Hydaelyn Role-Players

The crowd roared.  Two men fell.  One took to his back.  He didn’t get up again.
 
The other slumped against a wall, sword resting across his knees.  It wasn’t a good sword.  The man was too hard on good swords – that’s why he bought cheap ones.  It wasn’t worth much to begin with, and now it had chunks gone out the edge.  Some might have said the same about the man using it.  He wouldn’t disagree. 

He sucked in big, ragged breaths, and pushed himself to his feet, one hand on the wall for balance, and managed to force some attitude into the way he stalked over to the other man and planted a boot on his chest.  He raised his sword.  The roar grew deafening.  Victory was sweet, they said.  All he tasted was copper and salt.
 
The knife-eared man underfoot wasn’t breathing.  Elezens had always struck the man as too tall and narrow to be much use in battle, but this one had been a devil with a spear.  That same wickedness could have done him a world of good had it spread further.  Instead he’d been prideful and high-minded, stuck on honor and glory.  He refused the wrong people.
 
Lots had been shuffled.  He’d done his job.  Lives were worth more than ideals.  He personally put the price at 200,000.

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The Wolves Den is an upcoming feature in patch 2.1, and I'm sure many of us are excited for it.

The PvP itself will assuredly be a draw, but it would be a mistake to assume no new roleplay opportunities will pop up alongside it.  Think of it!  Glory, heroes, martial combat.  Duels.  Guards.  Enterprising food vendors.  Medics and healers.  There will be all these new spots to be filled in around it!

But don't lose yourself in the shiny light glimmering off all that fancy new PvP armor.  There's a darker part to be mined.

And while Lansquenet could do it alone,  there's not much fun in that.  A gambling den needs bodies.  Security, fixers, accountants, dealers. 

And then there's all the people who would likely disapprove of such practices and want it snuffed out.

So which side would you like to be on?

I am not a great pvp player (in any of my previous mmos, i am just not quick enough to react). Will we be able to watch matches of others?

Why, the side that pays, of course!

And Yloise, there will surely be ample opportunities for all sorts of activities around these. At the very least, we can dress up, drink, and murmur appreciatively to one another as the combatants blood spills.

That would be perfect.

(12-16-2013, 09:31 PM)Yloise Wrote: [ -> ]I am not a great pvp player (in any of my previous mmos, i am just not quick enough to react). Will we be able to watch matches of others?

Sadly I don't believe any battles will be viewable, and if they are, people will be running around with the name Fresh Meat, because SE believes we're all terrible ten year old griefers or something?

There'll certainly be some in-game challenges to handle, but like any RP in an MMO, that's almost to be expected.  Sadly add-ons aren't out yet, and so we do not have  the many wonderful tools that made WoW RP so.. hrm, easy, though I suppose I am mostly thinking of that one add-on that allowed you to create custom items.

There's also the fact that until a /roll command is added to the game, actual in-game currency gambling likely won't be a thing, and even if it were, who knows if people would be interested in such things, and how SE would react to it (there were such things in XI, if I recall correctly, but I do not remember how SE handled them).

So for the foreseeable future we will have to rely on our ~imaginations~ to get us through!  And likely all gil exchanging hands will be imaginary, simply because that keeps things at their, well, simplest.

Luckily though, even without seeing the PvP itself, or being a good PvPer, there's plenty of slots to be filled.  Like I said, fixers, brokers, medics, even vendors and crafters could all fit in very nicely for those inclined to be on the, hrm, shady side of the whole affair. 

And then there's a whole load of things the more lawfully-inclined folk could get into.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threa...ost1643306

/random (/roll) is in the works~

I may have a morally questionable accountant for you if she'll come in handy.

(12-17-2013, 01:02 AM)Darien Cadell Wrote: [ -> ]http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threa...ost1643306

/random (/roll) is in the works~

I may have a morally questionable accountant for you if she'll come in handy.

Well that opens things up.

And she might indeed, assuming she wouldn't mind working with organized crime-types.

Right, I'm bloody back, and this idea is still interesting to me -- especially with Frontlines just having come out.

Sadly, there's no /duel function in this game, and one vs one arenas aren't even a thing -- nor should they be, with how badly balanced PvP is in this game (and if you want to call me on that point, check the FL standings for Balmung this week and then shut up), so while I have fantasies of actually getting people to play the gladiators and the like, they'll have to do it in an RP fighting way. 

Now I'm not big on RP fighting, but the only alternative I can see has a major problem -- if we did make 8 man premade teams to break up and go into wolves den for battles, no one would be able to see the fights, which takes away a lot of the spectator business on this whole deal, and what good is that?  What, are we meant to believe that fatcat investor from Ul'dah just sits around and eats grapes and waits for someone to walk out and tell him who won?  No.

So RP fighting it is. 

Now, great, there should be fighters, but what else can people do around this?  Well, we'll need investors, cooks, bookkeepers, waiters/waitresses to see to the spectators, we'll need security and other heavy types, healers, and hell, we could also use some hippie types who want to get the whole thing disbanded.  Also entertainment for when there's lulls in the gladiators beating the hell out of each other.

So if you could see your character playing any of these roles, don 't be shy. 

A system for fights will need to be worked out, as well as a prize pool and any betting rules, but that's for later.

Earn your glory in the ring.  Earn a beating for trying to fix the fights.  Take the apple of your eye on a date to see two people beat each other senseless.  The possibilities are endless.