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Alpha Two Realms are now unlocked for Phase II testing!
For our initial launch, testing will begin on Friday, December 20, 2024, at 10 AM Pacific and continue uninterrupted until Monday, January 6, 2025, at 10 AM Pacific. After January 6th, we’ll transition to a schedule of five-day-per-week access for the remainder of Phase II.
You can download the game launcher here and we encourage you to join us on our for the most up to date testing news.
Alpha Two Realms are now unlocked for Phase II testing!
For our initial launch, testing will begin on Friday, December 20, 2024, at 10 AM Pacific and continue uninterrupted until Monday, January 6, 2025, at 10 AM Pacific. After January 6th, we’ll transition to a schedule of five-day-per-week access for the remainder of Phase II.
You can download the game launcher here and we encourage you to join us on our for the most up to date testing news.
New/Solo player questions.
Wrennardx
Member
I was curious about how AoC was going to handle so solo/low level situations.
1.) Caravans: How do you plan on getting lower level players involved in the Caravan system? Isn't there a foreseeable problem with max level players looking to swoop down on lower level caravans and just blowing them up?
2.) World Bosses: Is it going to be possible for a newer/solo player to be roaming around and see a world boss fight in progress then jump in and try to contribute or does the "most DPS" requirement render their contribution null?
3.) Large Guilds: Are there any plans to limit the amount of influence that these 300 person guilds can have around the world? I.e. Limiting the amount of "Mayor" positions they can fill?
Just ran into this project a few days ago, super excited. Best of luck to you and thanks!
1.) Caravans: How do you plan on getting lower level players involved in the Caravan system? Isn't there a foreseeable problem with max level players looking to swoop down on lower level caravans and just blowing them up?
2.) World Bosses: Is it going to be possible for a newer/solo player to be roaming around and see a world boss fight in progress then jump in and try to contribute or does the "most DPS" requirement render their contribution null?
3.) Large Guilds: Are there any plans to limit the amount of influence that these 300 person guilds can have around the world? I.e. Limiting the amount of "Mayor" positions they can fill?
Just ran into this project a few days ago, super excited. Best of luck to you and thanks!
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2) We only know about the dps/tag loot rule for dungeon bosses. In order to gain loot from a dungeon boss, you have to either, tag and do 40% dmg, or not tag and do 60% dmg. I don't think this rule will be used for world bosses. So again, we have to wait and see.
3) A server is going to have around 50k players. So its highly unlikely that a single guild will be able to own multiple castles.
1.) Agreed, that's why i was asking the questions
2.) I'll be interested to see what the developers say in the future.
3.) Accoridng to their site and the wiki as well, the server population is going to be 8-10k. Meaning an Alliance of 3 maxed out guilds could hold as much as 10% of the population, I think that's something to be concerned about.
Thanks.
8~10k is the number or concurrent players, 50k is the total number of created characters servers are likely to have.
Can you tell me where you're getting that number of 50k? I looked all through he wiki and tried to find any other info in interviews and the like but came up empty.
It's under the "Server Population" section of the wiki:
Server Population
Population limits will be enforced on each server.[1]
Around 8-10k concurrent users per server is projected.[2][3][4] This represents around 50,000 registered accounts per server.[5]
The developers intend to carefully manage server populations to avoid the need to merge servers.[6] There may be queues to get into high population servers, but the aim is to avoid excessively long queues.[5]
Part of the equation of essentially watching to make sure that we don't over populate the server selection, but at the same time making sure that there's not a queue system in place that's so long it's detrimental to the concurrency of the player's will to play so to speak. It's a tough balancing act.[5] – Steven Sharif
https://ashesofcreation.wiki/Server_population
I'm going to go ahead and close this thread out now, but please don't hesitate to reach back out if there's anything further we can assist you with in the meantime!