PvP announcement

Hello!

This was to facilitate NW local being moved to Mondays and Tuesdays (since a timeslot for Monday existed in the TW list still). It should avoid smashing on any other events (new TW times) since local NW has vacated the Friday slot entirely.

There is still a chance that NW could overlap with RW, so if this causes enough problems we can take a look again at the NW times to see where it can be moved. But for now local NW will live on Mondays and Tuesdays while Cross server will live on Sunday.

I really hope CN doesn't add any more cross server events, because scheduling them all out gets hectic :P

@npc15 I had to dig a bit in my emails for this, but at end of season we'll pull for scores for both 3v3 and 6v6. It could be likely that we'll see players on the same team sharing the same score across the board based on what CN provided me of what the datapull looks like.

That being said, this might end up being beneficial for players, since those who enter the top scoring will receive invites to cross server TNF and widens the pool. Pulling from the 1st place faction for DC + the top players in Arigora (and seeing some potential overlap) should hopefully bring in a diverse group. That being said, since it could very well exceed the max cap allowed in cross server TNF, I might have to run "flights", or two instances of TNF.

I am curious though to how CN addressed "ties" in their rankings, so I should definitely ask them about that first! And I can't tell from the initial datapull if it'll pull the personal score and overwrite the squad score if it's higher in the data or not.

kalystconquerer#0876 wrote: »

Hello!

This was to facilitate NW local being moved to Mondays and Tuesdays (since a timeslot for Monday existed in the TW list still). It should avoid smashing on any other events (new TW times) since local NW has vacated the Friday slot entirely.

There is still a chance that NW could overlap with RW, so if this causes enough problems we can take a look again at the NW times to see where it can be moved. But for now local NW will live on Mondays and Tuesdays while Cross server will live on Sunday.

I really hope CN doesn't add any more cross server events, because scheduling them all out gets hectic :P

hello girl
ok few question i would appreciate if you answer them before the rage start...
1- you guys mentioned that arena will be 12 hours a day but did not mention from what time to what time ?
you know that this will cause alot of QQ due to the fact that if someone work during that time frame they wont be able to do arena anymore.

2- are you really planing on giving COM for the first place in arena ? that will be like a NP sin farming COM every month. so basically you making the rich richer and the strong stronger!!

3- last time me and you argue about the TW season you said you guys find out that 6 months was better for everyone !! why again put it 3 months ? or 4 ? why u lie to your fan my heart is broken now.
4- what about the arena first ever season is it for 3v3 or 6v6 or for both ?


but to be honest thank you for working on pvp more its great to have xnw again but i hope u take the feedback to keep it fun for everyone.

@kalystconquerer#0876 by putting a single whole faction in xtnf that basically guarantees they're gonna gang up on everyone else and get the reward for themselves. And if this is a 1 time event when the seasons end (like it seemed to me) if 1 factions wins svs every time it will basically monopolize xtnf

arigora collosseum - will there be a score reset?
does the top 100 include people that dont reach 2200 score?

@kalystconquerer#0876 Still, even if TW times are local..that still means that on Dawnglory xTW and TW could happen at the same time since xTW on sat is starting at 20:00 EU time. If it's not avoidable then at least this timeslot should have the lowest probability to be chosen.

xNW is finally back...very, very nice

I don't like the additional rewards for the arena simply due to the fact that people will now completely hog together with the most OP people or most beneficial squad setup. Sure..100 rewards means that nearly any average squad can earn something...200 wins in 8 weeks will be tough tho..100 is doable!! Maybe some more people will participate but we'll see.

Yes, a clarification about which specific timeslot the arena will be available would be nice.

kalystconquerer#0876 wrote: »

@npc15 Yes, this was a thought I had, but that's why I'll have to be assigning these flights. I plan on splitting up the faction between these "flights" so it avoids this issue. As was observed in CN's version unfortunately, even if I perfectly scatter people, there will still people who will "gang up" on people or coordinate outside of normal game means. I can't stop people from using Discord/Vent/Skype in these instances and I can't stop people from being friends across faction lines.

