The new PvP rules...

Hobbes

From: Sabrina Nor The FAQ Lady
ID: xfKIxIAKEws
Rating: 80
Date: February 26, 1999 at 09:23 am

Subject: PVP/EVIL changes FAQ - updated from UOHOC chat


First, DD is instituting a second murder count to track long term murders that decay's at a slower rate to make Blue PK's red. Also, the kill count will not decay when you are a ghost, or in a friended house, etc....

Second, you will be able to declare yourself 'Evil'. Basically this entails no stat loss for some who declares themselves 'Evil' (making them red, no new color), but they do not get to loot their kills unless you victim has killed a lot of Evils or is of an opposing faction. Also, blues will still be unlootable, even if they are the aggressors to the Evil. The loot from an Evil’s kill goes with the ghost. DD said that the more antis the Evil kills, the more power he will gain. He may loose some power by killing non-antis (i.e. newbies and the like). DD also said there maybe a separate ‘kill or bounty board’ for Evils. Evil’s will be allowed in town and will not be attackable in town.

As a counter part to Evils, there will be Paladins (formally called Antis in this document). A person will reach Paladin status by killing Evils (or any red I assume) and not dieing. The benefit will be, as the Paladin raises in status, he will gain special powers. You loose your Paladin status by dieing. This will encourage more careful planing, rather than suicide attacks on Evils.

To track all of this, there will be a kill count system, similar to the one on abyss currently.

Third, they are adding kill tracking to guild warfare and removing it from town. I believe that guild war will last a set length of time and a winner will be declared and posted at OSI guild data base. This allows a guild warfare ladder. (This has not been mentioned in some time and may not be accurate)

Fourth, Order/Chaos will be removed and reworked. In it's place will be a muti-faction system that will allow the capture of town. This may make them a safe zones and able to get discounts at vendors for that faction in that town. DD also said something intriguing..

DesignerD> if you join evil factions, you could take over cities, make the shopkeepers all into undead or the like as you conquer the city & replace the shopkeepers with evil beings, etc. That would be part of the faction warfare stuff.

DD also stated the blue healers will not be blue anymore, but did not give details.

Any additions to this document are welcome.

To recap from Faceless:

Actually it works like this:

If you declare yourself to be evil you:
a. are red
b. do not take stat loss for killing
c. cannot loot your victims unless your victim has killed lots of evils or is of an opposing faction. (more on that some other time)

If you do not declare yourself to be evil you:
a. can still kill, but can also be reported for murder.
b. if you get reported enough you will eventually become red
c. you will take stat loss
d. you can loot freely.

That's how it works.

Rev Hellfire

Whens this update due to take pace ?
and are any of you going to turn evil ?

Hobbes

Early march afaik.

My main character "Hobbes" won't be turning evil, but it may be "Good" <IMG SRC="http://lacerta.ucg.ie/boards/smile.gif&quot; WIDTH=15 HEIGHT=15 BORDER=0 ALT=":)">

I'm not too sure about the towns being overrun, it could all start getting messy. Having to buy your stuff off Zombies <IMG SRC="http://lacerta.ucg.ie/boards/smile.gif&quot; WIDTH=15 HEIGHT=15 BORDER=0 ALT=":)"> Freaky... Delucia will not fall to Evil that's for sure.

Venom

Delucia will fall to evil as sure as snow is white.Its one of the smallest towns around,and is the home town of OoOoOoOo.Say no more.
On a lighter note,i went hunting for Balrons and white wyrmms last night and it was great fun.Hilda,mime and myself ripped the ice dungeon apart <IMG SRC="http://lacerta.ucg.ie/boards/smile.gif&quot; WIDTH=15 HEIGHT=15 BORDER=0 ALT=":)">.You lads without magic don't know what your missing.6 warriors tried it with out magic and got creamed by 1 white wyrmm,yet hilda nad myself killed it easy <IMG SRC="http://lacerta.ucg.ie/boards/smile.gif&quot; WIDTH=15 HEIGHT=15 BORDER=0 ALT=":)">.Good loot and fame up there.

Hobbes

So Ooo are going to be an Evil instead of a Blue PK.

The reason I'm asking is that Bois is seriously ****ing people off, along with his friend Mr Goo. What's really annoying is that a lot of people who treat Mime, Hilda and the others with respect get a lot of flack from other players who have been PK'ed by Ooo by the scummy element.

Also Bois has started dressing in my Guilds Colours on purpose, you can save the surprise for him, but it seriously looks like he's going onto the KOS list of our guild (which is pretty hard to do, seeing as we aren't allowed attack blues).

I think LGL are going to mention it to Hilda, but you might to mention it as well.