RE: [Arianne-general] What happens at disconnect?

[MIGUEL A. B. L. <x51...@fe...>]

> Erm....there is something inconsistent about death in the game.
> Points agreed upon by most:
>
> 1.  You can die when you aren't there.
>    So are you suggesting that every character is logged in at the 
same
> time?
>   Umm the server bandwidth needed for that type of operation.... I 
don't
> think some of you grasp the concept of how much information ONE 
machine is
> going to have to deal with or you aren't thinking of how big one 
world will
>
> actually be.  Thirdly, you aren't thinking about player interaction. 
 If
> you
> are to have ANY player killing option for one reason or another, you 
can
> NOT
> leave unattended characters in game.  Is it fair for someone to lose 
their
> work because a pk in berlin is on during a time when you are at 
work?  You
> need to disappear...
>
> Also... on death... if there are no truly safe houses, and you lose 
items
> or
> xp when you die, then one unlucky day at work or school you could 
lose
> months of play time because an orc horde took over your village, and 
your
> character is still "in world."  Not cool at all.


This is just a problem of game conception.
I ( and I think that most of us ) think about Arianne as a world. So 
your character live there.

I want Arianne to be real, in the sense that you are responsible of 
your actions. I mean that if in the doors of your city there is an 
army that is going to attack it, the solution would be to create an 
army with the people of the town to defend it.
While on your idea is that the best would be to logout and login 
later.

I really don't like the idea.

I see and understand that logged off players would be a problem for 
bandwidth, we should measure this with real data later. For those of 
you that are new, we agreed a lot of time ago that characters that 
aren't played oftenly are removed from the server.
So if you create a player and you don't use it in, let say, a month, 
it is removed from the game, perhaps it is backup or perhaps it is 
simply deleted.

We agreed that we want real death, no just going you along against a 
better character just to have a good hit and kill him. In Arianne you 
are responsible of keeping your character alive by not doing stupid 
actions.

About the problem of being killed while logout, I only see as a 
solution that you group making a group of characters, or having a 
simple script of actions.

Also it can be done to create a safe house proteted by real soldiers, 
and I mean by human players, let AI aside by now.

My idea is to place as much gameplay things as possible on human side.