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Do you agree with the four proposals detailed in this first post? / Approuvez-vous les quatre propositions présentées dans ce premier post ?

I agree with proposal 1. / J'approuve la proposition 1.

21 (1)

9.2%

I disagree with proposal 1. / Je désapprouve la proposition 1.

29 (4)

12.7%

I agree with proposal 2. / J'approuve la proposition 2.

50 (5)

21.8%

I disagree with proposal 2. / Je désapprouve la proposition 2.

8 (1)

3.5%

I agree with proposal 3. / J'approuve la proposition 3.

49 (6)

21.4%

I disagree with proposal 3. / Je désapprouve la proposition 3.

3.5%

I agree with proposal 4. / J'approuve la proposition 4.

53 (5)

23.1%

I disagree with proposal 4. / Je désapprouve la proposition 4.

3.1%

Other

1.7%

Abstain

Poll is closed

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OP refactoring presentation - 2020-08-31

See https://cloud.ryzom.com/s/pCP3JJgBrrMCgip

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Ryzom Forge meeting - 2020-08-31

Tamarea & Namcha (RT) – 21:26 UTC

The aim of this project is to revitalize outpost battles by restoring interest in all POs, by having them change owners regularly and by diversifying the types of combat. It will also reduce the gameplay advantage of multi-talts.
Project description note :
Some points to emphasize here again:
• All outposts, regardless of their level (which will remain unchanged), will produce either Q150, Q200 or Q250 materials.
• No guild will no longer be allowed to keep an outpost for the sole purpose of enjoyment (if any) of its possession.
• To remember: outposts will change hands much more often and regularly than in the past!

Q : "Change owners regularly"... Does this mean that we will be forced to abandon our "home" even if those who covet it are defeated in each of their attacks? With no chance for us to defend it ?
R : Yes this can happen; in this case the outpost will be taken by NPCs. But it will have begun to produce other materials anyway.

Q : In the case of GvG OP battles, is there anything scheduled to prevent the temporary recruitment in the conflicting guilds of members of their allied guilds?
R : Two solutions to address this issue are currently being studied to evaluate their respective side effects:
1 • Authorize temporary recruitment by capping the number of combatants
2 • Make the right to fight subject to a minimum seniority in the guild.
In any case a GvG battle (an option which, incidentally, will not be available immediately) must not be identical to an FvF battle.

Q : How will the type of OP battle to be fought be decided?
R : By clicking on the OP when launching the attack. But the number of GvG attacks per guild will be capped.

Q : Won't the new system only favor the big guilds by allowing them to attack in GvG the small ones that have become incapable of benefiting from the help of their allies?
R : It is true that one of the objectives of the refactoring is to prevent single-member guilds from holding OPs. But, as far as small guilds are concerned, the extent of the damage will also depend on the capping of the number of GvG battles and they will still have the opportunity to conquer OPs through GvE, knowing that OPs thus conquered will not be able to change owner again during the following two weeks.

Q : "GvE: Guild vs NPCs to win the OPs taken by NPCs"… What kind of NPCs will these be?
R : Homins for sure, but the possibility of also having kitins was evoked (and submitted to the developers for consideration).

Q : An OP may be held for its faction by a small guild that has received it as a reward for its help and then takes over the work of extracting and redistributing its materials. If the OP is taken through "easy" GvG by a large adverse guild, the faction will be the one that suffers. Shouldn't the faction, therefore, be allowed to help defend it?
R : If solution 1 above is chosen, the faction will be able to help. If not, it may indeed be necessary to review the organization of the factions.

Q : As all OPs will produce materials from Q150 to Q250, an OP in Fount, for example, will be able to produce exactly the same materials as one in Flaming Forest?
R : Each OP, regardless of its level, will indeed be able to produce materials of all three qualities, but the materials production rate of OP of a given level will be higher than that of OP of lower level.

