But, let this conversation not obscure the fact that no system will prevent players from skipping Hordes even when they're configured, and from skipping it quite easily at that. What I think the thread ought to concentrate on (and seems to have been more or less over the last few pages), is working out ways that could make the BM Horde more interesting and more rewarding, and if that became the case, then people should care even less than they already should that some people skip the Horde.
Your point is logical, however, as I see it, players being able to log out should not be accounted for at all, when it comes to deciding gameplay design.
I am not completely against BM rewards, however I disagree with a concept of a BM, that players want to participate, mainly because of rewards. I find that there is a logical fallacy in this concept, which is apparent, if you wonder what the purpose of any kind of reward is:
1) Players choose to voluntary participate in the BM in order to "get rewarded".
2) The purpose of any reward (item/perk) is survival.
3) BM is by far the most threatening event for your survival.
*Return to 1) and loop until that makes sense.*
Unless we want the BM to be a "rewarding" event just for the sake of being rewarded, which is meaningless if you think how the above loop works, the BM must be a non-optional event, in which you just have to participate and defend successfully or lose something important. It's the only way.
To account for people who 1) choose to enable the BM and later 2) log out during the BM, doesn't make a lick of sense to me, while that option exists. Unless TFP plan to send some of their pimp goons to rough up people that log out,
we should stop being concerned whether the BM can be skipped because people may decide to stop playing the game.
Completely out of context and irrelevant.
To clarify, I was talking in relation to penalizing players logging off before Blood Moon for 'legit' reasons. Or the ideas about Zombies attacking bases 'offline'.
Let's end this "what if people quit the game" madness, especially when the BM is already optional through menu options, and focus the discussion on something that is not completely asinine.
Anybody ever see "The Rain" on Netflix? It just dawned on me that this is pretty similar. It's a post-apocalyptic series with the story that rain carries a virus that wiped out most of humanity. Second season should be coming this month.
Blood rain in real life is theorized to be red because it carries either microorganisms or spores.
Putting these together, and also to fit into the lore.... too much exposure to the blood rain could also have a chance of giving infection.
It has 6.3 on imdb... Watching it happen in the game would probably be more entertaining.
) So they kept it. To this day I think they are glowing 10x more than they should! (a little is fine!)
