Yoshi P comments on death penalty and more

[Frebaut]

Posted on Zam


On official JP forum there are some heat topics lured Yoshi-P's eye.

One is debating death penalty. Some users think the death penalty should become harder in order to make user feel more risk of battle, some disagree.
The other is gear fixing, this is a huge topic because users have many thoughts on the economic system around the wearing and fixing.
So he showed up and commented on the topic last night.

We all know current death penalty is relatively "light" because it only weak for 3 minutes and do nothing except prohibit zombie attack. Yoshi-P also referred the habit of suicide to get a free warp in order to preserve anima as "strange" in previous producer's letter.

He said the death penalty is necessary, and dev team is considering these points:
1. Status down (weak) on resurrection from death. Will recover after some time or pay gil to NPC.
2. Equipment wearing on warp after death, can be recovered by fixing.
3. Currently dev team have no plan to add "exp / sp loss" into death penalty.
4. Concurrent to point 2, the cost of equipment fixing will be lowered.
About "recover by NPC", if really implemented, will come along with some limit to prohibit zombie attack.

BTW the resurrect method is going to change in parallel:

•"Raise" will be separated into different level zone
•Raise: Low level, weak after resurrect, no gear wearing.
•Raise II: Middle level, shorter or lighter weak after resurrect, no gear wearing
•Raise III: High level, no weak, may have high mana cost or cool-down time to prevent zombie attack.
•He is considering to lower the anima cost of warp to zero but add 10-20 min cool-down timer.

As a result:

•No one need to suicide to get a free warp.
•There is a higher chance to get raise.
•By helping each other, fighters can avoid gear wearing, but still can feel suitable battle risk.
•If wearing really happens it will not cost so much (time or money) to get your gears fixed.


If you are interested in original post, I quoted it as following.
Original post: http://goo.gl/3OQak

[Evangela]

what is gear wearing? do you mean after you get raised you'll be naked?

isn't it gear damaging?

[BelgianRofl]

So basically, the plan he's suggesting give the player absolutely zero incentive to not die.

Way to completely remove any thrill from this game. This guy's as bad as Tanaka.

I don't know about you, but I don't like being spoon-fed as an adult.

[Shaone]

I don't know about you, but I don't like being spoon-fed as an adult.

I can't think of any reason why not to enjoy being spoon fed, all the better whilst being gently fanned with palm leaves on a tropical beach somewhere by several scantily clad women... but each to their own.

[BelgianRofl]

I can't think of any reason why not to enjoy being spoon fed.

Dignity?

Why play a game that is not challenging?

[Onidemon]

Dignity?

Why play a game that is not challenging?

I think you're right.... screw EXP loss, that's not challenging at all. For XIV we look at bigger and improved death penalty! Level loss, you die, you lose a level... you die again you lose 2!! You die enough time you gotta remake your character from scratch now that's challenging!

[Shaone]

I think you're right.... screw EXP loss, that's not challenging at all. For XIV we look at bigger and improved death penalty! Level loss, you die, you lose a level... you die again you lose 2!! You die enough time you gotta remake your character from scratch now that's challenging!

24 hour ban on first death, 48 hour ban on second, 72 hour ban on third, account deletion on fourth. Die 4 times you gotta buy the game again.

Now that's challenging!

[Sojiro]

Dignity?

Why play a game that is not challenging?

Why not focus on challenging content and not stacking unnecessary penalties? Unless of course no amount of challenge you put into content = challenging unless you have to go back and get buffer exp anytime you want to do something that has a chance of killing you.

[MagicofGaia]

what is gear wearing? do you mean after you get raised you'll be naked?

isn't it gear damaging?

So basically, the plan he's suggesting give the player absolutely zero incentive to not die.

Way to completely remove any thrill from this game. This guy's as bad as Tanaka.

I don't know about you, but I don't like being spoon-fed as an adult.

Really? Two trolls back to back...

[Jinko]

So basically, the plan he's suggesting give the player absolutely zero incentive to not die.

Way to completely remove any thrill from this game. This guy's as bad as Tanaka.

I don't know about you, but I don't like being spoon-fed as an adult.

Yea some of us don't want games to kick us in the balls ever couple of minutes either.