Time to retire a char? Send him to Purgatory! (An idea.)

Oysterboy

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This was inspired by an idea Benedict posted in the thread "People want even more unbalanced classes?" https://forums.freddyshouse.com/showthread.php?t=187891 I posted the same there, just thought it could do with a thread of it's own. (If this was a bit presumptious then... sry. But here it is anyway. :p )

You have a character with say RR7+ that you are a bit fed up with. You decide to "retire" him (assuming it's a he) to Purgatory (or Valhall or whatever). You do this by going... somewhere... and doing... something... some ritual suicide-thingy maybe.

The character must stay in this place (e.g. Purgatory) for a set amount of time, or until he is redeemed back to life... (More about the redeeming part below.) If he is not redeemed within this amount of time, maybe 6 months, then he will be Deleted.

While in Purgatory your character, from time to time, has a chance to return to the land of the living in some ghostly form. Nobody controls him ofc, he will simply pop up at random locations in the Frontiers. He will have greater powers than he had when he was alive, maybe be lvl 60 or so.
He will stay at one location for a set amount of time, then pop up somewhere else, unless he is redeemed or killed.

He will be Friendly to his old realm-mates, Neutral to mobs/NPCs and Neutral (but attackable) to enemy players. He can't communicate with other characters, except to enemies through fighting.

If he is killed the ones killing him will get a substantial amount of RPs. The character will then return to Purgatory. (12 hours or so later another character from Purgatory will appear in the Frontiers.)
If he kills the attackers, then a substantial amount of RPs will be given to a RP pool on the character. If the character is later redeemed, then this RP pool can be used by other characters on the same account.

Only 3 characters (from different accounts) from each realm can emerge from Purgatory, to the Frontiers, at once. These 3 are selected through some random means, like lottoing among all the characters there.

To redeem a character a group of 8 characters must perform a ritual next to the character. One of the 8 must be on the same account as the character being redeemed.
This ritual involves sitting down, and takes quite a bit of time. (Being seated and occupied with a time-consuming ritual could be risky, so caution is advised.) If the character being redeemed disappears during the ritual, then he must be found somewhere else and the ritual started again.

If a character is redeemed then he can't travel to Purgatory again, until 6 months have passed.

:drink:
 

Tualatin

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This is a great way to say byebye to a character you've put weeks of /played time lol.. I don't think anyone will actually do this.
 

Oysterboy

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It's meant for characters that you don't like playing anymore, a sort of graceful exit.
People do tire of characters, why not make it more fun to retire it? Plus it would add some more content to the Frontiers.
:)
 

Thorwyn

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Very good idea. Unfortunately, a huge number of people will be interested in one and only one question: will he add?

:)
 

Zede

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It was always fun on Ultima Online to wander round as a ghost, and litrally go "oooowwww" !
 

MaCaBr3

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Probably don't know enough about MMORPG, cuz why would anyway come up with that.
 

Bahumat

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crap idea, the whole point i spoke about in the other thread was to have a 1 time only deletion of a level 50, it would have to be rr5+ because necro's could abuse it.

The idea is you type a command on a lvl 50 you no longer want to play, maybe a friar or something, then when its deleted you make a new character which is /50 and RR5.

if you have a rr7 deleted you wont get a RR7 new char (would be nice if you could but someone would have to check your rp's and match it so thats alot more hassle than 1 guy having a 510,000rp's macro setup)
 

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