I was asked to help with some advices about this whole red\orange names situation. (related to Jonas not selling to reds, etc.)
Some history: Newbs who go orange by accident from time to time used to ask justicar for a pardon. Some justicars were giving em, some were too greedy, thats up to politics and to pvp needs (for example when there was active pvp, vets needed all pardons for themselves). Now (deleted justicar system), when some accident coloring happens you have 2 options: die or pay 1 million. Thats totally unfair towards newbs, and TOO much punishment for vets who wants to go back white. But lets leave "dirty vets pkers" tears behind.
These are suggestions below how to finish new justicar system. (atm, you made HUGE punishment for colored, but forgot to prevent people from easy accident coloring).
Make it so noone needs to turn safety off unless he wants to attack PLAYER.
Faction loss by demand. You come to Duke and say "I do not approve your politics", he immediately gets angry, and boots you.
Remove quest punishments which make you orange. (asked for quest, forgot to finish, or got LSC, - bam, you owe 1 million or go die)
Make it so you should confirm twice when you turn your safety OFF. (something like you see when you try to drink potion of forgetfulness).
This is suggested text that you see when you first time put safety off and close "game-preferences" window with "V" in "can attack innocent players".
"You are going to become an outlaw and attack innocent people by your own choice, so take it as a WARNING! You will get your name turn red and bring you in a lot of troubles. Allmighty hunters will follow you wherever you go to punish you for all your crimes. And if you kill someone, be ready to face his overpowered soul on a battlefield"
Thats a scratch, - you would like to fix it and moke it sound smoother.
So, you put "V" once, see this message, go back to preferences, and put "V" again, - only then you see that "You turn your safety OFF, bla bla" line.
Let Jonas sell spells to reds. Its so old and unnecessary fature of him. He accepts reds into his faction, gives pkers soldier shields, but refuses to teach his spells. Come on, its wierd.
Think more about price for a pardons. 1 million for reds and for oranges - its like a joke. What do you want to achieve when you put this price? Punish pkers for being red? You do that by hunting them, and ballancing red vs white scenario, fixing power of rev, 6 mins of no safe for reds, etc. That is not even connected with 1 million on top of that.
Why justicar was changed? Because of army of voters? Well, maybe, but that was not annoying, it was simply wierd. (and actually forced people to compete in building useless toons, which kept some of players busy, and populate server, since that was the only competition for them, maybe. who knows?). What was really annoying is that owner of justicar could kill single person, and go white instantly with no price to pay. Now think about 1 million. Would you kill someone for 1 million+death as a price? No. Would you kill someone for 500k+death? No. There we move towards real prices of that annoying part of old justice. I dont know what price should it be, thats up to you. All i want is to make you think and calculate.
And what about notorious murderers who killed 20 people and decided to go white to max their spells after many many pens, and maybe hps? Will they bother collecting 1 million to do that? No. What does that mean? Reds will stay reds and wont build no more. No building = no presence on server for pker drivers. = no reason for hunters to play = less and less people logining on. Like a snow ball.
You, as developer team, should look for more motivations to BUILD or rebuild toons, because thats the only thing that keeps people online. Searching for pvp takes 15 mins, and when you dont find any, you simply go play other game. When you CAN take your red toon and invest time rebuilding it, - thats the chance for everyone to catch you and give you more pvp. For example, when i was building Fike after going white, many people were trying to get me. By shielders, red mule pkers, built reds, etc.
That was fun.
Now its not fun, when i must pay 1 million + 1 million to go white.
Even tho i am not planing to build anything, i feel Ninjas pain when see him trying to build his old red bot mules.
MorbusM59
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10 years ago
I was asked to help with some advices about this whole red\orange names situation. (related to Jonas not selling to reds, etc.) Some history: Newbs who go orange by accident from time to time used to ask justicar for a pardon. Some justicars were giving em, some were too greedy, thats up to politics and to pvp needs (for example when there was active pvp, vets needed all pardons for themselves). Now (deleted justicar system), when some accident coloring happens you have 2 options: die or pay 1 million. Thats totally unfair towards newbs, and TOO much punishment for vets who wants to go back white. But lets leave "dirty vets pkers" tears behind.
These are suggestions below how to finish new justicar system. (atm, you made HUGE punishment for colored, but forgot to prevent people from easy accident coloring).
Thats a scratch, - you would like to fix it and moke it sound smoother. So, you put "V" once, see this message, go back to preferences, and put "V" again, - only then you see that "You turn your safety OFF, bla bla" line.
You, as developer team, should look for more motivations to BUILD or rebuild toons, because thats the only thing that keeps people online. Searching for pvp takes 15 mins, and when you dont find any, you simply go play other game. When you CAN take your red toon and invest time rebuilding it, - thats the chance for everyone to catch you and give you more pvp. For example, when i was building Fike after going white, many people were trying to get me. By shielders, red mule pkers, built reds, etc. That was fun. Now its not fun, when i must pay 1 million + 1 million to go white. Even tho i am not planing to build anything, i feel Ninjas pain when see him trying to build his old red bot mules.