Fortress Time.

[Calindor]

i dont care about 24/7 attack, i just care about having organized/epic fights for the castles, and that you arent on a 24/7 defence. I mean it doesnt make sense to me that the devanion mist sets in after a fort gets a new owner, but not after defenders slay a thousand attackers.

[Momo]

Originally Posted by Mygo

RvR is not "Fortress A = Legion A only to defend", RvR is "Fortress A = all your faction defends".

I read that and then I was like *SQUEE*

8'D

[ILLUSIA]

According to last info about sieges in release build: The system won't be the same as it was in beta. A Castle can be captured when it has a Boss Guardian inside it. All Boss-Guardians have their specific respawn timer. All castles'll have different timers for bosses. It was said that there wont be non stop access to a siege of a сertain castle. You won't loose a castle which you captured just yesterday. Bosses will appear more often in evenings and all day long at weekends. Guild cant set a siege time.

It seems to me that they will spawn the same way as L2 epic bosses - no exact time, just an indicative time range

May be they will change it, but that was the newest info about it. And I dont think it's a good idea to play at NA server for EU guild if everything will be as I wrote, sure if they are not crazy nolifers ready to attack castles at 5 a.m.

[Sabre]

That's a good point, but most hardcore Legions won't be just NA or just EU, they will combine both, so I'm sure the more hardcore players/Legions will be on some of those nights, but definitely not consistently or in bulk to be effective~

[Calindor]

Legions like that can cause a problem if they do not restrict the numbers on events (sieges + raids). My L2 alliance was 3 clans of 120 ppl, my clan was half euro, half NA, we had a full euro and full NA clan as well....pretty much a 50/50 split of euro and NA. It means a loss of activity in either timezone....For example a raid boss would spawn in the evening for euros, we would have mainly eurs on then, and be able to organize maybe 70 of the 120 people for the raid, where as other alliances that were 3 clans of all euros would be getting 100+/120 activity

[twostep]

Originally Posted by Kolossus

Yep. Where would the fun be in just holding a fortress 24/7?

its actually a lot of fun, i remember owning aden in L2. getting millions of adena a day was pretty fun i dunno what you guys think. i dont disagree that you should be able to take a castle (house, whatever) everyday, but i think there should be a time that this can happen, maybe about 4 hours out of the day so that the clan who has the house doesnt have to guard it 24/7. just a thought.

because it doesnt really matter how powerful your clan is then, obviously the clan who is taking the castle will always have the advantage of surprize and have more people there, quicker because they had the opportunity to plan it out. If you are able to seige 24/7 i would recommend having npcs there that could hold off the siegers for at least 10-15 minutes so that the clan who owns the castle/house would have time to organize.

[ahlad012]

Originally Posted by ILLUSIA

According to last info about sieges in release build: The system won't be the same as it was in beta. A Castle can be captured when it has a Boss Guardian inside it. All Boss-Guardians have their specific respawn timer. All castles'll have different timers for bosses. It was said that there wont be non stop access to a siege of a сertain castle. You won't loose a castle which you captured just yesterday. Bosses will appear more often in evenings and all day long at weekends. Guild cant set a siege time.

It seems to me that they will spawn the same way as L2 epic bosses - no exact time, just an indicative time range

May be they will change it, but that was the newest info about it. And I dont think it's a good idea to play at NA server for EU guild if everything will be as I wrote, sure if they are not crazy nolifers ready to attack castles at 5 a.m.

Hmm i remember hearing that somewhere, but its good to hear.
Personally, i would rather take over a castle for my guild and try and defend it for as long as possible. It takes some time to go through all the extra zones and benefits from gaining that fortress anyway. I think it is going to be really fun since it is a 2(3 kinda) sided war, you would need to coordinate with other legions and other members of your race to control the Abyss. Its going to be really strategic as well as challenging so i doubt there will be many dull moments. And there is always the Balaur to shake things up.

[ILLUSIA]

Originally Posted by Sabre

That's a good point, but most hardcore Legions won't be just NA or just EU, they will combine both, so I'm sure the more hardcore players/Legions will be on some of those nights, but definitely not consistently or in bulk to be effective~

sure. but I was talking about another thing. A mixed guild can capture a castle, but EU players wont take part in sieges at all just because at their time they will start in early mornig or late at night (evening and day of NA time). I cant see anything attractive in such situation. They wont see half of content. Thats why I wrote that its not a good idea to play at NA server from Europe.

[Calindor]

Originally Posted by ILLUSIA

sure. but I was talking about another thing. A mixed guild can capture a castle, but EU players wont take part in sieges at all just because at their time they will start in early mornig or late at night (evening and day of NA time). I cant see anything attractive in such situation. They wont see half of content. Thats why I wrote that its not a good idea to play at NA server from Europe.

They are ahead of NA...and its not like sieges are restricted to a small time frame.

[ILLUSIA]

Calindor, you think NA players shall wait till europeans wake up?

[Aggelos]

It's not that many hours... just 5 in some cases. I've played in international guilds and I see them all at some point.

I don't play in the mornings at all, so I hope my EU friends can guard the fortress in their afternoon on weekends.

About NA evenings, might be 8pm? Thats like 1-3am for EU, that's not that late for a hardcore player.

So I won't worry.

[Calindor]

Originally Posted by ILLUSIA

Calindor, you think NA players shall wait till europeans wake up?

again, like I said, EU's are ahead of NA.

[Sabre]

Either way everyone sleeps at some point, and that's the "key time" to attack if you were going to take over a Legion's fortress. Regardless of being NA or EU, you have that as a small weakpoint

[cnation]

after cbt3, DevTeam is working on seige / defend reward for race.. ( not only legion).
during cbt3, catle war was an event of race.

[Kolossus]

Originally Posted by ILLUSIA

It seems to me that they will spawn the same way as L2 epic bosses - no exact time, just an indicative time range

Set your alarm, Sabre. Must camp moar HNMz!