Q : How will materials and owners rotations be done? At fixed or random intervals? All together or staggered over time?
R : All together (server reboot), at an interval of two and a half to three months IRL, but the exact date will be random. Many mechanisms remain to be specified, however, regarding rotations: they will be detailed to you in a future meeting.

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Ryzom Forge meeting - 2021-04-12

Ulukyn (RT) – 20:27 UTC

We've strated the work on the outpost battles refactoring project.
As some may have noticed, four outposts have popped in the Nexus, of four different "levels" (100, 150, 200 and 250).
Their names suggest that they are not "like the others" and will not function in the same way at all. In fact, their ways of working will evolve following the avancement of the refactoring project.
At first, their conquest will be the object of GvE battles (a single guild fighting the NPCs defending the outpost), none of them will be owned by a guild (nor will they host any drill). That in order to test the impact of the projected shortening of the battle duration (from two hours to one) in the best conditions.

Q: During this test period, will the battles still include two phases?
A: No, because these are test outposts. If conquered after one hour of battle, an outpost will be returned immediately to its owners: the defending NPCs (out-of-faction marauders). But, if any battle can be a rewarding challenge, it costs equipment, ammunition, and time for those who fight it. So, the guilds that test will be rewarded for their commitment (to a degree yet to be determined).
We're planning for a guild to launch one attack per week, so hopefully four tests per week (one for each of the outposts) will allow everyone to participate.

Q: Will fighters be tagged and PvP allowed during these test battles?
A: These are outpost battles, so attackers will be OP tagged, yes. But they are also GvE battles in which, in order to not skew the tests, only the attacking guild's PCs will participate, with no allied or enemy PCs, so no PvP fight will be available.

Q: Will the level of NPC defenders be the same for all four outposts?
A: No. As with outposts in other regions, the level of the outpost is determined by the quality of the materials it can produce. The "level" 100 outpost in the Nexus will, as elsewhere, be easier to "conquer" than the level 250 outpost, so a guild will be able to judge its progress in the fight exercise by the level of the outpost it manages to conquer or the threshold it manages to make it reach.

Q: Will the level of each outpost be unchanging?
A: Yes, and once the project is finalized, i.e. once the redesign of the outposts is effective throughout Atys (the tests at the Nexus are indeed just the first ones of a long series), only the nature of the materials produced by any outpost will change between battles, not their quality.

Q: Are there any plans to establish new outposts, for example in the Prime Roots?
A: No. For now, our priority is the completion of the current project: we don't want to slow it down by spreading our efforts.

Q: Given the "PvP area" status of the Nexus, what will prevent anyone from attacking the guild busy testing an outpost battle?
A: Outpost PvP prevents guild PvP by construction, plain and simple.

Q: Does this mean you can quietly drill or hunt for an hour in the Nexus as long as your guild is engaged in an outpost test attack?
A: Basically yes. Relevant comment.

Q (off-topic): When will range weapons be finalized, like 1H weapons were?
A: Since our goal is to finish as many of the current projects as possible in order to have a constant rhythm and an increasingly efficient team, we had to postpone the launch of some others. Thus, the final development of the shooting weapons is not abandoned, far from it. It is just put on hold.
However, if you wish to participate in the working group that is nonetheless reflecting on the subject, you can contact Tamarea privately.

Q (off-topic): Are there any plans to do anything to boost non-outpost PvP to make it more attractive? If not, wouldn't it be possible to have a meeting to discuss this?
A: We'd like to be able to address all the topics, issues and difficulties that players may encounter. But we can't answer all the requests right now, it would be counterproductive.

