Capturing Zones

Zones will now be capture by a ticket system we call Provisions rather than simply controlling a number of battlefield objectives or capturing the enemy keep. When the enemy faction’s Provisions reaches 0, your faction will capture the zone. The following is all placeholder to showcase how this would work.

• Each faction starts the zone with 5000 Provisions.
• Provisions cannot be restored naturally, only removed. There is an exception listed in the Campaign section of this document.
• Every time you kill an enemy and they respawn, the enemy faction loses 2 Provisions. If they get resurrected, this does not apply.
• Taking the enemy keep will remove 2,000 Provisions.
• Owning more sectors than the other faction will reduce their Provisions based on the difference in the amount owned. This effect ticks every 5 minutes.

Difference = Points Lost

End Placeholder Overall, this means that zones will ALWAYS be captured even in the case of deadlocked fighting where few sectors are exchanging sides. Taking an enemy keep is still a massive boon to taking the zone, but it is not the only way to win. Controlling significantly more sectors than the enemy can quickly overcome Provisions disadvantages from kills or keep loss.

Campaign

There are different types of zones.

• Campaign Zones are the TIER four zones. These zones progress the campaign when captured moving to the next zone of that pairing. They change the available scenarios. And they determine the overall winning and losing faction.
• Provision Zones are opened up as overflow zones whenever there is too much population. These zones still use the Provision system except whenever you remove enemy Provisions, your faction restores twice that amount in the current campaign zone. These zones are locked whenever one side reaches 0, but there is no zone lock bonus. All contribution here is applied to active Campaign zone for its lock bonus.
• Low Population Zones are only opened up if the current population on either faction in RvR is too small to warrant opening a Campaign Zone. These zones use the Provision system but with a lower starting value. These zones will not have keeps, keep claiming, or siege weapons. These zones do have a zone lock bonus, and all contribution in them is still applied to the campaign week even if locking these zones does not advance the campaign.

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The Badlands

• Ekrund and Mount Bloodhorn will serve as our Tier Tutorial zone. The RvR lake will have a mini-sector system that uses Provisions. There will be no keeps, keep claiming, or siege weapons. After the zone locks, everyone in the lake will be murdered after 5 minutes, and the lake will reset. The PvE areas will always be active in these zones and function as the first part of the leveling quests.

• Marshes of Madness will always have its PvE area active and this will function as the second/final part of leveling quests. The RvR lake in this zone will be used for a group-based PvPvE leveling area. There are quests that get credit from killing elite NPC enemies and/or players within the RvR lake. This will be the fastest way to level using PvE due to the PvP risk and the fact that it will require a group to kill the NPCs.

Only one pairing of Campaign Zones is open at one time (Such as Dwarf vs Greenskins). Victory in a campaign zone will push to the next zone in that pairing. If you lock the zone at the enemy’s gate, then that pairing will be locked for a minimum of 24 hours. A pairing will only allow for 4 zone locks before moving on to the next pairing. That way if there is a tug of WAR, players still get fresh zones to fight in. There is a campaign week that resets on server patch/maintenance days. Campaign rewards are issued to players at the end of this week for their overall contributions for each zone this week.

Campaigns are ALWAYS reset to neutral whenever this happens, and the faction with the most zones is the winner of that week. Campaigns can also be reset in the middle of the week whenever all 3 pairings are locked and the winner for that week determined then. Any fighting done after that point still grants contribution to weekly reward, but does not affect the outcome of the winner for that week. We also may use Provision Zones and Low Pop Zones as Campaign Zones in such cases Currently this RvR document does not use/cover forts or cities and that will be a down the road kind of thing.

Keeps

Keeps will use a 5 flag system with each flag having additional purposes. There will be no keep lords or NPCs unless spawned by Siege Weapon system.

• All keeps have 100 keep health.
• A keep that reaches 0 keep health will be permanently destroyed.
• Keep flags are proximity based and tick over to the side who has the most players in the area. These do NOT tick if the enemy faction has at least 12 players.
• All flags for the enemy faction deal 1 damage to keep health every 20 seconds when owned.
• If the attacker has all 5 keep flags, it would take 6.66 minutes to reduce the keep health to 0, assuming the keep health was at 100 when they took the 5th flag.
• A keep that has the outer walls, courtyard, and staging area owned by the attacker will eventually fall (~33 minutes). So the defenders cannot infinitely turtle inside the inner keep.
• If the attacker doesn’t own the staging area (adjacent sector), they cannot even begin the attack.
• If an attack has already begun, and the defenders take the staging area, the attacker can still take keep flags as long as they already owned at least 1. However, owning all 4 keep flags but the defenders have the staging area will also take ~33 minutes to capture.
• As long as the keep health > 0, the defender can always take the staging area, even if they own no other adjacent sectors. This is because the keep counts as an adjacent sector, and it is still considered owned until destroyed.

The following are the descriptions of the 5 flags for each keep and what their respective benefits are. All keeps will only have 1 adjacent sector. The enemy faction must own this sector in order to siege the keep. This sector serves as one of the keep flags. Defender restores 3 keep health every 20 second when owned, essentially significantly slowing the enemy from taking the keep if they don’t own the staging area.