Stay Alive Bonus instead of Death Penalty?

Why is everyone focused on a Death Penalty, so if you die you lose something SP, durability and so on. Why don't we look at it from a different angle, lets consider a bonus for not dying and actually staying alive.

Rentahamster deserves full credit for this and the OP can be found here:

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It basically describes a system where you gain ranks, bonuses and buffs for staying alive. So as you earn SP it is also being added up in the background to give ranks for not dying.

So for every 20k SP you earn without dying you gain a No Death Rank (still needs a name ^^) and can select a bonus. There are 5 ranks so to hit the top rank you would need 100k SP without dying.

With this idea you are only losing an additional bonus you could have so it doesn't seem as harsh as something like losing SP, but it still provides a good reason not to die.

Yes, instead of punishing for failure, they should be rewarding us for success.

Your age-old game design philosophies do not really work any longer, Square.

nice idea

I like it

Totally agree with this idea.

inbe4 "but it doenst add sense of adventure,blablablabla,etc"

That idea should be completely separate from a death penalty idea as it's more of a title system.

It doesn't matter what you call it, but there must always be a penalty for death. In the case of the suggestion, the penalty for dieing is losing a title/bonus. Isn't that a worse punishment than any of the other death penalty suggestions already made by SE? You're shooting yourselves in the foot with that suggestion.

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Originally Posted by AlexiaKidd

Why is everyone focused on a Death Penalty, so if you die you lose something SP, durability and so on. Why don't we look at it from a different angle, lets consider a bonus for not dying and actually staying alive.

Rentahamster deserves full credit for this and the OP can be found here:

CLICKY

It basically describes a system where you gain ranks, bonuses and buffs for staying alive. So as you earn SP it is also being added up in the background to give ranks for not dying.

So for every 20k SP you earn without dying you gain a No Death Rank (still needs a name ^^) and can select a bonus. There are 5 ranks so to hit the top rank you would need 100k SP without dying.

With this idea you are only losing an additional bonus you could have so it doesn't seem as harsh as something like losing SP, but it still provides a good reason not to die.

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I approve of this suggestion, in addition to a small death penalty (like gear damage) to avoid having too many purposeless kamikaze. Not that it's wrong to kamikaze, at times it is really useful for strategies when things go bad (hence, a small penalty for death rather than a big one like exp/sp loss).