Poll: Damage/Death Penalty

[jrichey]

No.
Item's already take damage from use. It's kind of unfair to have them all just take damage for no reason when someone dies. There are games that damage your items when you die but typically that's because they don't take into account item damage when your alive and using them. Having both in is ridiculous in my opinion.

[Polsih]

If the item damage had some logic behind it ... sure. (Die in a lava pit, some stuff might break.) But, as written, it just appears to be arbitrary penalty designed to pull equipment out of circulation. I cannot see any other reason behind it.

The XP penalty can work. Just need less XP in the total XP pool to make it work. Can't run PoP 6 times to go from lvl 10 to 11 or even 12 anymore. That was a start in the right direction.

[Serpent]

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[roggane]

Yes.

Bunch of ******* play this game and can't handle a little hardship when you screw up and die. Half these people would rather just have the cheat codes.

yes, that about sums it up. keep up the good commentary and logical thinking.

Funny, the devs said that the current death penalty was too harsh.....

[roggane]

Would you be happier if they dropped the damage-on-death and cranked up the overall damage rate?

I'd be happier if they had one penalty instead of 2. Actually, make it 3 since we'll be forced to bind our items at some point.

[Galacticus]

Abosolutely not! If impletemented I will cancel my account! Where is the FUN in DDO DEVS????

[Max2000]

No.

[tekn0mage]

keep the discussion for the other threads. this is a yes/no (or something along those lines) poll.

[Grond]

After playing with it for awhile, I vote yes. I'll admit, I wasn't thrilled about it at first, but I'm really not taking enough item damage to feel like I have to bind every single thing, and it's sure nice to not have a few deaths wipe out exp gain for a module.

[Hafeal]

Yes,

And BTW, your poll is going to be skewed to the players that come to the forums, which is NOT the same as a representative sampling of the player base. Which is true of all forum polls, but in this particular instance, I think it makes a difference.

.. .and further skewed to those who bother with Risia.

[kengsxr]

no

[MysticRhythms]

1) The poll is going to be skewed as per other posters' comments
2) A resounding yes. In fact, they should keep both XP penalties AND the new system.
3) People who abuse "death" as a strategy should definitely suffer more than this minor inconvenience.

[Emon1]

I don't want cheat codes and I don't like the new death system. The excess equipment damage is rediculous as well as any steep penalties for death. Are there steep penalties in Pen and Paper? Death does not need to be a serious consequence in DDO. The new system will only make people unwilling to join pug groups for fear of serious consequence if the group is bad. DDO does not need a narrowing of the player community. The penalties proposed are simply to much. What next? Permanent death? That is the end result of 'toughening up' death. The current death system is reasonable although to perfect.

[Whippy]

No, no, no, no, no! I dunno who was whining about repairing in the first place but this is gonna be far worse! First of all, binding items to all toons? Eh, nice in theory, but not everyone has the power items or +6's for every toon and perhaps shares them amongst them, so just because they are not power gamers they deserve to loose out? LAME. Secondly, take reaver raid for example, we've all had a run where it goes a bit wrong, half the party ends up in the res room, someone pulls the switch, everyone drops back down and dies again because the ele's were right in the centre or anti gravity was on or the electric traps hit... and then pull the switch again and the same happens... couple of goes of this and all our stuff is screwed... nice one. Was told by party member today who had been on risia, that instead of our usual say for example 1000gp repairs at the end of a quest they were looking at 4000pp worth of repairs. Way to loose all the gamers. Can this idea, its just plain silly.

[Kyrus]

No. and I don't mind the way it is now.

[Arbaal9111]

No.
Item's already take damage from use. It's kind of unfair to have them all just take damage for no reason when someone dies. There are games that damage your items when you die but typically that's because they don't take into account item damage when your alive and using them. Having both in is ridiculous in my opinion.

Dunno where you get your info but every game i have played with a death item damage pen... also takes damage from use.

This new system is genius... it solves 2 problems with 1 change

problem number

1) economy issues with uber items never leaving the system and being used by more then one character... this will make auction house much better and the econ much much healthier in the game

2) Death penality ment nothing at level 14 maxed.. now it means something to die once you are maxed


They could possibly even make good loot a tad more common again because of this change

[Amabel]

No.

[MrCow]

Hmmm... I can't bring myself to say no or yes...

Verdict: Indifferent

[cardmj1]

Not much of an option of just yea or nay....

No

[Serpent]

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