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Patch - 17-05-2021

Les quatre avant-postes récemment établis dans le Nexus sont activés (ouverts aux attaques homines). Les caractéristiques des batailles à mener pour leur conquête non seulement diffèrent sensiblement de celles concernant les avant-postes "historiques", mais évolueront au fur et à mesure de l'avancement du projet de refonte. Ci-dessous celles adoptées pour la première phase de tests :

Mode : Guilde contre PNJ (GvE), sachant que seule la guilde ayant déclaré la guerre pourra participer à la bataille (aucun PJ allié ou ennemi sur le champ de bataille).
Durée : 55 minutes (11 rounds de 5 minutes).
Déclaration : une seule autorisée par semaine, par guilde et par avant-poste (donc toute guilde peut livrer, au mieux, quatre batailles par semaine, une sur chacun des quatre avant-postes).
Horaire : une nouvelle bataille peut commencer au début de chaque heure pour chacun des avant-postes. Une guilde désirant attaquer doit faire sa déclaration dans les 5 minutes qui précèdent l'heure de début. Par exemple, une guilde désirant être la guilde attaquante pour la bataille de 21h00 doit faire sa déclaration de guerre entre 20 h 55 et 21 h. Si plusieurs guildes désirent s'inscrire, seule la première sera retenue, les autres devront refaire une tentative pour une prochaine bataille.
Conditions de victoire : dépassement par la guilde attaquante du seuil fixé pour elle (10 au maximum) à l'avant-poste attaqué.
Issue : une bataille gagnée ne donne pas à la guilde victorieuse la propriété de l'avant-poste concerné (ce dernier est restitué dans l'heure aux PNJ l'ayant défendu) mais toute bataille menée se clôt sur l'octroi d'une récompense.
Récompense : sa nature et son importance sont fixées en fonction du seuil de l'avant-poste attaqué et affichées dès la déclaration de guerre. Elle est automatiquement attribuée à la guilde testeuse à l'issue de la bataille.
Les seuils fixés pour une guilde donnée à l'avant-poste qui sera la cible de sa prochaine bataille-test ainsi que les récompenses à en espérer évolueront comme suit :
Le premier seuil pour les quatre avant-postes est fixé à 3.
Plus le seuil est élevé, plus haute est la récompense… et la réciproque est vraie.
Après une défaite (seuil de l'avant poste non dépassé durant la bataille), le seuil de l'avant-poste qui sera proposé à la guilde pour sa bataille suivante est le même que celui fixé au début de la bataille perdue.
Après une victoire, le seuil de l'avant-poste qui sera proposé à la guilde testeuse pour la bataille suivante est celui fixé au début de la bataille victorieuse augmenté d'une unité. Mais si ce nouveau seuil est jugé trop difficile à dépasser par la guilde, celle-ci peut choisir de fixer à l'avant-poste un seuil plus bas pour la bataille à suivre.
Exemple:
Une guilde attaque pour la première fois l'avant-poste 250 du Nexus (dont le seuil est donc fixé pour elle à 3) et remporte la victoire. Dès lors, elle peut choisir, pour sa bataille-test suivante, d'attaquer le même avant-poste affecté du seuil 3 ou du seuil 4. Dans le premier cas, même si la bataille en question est victorieuse, le seuil qui lui sera proposé pour une troisième bataille vaudra 3. Dans le second cas, ce dernier seuil vaudra 5 (si elle est victorieuse) ou 4 (si elle est défaite).

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Ryzom Forge meeting - 2021-06-24

Can two guilds that don't have enough people in each of them join together into one for the time of an outpost test battle in Nexus?
Yes... For now, because it will not be possible later on, since these test battles are actually part of the development of the future outpost system.
I find the new features tested on the Nexus outposts very refreshing, but is reducing the time of outpost battles still the objective of the refactoring?
Yes. The only thing that remains to be determined is the strength of the defending NPCs, as the number of rounds will be reduced as a result.
In the last few months on Atys, we have seen several battles that go well beyond 10 rounds. Hence my question: by reducing the time of outpost battles, don't we risk impoverishing the strategies?
This debate has already taken place. Out of respect for the group that discussed and argued at length and finally reached an agreement, we will not go back on the decisions made. But there are still many points to be refined and your opinions, feedbacks and suggestions are still very welcome.

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