Permadeath: The next evolution in MMORPGs
1: There’s a difference between death and DYING
During normal play you can get knocked out or receive a fatal wound in which your soul temporarily leaves your body. Neither of those are permadeath. But each time your soul leaves your body your soul’s connection to Elyria gets weaker, shortening your total life span. When you reach your maximum age, you will sleep the Final Sleep and be no more. That’s DYING, which requires a new character.
#2: Heirs set you up for your next character
While you will, after 10-16 months, see the end of one character, your Soul passes on to your heir, providing a boost to that character’s skills. Thus each character you play becomes stronger, faster, with accelerated skills for more advanced play.
#3: Soul costs will be comparable (or less) than other MMORPGs
Yes, you pay for each life you play. Yes, characters will die after approximately 1 year of play. No, you won’t be paying for the cost of a new game at that time. Chronicles of Elyria doesn’t use a subscription model, so you won’t be paying $9, $15, or more per month (and thus $100+/year) to play your hero. Instead, expect to pay similar to the cost of an expansion for a life.
#4: Crime (griefing) is punished in-game
In Chronicles of Elyria, crimes such as attacking other characters is punishable by time in prison. The more time someone spends in prison, the shorter their playable lifespan, the more their skills atrophy, and the less powerful they will ultimately become. So, we’ve kind of removed most the incentive around griefing. This makes play more fun and eliminates some of the concern around player killers.
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Sta je OP sa NeoGAF-a zakljucio:
From what I’ve read:
- There is no class, but there are skills
- Your character has a lifespan (10-16 months of real world time)
- Business model is ‘pay per life’, so if your character dies, you have to pay to play the heir
- Closed economy, finite resources, non-repeatable quests, and fully destructible environment
- You can be anything, from peasants, artists, assassins, to a king.
- There are prisons for grievers (several years for murders)
- PC release, possible consoles in the future (devs said the game is being built with a game pad in mind).
- Unreal Engine
- Devs are Soulbound Studios, a brand new one (Founded in 2015)
- Website: chroniclesofelyria.com
[SIZE=1]Tema besramno preuzeta sa NeoGAF-a[/SIZE]
Ideja je veoma interesantna, plus sto se placa po zivotu karaktera a ne mesecno. Jos da ubace napredak nauke i civilizacije dok se igra, uuh 
Bilo bi interesantno da pri pocetku igre pocinjemo u srednjem veku, a za pet godina da se nadjemo u industrijskoj revoluciji. All in all, cak i bez toga, me wanna.
