Will MvP be brought back during Velious?

[Uthgaard]

Originally Posted by Reiker [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Seems like too much work to get "right."

How will you code the pvp portion of this? As far as I know, there's no way for a player to be set as an NPC (could be wrong, just haven't seen it). So the player monster will have a blue PC player name, sort of ruining the surprise that the mob is being controlled by a player. But then how do you allow other players to attack the player monster? You could have the player monster auto-flag PVP, but then the player would also need to be flagged PVP to attack.

Like I said, coding aside. I was just throwing out the idea that it would be possible to do in-game, manually, just for fun, without implementing an automated process with potential exploits.

To answer your question about the combat, that's all inherent into /be. The target becomes an npc, with the specified model, size, textures, face, clothing, etc. You can even set a level cap, if you choose to. For example, no one over level 10 can come own your fire beetle. They leave a lootable corpse behind just like an NPC, which is why I specifically mentioned nuking all items in inventory and using poof-on-death weaponry.

[stormiejs]

I remember playing this back on the test server. There was a small button on the character select which would start loading you into the game. It would pick a random low level monster and then you would take over it. The highest level creature I got to be was a shaman mob in Kerra Ridge. It was cool to be able to scribe spells, cast them, and have an inventory as an NPC. You were ally with other NPCs so you could not attack them, but you could attack and cast on players. I'm not sure if you actually got experience for killing players, but that would have been funny.

While it was a cool concept, you didn't really get anything to do except jump around, /wave as a skeleton, or other small gimmicks. Who honestly wants to invest into an NPC creature that is going to die in ~10 seconds or a few minutes. On the other hand, who wants to level up on this server against a ton of people griefing lowbies with it? Just look at the R&F forum and try to imagine how it'll work out in this server's community.

Maybe the devs could take a list of volunteers and incorporate this into some sort of GM event, but otherwise it just seems like wasted effort that could go into fixing the server or releasing kunark.

[Estu]

You could indeed gain levels in Project M.

[azeth]

how badass would it be for Project M to give you a .01% chance to spawn as a raid target.

[Bigcountry23]

The best was being a Madman in Oasis. Hanging out in the water near the docks and waiting for somone to Med with like 10% health... hehehe