12k voters all said yes, they don’t actually play. This is obviously fucked up.

@AphoticGoblin

I propose a split in the game. Call this Realms (just like in MMOs like WoW) The 12 year old blox fruit ‘players’ with 0 skill that are unable to do anything other than grind mindlessly and the useless casuals nobody cares about who only want to play the game for the story and then quit once they’re done all get a special little safe space for themselves. This is the Baby realm.

@AphoticGoblin

Now, the real players who actually engage and stick with the game are PvPers. We bring the playtime and the profit. So we get the PvP realm. All the servers in the PvP realm, the game acts just like normal, as it is now.

And from another thread:

@AphoticGoblin

It’s maths mate. Game devs aim to maximise player enjoyment, correct? When a player takes enjoyment from someone else, they double that enjoyment for themselves.
Say player A randomly kills player B. Player A has 1 enjoyment from being bored with no pvp. Player B has 5 enjoyment as they’re excited to play through the game. When player A kills player B while they’re doing the story, Player B’s immersion breaks and they’re annoyed by losing galleons and having to go back to where they died. They lose 4 enjoyment. But player A gains 5 enjoyment: 4 from the transfer of enjoyment, 1 from their own pleasure of killing.

Let’s take it a step further. Let’s say Player AG waits and pretends to guard player CZ (a step even further, they’re a Hero so they have to pay for the cargo) while they fill their ketch to the brim with cargo. Once player CZ is finished, player AG lets them sail out a while to maximise CZ’s enjoyment (CZ slowly gains enjoyment the farther they sail)
Then, AG strikes, as CZ is just going out of render distance. He sails over with his brig and annihilates her ketch then kills her while spamming “ez”. The enjoyment that CZ had (5) plummets to -2, but AG gains 15 enjoyment, a gigantic increase in the total amount of enjoyment in the world.
From a utilitarian standpoint, griefing is amazing game design.

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