Vampirism and Lycanthropy Options

[Rizen]

I think it might be an interesting concept to allow characters to become infected with vampirism and lycanthropy. This means that a character has the possibility of becoming a vampire or werewolf. This would come about after someone is bitten by those respective creatures.

The main issues I could think of were for those who didnt want to be infected, and characters infecting other players. I think for players who dont want to be infected, there could be a short waiting period after being infected for the character to take a certain potion or get healed by a priest or something. Perhaps there could be a way to prevent characters from infecting one another when attacking, assuming some sort of PvP is integrated. Since that idea does rely on there being PvP, I wont focus as much on that.

Also, I suppose there should be a way to limit the number of people who become infected. First, it might not be very likely for someone to be infected. Vamps and wolves could either be powerful enough that n00bs couldnt just bump into them, get infected, and run away without being slaughtered. Or, they could just be in a place so far out that n00bs would never really be able to find them. It could also be possible to make it that the blow that infects the character is a critical one, so that weaker characters wouldnt be able to survive it.

[Bird]

Lol, i get your point Exo, but i think perma death would really ruin the game, however there should be more serious drawbacks i agree, let werewolfs and vampires lose a certain ammount of experience point or skill point when he or she dies

as far as the day/night thing with the vampires, this shouldnt be one of those drawbacks, exo gave me a good argument about that in the bright nights topic. when it will be day some players would just stop playing and wait for it to become night again, i dont think this is the way to solve it, i think it should be solved in another way and this is what i came up with:

When a vampire is in the range of direct sunlight it will take a constant amount of damage, however, when he is in the shadow of for example a tree, he would be safe again and able to regain HP. the lower level vampires will lose more serious amounts of health, though the higher your level, the more immune you get to sunlight, the less constant damage you take.

this way also not every noob would wanna become a vampire. this would be reserved for the higher class ppl

raise your hand if you like the idea :wink: