Hows bout helping perma-death players by keeping count?

[Hokiewa]

Not sure why anyone wants to see Raid Timers, etc but if they do, suspect a new SUGGESTION thread to be started... As I suppose you don't play perma-death, I suppose you aren't interested!!

However, as the penalty for death when playing perma-death is quite steep, enforcing honesty, imho, is paramount.

That made me laugh.

[Phidius]

Ah, this is about bragging rights.

Not interested.

[der_kluge]

I'm not familiar with the permadeath rules. I got invited to a group doing permadeath one time, and one of the guys died, and they raised him. I don't know if he had to go delete that character later that night, or what. Maybe unless the party completely wipes do they consider it a permanent death?

Maybe different groups have different rules around that.

It seems kind of artificial to me. I mean, the game grants you the facility to resurrect. That doesn't seem to violate any verisimilitude - especially not in a world where you can breathe underwater and throw fireballs.

Where it tends to lose grasp with reality is if the party wipes, recalls out, rests at the Rusty Nail, and then heads back in to finish the job. Seems like you could also rule that a completion by even a single individual would be OK, since that one guy could theoretically return to town with everyone's bodies for resurrection by the Silver Flame once you get there. Again, that's a service that's provided free of charge within the city, so it also doesn't seem to break any verisimilitude rules.

That aside, I'm in favor of creating tools to let people do permadeath. I think it's a cool option, and knowing how many times you do would certainly be kind of cool, regardless of whether or not you played PD or not.

[Cyr]

Yet another can we get more permadeath support threads.

For pities sake, don't you have a bio for that sort of thing. If your a permadeath player I would hope you are not dying so often that updating your bio would be overly burdensome...

[Zaal]

That made me laugh.

Which part?

[Zaal]

Ah, this is about bragging rights.

Not sure what you are referring to but for me, not about bragging rights.

[Ungood]

I remember an old D&D game, Dungeon Hack, I think it was called, that had an option for "Character Death Real" since it was a solo game, if you died, all your saves got deleted and you were totally dead. (I found this totally annoying)

Might be an option for the Developers to put something like this into the game, where there was a Permadeath option at the creation screen. That way, if a player dies, and are not raised by "proper" means (leaving this open to Turbine to decide what "Proper Means" might be), the character gets deleted automatically. Or if players exceed their death allowances the character gets deleted. However, there should be no way to check their numbers, that way, players have to keep track of them themselves, which would add a nice challenge to the whole deal, don't you think?

Maybe throw up little "Skulls" next to the name, where TR wings are, so people know they are permadeath, of course it would have to be an account option sold in the store, and free to ViP, like most other things. But it has it's place in the scheme of things.

[cdbd3rd]

In DDO (as in PnP) if you're playing with someone you have to force to be honest, you're in the wrong group.

Could say more, but that's pretty much the core of it all.