Posted By Gunnlang at 04:28 AM - Sun Sep 16 2018
Then the final point, you can't just take a fire arrow and burn a forest/town to the ground. You need siege equipment. How easy that will be to build is also something else.
Caspian also said, that you just can't take a torch, or some fire arrows and burn down a village in a few minutes. And that it will take longer to raise a building, than it took to build it. Which in most games works the other way around!
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By KipFoE at 01:04 AM - Sun Sep 16 2018
Posted By Ibenholt at 6:47 PM - Sat Sep 15 2018
Well, from what I remember each kill, as in Coup de Grâce, will effect your lifespan or soul in a bad way.
Only if you’re caught AND punished. There will be evidence of crimes left, to what extent, is still in development. There will be ways to investigate crimes. Laws will be written by players and we will have tools to enforce laws and there will be a certain level of punishment that can be attached to crimes. So yes, I’m theory, cold blooded murder could result in a decrease in the time left on the convicted’s spark, but it’s certainly not automatic.
Yes, you need to be catched and trailed, which might be way easier than in other games, due to the fact that a char will stay ingame even if the player logs out and due to a skill that lets you analyse crime spots and helps you find the perpetrator.
BUT their is also the reknown system or what SBS calls it. Remember that amount of playtime / lifetime that a char is loosing Coup de Grace varies depending on his "rank / reknown".
Which means, that a normal crafter, or merchant that gets killed looses amount A of his lifetime, while a mayor, or a count looses A multiplied by X. Which goes up to the king, who looses so much lifetime with every Coup de Grace, that char will be dead after 3-4 times. While a normal unkown local merchant might live through countless of Coup de Grace.
This system does not work for people with rank and title, BUT also for chars that are known. If you are the richest merchant of your duchy you will be as well known as the duke of this duchy. And if you are the greatest general of your kingdom, or a legendary dragon slayer, you might just be as famous and well known thought the land, as the king is.
And you will also suffer the consequences for it, if you suffer a Coup de Grace.
Same goes for your killer! If he hasn't just killed only one guy, but is the baine of the royal capital, like "Jack the Ripper", or if he is a famous highwayman like "Robert -Three Fingered - Birtch", he will also suffer a bigger lifetime loss if he suffers a Goup de Grace - on top - of what ever will happen if the he ever gets caugth.
The next thing is, that Caspian also posted around two years ago, that they will watch the amount of criminal activity and if it gets out of hand, they will adjust the punishment or increase the chance to find criminals due to ingame skills, to make crime less attractive.