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GreatBob
Joined: Sep 3, 2005 Posts: 1465 Status: Offline |
How about: 1. Lower the max damage level OR have damage be the result of the score difference, not total score. A 4-3 battle would give the ship hit 4 times one line (assuming sloop v sloop). 2. The better the defender does in the melee, the less booty is taken. This simulates knocked out attackers not being able to grab booty. 3. If the defenders win, they keep the attacking ship. Does not work in reverse. 4. If the defender is sunk, an expedition is generated for them (on a new ship) to go and retrieve their booty. This one might be difficult to implement, but gives another chance to get their booty home. An alternate solution to number 2 could be to use the greedy mechanic for plundering the booty, with after-battle winnings only coming from the hold. ---------------------------------------- Penguinpaste, SO of Polaris, Obsidian. Dark side. Avatar by Phaerie. |
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Gorillabuddy
Joined: Mar 20, 2011 Posts: 321 Status: Offline |
I didn't realize warring factions took everything. That does change things, but not enough imo. You still need at least a 25% success rate in your half hour of work to equal 2 hours of KH. Maybe the best pvpers could do that but with the other ship trying to escape, I don't think you're likely to reach that success rate.
I'm saying that the risk in a KH is far lower than the risk for the pvper. When a KHer sets sail, they have, let's say, a 1% risk of losing their 2 hours of work to a pvper, which is pretty much negligible in the grand scheme of things. Most of the time a pvper is not going to attack them, and even when they do, they have a good chance of escaping. When a pvper sets out to attack a KHer, they have a large risk of wasting their time. I don't know what the statistics are, but I would think they're well over 50%, perhaps even 75%+.
Please show me how. Is there some scourge of pvpers I don't know about?
I agree. However I don't think your proposed solution would do anything about that. If I'm a KHer and you pvp me, 1. I have more to lose 2. I'm probably at a disadvantage since you probably have a crew that you expect to win a battle with, whereas I have people good at KHing and not necessarily good at pvping. Therefore, I'm obviously going to run. The only way I wouldn't run is if the first or second point changed. The 2nd obviously isn't going to, so I'd only stay if I actually had more to gain than lose. But it wouldn't make any sense for the pvper to risk that much. So unless someone has a creative work around to this, we should just operate around the idea that defenders will always try to escape, at least in these types of situations. We basically have 2 completely different pvp situations that we need to consider separately. One where the defender is trying to escape, and one where both sides are trying to win the fight. I don't think it's wise to view them the same way. ---------------------------------------- Pliskin of Cerulean Avatar by Cattrin |
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Jcmorgan6
 Joined: Feb 5, 2015 Posts: 413 Status: Offline |
It's incredibly easy to hyper-rank puzzles, so skill isn't really a problem to get. Focusing on experience would just mean people using friends to boost ramps. Although I'll admit using alts won't be so much of a problem once Dark Seas goes steam exclusive. For this to work it would need to also have a cool-down, similar to Swordfighting and Rumble wherein following battles against any of the same pirates a change in booty ramp wouldn't occur. Even then it's easily manipulated to get a second battle once you know that ranked limits reset around the hour. ---------------------------------------- Jjc & Jice on Emerald CI booty division stats |
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Discflicker
 Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Posts: 430 Status: Offline |
Total aside (just don't feel like this is worth it's own thread) the only way to get rumble in PVP right now is to have both ships set to hunt Barbs. I recommend switching this to "if one ship is out-dnavving the other and has barbs set, then rumble". It's too hard to get PVP rumble otherwise, which kind of defeats the purpose of rumble as an alternative to swordfighting (within the context of PVP). ---------------------------------------- Not convinced I'll ever truly quit Puzzle Pirates forever if it sticks around. |
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Shinito
Joined: Jan 3, 2006 Posts: 588 Status: Offline |
actually rumble is bad so not having to play it is good ---------------------------------------- Thorkill on |
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majestrate
Joined: Feb 18, 2005 Posts: 3958 Status: Offline |
First, what if we're talking about an Atlantis, Haunted Seas, or CI SMH? There is definitely risk in those voyages. Second, you need to disassociate KH risk and PvP risk. KH is its own thing (I've stated before that KH needs risk added to it, at least in the form of eights/doubloon sinks) and PvP is its own thing. Regardless of how my voyage amassed a decent sized booty, the point is that in terms of tangible items of value (eights/chests/lockers/eggs/whatever) the attacker can risk some cannonballs and rum while the defender risks their hold and booty. The attacker can win <stuffs> with which to pay their jobbers for the battle. The defender gets very little with which to pay their jobbers for the added battle. It's like going on a pillage, getting attacked by NPPs, winning the melee, and getting some shot and rum, but knowing that if you lose, you are going to have a sizable amount of your booty/hold items removed. If I were coming out of a KH and I had a decent haul after 4 or 5 dips (60+ eggs), I wouldn't have a problem fighting in a PvP as long as I knew that the attacking ship had something in the booty/hold worth risking my treasures for. If it were a pillage that I got PvP on, I'd risk it no matter what (as long as we don't have any lavish lockers in the booty), because I can replace any eights that I might lose. I can't do that with non-eights winnings. I disagree with your threes statements. PvP is already incentivized for the attacker, now it needs to be incentivized for the defender. If one side has to risk something tangible (please do not go down the "time is money" path again) in a PvP encounter, then the other side should have to do the same. If you do not agree with that, then let's play some hands of poker where you always have to go all-in while I only have to match 1% of your all-ins in order for it to be a "call". Once I've drained your eights from you, then you can tell me how fair it is for one side to risk very little while the other side risks a heck of a lot. In the end, all I'm saying is that if one side has to risk 100k, then the other side should have to risk at least 60-70k (more would be better).
