Pitfalls from past games

[Zouji]

Zero or little consequence in dieing. Having a debuff or losing some armor durability are blubie consequences of dieing. There should be real consequences, losing xp, gear, coin etc. Which ties in to my other pitfall which is quick pvp battles, instant or near instant kill abilities are gay, 1v1 pvp fights should last minutes not seconds, and large scale pvp should last an hour or more.

I enjoyed the death penalty in UO. If you died then you dropped everything that was on you on to your corpse. This included armor, weapons, gold, everything. This forced the player and the game economy to not worry to much about any single item. Everyone ran around in GM crafted armor and weapons. Magic items were rarely used. The only really useful magical item was a silver weapon since they did double damage against undead.

You could potentially get back to your body before it decade. But, someone could still loot it at the expense of becoming attackable to everyone. This forced you to fight smartly and to also have back up outfits of armor and weapons. This was the ultimate way to negate uber items. Plus everything had a durability associated with it. If it went past its durability then it was no longer usable. You had to take it to a smith and have them repair it. Based on the skill level of the smith item may or may not lose some of its permanent durability. If you used a item continuously though it would eventually get to where it only takes a few hits to break it or it might even break permanently.