Making use of the custom phase portals

[Spiralin]

Why not just leave the first phase for questing and everything, then create a second phase which will become main rp and conquest?

[Rigley]

My personal preference would be that the main phase is edited and a second phase is made for grinding; that way when people disconnect they won't log back in to being ganked by mobs.

Whereas the grinding peeps just need to go find a portal when they've been popped out. :B


I very much enjoy the idea of the use of areas for conquest; while not necessary I believe it does really give a sense of actual progression on the part of the event line. While it may become stagnant later, I would argue that perhaps by that point the region could be retaken by the enemy- y'know, kinda make the drop in people there felt by the ones defending the place.

[FlyingSquirrel]

Actually, I was thinking about this, if we use Darkshire OOCly, and call it some small town ICly, then this would open up a new type of roleplay that I think would possibly give long-term RP that could be either sporadic, or otherwise. Although, perhaps, it could give too much power to one player. What I thought about was something like feudalism.

How I was thinking it would go is a group of players, or one player, petition the GM team to ask if they can take control of fictional town X. There'll only be Z amount of towns (each with about 10-20 citizens, give or take) in zone Y, up to the decision of the GM teams, which'll create conflict over the town, seeing how it goes. The GM team, if they deemed it fit, would place a few generic buildings in one place, and maybe a few placeholding NPCs, to represent the citizens.

The player, with a GM on hand controlling the NPCs, goes to the town-people and offers to protect them, for this amount of gold or whatever. At this point, the town either takes his offer, or denies it. If they deny it, the player can do one of three things.

1) If they're a Necromancer, Felsworn, or any other person who can control a semi-large amount of NPCs, they can stage an attack on the town with their NPCs, then swoop in once more. Or they can get a friend to do this. They could also hire PC *only* Mercenary groups, which would attack the village.
2) They could forcefully take over the town (with some friends), and make the town pay you an amount of tax per month or such. You can be a nice Dictator, and keep their taxes low, or you can be a mean one, and raise their taxes, which might eventually end in a revolution against you.
3) Just leave the people alone.

Now, some people might be saying that their wouldn't be towns like this. Well, there could be towns all over the place. Small villages in Duskwood, Westfall. Tribes in Desolace or the Barrens. Maybe even some in Wetlands, Hillsbrad or Arathi. There could be a few villages in Ashenvale that have come under siege by Demons. The possibilities aren't endless, but there are a lot of them. Anyone have any thoughts on this?

[kirilldun]

Phasing is very usefull if you want to create an Rp that won't necessarly harm the original content, I once played in a server that let the players use phasing. People created really cool things that didn't bother other people unless they joined the phase. But ulimatly it's up to you what happens and what doesn't.

[Kaelvan]

Actually, I was thinking about this, if we use Darkshire OOCly, and call it some small town ICly, then this would open up a new type of roleplay that I think would possibly give long-term RP that could be either sporadic, or otherwise.

I figure if we go around making fictional towns using phased cities such as Darkshire for instance, Darkshire in the main phase is going to seem a lot less cool and appealing to people and so it's never going to be used because there's another city that looks just like it but it's much more lively because people are always there.

Also, it wouldn't open up a new type of roleplay that already isn't open or plausible. We had a thread about 6 months back or so that Diethe made and it was in regards to players possibly governing a town but it never happened. I'd love to see something like that happen but I think it should be in the main phase with a city that's already in the game, not some fictional town.

[Jurkey]

Is it possible to kinda copy-paste phases? If so, the 2nd phase should be grinding and the like, and 1st should be RPing. Also, I think it would be cool if you could buy a kind of item that could phase you around, so if I ex. want to use Raven Hill as a hideout(ICly just being a crypt) but don't want to travel all the way to Darkshire, I can just do it at Raven Hill.

[hyenaskate]

So! As folks may recall, I managed to alter the custom portal code to allow setting folks to specified phases. This will be immensely useful for events and the like.

Additionally, there have been some other ideas as well such as trying the whole "group base" thing again and testing conquest RP. Grak and I have been extremely hesitant in altering any existing towns or locations that contain NPCs, quests, etc. With the ability to use a separate phase, our reservations about altering places aren't nearly as notable.

Regarding group bases, it would probably be at a GM's convenience, as it does take a bit of work to alter places. And, depending on the process to 'sign up' for this sort of thing, it could create a bit of a queue anyway.

As far as conquest RP goes, there has been some debate concerning how it should be done; one opinion is that any conquest RP should essentially be 'forced' upon everyone in the normal phase so people wouldn't just RP like it never happened, and then have the option to go to the other phase if they need to for quests or the like. Another opinion is that the changes should be started in another phase so it constitutes less work (only having to alter the location in the other phase instead of phasing everything out from the main phase and then beginning work). I'll admit that I have the second opinion, as that was the main goal for integrating the phase selection for the portals. Furthermore, it could always be said that the 'server lore' version of events for that location is in phase [whatever]. On that note, having events in other phases means we could use locations as a certain "setting" instead of that actual location. For example, let's say we use the Crossroads as a setting for quilboar attack. We could either officially say "this setting is the Crossroads under siege!" or "this setting is another orcish outpost in the Barrens under attack by Quilboars!"

Anyway, what do you folks think?

I would like that! Specially places where many people RP so they really feel that they have to defend it!