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Codex Regius balance patch .01a incoming boyz.

Demon bros? There's no demon 'bros'. Both characters are girls. It's just that Plague's avatars initial appearance makes everyone think the avatar is a male.

 

Anyways, I just went along the lines that since the game is supposedly the most realistic,highest-tech,bla bla game and the assumption it'll be something like SAO where through the gaming gear, something like that would be possible.

 

Plus, if that's not the case, it's still possible to 'torture' players in the game. Whether they're able to feel pain or not, players don't take too kindly to dying, losing health, or whatever. All you've got to do is hold down the player wittle down their health bar and whatever until they talk since death can have consequences like going down a level and such.

SAO is the exact reason why that wouldn't be good.  That isn't what it was designed to do.  That was an abuse of the system.  Future models I believe made it impossible for that kind of thing to happen.  Jod might have a different ruling but going by logic I think that a smart company wouldn't let that happen.

Lowering someones health and making them lose time and exp doesn't induce fear.  It makes them annoyed.  Angry.  Pissed off.  That isn't torture.  Players that have that effect on other people get enemies.  They would call up their guilds and rotate shifts just to camp you.  Bounties placed on you.  Things of that nature.   Fear would not come into the equation unless you are like...messing with kids.  Which is wrong and you should feel bad.

Yeah that's cool. But I was talking about what's the point of attempting to "torture" the other 99.99%. It's a game with health bars and hitboxes. Worst that can happen is your character dies or loses equipment really. 

I think the point they are trying to make is how would they torture someone not with that gear.  Most likely that kind of gear is an illegal modification because I doubt a VMMO company would want anything to do with that for liability reasons.  So that kind of mod would be something they'd likely keep to themselves to avoid the ire of GMs.  So how would they know who they can and can't torture?  The vast majority of the player base can at best be threatened with temporary character death.

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I got a question to the demon bros after reading the posts. What do you guys mean by torture...cause' like you guys realize it's a game right? No one feels pain.

No there is no way at all a video game, virtual reality or not, would allow the players to feel actual pain. From both a business and a legal perspective it makes no sense at all. This is not SAO, and SAO was different because the game wasn't designed to be a game people played but a death game engineered by some crazy guy.

Also, whether you call it torturing or bullying or whatever, people aren't gonna just sit there and watch as you force them down and whittle away at their hp bar. It wouldn't create feelings of fear, just annoyance and they could just log out to avoid it.

Illegal equipment is not necessary to cause people harm over the web.

For example, this conversation has caused me undue amounts of pain.

There are ways to show damage without dumbing it down.  Create a tingling sensation.  That is enough.  If you lose a limb then create the sensation as if that limb is asleep in your mind.  If you get pierced create another sensation that draws the mind to the damage without causing them to feel pain.

Companies are not perfect but allowed their tech to allow actual harm to be suffered by their players isn't a minor defect or crossed wire.  That is huge.  No way that gets through.  Only way it happens is illegal modifications.

Pain is not something people want for the most part.  That kind of thing is just asking for trouble.  

Well, it's plausible that you could get modifications on the gaming system.

Like, you could wear a full body suit controller with electric shockers in it or something.

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Right, ignoring the fact that getting pain modifiers for a game is stupid as hell, it would only mean they could torture weirdos who enjoy pain, and not like...99.99% of the player base. 

DPS is Damage Per Second.

 

That's related more to Attack Speed.

No.

DPS is calculated by damage x attack speed.   It is both of them in equal proportion.  

Percents are pretty lame.  People should stop trying to make themselves stronger and find ways to work the system.