July 30 PVP Update age of conan

[anonymo]

Taken from the Funcom forums.

 

Here is a brief explanation of the basics of the new PvP systems. Everything listed here may not be in the current build on Testlive, and does not necessarily reflect the final system.

 

 

PVP Levels and XP

* There are 10 PVP levels.

* All players are worth 100 PvP XP when killed by a similar level player.

* When you die in PvP, you lose PvP XP. The amount you lose is static, regardless of the level of player who killed you.

* Losing PVP XP will not de-level you in PvP level.

* In order to prevent abuse of the system, there is a limit set on how many times one player can gain or lose PvP XP from another.

* You gain normal PVE XP when you are involved in a PVP kill. If you or your team get credit for a PVP kill, then you gain a certain amount of PVE experience from that kill. You get 10% of the XP from that player as though he were a monster of that level. You always get a minimum of 1 xp.

 

 

PVP Items

You can buy PVP items with normal money (there is no special currency for PVP). However, your PvP level will have to meet the requirements (if any) on any items you wish to use.

* Items are not tradeable

* Sold by PvP vendors

 

 

Notoriety System

A player is flagged in three different ways using this system: innocent, criminal, and murderer.

 

* Criminals and Murderers will have an icon showing their status.

* Innocent : No one can perform hostile actions on you without being flagged as a Criminal.

* Criminal : Performing a hostile action on an Innocent player will flag you as a Criminal for 5 minutes. Any further Criminal acts during the 5 minute time will refresh your Criminal Status.

* Attacking Criminal players and/or killing them will not flag you as Criminal.

* Killing Criminal Players will not cause you to gain murder points.

* Murderer : Players who have attacked and killed innocent players enough times to generate 100 or more points will be flagged as Murderers. Killing lower level players (outside your XP range) will result in a larger penalty towards the murderer limit.

* Murder score is capped at 1750 points.

* For every other real time hour that passes, your murder score is reduced by 1 point.

* If you die in PvP and lose PvP XP, you will receive a 3 point reduction to your total murder score.

* Killing mobs which yield XP will reduce your murder score at a rate of 1 point per 1% of a level worth of XP. Completing quests for XP will NOT contribute.

* Murderers cannot access traders or vendors.

* Guard NPCs will attack murderers on sight.

* Dying while flagged as a murderer results in the following: a. 100% increased loss of PvP XP for the murder b. 100% increased gain of PvP XP for the person killing the murderer c. 100% increased chance of dropping an item.

* Any players interacting with a Criminal or Murderer (that includes grouping with them or trading with them) will be flagged as a Criminal.

* If you group with a Criminal or Murderer, you will be flagged as a Criminal for as long as you are in the team, and 5 minutes after the team disbands (or the Criminal/Murderer leaves the team).

* Any team member performing a criminal act will flag the entire team in the vicinity as a criminal.

[Unclean]

Interesting update... I wonder how it's going to play out. I like how they're encouraging PvP more now, but I see some issues:

 

* If you group with a Criminal or Murderer, you will be flagged as a Criminal for as long as you are in the team, and 5 minutes after the team disbands (or the Criminal/Murderer leaves the team).

* Any team member performing a criminal act will flag the entire team in the vicinity as a criminal.

Hello, new style of griefing. Guildies stay in stealth, you have a murderer group up with unsuspecting people, then the guildies attack and loot.

[anonymo]

Interesting update... I wonder how it's going to play out. I like how they're encouraging PvP more now, but I see some issues:

 

* If you group with a Criminal or Murderer, you will be flagged as a Criminal for as long as you are in the team, and 5 minutes after the team disbands (or the Criminal/Murderer leaves the team).

* Any team member performing a criminal act will flag the entire team in the vicinity as a criminal.

Hello, new style of griefing. Guildies stay in stealth, you have a murderer group up with unsuspecting people, then the guildies attack and loot.

 

I'm pretty sure you cannot become a "murderer" by simply being in a group with them, you only become a "criminal" which does not drop a random item when killed (as far as I can tell it will be one random item, and not access to the person's entire inventory).

 

Also, you need 100 murder points to become a "murderer" which you can only obtain by killing an "innocent" player, it's still up in the air how many murder points you will get for killing innocent players.