Suggestion Castle Conquest - Township PvP Objectives

[Kainzo]

We like Townships. We always have! Here's the system I want in for Friday.

There are FOUR castles placed around HeavensWatch - They will be nearish Herogates. These castles will have a center point / home chunk that is claimable when a township member stands in them. Claiming is interrupted once another township player of another township comes into the home chunk. When a township claims a castle (can only have one) they get passive bonuses to exp, rewards every minecraft day (similar to Township production) and a bonus amount of township productions while they have it claimed.


TLDR
4 Castles to Capture
Passive Rewards to those Townships
Alerts when your Castle is under attack/claim
Server Announcements stating castles have been captured
Passive EXP Increase
Rewards every MC tick/day (going to the town bank)
Limit 1 castle per Township

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Thoughts?

 

[iiTonyz]

Maybe all 4 castles give different things, so that townships will attempt to claim as many castles as possible rather than defending 1 castle. For example, castle 1 can give a passive experience boost, castle 2 can give rewards every mc day, castle 3 can give a buff as long as the castle is captured, etc.

 

[Rumblestikk]

This sounds like my suggestion from a while back just refined

 

[0xNaomi]

Maybe all 4 castles give different things, so that townships will attempt to claim as many castles as possible rather than defending 1 castle. For example, castle 1 can give a passive experience boost, castle 2 can give rewards every mc day, castle 3 can give a buff as long as the castle is captured, etc.

When a township claims a castle (can only have one)

Granted, variety in them may still be good, to give some sort of choice in what they're going after, but owning them all is explicitly not the point.

 

[drpepper1344]

I honestly think they should have all the same reward, or at least rewards that are very very close in value. If some are obviously more beneficial than others, it might encourage a bunch of pvp around that 1 castle, rather than spreading it over the four. While this will be fun for a while, it would probably ultimately come down to whichever party runs the most healers will keep the castle.[/QUOTE]

 

[Dakinara]

i really like the idea of this. I think all should probably have same reward but open to other ideas. I think once claimed a castle should not be able to be captured again for at least an hour or so, can place them on a rotation as to when they can be captured so one is active at least every hour (maybe every 30 mins).

 

[Kainzo]

Theres 25 different Biome materials, we could split them up by 4's.

Is this what you meant by having an objective, Dakinara?

 

[Dakinara]

Theres 25 different Biome materials, we could split them up by 4's.

Is this what you meant by having an objective, Dakinara?

yeah i think this is a really good idea, only question i have is best timing for how long it should take to cap a location, and how long until it becomes capturable again. Otherwise sounds great.

 

[Jrr_]

i really like the idea of this. I think all should probably have same reward but open to other ideas. I think once claimed a castle should not be able to be captured again for at least an hour or so, can place them on a rotation as to when they can be captured so one is active at least every hour (maybe every 30 mins).

an hour is stupid, they should only be captured 2-3 times a day at MOST

 

[j2gay]

How about a competition to see who can build the best looking town. Or is PVP the only way a town can gain prestige?

 

[Trazil]

How about a competition to see who can build the best looking town. Or is PVP the only way a town can gain prestige?

This isn't about prestige, but more so an actual PVP objective.

 

[Dakinara]

an hour is stupid, they should only be captured 2-3 times a day at MOST

well, there is like no pvp atm so they should be somewhat active IMO. I could see each castle becoming capturable every 4 hours, each alternating so one of the four is capturable each hour, would be a pretty nice balance I think.

 

[Jrr_]

well, there is like no pvp atm so they should be somewhat active IMO. I could see each castle becoming capturable every 4 hours, each alternating so one of the four is capturable each hour, would be a pretty nice balance I think.

and it slowly becomes just another thing because they happen so often, i see what you mean but servers that have conquest/koth's as their vocal point of their server 'HCF' servers, go with 2 a day and that seems to work (also that is with 300 players on at most times)

 

[Jrr_]

How about a competition to see who can build the best looking town. Or is PVP the only way a town can gain prestige?

I've mentioned this before, a town of the month thing

 

[Dakinara]

and it slowly becomes just another thing because they happen so often, i see what you mean but servers that have conquest/koth's as their vocal point of their server 'HCF' servers, go with 2 a day and that seems to work (also that is with 300 players on at most times)

if each castle were capturable twice a day, and the castles became capturable on an alternating schedule, that would make one capturable every 3 hours basically. I guess that would be fine if its what kainzo prefers, the important part is they need to be capturable on an alternating schedule or there will basically be no pvp, people will split up and four big towns will each take a castle with no opposition which would be pretty lame.

 

[Jrr_]

if each castle were capturable twice a day, and the castles became capturable on an alternating schedule, that would make one capturable every 3 hours basically. I guess that would be fine if its what kainzo prefers, the important part is they need to be capturable on an alternating schedule or there will basically be no pvp, people will split up and four big towns will each take a castle with no opposition which would be pretty lame.

sorry I don't mean each castle can be captured twice a day, I mean literally two captures a day

 

[Dakinara]

sorry I don't mean each castle can be captured twice a day, I mean literally two captures a day

eh, im not a fan of that slow given the lack of other things to do on the server atm for people not interested in leveling / legendary classes. This type of game only thrives when a lot of people are online, if people only have incentive to be on twice a day for pvp (or really most likely once a day given time zones), i dont think it will keep player numbers much higher than current. We have a very passive town biome system that doesnt incentivize actively playing much to expand towns, id hate to see the pvp system be that passive as well.

 

[Jrr_]

eh, im not a fan of that slow given the lack of other things to do on the server atm for people not interested in leveling / legendary classes. This type of game only thrives when a lot of people are online, if people only have incentive to be on twice a day for pvp (or really most likely once a day given time zones), i dont think it will keep player numbers much higher than current. We have a very passive town biome system that doesnt incentivize actively playing much to expand towns, id hate to see the pvp system be that passive as well.

As I said, doing conquest points every hour will become extremely excessive and tiring doing it constantly over and over again every day. It will reach a point where no one goes to them or they are farmed by one person.

You have to look at the long term future not just the present on what will help now.

 

[RegularHumanMode]

sorry I don't mean each castle can be captured twice a day, I mean literally two captures a day

I think that this would actually be pretty cool. A rotation between which castles can be captured instead of all at once. Get focused, large PvP battle twice a day. Any more than that would definitely get tiring with our current player base. Plus if a town does manage to get a castle they can keep the benefits for a while.

 

[Kainzo]

I think that this would actually be pretty cool. A rotation between which castles can be captured instead of all at once. Get focused, large PvP battle twice a day. Any more than that would definitely get tiring with our current player base. Plus if a town does manage to get a castle they can keep the benefits for a while.

sorry I don't mean each castle can be captured twice a day, I mean literally two captures a day

eh, im not a fan of that slow given the lack of other things to do on the server atm for people not interested in leveling / legendary classes. This type of game only thrives when a lot of people are online, if people only have incentive to be on twice a day for pvp (or really most likely once a day given time zones), i dont think it will keep player numbers much higher than current. We have a very passive town biome system that doesnt incentivize actively playing much to expand towns, id hate to see the pvp system be that passive as well.

So are we talking about having 4 castles but only two go "open" for capture each day?

I think every 6 hours a single castle would open to be capturable.
Desert Castle > 10AM
Frost Castle > 4PM
Lava Castle > 10PM
Wood Castle > 4AM