I think open PvP with full look worked in UO primarily because loot was not worth very much. I hope they avoid crowd control to some extent.Ĭan you think of any other reasons that made it work? Today, there are so many forms of CC that you can just lock another player in place solidifying no escape.

Part of this may have to do with the minimal amount of Crowd Control abilities such as stun, knockdown, root, etc. In UO if you ran into a group of PKers and you were solo you could at least stand a chance to escape.

It is very common in others games to find yourself dying at the drop of the hat. The other reason I think it worked particularly well was that for the most part PvP battles were more lengthy than they are in games today and there were not as many situation were you stood no chance to survive. I think its important to have player interaction through all level/skill ranges and not divide your player base by skill/levels to such a large extent. In almost every other game out there the difference between maximum health when you are starting to maximum health when you are fully progressed is such a huge gap that you aren't even on the same playing field, and sometimes you aren't even on the same playing field until you are within 5-10% of the other players level. Here is why full loot worked well in UO and other games would struggle with the concept.įor starters, when you made a character his health could be near half the maximum health in the game if you specced him with full strength.

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