pk and abandoned realms

reddkey · Joined: 26 Sep 2004 Posts: 14

I've played AR a bit in the past and wondered how it was going, decided to jump in and check,....

Is pk still mandatory? Or is it optional now?

I would love to get on board and rock some PvE, I loved this mud, but just hated getting slaughtered all the time in pk.

goofy · Joined: 09 Nov 2006 Posts: 54 Location: web

murder is allways an option... Idea

that would be a good t-shirt

Krakknot · Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 6:32 am Post subject:

Its optional if you know how to run away or avoid people who want to pk you.

Davairus · Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 11:59 am Post subject:

Its not going to become optional PK here..

Shughurd · Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 128 Location: Estonia

I still can't see AR as a PKmud anymore. Maybe i should stop playing at european hours and stay up till 5am for some PK? But maybe not.

Shughurd · Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 128 Location: Estonia

Krakknot · Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 1:10 pm Post subject:

Esura · Joined: 29 Jun 2006 Posts: 129

I think Dav means that there's not going to be an option to make un-PK-able characters. Obviously there are tons of people, respectable people even, who don't pk.

PvE can be enjoyable for some people. Like the first time you're in Evermore and you're like "Wow, this place is scary."

And reddkey, Krakknot is right. As long as you're uncaballed and you don't feel the need to PK other people, it's pretty easy to stay alive indefinitely. Maybe not at first but it doesn't take much to learn.

Krakknot · Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 4:36 pm Post subject:

Ohhhh, I gotcha.

Davairus · Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 6:31 pm Post subject:

Thats funny shughurd because a lot of people playing wow are actually only playing the pvp part because the rest is so dull-ass boring.. and yes the pvp does also suck

reddkey · Joined: 26 Sep 2004 Posts: 14

Ive not played WoW, but I did just get off of Lord of the Rings online peaking out two characters. On Lo-tro PvP is isolated. You can't even flame, the monsters and free peoples cant talk to each other. I thought that PVP quite dull.

Ive played muds since 1998 and have thoroughly enjoyed the character building and pve elements. I love the grouping aspect of this mud, in particular. One thing that steered me away from muding and into the new WoW, Lo-Tro, EQ whatever you want to call them Graphic MMO's is that PK is somewhat controled, and in Lotro in particular group quests are plentiful and its fun to run with other players in a co-op not just slaughter them.

I saw something about cabals on the main home page, and I thought AR had finally gone PK optional and was delighted. I was going to come back in and have a go. In fact I just leveled up a character to 5 the other night.

I agree Krak that Pk does make you stay on your toes, it adds a neat element to the game, that doesnt really exsist in Lotro, but there were many times, when I just didnt want to do it, I was busy training, or leveling, looking for a group to roll with, or even RP, and some monk came along and choked me. Its just annoying at those times.

As for the almost insults because I played something other than a mud for a while, please,...gamers play all kinds of games, shooters, RPG's, racing games, whatever.

Yeah I even enjoy muds occaisionally,...AR is awesome, I loved playing here. I dont see why pkers get all sour grapes whenever someone comes along with a different prespective, but thats always been the case.

Stephen2_Aust · Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 224

Hi Reddkey,

What a fantastic post above. Please don't judge the player base by the posters on this forum who are not representative. The community playing AR is fantastic and I hope you really enjoy your time here and decide to stay on for a bit.

goofy · Joined: 09 Nov 2006 Posts: 54 Location: web

Davairus · Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 6:30 pm Post subject:

No pk would be lame, people would just talk a lot of crap and nobody would be able to rape them. It'd just be drama-mud with a lot of slap emote. At least with pk ranges you can properly shut up a little punk, or if you really hate some high level jerk, condie him.

Esura · Joined: 29 Jun 2006 Posts: 129

Except most crap-talking little punks do so well below my pk range, so having mandatory pk doesn't actually do much to solve the problem of little punks and the slap emote.

Davairus · Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 10:27 pm Post subject:

People of that nature would have sufficient intellect to recognise themselves as inferior and stupid in a yapping dog sort of way.

Mahkan · Joined: 22 Oct 2007 Posts: 264 Location: The Interwebs

The worst problem for me is the slap or knee or bitch emote. Combative emotes are lame because they dont make sense. A silly little drow invoker below my pk shouldnt be able to emote beating the shit out of me.

Davairus · Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 9:20 am Post subject:

Anyhoo... if you want to get some practice in, just duel people in the arena. You can place challenges, other people can bet on who's going to win, and most importantly you will get stun instead of ending up dead. Then once you have the confidence to fight other players without that safety you will probably enjoy it a lot more.

Shughurd · Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 128 Location: Estonia

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