SnuggleSnail wrote:How is Jorb killing some nab by breaking their rowboat the second it touches the ocean different to Bleh smacking them?
The answer is dying to Bleh is more interesting & meaningful.
It creates a potential long term conflict, goals, and forces meaningful decisions. I've hunted down and murdered/raided everybody who fricked with me when I was new, and it's to the point where I wish more people had because of how great turning the tables feels.
There's a reasonable opportunity for nabs who don't know how to run/fight to get out of Bleh killing them in fun and interesting ways, for example I've had people:
- Bribe me to not kill/raid them
- Flirt with me from the inside of their walls as I'm raiding them to get me to stop
- Threaten retaliation/pretend they have scary friends I don't want as enemies
- Plead
- Offer to be slaves
- Excessive admiration, followed by asking to be an "apprentice", for lack of a better term
- Probably a bunch of other funny stuff I don't remember
And you know what. Sometimes it works. You know when AAA RPGs gets marketed as having "meaningful choices", or "meaningful dialog"? Haven is the only game where that's a real thing, and death not being reasonable hurts that a lot.
Ahh, I can relate. Getting raided and killed sucks, but being able to get revenge makes it all worth it. And talking with enemies is fun, too. I got spared a few times for cracking dumb jokes.
The possibility of losing your hard work gave this game an emotional aspect that other games lack.
Granger wrote:There are enough assholes that slaughter every character that's not in their green list, it's fully irrelevant if you are actively hunting me
In every world there have been quiet places where the chance of randomly running into a hostile dude is basically zero, that people who want to live in peace and boredom can go. You have enough experience to know this is the case.
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This is correct. If you spawn next to hostile people and really can't defend yourself for some reason, you can always move somewhere more secluded. Even if you're on a small continent it doesn't take long to learn boatbuilding. If your attackers are so rabidly thirsty for your blood they bother chasing down your canoe, just start a new character and spawn in some other part of the world lol.