Two-Tier PK

[Erelei]

Since the introduction of two-tiered PK, most of the playerbase has shunned it, due to the following reasons:

• Lack of rares, or knowledge of non-rares
• Unable to achieve ranks of E or L
• Unable to become quest races or classes

There's been a lot of speculation regarding whether you should loot someone, or take things you don't need. A lot of people have left the game because they keep getting 'full looted' (most of their rares) or because they can never keep a fully-equipped character. Of course, these same people refuse blue-PK (2nd tier) because they don't get the same options as the red-PK tier does.

So the staff has decided that, starting now, ALL TIERS are eligible for:

1. Cabal ranks E, and L
2. All quest races and quest classes

With this change, come some changes in the code, too. (actually, these fail safes have been there for other reasons, for quite awhile). 

As a Moderate, the following things change in your game play:

• When you die to a Syndicate when you have a bounty, 2 items will go to bags (one to the character who placed the bounty, and one to the collector).
  • Alternatively, if you are a Syndicate and collect someone, you will only get 1 item from the bag, while only 1 other item goes to the character who placed the bounty.
• Getting captured by a Tribune will only ever result in a loss of 3 rares. Even if you're OUTLAW.
  • Alternatively, if you captured an OUTLAW, you will only receive 3 of their rares.
• ACT_UNDEAD (vampires, liches, undead) will create a corpse that will last roughly 15-20 ticks, plenty of time to get your items. After which, the corpse disintegrates. You will not have your items return to your temple.
• In normal PK, if you die, players can only loot 2 items from your corpse - and they have to be rare. They cannot take non-rare items.
  • Alternatively, if you kill another player (moderate or not) you can only take 2 items from their corpse.
  • There's a PK timer that keeps you from being multi-killed unless you instigate another fight.

Hopefully, this veers people who can't stomach a full loot, away from the ruthless tier of PK. If you have any suggestions on making this better, please let us know.

[egreir]

I read "Rares have been increased dramatically."

[tassinvegeta]

Great change. Almost makes me consider it.  

 

I wonder though, how does this affect blue-shielded thieves? Notably if they steal your non-rare stuff?

[f0xx]

5 hours ago, tassinvegeta said:

Great change. Almost makes me consider it.  

 

I wonder though, how does this affect blue-shielded thieves? Notably if they steal your non-rare stuff?

I think there was a change earlier that lets you loot all your stolen items back from their corpse ignoring the rare loot limit counter? 

Or I could be wrong.

 

A question for Morle: Are moderates excluded from the 2 rares-crumbling rule when they die?

[Trick]

Everyone is excluded from that rule as it doesn't exist anymore...

[Erelei]

There are checks for blue tier thieves to disallow too much theft per blackjack.

There's no rare crumbling anymore unless the item becomes overlimit (which unfortunately happens sometimes).

[mya]

For a moment I though you guys were going to axe smurfs, but this is great. A shame I don't have the time to play.

[Ambroas]

With this change happening after character creation would it be possible for current moderates to request to be changed? (honestly it's mostly because I regret choosing it with some of my characters.)

Edited June 6, 2016 by Ambroas

[FatMike]

53 minutes ago, Ambroas said:

With this change happening after character creation would it be possible for current moderates to request to be changed? (honestly it's mostly because I regret choosing it with some of my characters.)

So do I.