Kilsin said:Community Debate - In-Game Religion - Do you typically align your character with religion and if so is it usually good, neutral, evil or some combination of them all? #MMORPG#CommunityMatters
Depends on the character and my mental picture of them. Since i tend towards neutral alignment characters, I tend to go neutral.
I think a religion choice in a game adds in a little more to the game if that choice also effects your starting faction point. Meaning if I pick a religion that by not be seen as evil by other groups in the city you start in but may hate said religion just because they had some bad dealing with them in the past. There should always be a way to improve that faction over time if you want but at the start they will not like you because you chose that religion over theirs. Perhaps even have a way for the 2 religions to heal old wonds if enough of said followers of the 2 religions do possitive things for the apposing religion. The oppose it then could also happen where people start doing bad things to another religion and soon 2 religions start to hate each other.
If a religion, read not faction, is implemented i want to see nearly cult like fanaticism. Religious wars. I would put religion on a different perception trigger and aggro meter than faction. If it is going to be implemented lets implement it fully. You would have to go thru major quest lines to change religions and in the end it would be a final trigger/event ending in a choice to change. But depending on the religion you might be hated by your past religion if you change.
I would even go as far as saying certain epic quests should be religious based. Maybe even start everyone as a non religion until we choose one thru a quest.
kreed99 said:If a religion, read not faction, is implemented i want to see nearly cult like fanaticism. Religious wars. I would put religion on a different perception trigger and aggro meter than faction. If it is going to be implemented lets implement it fully. You would have to go thru major quest lines to change religions and in the end it would be a final trigger/event ending in a choice to change. But depending on the religion you might be hated by your past religion if you change.
I would even go as far as saying certain epic quests should be religious based. Maybe even start everyone as a non religion until we choose one thru a quest.
Could add text-based call and response triggers based on religious lore. call "Baloney-Pastrami" (response) "Pastrami-Baloney" *unsheaths sword*- See! HEATHEN! or prayers of one religion end with "Menah" and after a particularly bad fight one comments, "lucky we had that eastern flank or we'd be toast" and one off-hand comment "Menah, brother" hey....waitaminit *eyes narrow*
It would be cruel, but saying the wrong thing to a religious based NPC could gate-keep you out of certain quests or storylines , only reparable with an ardurous time-sink or perhaps irreparable
It could turn into a newbie version of the old dad joke "owah- tagoo- siam" Hey, go to that unicorn and say "I want Phat lewtz" - no really! *snicker* . ooh! or be familiar with the piety quest where an troubled NPC evangelist needs to be found- but you tell the newbie its another random NPC to "help" them and giggle as they train the angry mob of townsfolk to the city gates running away.
Jobeson said: My PC is virtually always of the belief they are not gods, but powerful beings. Not something to be worshipped but to be feared. Praying to a tyrant to take pity on you is no way to live. I love the lore religions bring to the game... Also my pallies are always hyper religious usually to evil gods. Give me pantheons version of Bane please.
A lot of us are hoping for this Jobeson. If there are evil pantheons, why wouldn't there be righteous warriors of that god's cause - alternatively, can evil gods exist in the realm at all if nobody worships them or champions their cause? :)
If religion will have a real effect in the game. I mean a real meaningful effect then I will role play believing in a god. In the past I havent been able to get away from playing a good character. But I am interested in an "evil" Ogre Shaman or an Ogre Rogue if that combination happens in game.
