Elevation map reset poll

[Retrograde 12,013]

Hi Everyone

 

As we have discussed, we have a short term plan for an update on Epic, with the following changes: 

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General Changes(All of Epic)

• New 2k Sized Map by Ausimus

  • The current 4k map size is a bit large so we would like to go back to a 2k size map.

  • This map will be a temporary map and will be unlikely to be around past the end of this year we have future plans that could easily force Elevation to change again in the future.

  • Resetting of the map would also come with no new map given for the first month or two, allowing for exploration and unexpected confrontation.

• Deeds disbanding on a set number of chain drains(Elevation Only)

  • A common complaint is deeds can be near impossible to disband even after its clear the owner has not been defending it in days.

  • Our current plan is to require 5 drains in a row to disband a deed.

• Meditation effects will cap out at 9, effect above 9 will no longer work on epic.

  • Scaling SOTG is disabled meaning no sotg at all.

  • Hate path creature damage effect will be changed to something non damage boosting yet to be determined.

  • Insanity Clean wound will be reworked to heal more wound types.

  • Balancing all the effects over level 9 are just not viable in the time we have, we propose disabling meditation skills/passives over level 9. These will be revisited in the future when there is more time to spend on Meditation as a whole.

• Stone Skin, True Strike, and Continuum will have their cooldowns drastically increased to 1 hour.

  • Currently these spells are way to powerful and can be cast almost endlessly with enough karma. We are looking at ways in the future to bring the cooldowns back to normal with less overpowered mechanics but unlikely in time for launch.

• Physical Damage Resistance/Penalty will be replaced by Fall Damage.

  • Stacking DR can get a bit crazy, the idea behind this is to change the physical damage valrei trait and replacing it with fall damage similar to the water damage one.

• Rare vehicles will no longer increase the speed of an under crewed boat it will now increase its cargo.

  • This perk has been long known to be one of the best rare item bonuses in the game for pvp, we would like to remove the passenger bonus and instead allow rare+ boats to have increased cargo areas instead.

  • 30% increased cargo space per rarity level

• Combat skill Soft Caps

  • To help balance out the top tier accounts vs people just joining we would like offer a sort of soft cap on some combat related skills including body stats.  This would not make leveling them any slower but would reduce your effectiveness per level in that skill above a set level for each.

  • Your total carry weight(for example) and other less combat oriented areas will still receive full benefit from levels.

• Speed up horse breeding

  • Currently losing too many horses in a short period can mean sitting back for weeks to restock. The current plan is to speed up gestation to roughly 2 days until birth but leave growth periods the same.

• Remove Karma Recall/Recall Home/Farwalker Teleports

  • It’s no fun to be tracking someone down from a sticky situation they got into and for them to just vanish from being cornered back to a safe deed with everything they own.  

 

 

What we are looking at in addition to this is the possibility of a reset to Elevation. 

 

At this point we'd like to hear from you in regards to whether you want this to happen. We have opened this as a forum poll for you all to vote on a reset for Elevation with the following details:

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Map Reset Specific Changes (Elevation Only)

• Reduce the max slope you can dig to something under 300 while keeping the skill you need to dig it the same.

  • This will make creating massive dirt walls a bit harder and allow more people to help build deeds instead of requiring 99+ digging accounts to finish walls.

• Reduce the max rock you can surface mine and place mine doors on while keeping the skill required the same.

  • Rock pits are an issue as they add onto dirt walls, though with mine door restrictions below might not be needed feed back on this appreciated.

• Must have 3 spaces between each individual mine door.

  • We all know of the current mine door meta, we would like to end that with this new map and put some hard caps on the amount of tiles between minedoors.

  • We know this is not the ideal perfect solution but with the time we have this is what we can offer to mix up the mine meta till better solutions can be developed later.

• Hell Horses not being usable anymore.

  • Remove riding and hitching of hell horses on elevation.

 

 

Fresh Item Elevation

After reading through the feedback we all worked to see what the technical details would be to make something like this possible. Below are what we believe would be viable for the scope of this reset.

• We are still exploring the final details of how to execute some parts of this so details subject to change

• Will only be in effect for the first few months, no set date likely when people feel they are ready fo

• Anyone who does not move off elevation on their own will be forcefully moved to their kingdoms home server starter village during reset downtime.

• Server border travel between any epic server will be disabled.

• Mail between any epic servers will be disabled

  • Any mail you have waiting for you on elevation will be sent to the home server with you

• Only way to get to elevation will be from starter deeds teleports to it, will require you to be 100% naked and carrying no items to cross.

  • This will mean no home server raids for the first few months everyone will basically be stuck on elevation, there is no way around this I can think of.

  • You would also not be able to move items from 1 home server to the other during this period.

• Any ideas about ways you might think to smuggle items would be appreciated before they can ruin the reset.

• No Traders on New Elevation 

 

Now, the usual caveat applies. This is not a 50% pass non binding, and we have chosen a forum vote as we are able to see who votes and discount alts as well as other factors, but your voice is important and we would like to see how you all feel. 

 

For discussion of the aspects please refer to the feature feedback thread here:

 

Voting will run until Tuesday, 11th of June, so get cracking! 

 

Retrograde & the Wurm team