A Game Improvement that Could Save Lives in RW
This AM in Malabal Tor, I looked at a river crossing right above a waterfall and my RW instinct told me "Don't go there!" That's because I live near a lot of waterfalls in RW, and we lose young, athletic tourists every year, swept to their deaths in places that look just like that. In RW, lichen-covered rocks become as slippery as ice and an ankle-deep stream can knock you off your feet when it runs fast. In game, I made the crossing with no difficulty. It occurred to me that this is a way the devs could save some actual lives: let people be swept to their deaths if they are foolish enough to cross even a small river above a waterfall.
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mdylan2013✭✭✭✭✭Tbf if people are that unaware of the dangers from rivers/waterfalls then a change like that in the game is really not going to make a difference.
Especially when you can jump into a whirlpool in one of the cyrodiil delves XDPS4/EU
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Chadak✭✭✭✭✭Peoples' characters should randomly be afflicted with 'Cardiac Arrest' as well! Loss of 25% HP every 2 seconds until dead.
It would raise awareness for cardiac health and well being!
And we could have there be a 0.5% chance of choking when using food! Have it bring up a minigame making you click on random glow spots appearing around the screen and, if you miss too many, your character chokes to death!
It would teach people to be careful when they eat!
AND!!!1!!
We could have characters get old! Every RL month could equal five in game years, and when your character started to get to racial ages where they'd suffer some aging effects, they start to accrue permament move speed penalties, damage penalties on physical attacks (due to weakening with age), increasingly limited jump height and range and, eventually, you'd have to retire your character because all they'd be able to do in the twilight of their life is hobble around at 10% base speed, fall over all the time and generally be unable to fight anything at all anymore.
In retrospect, I bet there really are some folks who will read at least one of these and go "...I actually like that idea" and feel slightly awkward.Edited by Chadak on August 1, 2017 10:54AM12 -
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Any kind of metal strapped to you, even weapons! And you sink like a rock.CP2,100 Master Explorer - AvA Two Star Warlord - Console Peasant - Khajiiti Aficionado - The Clan
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✭✭✭✭✭I have often thought that characters should randomly stumble while running. But... that is for a different thread.
I do not think that this would raise awareness of the danger of waterfalls, mainly because I don't think that the problem is one of lack of awareness.
I do think that moving water should push characters in the water, like Skyrim. Why do we move slower when walking through water, or dismount as soon as a hoof or paw touches it, yet we do not get carried away by the current?XBox EU/NA:@ElsonsoJannus
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✭✭✭✭✭We should probably make a Fire Ballista one shot as well, before people get the idea they can tank one in real life.
I see what you're saying OP, but I don't think changing anything in a videogame will help people in real life, maybe some more signs and information in real life near those areas.@Turelus - EU PC Megaserver
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✭✭Peoples' characters should randomly be afflicted with 'Cardiac Arrest' as well! Loss of 25% HP every 2 seconds until dead.
It would raise awareness for cardiac health and well being!
And we could have there be a 0.5% chance of choking when using food! Have it bring up a minigame making you click on random glow spots appearing around the screen and, if you miss too many, your character chokes to death!
It would teach people to be careful when they eat!
AND!!!1!!
We could have characters get old! Every RL month could equal five in game years, and when your character started to get to racial ages where they'd suffer some aging effects, they start to accrue permament move speed penalties, damage penalties on physical attacks (due to weakening with age), increasingly limited jump height and range and, eventually, you'd have to retire your character because all they'd be able to do in the twilight of their life is hobble around at 10% base speed, fall over all the time and generally be unable to fight anything at all anymore.
In retrospect, I bet there really are some folks who will read at least one of these and go "...I actually like that idea" and feel slightly awkward.
@Chadak haha awesome start to my day! LMAO. Though I think I would play on a server like this. Goes along well with my perma death server desire. 0 -
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✭✭✭✭✭We could have characters get old!
I vaguely remember an MMO that actually did that, or intended to do that and never made it to market. (I'm a little fuzzy on which.)
Depending on how you develop the game, it can be interesting. If your gear gets passed down to a character's descendants or heirs, it becomes a way to force a respec at varying intervals. Also, some games use it to avoid needing a level cap, and ensuring that proc based modifiers can't be too powerful. Because your characters will die anyway in a few.0 -
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✭✭starkerealm wrote: »We could have characters get old!
