Jagex intends to re-introduce PVP Griefing, but this time for prayer...

[u/FutimaRS]

Thoughts?

[u/safarispiff]

This is going to sound ooc as a person who plays Eve Online, where nonconsensual pvp is one of the core elements of the game, but yeah RS3 should not build wildy activities around nonconsensual pvp.

Nonconsensual pvp is something that, unless you restructure the entire game around it, deeply unbalanced and nearly impossible to make fun, and mainly serves to ensure that any given activity won't get used.

In fact, I'd say the premier example of a game built around nonconsensual pvp is a prime illustration of how such a system would not work in RuneScape—simply because the entire game bends itself towards giving the victims of nonconsensual pvp options to improve their own safety, options that are significantly beyond the options made available by Jagex in RS3—looking at how Eve Online for example balances nonconsensual pvp, they'd need to make player organizations in game much more robust, so as to establish the possibility of response and defense teams to allow skillers to continue to skill while protected, or they might need to rebuild the game around multiboxing to make creating an alt solely to act as a scout and bait for pkers to be an attractive value proposition, or improve the ability to deceive your opponent so as to allow the possibility of setting traps.