Concerns About the Justice System and Merchants

Ghanima_Atreides · January 2015

I know B2P is the hot topic of the day, but watching the Twitch announcement made me aware of a different issue: at one point, they showed a character killing a merchant in Daggerfall. I had assumed some NPCs would be exempt from the Justice System to deter griefing, and that merchants would be among them. Since apparently they're not, I have to wonder: what's to stop people from repeatedly killing every merchant in a city just to annoy those who are trying to sell loot? Particularly the lone ones inside shops - just when you might need to visit an enchanter....

Being able to sell/buy things is vital as anyone with a perpetually full inventory knows, and this has the potential to become a problem, especially prior to the full implementation of the JS with world PvP.

krseb17_ESO · January 2015

I an earlier stream there was some talk about important NPCs like that might be instanced/phased so others can interact with the ones you murdered. But it might be only for important quest NPCs and not merchants

kongkim · January 2015

They have said that important NPCs can't be killed.

Kilandros · January 2015

kongkim wrote: »

They have said that important NPCs can't be killed.

Yes by they haven't said you can't pay to kill them. So it's on the table. Heck, even if they had said that, it'd still be on the table.

Ghanima_Atreides · January 2015

kongkim wrote: »

They have said that important NPCs can't be killed.

But merchants, which this thread is about, can. I've seen it with my own eyes in the video.

@krseb17_ESO - That's interesting, although I'm not sure how it would work with world PvP and trying to enforce justice for crimes that people committed only in "their" phase.