I vaguely remember an MMO that actually did that, or intended to do that and never made it to market. (I'm a little fuzzy on which.)
Depending on how you develop the game, it can be interesting. If your gear gets passed down to a character's descendants or heirs, it becomes a way to force a respec at varying intervals. Also, some games use it to avoid needing a level cap, and ensuring that proc based modifiers can't be too powerful. Because your characters will die anyway in a few.
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WildWilbur✭✭✭✭And don't let us start about Skooma..."Call me a killjoy, but I think that because this is not to my taste, no one else should be able to enjoy it." Marge Simpson2
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✭✭✭✭✭WildWilbur wrote: »And don't let us start about Skooma...
The utter absence of Skooma as a consumable is, honestly, kinda strange to me. I mean, I understand that ZOS doesn't want to promote drug abuse... in a game where I regularly enter dungeons boozed out of my gourd on fermented beetle bits, or tripping on daedric blood and tomato juice.5 -
WildWilbur✭✭✭✭starkerealm wrote: »WildWilbur wrote: »And don't let us start about Skooma...
The utter absence of Skooma as a consumable is, honestly, kinda strange to me. I mean, I understand that ZOS doesn't want to promote drug abuse... in a game where I regularly enter dungeons boozed out of my gourd on fermented beetle bits, or tripping on daedric blood and tomato juice.
So true...
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✭✭y'know, i see posts like this and i remember all the stereotypes of yore revolving around gamers being unable to tell the difference between reality and game
i like to believe we're a lot smarter than the normies give us credit for, but then i see thisskingrad when zoscharacters:PC/NA but live in EU 150+ ping lyfe- EP - M - Strikes-with-Arcane - Argonian Stamina Sorc - lvl 50 - The Flawless Conqueror/Spirit Slayer
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✭✭✭✭✭starkerealm wrote: »We could have characters get old!
I vaguely remember an MMO that actually did that, or intended to do that and never made it to market. (I'm a little fuzzy on which.)
Depending on how you develop the game, it can be interesting. If your gear gets passed down to a character's descendants or heirs, it becomes a way to force a respec at varying intervals. Also, some games use it to avoid needing a level cap, and ensuring that proc based modifiers can't be too powerful. Because your characters will die anyway in a few.
But...but...you can't nerf this set. It was handed to me from my grandfather!
Main characters: Feanor the Believer - AD Altmer mSorc - AR 50 - Flawless Conqueror (PC EU)Idril Arnanor - AD Altmer mSorc - CP 217 - Stormproof (PC NA)Other characters:Necrophilius Killgood - DC Imperial NecromancerFearscales - AD Argonian Templar - Stormproof (healer)Draco Imperialis - AD Imperial DK (tank)Cabed Naearamarth - AD Dunmer mDKValirion Willowthorne - AD Bosmer stamBladeTuruna - AD Altmer magBladeKheled Zaram - AD Redguard stamDKKibil Nala - AD Redguard stamSorc - StormproofYavanna Kémentárí - AD Breton magWardenAzog gro-Ghâsh - EP Orc stamWardenVidar Drakenblød - DC Nord mDKMarquis de Peyrac - DC Breton mSorc - StormproofRawlith Khaj'ra - AD Khajiit stamWardenTu'waccah - AD Redguard StamplarAll chars 50 @ CP 1900+. Playing and enjoying PvP with RdK mostly on PC EU.2 -
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VvardeFellow✭✭✭Not a good idea. Soon the so -called SJW's would run rampant. "Why arn't there crosswalks?". I applaud your thinking, but I'm a firm believer in keeping RL out of a game, at almost any cost. I play, Dev's dev.0 -
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✭WildWilbur wrote: »And don't let us start about Skooma...
yes this needs useable and makeable/growable drugs.0 -
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✭mesmerizedish wrote: »What the heck is RW?
"Real World" maybe? This entire post confused me lol.0 -
Astarana✭✭✭mesmerizedish wrote: »What the heck is RW?
It's the weird place where you are sometimes when you are not playing ESO, called "Real World". Feels weird, can't mine, no skooma bubblers... Clemency does not work...0
