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Thread: Doctors need faction points for reviving players

ChoNaguriai
Wed Mar 17, 2004 2:52 pm
#1


I love taking my Master Doctor to base attacks and my teammates love having me along. Since my doctor is a Doctor/Politician/Merchant, he has zero combat skills... I mean zero. The other night we had a huge battle at a base and I rezzed about 20 people, cured countless diseases and poisons, buffed everyone, stopped the loss of gallons of blood, and healed loads of damage. We killed many many Rebels. It was a blast.


I would consider myself a valuable team member. However, I started the evening just over 200 faction points and died twice. I ended the evening at something like 170 fp. The only way I can get faction is by /transfer or by running low faction missions with my stormtrooper (and since he does the killing, I only get faction for the mission completion).


What I would like to see is a small kick-back in faction points for rezzing fallen comrades. The system already tracks whether the teammatedied by factional means, thereby negating decay and transferring DB faction penalties. I would love it if doctors got a fraction of that faction when they rez the victim... even a small fraction, like 10%. This would not come from the fallen person's faction pool, but would be a little reward generated by the system.


I am not looking to get "faction rich" by this system. I am looking to at least break even during battles. What do you all think of a system like this? Feasible? Fair?


The only other alternative I can think of would be if a few generous teammates who raked in the faction from farming the enemy would /transfer 10 or 20 points to their loyal doctor. Though I'd rather it be generated from the system rather than being a faction beggar.


Please post your comments. Thank you.



Cho Naguriai / Project G.H.O.S.T.
Dark Jedi Knight - JediQuest Blog
fdsfsfd
Wed Mar 17, 2004 3:30 pm
#2

I forsee massive exploiting if this happens... db..res..repeat..million atst's....ahh the world is coming to an end..


Anywayz it would possible might be kinda decent but i forsee too much exploiting.



LOL
ChoNaguriai
Wed Mar 17, 2004 4:14 pm
#3

I thought about the exploits too, but think about it... If we get say 10% of a person's faction (what is that, 3 to 5 points per rez?), it would takeabout4deaths to equal one NPC-worth of faction and 10 deaths to equal one player kill. Add in the fact that there is a long timer after rezzing where the person is not allowed to do anything, and you can see that there are MUCH better/faster ways to gain faction.


I do agree though, that it must be carefully considered. This is not an end-all solution... but we need SOMETHING to give us faction. Dark Age of Camelot has a similar system for realm points, and it works great. Otherwise, there is little motivation for a pure doctor to get involved in the GCW.




Cho Naguriai / Project G.H.O.S.T.
Dark Jedi Knight - JediQuest Blog
Traigus
Wed Mar 17, 2004 4:22 pm
#4

Healer faction is indeed an issue.

Devs are looking at the GCW sometime soon. This issue is on that list.

-T



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ChoNaguriai
Wed Mar 17, 2004 4:37 pm
#5

Thanks Traigus, that is good to know.



Cho Naguriai / Project G.H.O.S.T.
Dark Jedi Knight - JediQuest Blog
JasonK
Wed Mar 17, 2004 5:44 pm
#6






ChoNaguriai wrote:

I thought about the exploits too, but think about it... If we get say 10% of a person's faction (what is that, 3 to 5 points per rez?), it would takeabout4deaths to equal one NPC-worth of faction and 10 deaths to equal one player kill. Add in the fact that there is a long timer after rezzing where the person is not allowed to do anything, and you can see that there are MUCH better/faster ways to gain faction.


I do agree though, that it must be carefully considered. This is not an end-all solution... but we need SOMETHING to give us faction. Dark Age of Camelot has a similar system for realm points, and it works great. Otherwise, there is little motivation for a pure doctor to get involved in the GCW.








Wouldn't take all that long since the entireprocess can be AFK macroed. 5 fps per rez every 2 minutes = an AT-ST every 3 or so days.




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