@shapoopi 00:00-12:00 cross server time.

So EU is Midnight to Noon
West Coast is 3 AM to 3 PM
East Coast is 6 PM to 6 AM

If these conversions make sense? Unfortunately, one of these times is going to end up being bad and that's due to juggling three different timezones and the cross server logic.

Arigora Season is 9/13 to 12/12 so first place would get a COM and they'd still have to compete against other players for a COM to take back to their homeserver for cross server Thursday Night fights.

I'm trying to sync up the end of Dragon's Conquest and TW season cut offs this time, though I did seem to chop TW off short again, Zzzz. I guess a longer DC season can't hurt *makes a note*

well thanks for replying but dont you think its wrong timing for west cost ? did you mean its 3 pm to 3 am ?

and i think its bad for eu players lol GG eu server will rage so much now

they got bad timing for arena and for XNW now

not hyped about this.

- xnw = very good

- local nw , why 2 and why in the middle of the week? keep all the tw times and make one friday and one sunday. Why change everything around?

- even tho we beg you to not reset arigora points, for reasons explained, you dont care and do it anyways

- add prices to colosseum , which you can distribute also right now. Give it to NP portal sin/db .They will win it each and every time. At least give price for the first of each class. That would be more fair. As someone said before, if you OP they will blow sugar up ur ****, if you not nobody cares about you.
- about the TNF, the ganking up is so easy to solve. This is a design issue. Do this and your problem is solved:
1. Dont allow squads
2. Force everyone into *show simple models only*
3. do not display room numbers or coordinates
4. dont allow any kind of chat , mute everybody

- 12h time for colosseum, people who work or have school wont be able to do it anymore. Participation is already low. I would say maybe 20-25% of the people do it in the first place. Now it will be even lower. What was wrong with 24H? Could you explain? At least change the matching setups, so you don thave to wait for hours to get a single fight.

saxroll wrote: »

Is the arigora times locked or could you perhaps do something like 8pm-8am EU time? That would be 1pm-1am West coast and 4pm-4am east coast. To me it seems like the best timeslot for everybody involved. I love the fact you finally chose NA times over EU times but imo there wasnt a need to make such decision this time.

Moving to 8pm-8am Eu time makes it 2pm-2am east coast and 11am-11pm west cost cause it would move back 4 hours from what it is

This colosseum time limit makes no sense at all. Even if you switch EU from 12noon to midnight, it would take on many days like 2 hours possible time away ( tw,nw, xtw).
Whats the reason for this 12h limit?

aphrodita wrote: »

considering 50% of arigora squads are from dawnglory, this was a pretty odd decision. the prime time for arena was 20:00-24:00 EU time, so good luck finding arena squads now.

why changing a running system in the first place? why removing NW from friday, putting it on some week days instead, when we always had a TW timeslot after friday NW anyway? i dont understand any of the decisons china or your team made, sorry.

I dont understand, it was working the whole time the *into the new day thing* . A match could start at 23.55 and end at 00.05 new day without any issues.

And the problem is not the 24h. The problem is the matchmaking setting. Serveral times, I was standing next to a squad at the npc, with us both in queue. Grp score difference like 50 points. And we wont get matched. Your matchmaking is bugged. Not the time.

Most ppl did fights after Server vs server, and now you can add the time after XNW. But no PWI thinks these are "better" times. Come on man, for real, watch your game.

Ah, good catch! I flipped those - should be 3 PM TO 3 AM, not the other way around.

I'm leaving a time converter open from now on on my desktop *coughs*

@joosefuss I'm not sure I understand what you mean about xNW and about the "thinks these are 'better' times" part. Do you mean xNW times in comparison to local? Or just where xNW is scheduled?

Remember - because we are dealing with 3 time zones, the cross server is locked to EU centric times to avoid players getting stuck. And this means that for events like these (xNW), we have to make sure EU can enter and leave within the same self contained "day".