Guild Wars 2

So I used to play a game called Age of Wushu (I now play the mobile version because I moved and my ping in the PC version sucks now).

Anyway… AoW had an interesting mechanic where there would be ‘random encounters’ involving different NPCs showing up seemingly randomly and doing/offering different things. Some offered quests, some offered common/rare items (playing a lot to maximize RC pops to get rare gear enhancement items was most definitely a thing in that game and while I don’t think any sort of ‘win’ items should come of a RC, rare skins and such available ONLY through a RC would be nice) and some put a death mark on the player. Seriously, we’d sometimes get a debuff that would result in some seriously OPed NPCs mauling us out of nowhere, I think because we refused to buy a beggars cake or something.

The point is, more randomness could easily be added to the game. You could base it on story progression (a ‘thank you’ NPC may be a RC possibility after completing X and Y story paths) or recent activity (daily completions, World Boss kills, etc) or whatever. But ANet would have to make the conditions for RC complex enough to not be able to be gamed or added up on Dulfy (love ya, Dulfy!).

Thoughts?

Interesting thoughts, it implemented properly I think it would be pretty cool. Anything to make a living world more living would be a plus in my opinion.

Sounds cool. Reminds me just a bit of Nicholas. (I know we now have the Karma vendors that appear in various places, but they just don’t feel the same.)

Runescape did the same thing. However it was first put in to fight bots but failed. It then turned into something fun and cool for legit players.

They have done it here once and I hope they do it more in the future. Where have they done it so far? Skritt Burglar of course! :-D