Subject:  The Virtue of Justice |
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Date Posted: Sat, Jul 20 2002, 06:26pm
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The Virtue of Justice |
Mar 6 2002 6:13PM CST |
Justice is part of a philosophy within Ultima Online known as the Virtues,
and is one of eight pursuits within the upcoming Virtue
system.
The Virtue of Justice has been described thusly:
“Justice is the truth of what is right and wrong in human action
and the love of what is right.”
Players will be able to pursue the Virtue of Justice by killing murderers (red-hued
player-characters).
Gaining Justice:
- Characters will be able to gain a certain number of points in the Justice
Virtue by killing murderer characters (red-hued player-characters).
- Safeguards will be in place that will prevent exploitaton of this system.
Details on these safeguards will not be disclosed.
Virtuous Title & Abilities: When a character has achieved any number
of Justice points, he is considered to have achieved a certain step on the path
of Justice.
- When a player moves his cursor over the Justice symbol, a title will be
displayed, indicating the step currently achieved in Justice for that character.
- First step: Seeker of Justice
- Second step: Follower of Justice
- Third step: Knight of Justice
- Players who progress any number of steps on the path of Justice, but do
not continue to actively pursue it, may discover that this Virtuous title
reduces in steps over time.
- Gaining steps in Justice will grant a character the ability to protect any
number of characters which are non-criminals/non-murderers.
- A character must have achieved at least the first step in Justice in order
to be able to offer protection to another character.
- Players may activate their Justice Virtue ability by double-clicking the
Justice icon on the Virtue window, then targeting an innocent character.
- A player may only offer their protection while the target innocent character
is within a non-consensual Player-versus-player (PvP) ruleset area (i.e. the Felucca facet). However, moving into a consensual PvP
ruleset area (i.e.
the Trammel or Ilshenar facets) will not break the protection relationship.
- If the target character is already protected or in a consensual
PvP ruleset area, the Justice player will receive a system message
stating "You cannot protect that innocent right now."
- The target of the protection offer will not be disturbed in
any way (they will not receive any message or window).
- This condition will not count against the player's 1 offer per
15-minute limit.
- If the Justice player is inside their 1 offer per 15-minute
limit, they will receive a message stating "You must wait
a while before offering your protection again."
- Players that are offered protection will be given a special request
notice: "{Player-one} is offering you protection. Do you accept the
offer from this pursuer of Justice?"
- The target innocent may decline protection by selecting "no"
on the request window. If the target innocent declines protection
from a pursuer of Justice, then that Justice character may not request
to protect any innocent again for at least 15 minutes.
- Although a character may protect any number of innocents, an innocent
may only have one protector at any given time.
- At any time, a protected player may break the protection relationship
by selecting a context menu option on their own character labeled "Cancel
Protective Relationship."
- Upon cancellation, both players that were in the protective relationship
will receive the message, "The protective relationship between
{Player-one} and {Player-two} has been ended."
- The protective relationship will be broken should either character log
out.
- The benefits of Justice-based protection are only in effect while both characters
are within the same non-consensual PvP ruleset area.
- Whenever a protected character receives one a "scroll of power"
as a reward for killing a champion of evil (the "boss monster"
from a dynamic spawn area), the protector will also have a chance to receive
an exact copy of that same scroll of power.
- Each step gained in Justice will progressively grant the character
a greater chance to receive scrolls of power in this manner.
- First step: 60% chance
- Second step: 80% chance
- Third step: 100% chance
- The protector must be on the same server as the protected character
in order to have the possibility of receiving a scroll of power in
such a manner. For example, no benefits are in effect while the protector
is in the dungeon server and the protected character is in the Lost
Lands.
- Protectors that receive scrolls of power in this manner will receive
a notification: "You have been rewarded for your dedication to
Justice!"
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