I wouldn't call any of them scourge. There is nothing that requires players to risk anything in order to attack other players returning from a pillage or SMH. I certainly don't think less of anyone in my flag for not putting their eights/additional stock at risk. Nor do I think less of anyone in the SF faction for doing the same thing. I simply believe that the game should be altered so that attackers have to put something of value at risk as a reward (carrot?) to the ships they are attacking. Maybe crews should have a PvP fund. Something that they cannot withdraw from, but they can add to if they want. Maybe allow a certain percentage of crew cut to go to the PvP fund (0-xx%?). Then, when crews PvP each other, a win pulls a much smaller percentage of the hold/booty (10-15%?) but it pulls 50-75% of the PvP fund? ---------------------------------------- #TeamEvil
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majestrate
Joined: Feb 18, 2005 Posts: 3958 Status: Offline |
#ForumMute #RumbleRocks #SwordfightsAreForLameTeamPurplers ---------------------------------------- #TeamEvil
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Gorillabuddy
Joined: Mar 20, 2011 Posts: 321 Status: Offline |
I'm just going to focus on this since I don't think the rest of our conversation is going anywhere. I think you have a good idea with the pvp fund, but I'd like to offer a tweak. Have some percentage of faction revenue go towards a bounty fund. Doesn't have to be much, maybe 1 or 2 %. Then offer a portion of this to pvp members of the other faction. If they're a crew with a low pvp rating, then the bounty will be decent but nothing spectacular, maybe like 20k (or some percentage of the bounty fund). If it's a crew that's been pvping the crap out of your faction, then they can develop a big bounty, maybe even in the 100s of thousands of poe. People would then hunt them down, and if they engaged you, you'd have a big incentive to fight back, even though it'd be risky. ---------------------------------------- Pliskin of Cerulean Avatar by Cattrin |
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gish19
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Hello! Long time lurker, first time poster. I think if the new ocean is stressing PvP, it doesn't have to have symmetrical benefits for both the attackers and defenders. The point of PvP is to create a larger sense of danger in the ocean; just because a defender might have more to lose, doesn't mean PvP shouldn't exist, or shouldn't be profitable. If the risk of the KH goes up too much because of the risk returning to port, then increase the reward of the KH. Mechanically, this cat and mouse chase could be amped up in a few ways though. I think there should be added difficulty in tracking down ships, although that may be a difficult mechanic to implement. You could also have more ways to allow defenders to avoid PvP, such as having multiple paths to the same islands. Alternatively, there could be better ways to have back up defenders, but this mercenary defence would have to have a way to split the defenders' booty at the end of the voyage. All in all, I don't think PvP should be an activity in the way a SMH is; it should be a fear, and when you succeed, a reward. |
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majestrate
Joined: Feb 18, 2005 Posts: 3958 Status: Offline |
What about other SMHs? We focused on KH because that has been the active one. But with Atlantis now being active, the same can happen there too. What about if the attackers are simply hunting pillagers that have been out for more than an hour or two? IMO, increasing payouts is not a solution that promotes defenders to do anything in a PvP except run.
