Honor System

[Stoo]

That won't really stop it completely, some people just like to be an arse.
After all if you can't manage fame, infamy in the next best thing.

You know, I'm not so sure about that, if it was implemented how it's mentioned in the WoW manual, then I think it would stop.

If they kept accumulating dishonour, then eventually they'd have nowhere to go, as even their friendly home territories would effectivly outlaw them, which would mean pretty much no quests (the NPC's would attack them on sight), no auction houses, no armour repairs, no nothing.

They'd basically have to leave the character alone for the dishonour to wear off (which would take months if they were that bad), which would solve the problem.

That's not to say there wouldn't be the odd isolated attack, but I think it would mean an end to the days of 30+ level 50-60 turning up in relative noob towns like XR making it hard for the players in that town to do anything for most of the day (killing the windrider master, quest NPC's etc etc).

I really can't see how they could implement an honour system without an opposing system of dishonour to keep it balanced.

[Allen]

Stoo, I totally agree with you. But I'm pretty sure that the current honour system they are going to implement doesn't reduce your honour rating if you kill low level npc's or chars, it just doesn't give you honour. Therefore, people may not do it so much as it'll be just pure gankage (which is LAME), but it will still happen.

[Butcher]

I think they're being a bit cautious about dishonour as they want to make sure people can't abuse it and lower someone elses dishonour for them.

[Allen]

I can't see that happening too much tbh. Do you mean in the sense of a group of low levels attacking a high level so he kills them, getting dishonour? On a non-pvp server that wouldn't be much of a problem really, just don't attack them.

[Butcher]

IN the sense that there's always some way to exploit a system, bliz presumably want to make sure they catch as many as possible.