[Tana]

Hopping in for a post that isn't about to be a well-thought, researched wall of text with a bunch of numbers and stats to back it up, but

1. If PvP ends up the focal point for authority and governance and actions taken, 'power' will naturally consolidate to the hardcore PvP scene. That's good for them, but not so good for everyone else, and will ultimately mean the few people who lab all day like they're preparing for SigrEVO are just being handed an extra elaborate house spot to do their storylines.

Now, I'm not foolish enough to think that things won't already be a clique sort of thing where the existing friend groups effectively 'take' a full faction for themselves, but I think if things get down to purely PvP, it's going to help stifle things a lot as people only work with hardcore meta PvP builds, leading to only specific 'types' of characters being made. It'll be a bit strange if every mini-country ends up run by beefy BK/Ghost knights running the same builds, as an example.

I don't think there's anything wrong with people really liking PvP, but for an RP-heavy political thing, conflict being mostly RP would just be odd, in most situations. Something like a flat-out skirmish, sure, but the various nations already have implied means of settling leadership roles, and fairly well-defined territory cut off by land borders that don't seem too likely to change without higher-scale conflicts. It's likely that Dev already has stuff implemented for this kind of thing, going by the mechanically-implemented role tests.

I think a lot of races and classes, actually, should be locked on Korvara. No BKs, no post-enlightenment god-touched races, no engineers, no MGs, etc. etc. - A harder stance than most would agree with, I am sure, but it'd strange to have a small isolated land swamped with strange races and recent powers/technologies.



2. I can't quite agree about people finding mysteries and such naturally because for the most part people will be hanging out in their group discords letting everything fly instantly long before it's even out on live, if there's any testing. There's a certain amount of knowledge people would have about their own region, wherever they're ICly from, too. It'd look silly to have the first Presiking of the Glorious Geladyne Empire not know about something on their own lands, or pretty basic stuff about other regions.

At the same time, we don't know how grinding and stuff will work, I don't think, and it's further hamstrung by... People wanting/needing to be high level mechanically for the sake of IC. It'd be very strange to have someone in a military-mandatory country being level 1 with a sword they can't kill a jammer with. If someone wants to make a grizzled veteran character, having to ICly go and grind out level 1 stuff is... I mean, I don't need to point out the oddity. Being able to grind effectively OOCly is a necessary evil when the baseline assumption on new characters in terms of gear/power level is '14 year old that just wandered out of the boonies with their parents' life savings in a weapon'.


3. Please, SOMETHING to limit travel in some fashion. I know I've complained about the possibility of Korvara thinning out the population too much, but I don't want it to turn into another 'yeah i spent two minutes gone, i just checked the entire landmass we're on for people' and 'oh yeah sure run to x location and back real quick even if it's across an entire continent that can support a hundred million people on medieval technology'.




I am aware this is a rambling mess but I am hopeful for Korvara, so I wanted to say my rambling thoughts on these issues, and ultimately, a lot of these concerns have probably already been addressed by Dev in whatever extra mechanics he's been taking so long getting in place for it.