PvP Cluster to Wipe on retail release.
The PvP cluster will wipe on retail release, and Scorched Earth and TheCentre will be removed from the cluster. I found having these additional servers spread out the player base too much there wasnt to much interaction, I have the ability to add more maps when player demand requires it.
Additionally to the wipe the following changes will also happen:
- From the wipe date and for 3 weeks, player XP will be 8x, after those 3 weeks it will be reduced to 4x, this does not include Dino taming speeds.
- I will be reimplementing AntiRaid on the weekdays, I found the smaller bases are usually cleaned out without getting a chance to recover, so there will be NO structure damage on the weekdays to allow people to build up before the weekend.
- Raid times will be from 5am Sat until 11pm Sunday, this is to stop people from waiting until midnight and then going ham on the bases while everyone is offline ... this is to encourage more PvP and less raiding as due to the server rates... who really needs to raid bases?
During the weekend structures will be protected 2x, meaning it will take 2x more resources to cause damage, so if someone wants in, they will get in if determined enough. - ORP2 mod will be removed, although good in concept, it had too many bugs causing some dinos to have excessive HP or melee.. or starve, which made it unfair for the other tribes, the 2x structure resistance and weekday protection should provide enough time for bases to recover.
- Protected Passives mod will be installed to protect peoples dinos when set to passive, as there is no need to kill someones dinos unless its a threat to you.
This mod cleans out the dinos inventory when set to passive so players cannot store items on their dinos while being protected, and cannot be used to drain turrets. - Due to high demand, damage numbers will be returned to the server.
- Dinos limit will be increased from 200 to 500 per tribe
- Tribe limits will remain at 6, but alliances will be restricted to 4... so choose wisely.
- We wont be adding the Classic Flyers mod as it unbalances the gameplay.
- We will be keeping the current mods: Egg N Poop Collector / Incubator, Structures Plus (S+), Meat Spoiler, Resource Stacks, Reusable Plus
- There was a recent update where Platform Saddles used up 19 tame slots, this will be adjusted to 5 tame slots per platform saddle.
- Reusable Plus Mod: Due to abuse of the mechanic, Flare and Spear will be removed.