Suggestion: Make corruption penalties unknown and variable

Doesn't this go directly against risk vs reward design? How can people weigh their rewards if they have no idea what the risks are? And if there's any type of maximum limit on the penalties, people will probably just weigh their actions against that, and when they get hit with softer penalties they'll be doubly "rewarded" for making the risk, which would only push them towards risking more often and in turn create more PKing.

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But how though? Some 3rd party site will have the maximum potential penalty figures out within days, if not hours. And then all the PKers will just consider that penalty as the "normal" one, and with the maximum potential penalty as the base one anything less would seem like a "reward" to those PKers. Which would only encourage them to PK more, because they'd be already ready for the max penalty.

Well, that is, unless the max penalty is the same as lvl50 PKing a lvl1, even if it was just lvl50 killing another lvl50. But at that point we'd just have an insanely harsh system that effectively removes owpvp from the game.

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But unless it's absolutely random there will be some factors that's gonna lead to minmaxing. And at the very least people will just figure out a median amount of corruption for any given kill and then consider a bit more than that as the base penalty.

I'm just saying that it's gonna be easier to balance the overall system around a predetermined value rather than have a random number that punishes some way more for the same actions. And, again, if it's not fully random - people will just minmax it and figure it out through testing.