If an attacker can engage you with nothing but 20 rum and 50 cbs, where's the reward for the defenders if they succeed in beating the attackers via melee instead of running? ---------------------------------------- #TeamEvil
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Onelegstan
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I see what you are saying with it being more dangerous, but this doesn't stop the defender from just running when they have nothing to gain. The best few suggestions so far in my opinion are: 1. Make the attacker have to risk something (a proportion of the wealth on the defender) 2. Make the board smaller and the ships start closer. 3. Allow some sort of tracking to make it easier for attackers to engage 4. Make cannon hits 'knock off' booty from the other ship that is treasure hauled after the battle. A disengage means this all disappears. 5. Some sort of dub reduction for cost of ships that arising specifically from PvPs. This would mean that pay to win players that have no PvPers have a much higher cost for ships than active PvPers. If this game is to carry on it needs to move away from pay to win IMO. You sink a ship in PvP? You can build that same ship for half the delivery cost of normal. 6. Allow treasure haul when a ship is sunk!!! Because right now there is no incentive to sink anyone with a lot of booty! These suggestions imo would help make PvP seem more rewardable, while meaning running and disengaging as a defender isn't the best option! ---------------------------------------- Martyhur on Emerald Marty on Obsidian |
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BobJanova
Joined: Oct 16, 2007 Posts: 5008 Status: Offline |
Defenders with good booty will always try to run. Attackers get to choose the engagement they want to take so they will always take one that is unbalanced in their favour. That's true in Eve which is the template for the kind of ocean we're trying to create here, I think. Some of the ideas to increase the value to the defenders are interesting, but ultimately if you force attackers to put up enough so the fight is in the defenders' favour, no-one will ever attack and you kill PVP. Defenders have a vast array of countermeasures to avoid PVP in the first place. Dnav well, have a scout ship in front of you, watch the radar, use quiet parts of the ocean. Getting caught is part of the risk of the unsafe waters, and once you have been caught, attackers should stand a reasonable chance of completing the engagement. At the moment, trying to play as a PVPer is completely pointless. You get almost no engagements, and those that you do get will run and disengage. If you actually manage to grapple someone and win, most of the time you don't get anything worthwhile. It is incentives to attack, and making it harder to disengage, that we need. ---------------------------------------- Bobjanova on Viridian and Malachite Shops and stalls with fair and profitable wages for all: Jubilee, Napi, Chelydra Stripped/Barely Dressed (Malachite) Phantasm/Reign of Chaos (Viridian) |
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GreatBob
Joined: Sep 3, 2005 Posts: 1465 Status: Offline |
In addition to my previous suggestions, how about we break /vwho for ships in certain areas? Certainly in the wild areas, and maybe even in opposing faction areas. One possible way of implementing this would be to only update the location information when ships pass inhabited islands. ---------------------------------------- Penguinpaste, SO of Polaris, Obsidian. Dark side. Avatar by Phaerie. |
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Jutecloth
Joined: Jun 2, 2006 Posts: 916 Status: Offline |
I'd like to sketch out something. Attackers can buy a new magic item for their ship. In PvP sea battle, this item generates an effect like the fog in Cursed Isles around the edge of the board, a few tiles deep. So, something like: puzzling is less productive and carp and bilge trickle rates increase in the affected zone. The zone could be represented as choppy seas or an electrical storm or anything, really (preferably not a pestilential miasma) but the upshot is a smaller "normal" sea battle board for PvP, with a surrounding area in which neither ship can linger. There's lots of options and variables to fine-tune the idea (it could get more severe the further you stray from the center, for example) but that's the gist. The downside of the attacker's item is that it is expensive and if the attacker loses the battle, the defender always loots the item. (Bots never take it.) The item could be an enchanted Jolly Roger or a weird idol, but again, the exact form isn't important for judging the general idea. (I mean, it could be an eldritch piggy bank full of PoE that bots are too frightened to smash.) Basically, if the defender wins, he gains. So, it will be more challenging for a defender to simply run away without having to outmaneuver the attacker, and the state of the board will tell him that there is a prize if he wants to fight. ----------------------------------------
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Gorillabuddy
Joined: Mar 20, 2011 Posts: 321 Status: Offline |
I kind of like this from a flavor perspective, but wouldn't this have the effect of reducing pvp? ---------------------------------------- Pliskin of Cerulean Avatar by Cattrin |
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Snuby
Joined: Jan 30, 2006 Posts: 273 Status: Offline |
Can we also take a look at the inn snitches?  ---------------------------------------- Snuby. Current avatar by Phillite |
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