Do you support a duelling function?

Blackwidow · July 2014

Tandor wrote: »

Blackwidow wrote: »

@Tandor I believe they have separate people for fixing things and developing things.

Also, dueling would not impact your world unless you wanted it to, if you had auto decline on.

Actually it would impact on others, both for the reasons some have already given, and because duelling would lead to yet another bout of class balance whining that would end up in changes that affected everyone..

There is literally no downside to dueling. It can be auto declined. Kept out of cities. Will never affect your game if you don't want it to.

What other reasons is there?

"because duelling would lead to yet another bout of class balance whining "

Right, because that is not happening now? Give me a break.

If you are already in a puddle of mud, don't complain you might get dirty.

Mablung · July 2014

Dools are for tools.

Kulrig · July 2014

I think any game with PvP ought to have some sort of dueling function. And as with any pop-up that other people can slap in front of you, there needs to be an autodecline option.

Zabus · July 2014

I duel in cyrodiil all the time we get players from DC, AD and EP all in one TS meet somewhere in the middle of the map and just go at it. 1v1s, 2v2s and even 5v5s when we have enough people xD

TS is just so we don't get bored while we wait for a duel to end, some have easily gone over 10 minutes.

dodgehopper_ESO · July 2014

I think dueling is absolutely a great idea. Its a way for people to iron out their build in relative safety and quickly learn about counters and countering particular attacks. It also lets you figure out numerically what is going on with the game, proving or disproving whether the tooltips are lying to us or not. Transparency is important, and I think a good dueling system would help produce greater transparency. I really don't understand why or how people could vote against it, if you can opt out.

poodlemasterb16_ESO · July 2014

I don't much care one way or the other. There do seem to be lots of people who want to duel so I have no problem as long as I get no spam or extra hassles.

Should not be that hard to implement it, with pretty low impact for the rest of us, so I voted Yes.

indytims_ESO · July 2014

I am fine with Dueling being added - AS LONG AS there is an option to 'auto-decline' duels (i.e. as used in EQ2, for example).

I have no desire to be spammed by some dbagg wanting to 'prove his worth' by dueling me - and then spamming me with invites even after I decline.

mousekime111rwb17_ESO · July 2014

the thing with a dueling option the way suggested here (the correct way to implement such a feature) is that just like gay marriage, if you don't want to partake, don't partake and you won't be affected. Adding in a feature like this can ONLY have positive effects.

isengrimb16_ESO · July 2014

mousekime111rwb17_ESO wrote: »

the thing with a dueling option the way suggested here (the correct way to implement such a feature) is that just like gay marriage, if you don't want to partake, don't partake and you won't be affected. Adding in a feature like this can ONLY have positive effects.

Unless it causes whining about class balance that hurts PvE, which it inevitably does. As long as devs balance vet PvE and let PvPers slide on their own, then it would be fine. Otherwise, PvP complaints (beyond FPS issues in Cyrodiil, which are legit) should be flatly ignored, as long as PvE play works.

mousekime111rwb17_ESO · July 2014

isengrimb16_ESO wrote: »

mousekime111rwb17_ESO wrote: »

the thing with a dueling option the way suggested here (the correct way to implement such a feature) is that just like gay marriage, if you don't want to partake, don't partake and you won't be affected. Adding in a feature like this can ONLY have positive effects.

Unless it causes whining about class balance that hurts PvE, which it inevitably does. As long as devs balance vet PvE and let PvPers slide on their own, then it would be fine. Otherwise, PvP complaints (beyond FPS issues in Cyrodiil, which are legit) should be flatly ignored, as long as PvE play works.

Eh, one v one combat will probably be ignored as far as balance is concerned due to it being the outlier style encounter. In AVA you're almost always with a group, in PVE you're almost always with a group. They're not going to nerf magnum shot because it's too powerful in duels...

isengrimb16_ESO · July 2014

mousekime111rwb17_ESO wrote: »

isengrimb16_ESO wrote: »

mousekime111rwb17_ESO wrote: »

the thing with a dueling option the way suggested here (the correct way to implement such a feature) is that just like gay marriage, if you don't want to partake, don't partake and you won't be affected. Adding in a feature like this can ONLY have positive effects.

Unless it causes whining about class balance that hurts PvE, which it inevitably does. As long as devs balance vet PvE and let PvPers slide on their own, then it would be fine. Otherwise, PvP complaints (beyond FPS issues in Cyrodiil, which are legit) should be flatly ignored, as long as PvE play works.

Eh, one v one combat will probably be ignored as far as balance is concerned due to it being the outlier style encounter. In AVA you're almost always with a group, in PVE you're almost always with a group. They're not going to nerf magnum shot because it's too powerful in duels...

*snort* My crappy WoW pally would differ on that - ruined because of PvPers complaining that they (Retribution Paladins) were "OP". And no, you're not always in a group in PvE, not even most of the time, especially in ESO. PvP whining ruins PvE play more than anything else. PvPers need to be ignored by developers.

Playpenning PvP off was probably the most brilliant move I've ever seen. Let PvP remain a ghetto.

michael21 · July 2014

Lets you test, gives you another fun mode.
Its a great and productive thing to the game imo.

MercyKilling · July 2014

Oh, look. This thread/poll again.

Zorrashi · July 2014

Dueling is fine. But there is one little pet peeve I want to express....towns. I don't want duels in towns. I know that I can ignore it, but it can get annoying when they crowd a street.

poodlemasterb16_ESO · July 2014

Zorrashi wrote: »

Dueling is fine. But there is one little pet peeve I want to express....towns. I don't want duels in towns. I know that I can ignore it, but it can get annoying when they crowd a street.

Yeah like in real life. Go outside, don't trash the bar.

I may have revealed too much.

isengrimb16_ESO · July 2014

poodlemasterb16_ESO wrote: »

Zorrashi wrote: »

Dueling is fine. But there is one little pet peeve I want to express....towns. I don't want duels in towns. I know that I can ignore it, but it can get annoying when they crowd a street.

Yeah like in real life. Go outside, don't trash the bar.

I may have revealed too much.

Frankly, I think PvPers are fern bar types, who would get sick at the idea of a ***/cowboy/riggerpigger bar where they'd be forced to actually back up their big mouths with action.

Oh? An actual anti-white epithet is banned here? I'm impressed. The censored word starts with R and ends with K.

I don't see r-e-d-n-e-c-k as a particularly bad word. Cripes, riggerpigger is worse than that, but I guess non-oilpatch oriented folks have no idea what that means.