"Dead is dead" in FL online
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Hey apples.
I mean to make a death once per character, dead = deleted (or something else). Will it be a step to remove the arcade-ness (hate it) of FL? Or it’s just stupid? What do you think about it? Tell me please, what will happen, if you make “dead is dead” feauture on your servers and mods?
My opinion considers that it is good if other aspects of mod makes it relevant. It will make a gameplay much serious, although it requires correct rebalance to give a chances to stay alive and avoid the comic cartoon perception of FL (consider it in answer like it’s already done). -
I think its interesting only for a small group of hardcore gamers.
In general, some sort of death penalty can have a good effect but a too harsh penalty quickly drives people away.Ioncross was really fascinating but frustrating at the same time just because of the death penalty. I think they could’ve been more successful with a less harsh penalty.
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w0dk4, thanks, but what if to give more chances to survive, like balance between guns damage and armor, multiplying the armor of ship classes, and give other ways - maybe an well-made escape pods or something else? I mean an RP mod, of course, “hardcore players” gonna fight on eagles with nomad-guns and they don’t need any mods.
Maybe this is just a… trick. I think current gameplay is a habit, nothing else. Imagine that FL has “dead is dead” by default. Imagine a new game based on FL engine. Will it be better, will it make a fights more spectacular with the strategy, tactics and battle for surviving?
Btw, death penalty (especially money) is an enemy of realism, which really required in FL.
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There’s a reason why most roguelikes have a fairly short game duration if you discount repeats. People don’t want to invest dozens of hours into a character that can die to bad luck (or worse, bugs/lag).
Even EVE, which is arguably hardcore, doesn’t have permadeath.
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I made a simplier solution for my project:
If your ship was destroyed, you will be respawned at nearby homeworld system base with free tier 0 tech ship and equipment depending on your char’s faction/side.
Ofcourse this way works with other game features not mentioned here to achieve quite nice permadeath solution.