Murdering Trees

[r0ck4ev3r]

If you chip/chop too many quest givers in a period of time you get de-buffed with "Enemy of the Wilds." The more total quest givers you kills the faster the de-buff applies and the longer it lasts.

While an: "Enemy of the Wilds"
-Damaging quest givers takes more effort.
-You can not use thingwalls for the duration.
-Killing quest givers leaves scents of murder.
-Animals are far more likely to be aggressive.

[loleznub]

also losing the ability to hearth would be a good deterrent as well, hearthing is something the wilds allow you to do afterall

[Reiber]

i mean with the current quest system, it seems to be intentional that you can /have to cull questgivers to get something useful out of it,
and i can wholeheartedly understand cutting down zlongsikar because he gave you 23exp after an grueling 4 mission quest spanning 4000 meters, and then upping the local dandelion quality on top of an mountain, at the next quest

but i agree there should be an consequence to killing them, other than the entire neighborhood failing there quests and credos,

problem is, they already mainly get killed by alts, and preventing fresh spawns from killing them even if they dont have an quest there, could result in people getting massively fucked over by any of the trees inside their planned pali being questgivers,

[Audiosmurf]

I agree with the spirit of this post, if not the specifics, 0 consequences for killing questgivers willy nilly is gayballs

[HarryDresden]

The Trees Can't be Harmed if the Lorax is Armed.

Make dryads attack people at their base when they've angered the wild.

[neiroshop]

Make it require vandalism to chip a quest boulder/Cut down quest tree unless its claim.

[Joe69]

I'm no developer so with that in mind here is my idea, debuff "Struck by lightning" 100 hhp damage per second lasts 10 min? Could have a burning hearthlinng animation and a nice big puff of smoke at the end?

[Aerona]

I don't think this would work, for multiple reasons. Someone without Hearth Magic might not be aware of what they're doing to begin with, so a built-in punishment would seem unfair. It's also trivially easy to create an alt that can chip stones and chop trees (and destroy stumps). There's also plenty more rocks and trees in the world, so new quest-givers can easily just replace lost ones, it's only a problem for those whose quests are interrupted, and it's for them to do something about it if it bothers them.

It could be interesting if quest-givers were unique to each hearthling, so that no one will know what entities are giving other players quests, so they can't target them specifically without destroying everything in the wilderness or gaining the information some other way.

[Sevenless]

The problem is not that quest givers die, it's that you lose questgiver affinity and quests get abandonned when a giver dies.

Just transfer the quests to a nearby giver when one dies. 90% of the problems with tree murder solved. As for people who care about affinity, they should also care about quality bonuses and shouldn't want the ability to quest giver prune removed imo. But that's me I guess.

[ZantetsukenX]

Someone went through and killed all the frogs close to our base. Maybe make the punishment something more long lasting like causing their satiety to go up to 250% or something else that'd be annoying to anyone not on a useless alt. It'd atleast stop crimes of oppurtunity from happening when someone wondering through the area decides to kill off quest givers because it doesn't affect them.