Non-Combatant attacking Corrupted

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You have to hold a specific key, or hit a toggle, to be able to hit another player, so there's no accidents on that front. As for "tapping a green to see if they'll fight"...

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You'll at least know whether they're full or sorta low. You just won't know the exact details of "how low".

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Yeah, people might have to, god forbid, engage in communication .

"Hey, anybody wanna duel?"

"Oh, you're back. Wanna just fight for the spot, rather than one of us having to deal with being red?"

This does limit the element of surprise, but that's kindof beneficial to both parties. If I'm down 30% health at the start of the fight, I'm much more likely to go "fuck it, I cant win now anyway, so I'll just stay green", and then nobody gets a proper fight we'd both otherwise enjoy. (For this reason, I believe that Rogues sneak attack setups shouldn't be based on the initial engagement, but rather on setting up good positioning during a fight.)

To put it in less moralistic terms. Becoming red is you volunteering to become an objective. And like most objectives in the game they are subject to the developers making it easier or harder for players to complete the objective. The only way to opt out of volunteering is to basically not kill people who don't fight back, but that's just a risk you take whenever you engage someone. Try practicing your ability to wrangle mobs to get the last hit kill if you want to avoid becoming an objective more often.

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If you don't want to be an objective to all possible participants have you considered.... only fighting people who only fight back so you don't get flagged? You know you don't need to kos anyone near by right? Your problem seems to be rooted in the fact that you don't understand that becoming a participant in objective based PvP is completely optional. I doubt IS will change corruption in the way you desire because of this.

@hleV I think I mostly don't understand why you feel there is no recourse in the first place. You can just run from the greens (and if that's not possible it probably needs to be.) If you have friends then running is an even more valid strategy since the only people who can find you are bounty hunters if you are good enough at running. Then you can grind 'in peace'. If you are randomly side tracked by more greens coming to your grind location just find a new one or take the risk and kill them. It's supposed to be quite difficult objective based PvP. So I understand that you are having trouble figuring out optimal strategies. But I assure you they will be developed on release.

I'll 'apologize' that I basically went 'so just don't volunteer for the objective' but I figured you would have already thought of the above and went 'I don't like that'.

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I didnt say that btw

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Right, but without the threat of more corruption you WON'T feel compelled to run which I perceive is key part of the objective based PvP involved You will almost always want to fight in cases where the numbers won't overwhelm you in the change you propose. You running is part of the green's challenge in clearing you, the objective and part of what having a well bred mount is going to be vital for.

Additionally the threat of corruption snowballing, is part of what I perceive as part of what makes going red an effective enough threat in the first place to make it a rarer activity.