New Graveyard Zone thoughts...Follow

I like the idea. There was one point I had a SK that died in Nek Forrest. I got so pissed off from the death that I didn't play that toon for over a week. I finally played her again and went to Nek Forrest. Imagine my suprise when Locate Corpse wouldn't work. Then imagine my horror as a guildy told me that the body, along with all the stuff I bought for her, was gone for good.

So, yeah, I think this Graveyard Zone would be a huge help. As far as a dip in the Necro Summon Corpse market, I don't think that it will be too severe. As long as those rich f*cks out there can afford to pay for 2, 3, or more SC's a day, Necros will always have a market.

That sounds like a great idea! Especially for the people that don't have "contacts" who can log into their cleric and get them a rez, etc. I lost a ton of armor a friend gave me back when I was a newbie (people would laugh at it today, but back then those couple of + wis items made my day!), when I was playing one night and fell in a lake in Rivervale. It was 3am and no one else was in the zone, it was only my 3rd night playing, ever, and I had no idea how to swim. Not only did I drown, but I had no idea that I could just swim down and/or use the corpse call command. I tend to play at odd hours, with not that many people online that are willing to aid in a messy corpse run, and with the influx of people that don't play that well, I seem to die in some strange situations lately...

How long does it stay in the Graveyard for?

I know several people who enjoy leaving corpses all over the place. Once rezzed (or not) they will leave their fishing grubs or whatever on it. There seems to be some kind of secret competition to see who can have corpses in the most zones.

Now, instead of rotting after a week these will move to the graveyard and stay there until they rot from that place. I just wonder how long that will be.

Also this gives you permanent access to the zone if you always have corpses in there.

As a side thought will you have necro's using it for fun with WTD?

And it won't stop people begging that they "lost all their gear". Anyone stupid enough to do that is either going to be ignorant of the zone or claim - as they do now - that they were "bugged".

I'm interested to see whether or not his comes with some sort of additional xp penalty.

As Jophiel (I think) said my initial knee jerk reaction has worn off, and this may have saved me a few grey hairs in the past.

I can't help thinking that there should be some sort of penalty attached though.

Just had a funny thought. What if they took a spin off of the Priests of Discord? Something along the lines of like everytime you had to get your body from the Graveyard Zone you became a little more Undead? Kinda also put a D&D twist to it where healing spells hurt you and death spells healed you. Utterly rediculous, but kind funny nonetheless.











On a side note, I kinda woulda thought the the Priests of Discord would have gotten some kind of more important role with the new expansion. It is, after all, called Gates of Discord. Is it just me?

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Once upon a time, all NPCs would accept things given to them by PCs. So you could put a fine steel longsword on an orc pawn, and it'd equip it and, if someone killed it, they'd loot said sword. The problem was if you gave a quest NPC the wrong items (or the right items to the wrong NPC) they'd "eat" them ("I'm not quite sure what to do with this, Jophiel, but thank you anyway"). Eventually, SOE changed the system so, if you gave an NPC an inappropriate item, they'd give you the stock "I don't need this, you can have it back" line and return it. This was a great boon to anyone who ever lost a quest bit, but had the unfortunate side effect that you could no longer give orc pawns weighted axes for a few yucks.

The Priest of Discord, for whatever reason, still accepts things (if you hand him something, it says he crushes it with a cold grin, but he still keeps it). And, since he has a standard human model, you can see whatever he equips. So, if my mage hands him a suit of summoned plate armor, he'll put it on and be a PoD dressed in cheery red plate armor. Kind of like a 6' Barbie doll. Hey, you take your chuckles where you can find them.

Doh. Good point!

I once had a bard that I created. I got him to level 14...this was pre-kunark so that was actually a decent level. Had some cool stuff on him for the time. He was a lot of fun to play. I took him into Oasis and there he became jelly between the toes of a giant.

In the meantime, my guildies for my main got online and so I played my main the rest of the night. Next day I got called away on business for almost two weeks. Got back and logged in and realized that i had forgotten my poor bard's body. Now he had nothing! I was sop upset with myself for m\not making the run that night.

A GY zone would have saved me there. But because of that experience I always make corpse runs immediatly.

I'm pretty exiceted about it. I don't think it'll elimenate the CR or corpse summoing, because it's still going to take a week for your corpse to pop at the GY, and most people don't want to go a week without gear. The Honoroable's situation is a good example of what the GY will prevent. If your internet goes down for a week etc.



Of course this is SOE, and somehow adding a GY zone will **** every other part of the game up.

Sounds like a good idea, if I happen to die the nite before ship gets underway would have to ensure recovery before getting some sleep. I think people wouldn't let it go for a week if they want to play and don't forget those who just can't go on without a 90% or better rez, hehe.

Maybe it'll be a smart "Corpses 'R' Us" kiosk in some central location where you go and collect your corpse. Click on the NPC Corpsefinder General and all your expired corpses drop on the floor with 30 mins left on them.

It would save creating a zone especially for it. The "corpses" are after all in digital storage and could be collected like a hat-check.

Edited, Wed Apr 7 08:29:25 2004 by Cobra101

It really isn't all that hard to lose your corpse.

One of my alts was stupid and had his backside handed to him in High Hold Keep. Didn't feel like waiting for the portal in the Nexus to bring down his naked self, so I played another alt. The next time I played, I played my main. On the last day of his corpse rotting, I couldn't decide who I wanted to play. I noticed that his animation showed no armor and remembered what happened.

Not thinking that it has been a week already, I picked him and went after his corpse. I was lucky, I still had 20 minutes left on the corpse when I got to it.