Ease of death/PKill

My view on character death is it’s absolutely horrendous trying to get yourself back on your feet. Rolling brand new characters– even if you buy levels with them– you still have to spend hours upon hours upon hours getting them to a stable level, even if all you want to do is RP with the character. Having a semi-usable character takes a lot more work than it really needs to.

… What this comes down to, is that not everybody who plays LotJ wants to go around leveling their characters all the way. They want to be able to put them in action, but some people just don’t have the time to train up their characters to really be able to do so. Having datachips back would really solve this, I think.

What it’s -not- going to solve, though, is that some people– no matter what– simply aren’t going to want to lose their characters. No matter what.

Edit: Changing it so that you can have fully leveled stats out of chargen when buying levels would be awesome. I don’t think it’s something you should have to spend like 300 points on, personally, but, like, 5 points per point for each type of stat? Or something like that… a similar system to level-buying.

We could always just take gains out entirely, making whatever the helpfile says, be the ending….give or take cybers of course. Just tossing out an idea here lol…especially since most of the gains are slotted with skill sets they aren’t even linked to

You easily change that by redoing the races so that their stats hit where they need to hit based on whatever the staff decides that race should get to….then you pull the random gains. Like I said, just tossing out an idea, but its easy to counter the argument that certain builds need the gains

:: Moves the conversation back to the topic ::

Okay, I’ve read your comments on death and I’ve taken them to form this proposal. I’m trying to address your issues and my issues, so please be flexible. Also, I have not approached a coder about the feasibility of this system, but it didn’t strike me as anything that would be insurmountable. This proposal does not deal with stat purchases. I will open a new topic for that line of thought.

[b:1ywbgedo]1. Players will be required to log in on an account. Newbies will be required to create an account prior to creating a character.[/b:1ywbgedo]

[b:1ywbgedo]2. Players under level xx can not be permed unless they are deliberately permed by another player. This means that the player can not
die by mobs, or a ship related accident. [/b:1ywbgedo][i:1ywbgedo](the players should decide the level cut off for this)[/i:1ywbgedo]
a. Players who die in this manner will wake up in the cloning facility with no eq and be subject to a 12-24 hour hp/mv penalty. They
will not qualify for a restore or any other kind of recourse against their death.
b. If a player is found to be abusing this system, they will get a flag on their account that disables it, and that player will be permed
in all characters associated with their account.

[b:1ywbgedo]3. For players who wish to clone, they will be guaranteed up to 2 fully functioning clones.[/b:1ywbgedo]
a. Cloning will be made reasonably available to all players. [i:1ywbgedo](It will not be restricted to a particular clan)[/i:1ywbgedo]
b. Players will experience a 12 – 24 hour period of HP/MV drop upon accessing a clone to prevent the player from rejoining in an
ongoing battle.
c. Clones have the exact same levels as the original at the time of death.
d. Players may choose to RP their character as a clone, or as though they miraculously survived.
e. Restores may be handled from on the clone if the player is willing to forfeit any gear that may otherwise remain on their
restored character.
f. Clones will wake up in an area that affords them privacy, and a safe place to wait until they are ready to leave.

[b:1ywbgedo]4. Account points need to provide enough points to replace lost characters[/b:1ywbgedo]
a. Account point rewards are decreased with each clone.
b. Account points are given upon death according to number of life that the player is on.
i. First life earns an automatic 3/4 the spent points, plus a point allotment that is based on time played.
ii. Second life/clone earns ½ of the original spent points after x amount of time on the second life, but no additional points for
time played. [i:1ywbgedo](I’m hoping that the reduction of points will serve as the downside to playing a clone that Corey was trying to go for)[/i:1ywbgedo]
iii. Third life/clone earns ¼ of the original spent points after x amount of time on the third life, and no additional points for
time played.
iv. Points earned from all lives are added together and are awarded upon final death.
c. Restored lives put the clone back to the previous life count, so points earned upon death will be based on that life number.
d. Force points are refundable based on circumstance.
i. 100% refund if the player is not awakened. [i:1ywbgedo](If players are choosing not to awaken someone because they think that the
character will be a bad forcer, then for pete’s sakes give the player a refund. They’ll roll it again, and again, and eventually,
they’ll figure out that people don’t want to RP with them, and they’ll go spend their points on a few expensive races.)[/i:1ywbgedo]
ii. 50% refund if the player is awakened, but not at least level 60 in force. [i:1ywbgedo](If they can afford to take a 5,000 point loss to roll
for stats, then I guess they deserve it)[/i:1ywbgedo]