I was wondering if there will be such a thing in this game, potentially as pert of the usable resources, as victory point system? I'm thinking of the LoTRO PvP system with renown. The basis of which is that if you defeat someone who is a clone of yourself you get 1 point, if they defeat you you lose a point and they gain it. There are then multipliers and divisibles based on if or not you are grouped or in a raid or your enemy is. Then there are multiples and divisibles if your opponent has a victory rank higher or lower then yourself (each rank being 1000 points, which you can gain by gaining points or lose by losing points). For every rank above you your opponent mitigates as a champion level above you, even though his stats don't change and for every rank he is lower than you he mitigates as a weak mob per rank below you. These points would also be spendable (reducing your victory rank) to buy skills and even equipment making most things in this game earned. Just an idea.
There were two other threads (at least) about k/d ratios where the majority of the people made it clear that they do not want to focus on it. Because this will be a team-based game where people will have to play in clans, a lot of times there will be people sacrificing their lives for the clan/faction to win the fight. Should they be punished for such action with a bad k/d ratio or a bad "PvP rank"? I made some good comments on why it is bad and why we should not reward the kill-farmers or the campers in some other thread. I'm sure that after you realize that this is going to be a team-game (no 1-man Rambos), that you will realize why it is a bad idea to reward the guys killing while the guys dieing get penalized.
You make a fair point, I also don't want to be handed unfair advantages. I'm just really hoping that this game doesn't turn into an equipment race.
