i wrote up a easy to read explain on COE please take a look i feel it will help you alot.
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i too have played life is feudal and i must say it will have alot of comparsons to this game.
but some things to note that will be major differences.
there will be no terain modding... forget all those hours of moving dirt.... this will only happen when actually digging a mine from what i can tell. but yes LIF the land modding to build a building is insanly bad
Building a building in life is LIF is rather fast process once you have the matts for it. but coe even with matts the building process will take time. building a house as has been said will require alot of professions but even with them it could take a couple RL days to complete it.
there is no telport home. there is no showing ur lotcaion on the map so getting lost is truly a scary thing.. you could be killed by a animal (think of faceing a bear in LIF on foot with no armor... and that will be the smaller creatures...) then there is dieing of hunger both will spawn u back about 30m away from where u died... yes u can get ur gear back but ur still lost... this gonna be a bad day.
in LIF u can log out and be safe... in COE you are always ingame simliar to Ark but unlike ark it has a AI that takes over your chr and you set up what that chr is meant to do why ur off line with a scipt. BEWARE logging out outside of a town at your own risk... AI scipt wont know how to go home.
in LIF if there is no players around its a very dull and boring game. this game there will be fully interactive NPC's hell u may even become friends with a NPC and not even know it if SBS gets there work done correctly.
overall i feel LIF is a reasonable steping stone or shall we say training tool for those wishing to play COE as any one who played Wow only will have a harder time adjusting to this game then those who play LIF
but yes so much u can do in this game but its up to your choices..
unlike in LIF where a war consist of 20 vs 25 or such in COE a war (which will be more common then ur expecting) will be involving up to 1000 warriors in some of the medium size conflicts...
if that dose not get ur PVP blood pumping i have no clue what else will.
but yes expect that more people will be willing to take the risk to lose RL game sub time then you give credit too hehehe.
its $30 thats like 2 months wow sub... so ya PVP will be a thing but it will be a thing of sides... are your a outlaw or are you fighting for the law of the lands.?
expect the job of Bounty hunter or town Watch to get alot of PVP happening.
plus you can PVP without killing some one... its when u actually Deliberately kill them that ur breaching the murder laws or losing spirt