Template:Castle sieges
Castle Sieges are intended to be massive events with hundreds of people involved in a single Siege. One of the reasons that Ashes of Creation Apocalypse exists is so we can address the challenges in ramping up the number of bodies that we can handle simultaneously. With our latest test hitting over 200 simultaneous players, we’re ready to push that number even further. Our goal is to have the largest organized PVP battles of any MMORPG.[2]
Guilds participate in Castle sieges in an effort to capture and occupy one of the five guild castles in Ashes of Creation.[3]
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- Sieges occur once a month within a server prime-time window.[3][4][5]
- The minimum goal is for 250x250 players to be on a single battlefield. It is hoped that this can be increased to 500x500 over time.[6]
- Castle sieges (in the final release) may or may not be instanced.[7]
- There may be instanced locations within castle and node sieges where specific groups can participate in certain objective-based waypoints.[8]
- Alpha-1 castle sieges occurred in an open-world zone that was accessible via a NPC teleporter.[9][10][7][11]
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Each week leading up to the siege week... is a week that's dedicated to one of the three castle dedicated nodes. So around the castle there are three nodes. They represent week, one, two, and three; and then the fourth week is the siege against the castle. Those can only be elevated up to stage three. We've discussed this in the past and there's definitely information out there on the community ran wiki.[12] – Steven Sharif
A guild that captures a castle will own that castle for a month before it is sieged again.[12][13]
- In the first three weeks that a guild occupies a castle they will need to level up each of their castle nodes to Village stage through questing.[12][13]
- The fourth week is declaration week, where other guilds have the opportunity to lay down their declaration flag or to sign up as a defender of the castle.[12][13]
- Depending on how well the guild defends their castle nodes results in better defenses for the castle.[13][14]
- Different siege weaponry will grant the attackers the ability to destroy walls, doors and sections of the castle in order to gain access to the inner keep area.[15]
- When castles change hands (following a siege), some taxes stay with the castle and some stay with the guild.[16]
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There will be benefits to attracting people... even if they're not in your guild or alliance – kind of a feudal like system, where you can attract other players who are just independent of this whole politic. They will have things to do there - benefits to receive - and there will be a reciprocal relationship between who you can attract, what they do for you; and how that benefits you and them.[13] – Steven Sharif
- ↑ Video, May 28, 2021 (25:44).
- ↑ Blog: 10 facts about castle sieges in the MMORPG.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1
- ↑ Interview, July 29, 2020 (31:05).
- ↑ Interview, July 18, 2020 (13:13).
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- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Podcast, April 11, 2021 (49:40).
- ↑ Livestream, January 28, 2022 (17:50).
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- ↑ Livestream, April 30, 2021 (41:18).
- ↑ Blog: Creative Director's Letter, April 14 2021
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 Livestream, August 28, 2020 (1:43:03).
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 13.4 13.5 Podcast, April 23, 2018 (21:55).
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Livestream, August 23, 2017 (23:00).
- ↑ Podcast, April 23, 2018 (15:14).
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