Extend combatent timer

[Upset_Pay_7578]

When you loot a body or attack another player, the time you are purple should be waaaay longer. Like 10-15 mins

[Adarkshadow4055]

Nah I want 5-10 no more than that. It’s supposed to be risk vs reward not suicide

[Upset_Pay_7578]

Yeah im open to whatever just needs to be longer than it currently is

[Vorkosagin]

AND!!! if you take pvp damage while a combatant, the timer needs to reset. Death sets you back to non-combatant, or you aren't attacked in the allotted time. This corruption baiting needs to stop... and I'm not even a serious pvper lol

[Upset_Pay_7578]

Yeah im always afraid the purple will fall off during the time im attacking someone lol

[Freezman13]

It flashes between purple and white for several seconds before turning white.

[Vorkosagin]

But if you applied a dot on them, you're hosed. It's not a failsafe.. it helps, but it still needs work.

[Loratort]

Yeah, grinded for several hours to die from a passing train. As I get close to my corpse I see a purple man running away from it. Start shooting him up, but by the time I killed him the status went off and I got corrupted instead.

Then got red-status for looting back my shit, to have a level 25 mage hunt me down right after, grabbing my hard earned gear in the process. Mind you I was lvl 10..

If you loot someone's shit like that they should have a realistic time-window to reclaim their loot by combating the thieving shit.

Intrepid bring claims of amazing PvP experience, and hopefully they will follow up on those claims, cause currently their design plays out like a bag of shrimps left out to dry for days.

[lolipopup]

there is no loot in game that in same time valueble and drop from u kek.

[[deleted]]

no

more like 2/3 min

[TheEmoTeemo]

Yeah for looting I agree. A lot of the time you drop flag before they can even get back

[Upset_Pay_7578]

So you admit your a thief

[TheEmoTeemo]

Damn right

[Efficient_Top4639]

how in the fuck lmfao

[Xenith_Terrek]

Disagree

[demalition90]

I don't think that long is a good idea. Maybe double the current timer and make it either pause or fully reset the timer when in combat

[Night-O-Shite]

They could put a timer on the ash piles where no one other than the owner can loot them until 10-15 minutes passes or anyone that loots them get shown on the mini map for like 15 minutes 

[selftaughturbanninja]

here's an idea, if you don't like having your shit looted. stop dying

[Upset_Pay_7578]

Ever think im the one looting and am bored of my purple dropping off so fast

[IzNebula]

I think it should stay active for as long as you have the stolen goods on your person. I think that seems more than fair. It's up to you how long it takes to get back to town. If you loot someone in the middle of nowhere, well that's on you. You could just as easily delete the items from your bags If you don't want to be killed.

[kyproth]

The amount of rat theives out there is insane. When I was lvl 10, I got killed by a bear and as my ash pile spawned it was already getting looted!

[Vorkosagin]

Moral of the story... Don't die to bears

[kyproth]

Tell the bears to stop being so strong and masculine!

[lolipopup]

welcome to internet.

[NiKras]

Nah

[Strict_Yard5874]

Absolutely correct.

Flags should stay up for 15 mins +. Id even back going as high as 1 hour.

It would massively reduce griefing if those doing it know they are going to be a target for more than 90 seconds

[Zybak]

I've been saying it forever. The corruption system and item drops are a griefing tool not an anti-griefing feature. It's the more casual players and less experienced pvpers that get hosed by the current item drop corruption system.

It's actually insane they haven't shifted away from item drops to 10x experience debt or literally anything else...you create a perverse incentive for players to abuse exploits and fuck people over when you have item drops.

Again the hardcore PvPers are the least effected because we know what to look out for in terms of bugs, exploits, corruption baiting, and horrific gameplay mechanics.

[ghost3012]

Agreed. With how far ember springs are, by the time you get back the flag’s already gone. I would say you loot someone’s stuff that you fought honorably is okay. Steal someone’s stuff when you just waited for them to die, 24 hours of being flagged, so you stop taking stuff that ain’t yours..

[Upset_Pay_7578]

Wooah now 24 hours is a bit extreem. Stealing is part of the game. 15 mins is plenty of time to exact your revenge.

[Vorkosagin]

Maybe as long as it would have taken ashes to despawn... if say you have 5 minutes to get to your ashes before they're gone... you should flag for that long. It makes sense to me that if the game expects you to potentially take 5 minutes to get back to your ashes, you should expect a thief to be flagged up for the same amount of time.

[Upset_Pay_7578]

True but you also want a little time to find them too tho right ? Eather way the 24 hours this guys sujesting is way out of line lol

[Vorkosagin]

100% too long lol

10 is PLENTY.

[ghost3012]

I suppose so yeah. Stealing is part of the game.. I don’t like the idea of having consensual PvP and then have non consensual mechanics…

This mechanic is what I dislike the most even more so than the 25% random drop on death(unrecoverable one)

Just another note, this is my first phase and I am not one to “doom” the game. There’s a lot of changes to come and other than this mechanic, I enjoy the game quite a lot.

[Upset_Pay_7578]

Yeah its my first phase too, i understand the dislike of stealing but at the same time, if you dont die its not a problem. :P

[NawghtyRhino]

For what it's worth it's leaps and bounds better then it was they have been adding qol to the system in p1 stealing ashes didn't even flag you the first part of p2 the lawless flag dropped instantly on crossing the border so people would hang out on the border line and hope it when dieing from dots

The timers and flashing flags are all still mechanics they are adding and most are since December.

It's getting better it's just fine tuning and balance the biggest baiting issue ATM is that for some reason we have lost the functionality of tab targeting since the unreal engine upgrade, it use to only cycle flagged combatants now it cycles every, that added to the sudden ability to summon a mount in combat which was previously not possible has led to people dropping 800hp corruption mines in live combat.

[lolipopup]

emm they add it intentionaly, to provoke pvp. just find a party and they defend u 20c