Death is pretty sweet as is but I find it frustrating on two minor points:

1) Fifteen minutes before deghosting is a quarter of a hour I could spend doing anything else.

2) Gear coming back to the pit AFTER you unghost. That is just a sucky bunch of ####. I want to fight someone with gear not sans it from both sides of this equation.

I think CF has evolved to the point where the focus is nicely balanced between RP and PK. Being in Ghost form really does not fit well into that if prolonged. I would ask that ghost time be reduced to ten minutes and gear to pit be set at nine and a half minutes. Personally I want to be able to fight my enemy again before they log off which seems to happen a bit too often lately right after I have been smacked around.

Also it would be interesting if ghosts could only loot their own corpses and lose request. Ghosts are ghosts for a reason not to be able to get gear. Get 1. as a ghost should fail unless the gear was on you. Prevents that ghosting newblet who followed around heroes to get all corpse.


Just some new Year thoughts.


Let the hating begin.

>Fifteen minutes before deghosting is a quarter of a hour I
>could spend doing anything else.

Are you seriously complaining about the ghost period being too *short*? Heck, I wouldn't mind it being *longer*.

>Gear coming back to the pit AFTER you unghost.

If this weren't the case then it would be a simple matter to stay by the pit and spam loot. No danger. This also encourages people to have out-of-the-way hometowns.

>Also it would be interesting if ghosts could only loot their
>own corpses....

This isn't a bad idea. It sucks when you're in a cabal raid situation and you kill someone before dying, then the guy you killed gets back before you and takes all your stuff.

>...and lose request.

This also isn't a terrible idea, but it does disproportionately penalize good-aligned characters. That said, it's always annoyed me that there are certain "pretty powerful" goodie items that are almost always requested by ghosts. I've suspected certain good-aligned heros of intentionally taking a mob death just so they can go request stuff they wouldn't otherwise be able to access.

I do agree on the pit timer thing. Sometimes when you die in an out of the way (read: inaccessible) place, the last thing you want to do is unghost then have to sit at the pit in Galadon waiting for your #### while every other cocksucker in range is trying to bash your ass down. Yes this has happened to me more than once.

As for the ghosts not looting thing, I disagree. I've been in enough mega-brawls where my corpse isn't the only one that gets left on the ground - and when I go back for my stuff, maybe half of it has been looted mercilessly already. I should at least be able to snag some stuff from the other dead guys' corpses, especially if I was at least partially responsible for putting them there in the first place.

Merry Merry.

T