Idea for Post Velious: Hardcore Characters
 

Just had an idea for p99 after Velious: A ruleset for individual players called 'Hardcore Characters'. You'd flag at the Priest of Discord in any town by asking him to flag your character.

The rules would include:

-Can only flag at level 1, and all gear and spells in your possession would be deleted.
-Can't receive outside help with NPCs. The moment you receive outside help, you get a 85% penalty to exp gained from the kill.
-Cannot be buffed or healed except spells cast on yourself or by an NPC.
-Cannot accept items or money in trades.
-You cannot loot any items or money from an NPC if you did not kill it solo.
-85% exp penalty for the Hardcore Character upon entering a group.
-Corpses cannot be rezzed with this flag on.
-Exp Gain increased by 250% while following all of the above rules. (ie; if you join a group, the bonus is negated and a 85% penalty is applied)
-This flag can never be turned off.
-Characters would have a silver name while this mode is enabled.

There is an optional 'super hardcore' mode, all previous rules apply and:
-Cannot use the bank under any circumstances.
-All bags appear as non-bags to your character and will refuse to store items.
-Characters would have a black name while this mode is enabled.

Would you play something like this? I would.

Nope.

Also, you can pretty much play that way now except for the changed exp values.

Luclin, Discord, or wipe with shorter timeline would be my vote. :)

Why would this be good? It's just forcing soloing in a game that's supposed to be social. I would not play this as a warrior.

This is not hardcore, this is masochism. Plus everyone would play monks...

Hardcore to me means one life, no respawns. Maybe disabling rez is a little extreme, but you should at least reduce the timer to minutes instead of hours. That would make things interesting, lying there in your corpse praying a cleric or paladin passes by in time and decides to rez rather than loot your corpse.

Hay how bout a new server call EQspinquest so u go in EC tun at lvl 1 and u stand at the ent and jus spin 1 million time and after it deletes ur toon??

What the fuck is with you people and "hardcore" mode?

The only server i will ever play is p99, possibly the new progression server on live if it manages to stop at PoP for a long time.

Pfft. "Post-Velious." Riiiiiight.

Make the name gold instead and I'll give it a whirl

I like the idea of hardcore mode w no outside help, but I would like to be able to group with other hardcore characters. Also, 250% exp bonus.

Hardcore to me always implied permadeath. I'd play on a server with the same rules, but with an EQ-style permadeath - corpse locked on dying and 100% xp loss (down to level 1, 0 xp) which can only be countered by a Cleric rez.

That would be a neat little project if the devs ever got bored with P99 stuff.