Permadeath Character Slot

[FranOhmsford]

I do not play Permadeath - Too easy to die in this game compared to PnP.

Sorry if this next statement is wrong but:

From what I've read on these forums I haven't seen a single post implying that any Permadeath Guild in the game enforces 1 death that's it - What makes you think Turbine would enforce a rule that the Permadeath Guild's do not?

D&D has always allowed resurrections up to a number of times based on your initial {base} Con.

{Base} Con - No Lvl ups, No items, No tomes.

Raise Dead = 6th lvl Elf Cleric/FS of the Undying Court, 9th lvl Cleric, 10th lvl FS.



What happens when Shroud kills everyone in the party btw? Under your suggestion the game would autolog every Permadeath character instantly.

[MalkavianX]

I like this idea fine. I would just make one change. If your character dies, that's it. He/she's dead. It's really real, there ain't no coming back. All the items in his/her inventory - gone. Everything he/she's wearing - gone. Everything he left in his/her bank - siezed by house K. Everything in he/she put in the shared bank however is open game to your other characters.

Other than that small change.....

/signed

I'd like to add a thing or 2 to my previous post.

I was just doing some reading on the hardcore mode in Diablo 2 and I saw this in the wiki:

Players can also create a hardcore character. In softcore, the player can resurrect their character if killed and resume playing, while a hardcore character has only one life. If killed, the character is permanently dead and unplayable, and all items and equipment on that character will be lost unless another friendly character has the "loot" icon checked.

It's pretty much what I said except for that last part, which wouldn't be that bad for DDO. Add in the favor unlock and/or the DDO store idea and you've got something. Then I saw this on a wiki for D3:

How HC chars will differ isn't yet known, but the D3 Team has repeatedly said they'll be set apart from regular characters in some obvious fashion.

Will hardcore characters be more powerful than normal? --Spectrusv
No intent, no. But they’ll definitely have more prestige and flashy things to show off for being so awesome. --Diablo

This would make a lot of people earn/buy this. Not me, but a lot of other people definately would. Go go epeen!

[Battery]

/signed

you die you go straight to character creation screen

[Templarion]

I do not play Permadeath - Too easy to die in this game compared to PnP.

It is easy to die in Nethack, too. Even more easy there than in DDO. Still, I love Nethack.

Some people love the danger and the fear of losing something. There are not many games that include those subjects.

Just bumping this thread a little before it gets too old.

[wax_on_wax_off]

My vote is still for an extreme difficulty server.

Simply put, it isn't enough to have a single feature like PD as well any PD player knows. You also need limitations on what quests you can do, how many times you repeat quests so on and so forth.

For this reason, I think that the best solution is to have an entire new server which caters to a wide range of niche players:
1. PD players.
2. Hardcore players.
3. PVP players (both individual and guild based).
4. Monty Haul haters.
5. Role players.

Throw them all together and see the chaos that ensues in the most dark and terrifying incarnation of DDO imaginable where even the act of going to a vendor might need to be done in a guild group to protect against possible aggressors.

[sheepface]

If a permadeath character dies, the player would have the option of converting the character to a regular character slot.

Doesn't this kinda go againt the point of perma-death?

[JOTMON]

I like it.

[Galeria]

/signed

It's totally optional and gives people a different way to play.

How long before we have rants from PD about griefers or PVP? ;-)