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<p>Created page with &quot;Originally Posted : Thu Oct 25 04:03:18 2012&lt;br&gt;Posted by : Misery&lt;br&gt;Title : PK update&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I&#039;ve rolled the ongoing changes that have currently been in the &#039;pksim&#039; &lt;br&gt;comm...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>Originally Posted : Thu Oct 25 04:03:18 2012&lt;br&gt;Posted by : Misery&lt;br&gt;Title : PK update&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I've rolled the ongoing changes that have currently been in the 'pksim' &lt;br&gt;command into the live version of the PK system. The details will follow &lt;br&gt;further down the post, but I want to make a few related points abundantly &lt;br&gt;clear, instead of leaving these for the end:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1. I see this update as a step in the evolution of the current PK system, &lt;br&gt;not as a fixed/finished product. The goal is to end up with a system that &lt;br&gt;is comfortable both for those who don't really care about PK, and those &lt;br&gt;who enjoy pking. If you have feedback about how well it achieves that &lt;br&gt;goal, hit me up.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2. The fine poins of both the formulas and mechanics are highly liable to &lt;br&gt;change, so let me know what you think about them. I will do my best to &lt;br&gt;involve myself in PVP as well, so I'm more aware of how it works out on &lt;br&gt;the ground.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;--------------------------------------&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;With that said, I want to explain the reasoning behind the changes at &lt;br&gt;greater length to give you some context for the specific changes. Over the &lt;br&gt;time I've been on Tsunami myself, one of the primary concerns and refrains &lt;br&gt;of each iteration of the PK system has been that losses/gains need to &lt;br&gt;balance (i.e., the system should be more or less a zero-sum game). In my &lt;br&gt;experience as a player, however, pk and war were engines that encourage &lt;br&gt;player activity--social interaction, PvP interaction, and PvM activity to &lt;br&gt;enable better performance in the PvP interaction part. As such, one of my &lt;br&gt;guiding lights is the idea that encouraging more player activity in &lt;br&gt;aggregate is the primary goal of the PK sstem. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Over these years there have been primarily three competing &lt;br&gt;viewpoints--that of the abstainer, that of the casual PKer, and that of &lt;br&gt;the dedicated PKer. The current system has done a good job of allowing &lt;br&gt;abstainers to more or less ignore PK activity, and while I have in some &lt;br&gt;ways augmented that ability, I've also structured the system to encourage &lt;br&gt;players to enter into the fray, and to provide a deep reward/challenge &lt;br&gt;curve for more dedicated PKers to progress along.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;--------------------------------------&lt;br&gt;Now for the nuts and bolts:&lt;br&gt;1. 'Rank' is now only a product of the quantity of blood points you have. &lt;br&gt;Previously, players directly traded 'rank' and calculations were all based &lt;br&gt;on relative player ranks. While this system was elegant in some respects, &lt;br&gt;it was predicated on 'rank' being a scarce, desirable commodity--a reality &lt;br&gt;that never developed.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2. Blood points are awarded/lost for kills based on the level of your &lt;br&gt;taget, and your level relative to that of your target.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;There are two entirely new concepts, 'risk', and 'tier'. I'll explain them &lt;br&gt;in points 3 and 4 here:&lt;br&gt;3. 'risk' is a direct measure of how much EXP you stand to lose if you are &lt;br&gt;killed. It is also a measure of how much you stand to gain for killing a &lt;br&gt;player (if you, too, have a tangible risk.) The primary caveat here is &lt;br&gt;that risk is partially filtered for heros.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;4. 'tier' is a flexible measure based both on the total activity in the &lt;br&gt;system, and on your own level. There are 3 tiers. The third tier is the &lt;br&gt;default tier, and those who abstain from or only infrequently PK will &lt;br&gt;spend all or most of their time in this tier. Players in this tier will &lt;br&gt;not lose EXP in PK, nor will they (generally) gain it. All players in the &lt;br&gt;second tier have some amount of 'risk' based on their level, and their &lt;br&gt;position between the bottom and the top of the tier. Players in the first &lt;br&gt;tier have significantly moe risk, which scales up as their blood-point &lt;br&gt;total continues to grow. As players progress from tier 2 to 1, they will &lt;br&gt;also begin to earn bonus exp from each PK, as well as a bonus based on &lt;br&gt;their rank.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;5. Formerly, players lost 1 blood point a day, and regained some if the &lt;br&gt;loss caused them to rank down. Now, players lose blood points based on &lt;br&gt;their total number of blood points. The daily decay is more aggressive for &lt;br&gt;higher ranked pkers--staying in the upper tiers will take regular pking.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;6. Victims who lose no exp will have their corpse (minus any stolen &lt;br&gt;items!) retrieved for them by Torgoch and kept safe until they have been &lt;br&gt;resurrected.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;7. If EXP is exchanged, the death will have a chance to spawn an equipment &lt;br&gt;drop (with higher chances of something nice dropping than in a PvM drop.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;8. If EXP is exchanged, the value of the exp lost will be tithed to the &lt;br&gt;killer's faction.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;9. Victims who lose no exp will also receive a shield' which will save &lt;br&gt;them from *1* death to their assailant, restoring them to a moderate hp/sp &lt;br&gt;(more or less how a resurrect amulet behaves in war, with the exception &lt;br&gt;that it *only* works against their killer) to encourage them to fight &lt;br&gt;back.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;10. If eligible for a miracle, the killer's faction will receive one. The &lt;br&gt;same applies for vengeance against the victim's faction.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;11. All PKs increase a global per-boot modifier. EXP-loss PKs do so at a &lt;br&gt;higher rate than non-exp loss pks. The global modifier currently has the &lt;br&gt;following effects: it provides a global exp bonus, it globally reduces the &lt;br&gt;cost of death, and it globally increases the chance of favorable loot &lt;br&gt;drops. This benefit is for all players for the duration of the boot.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;12. Torgoch will occasionally assign a 'bounty' to logged in players who &lt;br&gt;are valid targets of each other. The reward for these bounties is &lt;br&gt;significant, and will be granted regardless of the tiers of eithr player. &lt;br&gt;Players will *not* go aggressive when attempting to kill a bounty &lt;br&gt;assignment. Should the bounty's victim die, they will receive a free rez &lt;br&gt;from Torgoch. Should the hunter die, they will receive a fraction of the &lt;br&gt;bounty exp for trying. You may want to use 'color bounty' to color these &lt;br&gt;messages.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I'll close with some final notes: this isn't the end of my change list, &lt;br&gt;and that there will inevitably be some bugs to work out--let me know if &lt;br&gt;you see anything that doesn't look right.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;[[Category:Changes_Board]]</div>

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