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Raids
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Group sizes
Ashes of Creation is designed for solo players as well as large and small groups.[2][3][4]
- The idea behind an 8-person group is to allow us to really amplify party roles, and to create a need for each of the archetypes in every party.[5]
- Raids will have 40 man groups.[6]
- Content will be tailored for 40, 16 and 8 person group sizes.[7]
- Arenas will have 1 man, 3 man, 5 man and possibly 20 man Free-For-All (Deathmatch) group sizes.[8]
- Castle sieges are expected to have at minimum 250x250 players to be on a single battlefield, with the possibility of increasing this to 500x500 over time.[10][11][12][13]
- The minimum goal is 500 players on a single battlefield. I think we will be able to hit 500vs500 but we shall see.[13] – Steven Sharif
Zergs
Zergs are empowered by fast-travel. Meaningful travel times are intended to prevent zerg play from being so much of an influence.[16]
Encounters are designed to have meaning in terms of how boss skills and abilities relate to group compositions, tactics and strategies. Zerging is not experiencing content.[17] There are different ways to make a fight more difficult for larger sized groups without relying solely on stat buffs or making the boss a "damage sponge".[18]
- Raid and dungeon bosses have specific mechanics and abilities that players need to learn and react to.[18] Zergs that are not aware of these mechanics or react to them appropriately will be wiped.[17]
- There may be environmental hazards and AoE effects that cause more damage based on the number of players present.[18]
- There is a give-and-take for guilds that want to see a larger number of members as opposed to a more focused group that may be a part of an alliance.[19]
We're very cognizant of the fact that we don't want to see zerging be a mechanic that's utilized by guilds to accomplish content or just to steamroll over sieges... There are specific mechanics that we are working on that will be seen through the testing phases that relate to a degree of understanding of certain systems that can't just be overrun with numbers.[19] – Steven Sharif
Mechanics that encourage political intrigue will play a role in destabilizing zergs.[20]
The best way that I found in games I played previously to take down a zerg is to cause drama from within... It's that conflict inside of the politicking that happens in that big organization. If we provide opportunities for division to occur then it also provides stability to keep a server healthy away from that zerg mentality also... If we approach the castle siege and we've destroyed the walls and we're in the throne room and we're about to cast on the penultimate thing and I at this time am just so excited from what's happening that I'm like "screw it I'm gonna go for it". It's gonna be mine. I'm gonna take the taxes for the next month. I'm gonna take all the gear from the castle. I'm gonna take everything... We want that political intrigue to be present in the game.[20] – Steven Sharif
Objective-based game play helps to balance the zerg mentality.[21]
I always feel that if you balance based on groups that in your balance focus is to incorporate features that play well from a player versus player perspective as well as a player versus environment perspective: Having support classes, having DPS and tanks that can obstruct movement and/or create bottlenecks on the field and stuff like that. I think a well-rounded raid it will perform better against a non well-rounded raid, however then you incorporate the second aspect of numbers; and that's where again mobility, organization, leadership tactics. Having objectives in gameplay that make those important helps to balance the zerg mentality that a lot of guilds can tend to have.[21] – Steven Sharif
Instancing doesn't play a major role in limiting zergs, due to 80% of content in Ashes of Creation being open-world.[22]
- There may be instanced locations within castle and node sieges where specific groups can participate in certain objective-based waypoints.[22]
Zerging is always a problem in a lot of these MMORPGs where you really can't control the number of participants in certain open-world systems; and in that sense instancing is a great tool that designers can sometimes use to curate a particular number of participants that you want. But the predominant amount of content within Ashes of Creation, over 80% of which is is open-world content, so instancing is very limited.[22] – Steven Sharif
Leader boards
Players will be able to opt-in to track certain achievements on leaderboards, such as.[23]
- Dungeons completed.[23][24]
- Raids completed.[23][24]
- PvP kills.[23]
- Caravans raided.[23]
- Gathering activity.[23]
Leaderboards may be seasonal.[24]
- We have many dreams that we want to do with game-to-web and game-to-mobile in regards to showing stats and being making things shareable for you. We know how social media works; how sharing content with friends works. But those things will come in due time.[23] – Margaret Krohn
See also
References
- ↑ Video, February 29, 2024 (33:57).
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Livestream, September 30, 2022 (2:40).
- ↑ Livestream, November 30, 2020 (1:20:25).
- ↑
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Group dynamics blog.
- ↑ Livestream, May 9, 2017 (34:38).
- ↑ February 8, 2019 - Questions and Answers.
- ↑
- ↑ Livestream, May 26, 2017 (48:12).
- ↑ Livestream, September 24, 2021 (52:48).
- ↑ Interview, July 8, 2021 (57:19).
- ↑ Interview, July 19, 2020 (44:28).
- ↑ 13.0 13.1
- ↑
- ↑ Blog: 10 facts about castle sieges in the MMORPG.
- ↑ Livestream, May 5, 2017 (23:26).
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 Livestream, May 19, 2017 (25:18).
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 Livestream, November 30, 2020 (1:16:09).
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 Livestream, May 22, 2017 (57:37).
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 Interview, May 11, 2018 (44:20).
- ↑ 21.0 21.1 Interview, August 8, 2018 (11:52).
- ↑ 22.0 22.1 22.2 Livestream, January 28, 2022 (17:50).
- ↑ 23.0 23.1 23.2 23.3 23.4 23.5 23.6 Livestream, May 31, 2023 (2:21).
- ↑ 24.0 24.1 24.2 Livestream, July 18, 2017 (58:50).
- ↑ Livestream, May 15, 2017 (44:10).