Prior to the beta forums closing, I do not believe SIGIL ever responded to the chance of item loot being added in the FFA ruleset to any degree later on, once the balance between classes was better achieved.

Any one have any word on this?

-CC

PvP rules for the FFA pvp server goes as follows

Once your lvl 7 your free game for anyone above lvl 7 to attack you.

If you get killed by someone that is with in 20% of your lvl. (IE if your 10 8-12 or 20 16-24) then your corpse stays where you die. Each item has a chance to take a durability hit AND your assailents can loot 15% of your gold that is currently on your corpse.

If they are outside of the 20% range then you spawn with your corpse and get no negative effects.

The team pvp servers are slightly different but I didnt pay enough attention to notice because well... I wont be playing on team pvp.

To answer China's question. They stated they will NOT be adding itemloot at all to these 2 starting servers at anytime ever. They WILL be adding pvp servers post launch ( weeks or months who knows) that will have item loot.

WC

They never directly answered the questions about item loot.

There were a few threads going on about the problems with adding it post launch to the original PvP servers and a DEV did remark that item loot would be too disruptive if added to an existing server. So it was implied that it would have to be added to a new server, and the remark spawned threads about people asking about possible transfer of characters from the original FFA server to future FFA servers.

Launch is going to be tough for PvP, the current ruleset is better than none but people that are looking for item loot will be discouraged when they learn they have to wait for maybe months and then reroll on a new server.

Just wanted to clarify.

They did state clearly that Item Loot would NEVER EVER be added to the existing launch PvP servers. They did however say, that at some point - Item Loot servers would be added "Post-Launch." When this is, remains a mystery. Our guild is currently waiting on the sidelines until such time. The PvP rulesets as they stand are worthless from a penalty or even pvp standpoint, especially when Crestone also announced the inclusion of MULTIPLE safe-zones prior to the Beta forums going down. (Every Crafting area will ALSO be PvP restricted) 15% of money carried? Pathetic.

When the Item-Loot servers are released, we will see everyone there :)

Mangar
http://www.lucid-vision.org

Thanks guys. I appreciate the update.

I'm with you Mangar on acknowledging the release FFA version will not satisfy, however I will be moving forward on it regardless, just on a casual basis, while playing other games as well. That way, at such point down the road when the server we want is offered, and the game improved from its current state as one would expect, I can make the jump over to a fresh FFA server without feeling like I've wasted time.

I think your making a wise decision Mangar, from a guild perspective, now that we know item looting will never be placed on the initial FFA server, and we both know, there is no way they will allow transfers, nor IMO, should they.

-CC

Is there any word on whether they will allow server transfers? Like if I started on the launch pvp server with no looting, could I transfer them to a pvp-loot server?