Would he lose the awesome loot he’s acquired if he got killed with it before he could leave the city, for example, or is he only at risk of losing his OP zombie army? Does equipment degrade if you get killed wearing or wielding it? Do you lose experience? Some of these are worse ideas than others, but any of them are better than “bitch, your play session’s over now, come back in three hours.” Which, for anyone with a remotely busy schedule, is the same as being told to come back tomorrow.Īlmost any of the alternatives used in other MMOs (including all of the ones I listed above) would’ve been sufficient to prevent PvP inter-factional combat from going on indefinitely.
I’ve been wondering how Awaken Online might punish death to encourage intelligent play, particularly since Jason is constantly wigging out about being killed. Jason hadn’t yet died in the game, but he had read on the forums that players that died were subject to a mandatory lock-out period of three hours real world time. This leads to Awaken Online’s most stunning assault on players’ time so far, something so egregious that I’ve decided to ignore the self-imposed ban on ranting about this subject I’ve mostly maintained since chapter nine: This leads to an exchange in the game chat where a player reporting on what’s up with the zombies gets murked. Of course, since all 1,000,000+ players besides Jason are ubiquitously braindead idiots who cannot interact with the game world in any way except by hitting red dots in the face until they die, no one really stands a chance against the level 70+ feral zombies that Jason has been raising. But, hey, if the book keeps this up I will at least give it less of a failing grade.Īwaken Online remembers that it is actually an MMORPG again during the fracas, and players start talking about what’s going on. The devs were enamored with his brilliance before he started doing this kind of thing, which has made it clear that all the handjobs Awaken Online has been giving him just for being a regular gamer with regular gamer instincts were meant to be taken at face value. This is the kind of behavior that, clear back in like chapter eight, was the sort of thing I was talking about when I said that this book could still turn things around. Not so much that he’d draw attention from the devs for unprecedented awesomeness, but the gap between how clever he actually is and how clever the book thinks he is would be significantly smaller. Not so smart that I wouldn’t expect a beta tester necromancer to have already figured it out (bearing in mind that beta testers tend to be amongst the most hardcore players), but smart enough that if Jason had been doing stuff like this constantly, rather than just barely getting into it now, I’d be much more willing to believe that he stands out amongst other players. He would basically be creating a trap inside each the noble houses! As the thieves left the house, they could also rig the doors with something that would make a lot of noise when someone tried to get in. If he raised the bodies in the various houses one at a time in separate rooms, he could then have his thieves sneak into the manors and open all of the doors. Jason is considering how he can use this to defeat the city guard so that he can just walk out of Lux with his zombie army instead of trying to find some way to sneak out like thirty maimed corpses or abandoning his crazy OP minions to escape alone. It’s not clear, but they’d probably also attack anything that crosses their line of sight. The result is that they’re feral zombies that are kind of dumb but immediately attack anything that makes noise. Context: Jason has just finished an experiment to see how zombies behave if he raises one that’s past his control limit.
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