Afterlife Overhaul?

[Alexander Trafford]

Karma points. Awarded by quests, both while alive and dead, in which you receive either positive or negative points. The amount of points awarded from quests should be greater in the Afterlife though. Then we can have shops in Heaven/Hell to spend karma points (negative points in hell, positive in heaven but you'd be unable to cross 0 through purchase). We can put whatever in the shops, including resurrection.

Then I think after a time spent dead allow a loan or a reduced price resurrection to avoid people becoming trapped/inactive.

I think this would also let us add some more flavor to the quests and to stop people from just like doing quests to kill babies and then instantly turn around and work at a soup kitchen. Which would make no sense, unless they are serving dead baby soup.

This is nice.

The way I envision what you're saying, there would be a 'shop' in heaven and a 'shop' in hell, and they might look something like this:

Hell Shop:

Resurrection: Performable for -1000 Karma Points (Cost decreases by 100 points for each month in hell after three months. So after staying four months the cost would drop to -900 Karma Points, etc.)

Temporary Visit: Performable for -150 Karma Points, allows the dead to visit and participate in events that are taking place in the realm of the living.

And then you could throw in a bunch of various Hell Specific items that would be transferable back to the realm of the living so that people who are enjoying their time in the afterlife have more to strive for and more to spend their money on. (for instance, Kaden said there was a lot he could do with the four temple deal in heaven, so give those people more to RP for then just Resurrection). For instance, maybe something like:

Dabura's Blessing: -500 Karma Points. Boosts CA by %5 in battle, good for two uses

Heaven Shop:

Resurrection: Performable for 1000 Karma Points (Cost decreases by 100 points for each month in hell after three months. So after staying four months the cost would drop to 900 Karma Points, then after five months the cost would drop to 800 Karma Points, etc.)

Temporary Visit: Performable for 150 Karma Points, allows the dead to visit and participate in events that are taking place in the realm of the living.

And then a bunch of Heaven specific items that follow the same mold and same purpose as the Hell specific items.

And like Waff said, negative Karma points would be earned through quests in Hell and positive Karma points would be earned through quests in Heaven. (The only problem I see with this is say you're in Hell and have earned -400 Karma Points and then a bunch of folks die and go to Heaven and you want to RP with them, using one of the portal/warp door ideas you move up to heaven, then in order to earn Karma Points do you have to overcome the -400 KP you earned in Hell? Almost like a Penance for you evil deeds? But then that is a disincentive to move from Heaven to Hell and could possibly lead to the same problem we have now: no one wants to RP alone for months on end. Maybe a way station that transfers negative Karma Points into Positive ones wouldn't be such a bad idea).

And you keep the Temple Quest things, or whatever, or add in different quests so, ideally, a dead person could earn enough Karma points to purchase items and whatever, and then also perform the resurrection when they would like to, after having worked through quests, of course.

And you might even be able to create one or two hell and heaven specific techniques that you can only learn in hell and heaven. I'm not sure what that would be, but as your earning all these Karma Points you're also creating massive heaps of XP, and it'd be fun if there was an element of the afterlife that also acted as a draw for spending XP. Then the afterlife would be connecting with users on all fronts. You'd have interactive, jumping point quests that could be recreated/altered when needed, you have a place to spend earned money that is specific to the afterlife, and a place to spend XP that's specific to the afterlife.