How can we improve corruption and world pvp?

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If you PK a ton, you'll get a shitton of corruption that you'd probably have to clear through deaths. A ton of deaths. That means a SHITTON of penalties, because each death will have x4 penalties. That means going several levels below your current power lvl. And at high lvls returning back to your base strength would probably mean weeks of grind. If you have that kind of time to waste for just a few kills during a single killing spree - go ahead and do it. But I doubt a lot of people will have that kind of time.

And you won't be able to repeat that activity because of your PK count. So even if there is a lot of people willing to waste their time - it's gonna be a one-off thing.

Now, this assumes that PK count reduction methods will be very VERY costly and/or difficult to do. At least that's the feedback I'll be giving to Intrepid.

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Aoes don't flag you up unless you use them to flag up (by hitting a key combo).

If you can steal someone's farm - you already won. If their only choice is to flag on you - they'll either invite some help (be it for pve farming or to kill you) or they'll think that they're stronger than you. If they are stronger in pvp - you lost. If they're not - you've won the spot, congrats.

All of that is just a normal situation in an owpvp game. No griefing there.

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Yes, it me

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Steven also made a kinda long tired sigh when Margaret brought up the question of "there's gonna be pvp around the boss". I'd imagine that all those masses wouldn't be all too happy when a stonger party just comes to the same boss, wipes the floor with them and then kills the boss easily.

The old guard is just trying to keep the game on its original rails, that were promised by Steven quite some time ago. So far we seem to be fairly successful

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If Intrepid really wanted to prevent this kind of thing from happening, they could add an aggro trigger for strong mobs in the area. As soon as a lvl50 dude attacks a lvl<40 mob several lvl50 mobs aggro onto that dude and don't relent until he's far from the location. There, issue solved.

Due to how mob spawn locations will work with node progression, there supposedly will always be high lvl mobs together with low lvl ones, so this should be doable in theory.

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As akabear said, the friends part will be about the community and how it manages the game. Intrepid can't really do anything about that particular interaction. An asshole that doesn't let lowbies farm will be punished by those who're interested in those lowbies' success. It'll be guilds (that might have those lowbies as their mentees, or node mates who want their node to succeed, or just good samaritans that want to keep the game good).

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What kind of system would you prefer to it then? Is there any system that would stop those kinds of actions? What kind of limitations would you need to implement into such a system to prevent it from fucking over player interactions.

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Yeah, I do agree that the current system seems to be a bit too harsh to allow players self-police, but quite often people fail to self-police w/o some proper rules, which is why I still think that we need the corruption system but just an updated version of it.

But either way we still haven't tested it and Intrepid don't know how their current iteration will work with players.