Pvp= Player Vs player

[Thewhitewalker]

Your starter island definatly needs to be a "safe zone" where you cannot attack or be attacked. To enter PvP you must conquer a wild zone.

Wild zones will hopefully be rich in resources, but risk vs reward. You can be attacked there and risk losing some resources or such.

I would also love to see honour (yes IM Aussie HONOUR) placed into PvP. You gain honour from successfully attacking players of equal standing, you lose it from losing to players.
-- Adding to that, many levels of honour depending on how many points you have, and small rewards for each level accrued as well as a noble title to your name ie: Sir Whitewalker, Lord Whitewalker, Baron Whitewalker, Count Whitewalker etc etc. Bonuses may include such things as 1% population, -1% battle losses etc etc.

just my 2c

[Bystander]

I hope they make the wild zone a PVP continent where we could join guild mates and battle others and their guilds. Players could have the option to opt out of pvp by staying on their safe little islands. Build a boat , and sail to where your explorer reveals the map , or send it to a set coordinate so you can join your guild mates. Put resources and men on the boat and sail to conquor and get res.

Sounds great really. Take it one step further and make it so those joining PVP could be 'hunted' even. They could be searched for over a limited time every time they build a boat and sail. Those found and traced back could then be attacked on their starter islands , invaded and wiped off the map, potentially. At least it would give a real risk out there to ***-hats.

As for multis et all , we already have that. BB has to remain vigilant , listen to player reports of suspected rule breakers , investigate , use automated detection tactics and other things that other gaming platforms do to police their game in attempt to keep it free of that. Making it so people cant PVP till level 32 , using bot and HUMAN server mods (WHO DONT PLAY GAME ACTS) , and listening to the game community is a great start. Im sure some people will go thru the trouble to multi and try to run bots just because thats what gets them off , but these will be few and far between and their impact will be minimized as their effort is time consuming. When they get banned they are unlikely to come back doing the same thing more than a couple of times.

Evony, Lord of Ultima, and other games all have these problems. Settlers already does, but the gains to be made are small (for now) so the cheat community is small. With vigilance it can be kept that way , PVP or not.

The benefits FAR outwiegh the risks. There is a MUCH larger risk in losing vetran players from NOT instituting PVP. I already personally know of 7 players who have quit over the boredom of only being able to run the same advents and remaking their mines and trading. It only goes so far. Listen the majority. The majority want PVP. Even lacking a real vote with 100% sample of your community you can see it in the threads. Everywhere its discussed its majority in favor with 1-4 detractors from the idea. Id say thats a pretty good indication of the want of your general community.

GL with implementation. Have mind to restrict overbalance of pay-to-play vs free players. Beta and playtest it to death before your launch it , and we await it eagerly.

Finally thanks for letting me play.

~B

[RomanGodCamper]

PVP wont be out till Nov/Dec of this year.. its suppose to... And it wont be on the Zeus server apparently... It will be on a new Server.

[Bystander]

PVP wont be out till Nov/Dec of this year.. its suppose to... And it wont be on the Zeus server apparently... It will be on a new Server.

That would be a serious mistake as alot of players wont bother to remake on the new server. Saving the income stream should have more priority to BB , and they should roll out these changes community wide.

If BB wants to staunch the flow of players leaving due to boredom issues there are better ways to make that happen..

[Galdrath]

I don't want pvp on Zues so that is cool with me if it goes to a new server.