Would there be a way to introduce a personal protection potion similar to the guild protection but it prevents purples from attacking you. It would still allow you to enter into pvp content in the contested zones, but it would prevent you from being attacked by your own faction. If they want to attack us so badly why do they not just go Pirate, Player nation or roll on opposite faction?
This potion would ensure that the people who do not want to be forced into pvp combat (their choice in this is as valid as those that want to pvp) wont be. They can continue to farm, decorate and complete content without being bullied (because it is in effect bullying) whenever a green wants to thump them.
No. it doesnt mean going into a contested zone is safe, it means the people that just want to prey on their own faction cant with these people.
If they want to disrupt trade running, why cant they go to the opposite faction's contested zone to do it?
Of course a person can opt to drop this protection and if they cancel the buff, they should be unable to reapply the buff for 24hr so that it doesnt become another way of gettign the upper hand in pvp. This would be mainly for those that dont wish to play that game. It is not to stop that aspect for those that want to do it.
I must preface this by saying that I myself do not partake in purpling very often so judge me on that what you will.
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If you do not wish to PvP, then you must make the conscious choice to not enter such a zone, especially with carrying out activities that highlight you to other players, such as running trade packs. Such packs are designed with a higher payoff due to the extra reward granted, a healthy risk-reward benefit/loss depending on the final result.
The game already has mechanics that allow you to choose to not be forced into PvP.
It is called a Peace Zone/Faction controlled zone.
However, many players do not acknowledge these methods, and instead naively expect that they are to be respected.
Furthermore, many griveances you quote are misguided.
Getting dunked on while farming mobs? Stop and do something else for a while instead of feeding into deaths, or, move elsewhere for a while.
Placing Decorationss? You cannot be attacked except while in Dominion on housing zones by your faction.
Completing content? Only examples of "content" I can think of are quests or world bosses and mini-bosses or other material bosses. For the quests, do same as for while getting dunked farming mobs. For world bosses... Those in contested areas are made to be contested heh... and WB doesn't even need purpling to get stolen from you.
The counter arguements can go on.
The only balance to such an item as proposed would be to make it so heniously expensive that there would be no point to it in the first place.
Surely many people that have chimed in on the
Infamy Thread can comment very much so on the implications of such a suggested buff, and given the hugely negative response given there, one should also be expected for such an idea here as well.