August 14, 2022 - Auto Grouping & Alpha

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August 14, 2022 - Auto Grouping & Alpha

Future Eden Players,

AUTO GROUPING
Some of the greatest moments in Dark Age of Camelot are shared with your group and realm members. We would really like to make it easier for realm mates to get to know each other and for new bonds of friendship to be made. As part of our continuing commitment to support all play styles, we would like to introduce a new system that will help members of the realm group up easier and get into the action faster!

If you are solo or the group leader, simply type one of the two commands below. Then, every 30 seconds you will automatically group up with other solos or group leaders who have flagged themselves. Keep in mind that the group leader still has all privileges and can invite/remove however they see fit.

/LFxp (Looking For XP)
- Use for any PvE focused content
+/- 3 levels from the group leader or your level

/LFrvr (Looking For RvR)
- Use for any RvR focused content
- Based on BattleGround level ranges: 1-4, 5-9, 10-14, 15-19, 20-24, 25-29, 30-34, 35-39, 40-44, 45-49
- Level 50s will only group other lvl 50s for frontier RvR

We think this will really help the way DAoC feels now that you can easily group up with others and provide a welcoming experience for new players or returning soldiers! Of course you are still welcome to utilize the traditional /lfg chat, play just with friends, or go it alone. This system will be available for the Alpha on August 20th, we are excited for you to try it!

BATTLEGROUND SIEGE CAMPS
We have had a lot of great questions regarding how we will handle progression in the battlegrounds when there is not a large amount of players online or if the BG is simply empty.

To help answer that question, we would like to introduce one our first new game encounters to the game – Battleground Siege Camps!

Each battleground will have one or two small Siege Camps located on the map with an associated Siege Commander. Each Siege Commander will have a quest that accepts trinkets that will drop from various activities in the Battleground itself (such as killing players, killing mobs, etc.). When the Siege Commander has received enough trinkets, an associated realm Siege monster will spawn.

This Siege Monster will lead a charge into the enemy keep and work to attack the door. It is important to note that this siege monster will not engage any players! It will simply ignore enemies and focus on breaking into the keep. Once the door is down, the Siege Monster will then begin to attack the Lord.

However, it is not always about being on the offense and to keep in mind your Siege Camp can also be attacked! If your Siege Camp Captain is defeated, then you will not be able to turn in any more trinkets until the Captain has respawned.

Our goal with this system is to provide fun objectives around the map that relate back to the main objective of taking the Central Keep. We also wanted to give the defending Realm a renewable source of objectives to fight over.

We will keep an eye on balance for this scenario and overall feedback! We are eagerly looking forward to seeing how it plays out in the Alpha.

ALPHA TESTING
We want to be structured and organized with Alpha so as to maximize our Staff’s time as well as your testing time. As the name implies, with Alpha we are wanting to focus more on testing the World Building of Eden, Dungeons, Battlegrounds, core DAoC gameplay mechanics, as well as how the early game feels. For this reason, Alpha will start off being limited to levels 1-24.

Below is our humble request to the community for things to look out for while testing:

- Starting zones, NPCs in towns, items they sell
- Mobs and any possible systemic issues
- Teleporters, horses, boats
- Dungeons & Battlegrounds
- RoG loot drop rate in various areas & overall utility

Basically, click all the things and do all the things!



HOW TO SUBMIT BUGS/FEEDBACK
- Please submit specific bug reports using the #create-ticket channel in our Discord
- Please submit general feedback to the website or our #alpha-feedback channel in Discord

Thank you in advance,
Eden Staff
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