Greetings-
Long time old LOD friends How the hell has obi, carange, trance, pyro and the rest of the bunch been? Hope all is good.
Just wanted to let you know that ive been in Vanguard since beta 1 and its a few days away and I must tell you its been the best experience for me since the UO/EQ/DAOC days.
This is NOT a hand holding game like WOW... Open ended and tough. Players can plot lands, own houses anywhere on the landscape (just like UO) and they are taking about sieging.
I know what most of you will ask first so here we go. YES there is a free for all PVP server. YES you can loot corpses of there coins. YES you can grief the newbs or team against the pking high levels.
THe expereience is well UOish for me with a spell line a bit like EQ, racial fighting much like DAOC, and a GUI much like WOW.. its been a fantastic RUN so expect myself and Jackie Chan-HK to be active. We'd love to see a LOD force up and running again, since there is not only FFA but racial waring. The developers have stated that PVP will mean something and will serve a greater purpose.
Here our the PVP server rulesets for release.
Hi everyone-
Here it is, the much awaited announcement of the specific rulesets. We apologize for not getting this to you sooner, but there were some things we needed to nail down that took some time.
Free for all server:
Minimum level 7
20% soft level difference (explained below)
15% coin loot
PvE item durability is disabled on ability activation and PvP death causes a chance for each equipped item to take a large hit
Releasing your spirit after a PvP death takes you to your bind point. You will not drop a corpse.
Team server:
Minimum level 7
20% soft level difference
15% coin loot
Durability is no different than a PvE server
Releasing your spirit drops a corpse (with no experience loss) and transports you to the nearest altar
Defensive targeting and grouping is restricted
The teams
Shadows of Kaerellun
Dark Elf
Kurashasa
Varanthari
Orc
Goblin
Vulmane
Varanjar
Lesser Giant
Order of Alurad
Wood Elf
Raki
Dwarf
Halfling
High Elf
Half Elf
Qaliathari
Mordebi
Gnome
Kojani
Thestran Human
We have support for additional teams, but we feel this is the best initial setup that supports the content and has people able to find opponents from a fairly low level.
The soft level difference means, while your ability to attack someone above the minimum level is unrestricted, if you are more than 20% of their level higher than them, they suffer no penalty and you gain no reward.
The percentages are easily adjustable and we will be enabling coin banking for PvP servers.
website is
www.vanguardsoh.com If you do a digital download now you can get into the game 3 days early which would be this friday 10am on the 26th. infos on the main page.
PS - OBI and carn - write me PM when ya can.. gotta get your new IM... Laters!
-Dezacrator
