Neutral Village/Market

[glossy pendant]

I think it'd be nice if there was a neutral village. This village would be centralized as possible. It would be a no-zone (or similar to WoW, have jonin guards that attack people who pvp in the town. but that would be more work so I'd opt for the first option for now) In this village, similar to games like Ragnarok or Maplestory, allow players to open stalls and make a physical in-game marketplace for people to trade and socialize cross-village.

@haughty seal 's idea of an arena, similar to prison, that doesn't give BI, would fit perfectly here.

[zinc nest]

I dont want a neutral city

I want the factions to hate each other even harder, not hold hands.

We need faction specific bounties as well as fame/infamy

Vendor stalls as well as Player Generated Buy Orders and Bounty Missions would be awesome.

[glossy pendant]

This won't make people stop pvping or kosing or constantly raiding. It'll just give a place to market instead of like arc 20. be an actual village we can run to and check who's got what for sale at the time.

[glossy pendant]

And this makes it feel a part of the world. Not as detached as an ah system would feel.

[obtuse raptor]

I'm all for physical stalls, but rather than making it a town or village, I'd probably make it as barren as possible and not directly connected to areas so it can't be abused as a mode of transportation.

Similar to how Halloween event works

[glossy pendant]

This idea is just adding a new village to the map, centralized, that people would have to manually run to. Nothing like the Halloween event - which I use/abuse for transportation.

Similar to Asoki, for example.
You can just not add a hospital there if you want to avoid people using it as a tp

[orchid knot]

make that type an area and stalls like fiesta online had back in the day

i'd like to sit on a carpet and well my wares when people click my stall

[glossy pendant]

Exactly like this. Yes.

[sweet zenith]

I was thinking of this earlier on in the day too, as much as I love peddling goods, opening stores and getting to trade with people with all villages, there's something beautiful about localised trading even though a lot of us just use discord and arc20 anyway 😛

I would lean towards something like OP mentioned, but instead of having the village being a permanent no-zone, have it be a no-zone for 1-2 days a month/bimonthly or more frequently if people want, and host some kind of bazaar, where players of any village, rogue or not come together, and buy and trade. If player shops were implemented, those would be the main attractions of the bazaar.

It'd promote trade amongst the villages, but also not just have a super safe zone where some would stay indefinitely. If a village or map is too much work, maybe rotate this bazaar/1 day no zone amongst the three/four villages monthly.

Pre player shop implementation, just allow for placeable furniture in a certain area, and players can create their own storefronts, or just stand around and peddle their goods. It's of course kinda still prone to people trolling sometimes but maybe if there's some kind of guideline set out or some authority permissions given like how council can remove furniture in their respective villages.

RP-wise it could also open things up to more possibilities, player-run auctions, profession competitions (if they get expanded on), hang out spots, shops, bars for example. If you want the less-friendly stuff, you could also be creative about it, advertise your bounties on others, place for the rogues to pick those up, create your own black market, arena, pvp tournaments etc. Trading doesn't have mean it's all friendliness and that there will be no conflict, if anything, conflicts will likely be born, when more people from each village get to interact with each other apart from the one main kind of conflict between villages of trying to kill each other immediately from the whiff of each others' scent.

If CEs could be something villages come together to host despite the obvious competition with each other, I don't think a joint bazaar of some sort would be something too crazy as well. If you wanted chaos, you could also host it without the no-zone, Kuronami could also be lurking on those days, and maybe the various police forces would have their joint work cut out for them to hold peace and order. Holding a joint bazaar on the days of CE could also be an option.

Well enough of my copium dream MMO, thanks for coming to my ted talk.

[slate elbow]

We actually had an arena that didn't give bi for 5 days I think but it wasn't part of Rory's vision so it was removed