Hot take debate: "Non-consensual PVP", does it exist in AoC?

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And I'm definitely one of the laziest people on this forum but I compensate for it in games, when I do play them. Maybe Dygz is the other way. Or he's just lazing around now cause he's too old to go super hardcore.

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I have so damn many questions about the BH system and its relation to the corruption balancing, but I realize that none of them will be answered until later on in alpha2 and that shit's months out

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You are focused on those things because those are the only things you care about on the pvp side of the game. I personally want to be a renowned BH in my node that's helping out any and all people who fall prey to the PKers. And Intrepid have a system in the game for exactly that kind of gameplay. If they didn't want to have BHs, they could've removed open world flagging completely. But they didn't (or at least haven't yet), so I expect the system to work as promised, just as you expect corruption to work as promised.

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And if players decide to make a fully pve server, yeah, BH won't be required. But we'll have to see if other players will let them do that.

I'd assume that PvE servers will be the ones who require BHs the most, because those servers will be "pve" only in players' minds, not in its system limitations. And if there's an idyllic place somewhere, sooner or later some dick will come and try to destroy it.

And on any "PvP" server PKers will be present because competitive players will be using corruption system as a tool to get an upper hand, so BHs will probably be quite popular too.

So if anything, I feel like the game will always need BHs. Even if Intrepid overtune corruption values so much that PKing is as rare as you hope it'll be, some dudes will still make throwaway characters just to get on pvers' nerves. And if the BH profession is super rare on some server, PKers will learn about that soon enough and just come there "to have some fun".

Which is why imo being a BH should be quite rewarding and useful. But until we learn about all the balancing details of these systems, we won't know how exactly Intrepid is planning to make that profession either of those things.