World PK Risk/Reward System

As of now, the existing PK system penalizes PK'ers with loss of items from your inventory. On a PvP server, I believe that incentive should go along with risk in World PvP. I understand that this system could go very wrong if not carefully thought out, but it could make PvP a heck of a lot more fun and more frequent if smartly implemented. So, here are some key points to a better PK system from my point of view:


- When a player goes pink, the risk of losing inventory is activated. Therefore, some form of point system should be triggered where successfully killing players results in racking up a certain amount of points per kill.


- This point system MUST include an opponent eligibility rule (for example, players more than 5 levels below you will not yield any point reward, but will still result in coloring your name), to avoid low-level griefing. Further, the higher level your kill is, the more points there are to be rewarded. This will encourage players to stick to fighting players of similar and greater levels than their own, and possibly even reduce low-level ganking, because PK'ers will want to rack up as many eligible kills as they can before they go red.


- For the opponent eligibility idea to have maximum effect, a con system (where an enemy appears a certain color when you click on it, based on its level) similar to the monster con system would be substantial. A Green con player would count as ineligible, and anyone else would qualify as eligible.


- Here's where the risk/reward part of my system suggestion comes into play. When you begin a PK session (name goes pink), you will gain a minimal amount of points for that first kill. As you progress and kill more players during that PK session, each subsequent PK will result in a higher point gain. Therefore, the deeper into pink/red you go, the higher you get rewarded per subsequent kill during that PK session. In other words, it would be like being on a killing spree of sorts. A cap of perhaps 15-20 PK's could be implemented to avoid reaching insane levels of point gains per kill during a session. Your PK session ends when your name goes back to white.


- To avoid exploitation of this system (PK'ing a friend for points without earning the kill), a PK of the same player multiple times during a session will result in a substantial reduction or zero gain of points for that PK session.


- Upon death of the PK'er, that player's infamous status would remain, but his "killing spree" would be ended. This would result in a reset of his kills for the session, and therefore reset the amount of points he gains per kill thereafter.


- Another thing that could be added to get more people involved in PvP would be a PK notification system that would basically notify players in the nearby area when another player becomes "infamous". For example, when a player kills someone and becomes pink, a message would come up in the text box saying "Typhoon has just slain Noobman!" to everyone in the zone where the PK took place. This would add to the fame aspect of PvP and make well-known PK'ers more wanted, as other players will be hunting these infamous PK'ers whose names pop up on a regular basis. Of course, this message system could be toggled on or off to avoid unwanted spamming.


- Now for "points". I'm using this term very generally, so the rewards that points could be turned in for could be anything. Gold, mounts, crafting materials, weapons, armor, skills, whatever! Just an incentive to PvP on a PvP server.





I strongly encourage any feedback or additional ideas that would make this possible. I'd love to see something like this added into the game, and I think that it would help the PvP aspect of PW tremendously. Why would it be worth your time to implement it? Well... more PvP = more PvP'ers = frick-tons more charms being used among other PvP items = $$$$ =D

Let me know what you guys think...