Hi guys, so I kinda just wanted to make a suggestion, people were talking about Rp and PvP being segregated and some were brainstorming ways to bring the two communities together; here's my personal idea hope you like it =] So Massive's done 'PvP in Reglia' events before, from what I've seen, they've just been PvP toggled areas in the Regalian world far from any actual Rpers (the last I attended was a boat literally in the middle of the ocean). My idea is that we make the PvP part of a roleplay event, the first idea I had that came to mind was a gladiator fight (pretty much your standard PvP fight/tournament shindig) where Rpers 'bet' on their 'champion' or whathaveit (maybe if real regals were used the PvPers could potentially make money, creating another endorsement). This would result in Rpers being directly linked into PvP at least lore-wise (potentially a PvPer fight 'for' a noble family, gaining the family reputation). This could be taken further with people creating lore progression posts (I believe that's what they're called?) recounting the fight/tournament. Also I feel like PvPers would be motivated to attend these events as they would get reputation in front of, essentially, the whole server (I guess a nice shiny lore item would be cute too, lol). Finally, I think that having all the PvPers in one place would be very good for the esteem of the PvP community, having all the players in mass would feel very healthy for the department. Also, I like the gladiator idea as it has many variations, e.g. tournament or maybe side vs side maybe even a PvE style of event where the last man/team standing wins. My point is that it is very flexible. Anywho, that's pretty much it, please comment any extra ideas you have or any flaws you see, I'd love to hear them and hopefully think up a way around them!
Yeah I thought about that and I guess although it'd be nice to give the PvPers some monetary reward, the betting could just be rolepayed. Also, I really don't think that PvPers would act like that in l: chat, especially if they were to face a penalty such as disqualification or a subtraction from the reward. Many PvPers would probably go along with the rp because when they win they can be a badass lol
Guess my post was messed up since on phone so I'll repost: I'd be fine having this happen, even if the events had to be declared lore incompliant in order to work. Maybe with the reworking of Crisis of Kings this may be possible, but that's my two cents. There's nothing really lost by ignoring this, but something to gain for trying it.
This may be feasible but currently everything related to PvP is on hold until our Tech Department come up with a feasible MassiveSharding solution, to fix the TPS. Until that happens, running any sort of PvP will be an absolute hell on earth to run and participate in. However, this is a decent idea and may be worth looking into in the future. Thread moved to the Feature and Idea Discussion section.
