[crossfire] Death Penalty, was Re: IRC traffic for Sunday Oct 22

[Brendan Lally]

On Wednesday 25 October 2006 15:15, Lalo Martins wrote:
>
> I think monetary as in money proper is probably too cheap (and you
> probably won't be carrying enough to pay it); but sacrificing valuable
> artifacts adds a cool twist.

That's why I suggested 'life insurance' (really 'death insurance' I guess) so 
that a player could pay an amount of money in advance to reduce the effect of 
the death penalty if a player dies during the span of the insurance policy. 
Probably that would have to be capped to a certain point (95% or so maybe) so 
that dying is still disadvantageous, then you would have cost being something 
like (% of death penalty to offset (1-95))^2*(hours for policy to 
last)^2*(level of player)^2*some scaling factor that is considered to make 
the costs sensible. 

This would mean that a player wanting to keep their death penalty low for a 
long period of time would have to pay a great deal of money, and anyone who 
happened to die when their insurance lapsed would have only themselves to 
blame for taking the full death penalty.