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Topic: Control points that give rewards for capturing.

A lot of us in the previous tournament discussed the idea of control points that when taken give a reward. This reward can be in epitron/briochit/modules. These points would be on beta and would go active at certain times. During these times they could be captured.

You add an additional feature that they be mined/decoded to add a "defense" nature to these control points. Thus people that seek them out have to stay at the points for more then 1 minute, say 10 minutes.

It would encourage more risk/reward pvp provided the incentive is enough ( Refer to darkfall where they did this, but it was just awful loot in exchange ).


I am trying this idea out now:
http://forums.perpetuum-online.com/post/27320/#p27320

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Re: Control points that give rewards for capturing.

Something similar to mines, etc from shadowbane is what i would envision.

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Re: Control points that give rewards for capturing.

They would be vulnerable for 1 hour every 24 hours, each day it would move up an hour, and there would be multiples of these.

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Re: Control points that give rewards for capturing.

Hi, I'm Loyalist and I endorse this suggestion.


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Re: Control points that give rewards for capturing.

Seems like a fun idea

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Re: Control points that give rewards for capturing.

Great idea!

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Re: Control points that give rewards for capturing.

This would be a nice thing for smaller corps to do before they take an outpost as practise. Roaming squads could take these points, fight/kite attackers and leave with some loot.

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Re: Control points that give rewards for capturing.

Maybe they could modify the artifact mechanic slightly, where you hunt down a Control Point - I, II, or III (beta only) but when the container spawns, you can't open it for X amount of time; container has 2-3-4,000 m display on landmark window? Once timer expires, anyone can loot it.

Maybe it randomly spawns some NPC's as you wait, just to keep you on your toes in case no pvp shows up.

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Re: Control points that give rewards for capturing.

+1

I think it needs to be something that takes a short time to capture, so you're not sitting around waiting too long.

Anyway I support this idea, if it can be made to encourage small squad pvp. I like the timing Glimpse suggested for them being vulnerable for 1 hour every 22 hours.

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Re: Control points that give rewards for capturing.

bump

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11 Reply by Snowstyle (edited by Snowstyle 2011-05-27 20:06:12)

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Re: Control points that give rewards for capturing.

Campana wrote:

I think it needs to be something that takes a short time to capture, so you're not sitting around waiting too long.

I disagree, the longer it takes to capture the more potential for PvP. It obviously shouldn't take 24hrs but it shouldn't be 2 minutes either.

Edit: Also whatever the reward is it should take up a lot of cargo space(like raw resources), so you need logistics as well to get the goodies home.

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Re: Control points that give rewards for capturing.

Variety comes to mind. I'm thinking neutral drilling platform that mines epitron about as fast as a riveler or two. When you capture (takes a very short period of time), it begins dumping epitron into a field container located inside it at a steady rate. Drilling platform status can be viewed anywhere on nia via a window similar to the intrusion window. After the platform mines out the deposit, it goes offline for, say, 48 hours while the deposit replenishes itself.

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Re: Control points that give rewards for capturing.

+1 great idea!

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