Dev Spotlight: Clan System & Clan Arena.

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With the new files comes a new way of looking to the clan system itself and how it works.

Most of the clan functions we made it to be the same as players already know and added some extras to it.
Main change and the most noticeable is the new clan window interface giving more information in a clear way than the older interface.
Besides the interface upgrade the main change comes down to clan levels and how to level it.

CLAN LEVELING

Leveling up a clan no longer depends in clan leader SP and the amount of proof of blood you can farm or buy.
When opening clan window players will now see a CLAN EXP BAR. This bar represents the clan experience, when bar is on 100%, clan can level up to a next level. 
Clans can earn clan EXP while their members are doing activities like hunting monsters, killing bosses, specific achievements/daily missions, etc.

This also means that having active members in the clan will be way more important than it was so far.
It also means that having alt clans might become more problematic as one cant simply just go town buy all proof of blood in the market/farm proof of blood for some weeks and have a max level clan.
For this reason we are considering increasing the number of slots in a clan, so clan leaders have an easier time managing the clan members and keeping everyone in high level clans with clan skills, this would also give acess to CHs and castles to more players in general.
Clans will have 10 levels, and with higher levels you unlock more clan skills, more clan slots and the usual extra clan functions like being able to reg for sieges and so on.

Some more PVP oriented new clan skills were added to be learned by clans, such as No Clan Return and No Clan Resurrection. These skills can be used strategically in order to prevent certain enemies from using abilities like Party Return and Mass Resurrection for a short period of time.

CLAN ARENA

in the old monster derby track players will be able to find the CLAN ARENA.

- Players can enter the Clan Arena via NPC Senior Appraiser Leo in MDT.

- To enter the Clan Arena you need to be a leader of a command channel of maximum 40 people (might increase if we decide to increase clan sizes) where every player is a clan member.

- Clans have 30 minutes to defeat as much as they can up to max of 4 bosses per week.

- Clans can make the decision to use the device inside to extend time in exchange for adena payment. This time is random from 1 to 3 minutes normally and in rare ocasions up to 5 minutes. This can be used max 5 times.

- Clans can progress up to 4 levels per week in the Clan Arena.

- Progress in the Clan Arena do not reset weekly, its saved.

- There is no EXP death penaly in the Clan Arena.

- There are a total of 35 levels in the Clan Arena - 35 diferent levels with the next one being higher level and stronger than the one before. First Boss is level 62.

- Inside the arena CC leaders will have an option to fight the previous boss defeated. This exist for the propose of maintaining the possibility of completing the weekly clan quest even if the clan can not defeat the new level. As for example, clan clutch level 22 but level 23 is too high level or too strong, CC leader can push it down to repeat the level 22 to complete the quest and then use the remaining time to try to progress on the next Boss.

- By progressing in the Clan Arena, clans will also unlock a new clan buff increasing acording to the progress in the Clan Arena to boost HP/MP/CP Regen, XP/SP gain and PVE damage defenses.

 

COLLECTING REWARDS

- After each boss is dead chests will appear, players need to intereact with the chest to collect their rewards.

- Each player can only receive reward from the chest once per level.

- Player needs to be 40+ to intereact with the chest.

- Chests will stay for one minute, for this 1 minute the total remaining time for the arena is stopped, when 1 minute has passed, remaining chests will disapear and time will continue ticking down.

- This reward can contain different type of items according to the level of the clan in the Clan Arena, going from crystals for clan skills, exp scrolls, runes, daily coins on lower levels, up to especial buff scrolls, Life Stones and a small chance for full gear items on higher levels.

- Players will have a chance to receive a Valor Box, it will come with announcement "Player XXXX got the things". inside this box players can find extra rewards such as enchant scrolls, Cloth Piece, Gems, etc.

This is a weekly clan activity aimed at increasing the desire for clan play and clan grouping.

This is an "open" event, as in, while one clan is in the arena battling their enemies, the rest of the players can stay and watch and maybe cheer them up... The clans... Or the Bosses...

The full list for thiese item rewards is still undecided and if they should or not be only acessible through this system, as we want players to play with their clan and do the activities, but we dont want it to be an unbalancing feature against clans with less or weaker people who cant progress as far and as fast on this adventure, leaving them behind, while at the same time we want players who play with their clan and do the activities to be rewarded, so we will figure a way to fit this vision.

 

 

 

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