re: **The Division** All Platforms Extravaganza

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1) Rogue penalties in DZ will probably be reduced

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There have been many complaints that PvP is very rare in high level Dark Zone areas because the penalties are too great. There have also been worries that changes will result in PvP becoming too common and the Dark Zone becoming just another deathmatch. This kind of situation is very common in engineering and the answer is control theory. The most obvious example of this is the simple thermostat. When your house is too cold it turns the heating on. When your house is too hot it turns the heating off. This keeps your house (and you) at a comfortable temperature. The same idea could be applied to the Dark Zone. The rogue penalty on a server could begin low to encourage PvP. However when PvP activity becomes too high the Zone could go into an alert state which greatly increases the rogue penalties. This will cause rogues to either stop player killing or move to another server. In either case PvP activity will fall until it becomes too low at which point the alert would clear and penalties could be set low again. Of course this idea isn't fully fleshed out. For example there could be multiple alerts states with gradually increasing penalties instead of a single on-off switch. However I think this could be the way to create a Dark Zone that is neither too hot or too cold but is just right.

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