I don't see how it would affect a fort fighter, money maker or builder in a negative way. The dueling people are the only ones that get bashed from the idea. You say the good jobs may be 10 minutes away from your town, but since there are towns everywhere, all you have to do is sleep in one of the other nearby towns. If you duel a lot, you must be doing something wrong to even consider this in your head. I already stated everything else in a decent post, I believe.
@yogafrog, supporting ideas that intentionally hinder duelers, just because you dislike dueling is not the right way. I don't propose that workers should do jobs as 4 hour segments and adventurers should earn half the wages, just because it would be beneficial to me, since I play a different character. Respect the other player's way of playing the game, so they will respect yours.
BOOK - I don't respect people who have no respect for others, and your one of those, if that's how you think.
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By all means I'm not saying don't duel,
I have respect for people who play and enjoy this game, no matter what side they are on, I like my enemies, I like other towns, I like other players, they improve the game play, I am all for improving the game to help retain players, it's sad seeing towns with 1 - 2 people in them, or ghost towns where there once were communities, which we'd duel against, or just go shopping at.
I don't like to see people leaving the game because duelists who keep pounding them day after day, I don't like to see guys having to self KO against the quest duels to prevent them being dueled at lvl 68, just so they can make it to the next couple of days worth of battles at full health - without worrying about the next random who pop's into town.
I don't even like it when guys come to town, 10 lvl's above me who use me as a way to KO themselves - for the same reason as above - being able to live a life without dueling for 48 hours - at a time that suites them.
YES - I don't tend to duel unless I'm pushed, I don't like dueling weaker players, I don't like dueling weaker character types, I don't like to bother people who obviously are doing something that makes them happy.
I'm not a BULLY in life or in the game, I have an opinion (I think that's allowed), and I have a voice.
Sorry if it's not the kind of thing that you wanted to hear!
Now, the way I see it is, you are saying - we just have accept & to put up with duelers, basically you want a dead piece of meat for you to hit out at - we have no choice in this, again we have no input, can't change destiny, can't defend ourselves, we can't improve our chances, we shouldn't be able to do something that might change the outcome - because that would make life hard for you?
It's your god given right to attack someone 10 lvl's below you who's ill equipped compared to you (you've got all the gear - all the advantage) and they are working on something that requires specific skills, additional clothing/gear that leaves them defenseless, because you've chosen to pick on someone who you KNOW you can beat easily - yeah you would never go into a fight with someone who's prepared and ready for you, someone who's tactics, aim, dodge and who's equipment build was matched to their weapon, who had the right weapon for their class/build, no that would be suicide for a dueler - because we know Zero Hero's are weak.
What does dueling do for the other classes, except rob them of money, HP and the ability to improve themselves, especially while being camped, stalked and attacked, but as far as your concerned that's just good game play? YOU NEED A LIFE !
BTW - you won't find my characters running for a hotel room, unless I have $ 1,000's o dollars in hand, or am trying to get to my next battle at 100% HP
I'm not a hunk of meat for a dueler to have a free hit at!
If I see a dueler coming at me I'll size him/her up and wager WIN or LOSE if it's a fair fight... but heck you like it all your own way, no challenge on your side, that's less than 1/2 decent and no man fights like that - just bullies do that kinda thing.
The point of placement dueling system sounded fun, but I can see it will be easily abused, and it's not an advantage for workers, or any other class, duelers will have a speed advantage as I understand so can quickly catch up with an intended victim, soon as they stop to work again they are lunch meat, and if they try to run more than 10 minutes - well they are stuffed anyway, so workers will have to work for a short time and run, or just put up with being harassed or pounded {BTW when I say workers here I mean people working to earn $$$, product collecting, Quest or XP (you know the things Zero Hero's never need to do)},
I can see nobody ever being able to Silver Mine again - ever!
Although a few of my mates have a great sucker plan for Silver Mining - if they ever do bring in the AMBUSH system.
I can't only hope that they do bring in AMBUSH, then there will be a real change to dueling - LOL