Dev Spotlight: Olympiad System Revamped Version.

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Yes, we hear you.

After announcing the newest Olympiad System changes for the new files, we have paid attention to all the complains, suggestions and ideas, and with them and our own plans and visions for this system, we went back to the drawing board to recreate a revamped system in a way that would not harm our intentions much and would make it more in line to what we feel its what the community wants.

With everything not yet set in stone but getting there, this is the plan for the Olympiad System in the new files.

We want you also to understand that altho we can give in a bit  more to some of the suggestion and be more lenient in some of the features, there are some we hard set on maintaining due to the fact we dont see it as healthy for the server as for example the big old hero skills.

 

 

The complains.

 

Registration possible from anywhere with the Olympiad menu interface - Some people pointed out the 'issue' that having this option to sign up for a Olympiad match from anywhere would remove the social part of having all the players gathered around the NPC and at same time creating a situation where it would be hard to gauge how many people was involved on the Olympiads. For this reason, the option to sign up for a match anywhere via the Olympiad menu will be removed and in order to participate in the Olympiads, players will have to sign up on the Olympiad manager NPC.

 

30 seconds is too short time for some classes to buff properly - We agree that for some classes 30 seconds might indeed be too short, and tho we want the time between matches to be reduced, we dont want players to have the risk of being penalized for a slower connection, or PC, or even simply by having classes that needs some more time for buffs. Buff time inside of Olympiad stadium will be increased to 60 seconds, instead of 30 seconds.

 

Having weekly cycles removes value from being hero - We wanted to make hero something more available for everyone, but we do understand the idea, mentality and nostalgia of being a hero actually meaning something that maybe should not be so frequent and available for everyone. After listening to reasonings and suggestions of multiple players we took the decision of bringing back the monthly cycle.

 

Having matches all week - After we took another look at this part of the system, and even so knowing its how the old system used to work on the older versions of Lineage 2, we did realise this might not be the best for the community we are at this moment considering we are more grown up now, with adult responsibilities in life, families, jobs etc and having to play oly everyday might be a bit heavy on the schedule. This might also lead to major problems in general such as player burnout of having to do the same thing everyday. 

With this considerations in mind and after we discussed about it again and again, we decided that keep the Olympiads running all week long was not the best plan and changed it back to work on Friday and Saturday only, 4 hours per day, instead of 1 hour every day of the week.

 

Matches per week - Matches will be limited at 30 matches per week

Its in our understanding that together with the reduced call times this should create a good sweet spot, where between waiting times and average match length a player would spend roughly 3.5 hours on Olympiad per week.

 

The hero skills - We are not planning on bringing back the "old" hero skills (dread, berserker, UD, grandeur). Altho we also dont want Hero to be just a status and a blue chat. 

Player who receive Hero status will get 2 skills:

- Heroic Miracle (not the same UD skill from before) - Heroic Miracle is a 2 part skill, passive that gives HP bonus, and a trigger that gives attack speed, cast speed, movement speed and mana regen.

- Heroic Valor - Buff for clan members  with offensive and defensive stats. This heroic valor will be a revamped version and not the old one giving only physical based buffs, but instead with stats both for physical and magical effects.

With this setting we aim to have Heroes having some boost for themselves all time on their adventures with Heroic Miracle, and at same time having some beneficial features for the clan in their activities, while not breaking the balance of a fight as much as for example the old Heroic Dread would.

 

The hero weapons - We are not planning on adding Hero Weapons, but if we do is not something that would exist from the start. Hero weapons would be too strong at the start, and they become to weak at later phases, its something we need to work out a perfect balance for them before it is something we want to bring to the game. They wont be there at start, maybe they show up later with some new powers or abilities?!

When obtaining Hero status players will still have a cosmetic glow being applied to whatever weapon they use.

 

Hero items - When becoming hero players will not receive a hero weapon, but they will still get some nice looking stuff:

Wings of Destiny Circlet - We cant have Olympiad Hero without having the good old  Wings of Destiny Circlet.

Hero Cloak - Hero cloak will come with benefits. When having Hero Cloak equipped, players will have boost of 5%HP/MP/CP, 3%P def, 5%M def, +10 crits, -5% PVP damage received, 2% reflect. Hero Cloak cannot be equipped on Olympiads.

 

Points, matchmaking and resets - Points reset on first day of the month with cycle starting and every eligible character (lvl 70+ with second class completed) receiving 1000 points. During their matches players win and lose points and the system will use this points to create "brackets" to increase de probability of strong players meeting other strong players.

 

Times - For now the plan is to have Olympiads running 19:00 to 23:00 server time with last chance to register closing at 22:40 leaving rest of time for the conclusion of remaining matches as it was always.

 

Marks of Battle - Marks of Battle will no longer be given at end of the cycle if you meet the matches requirements, They will now be awarded to players after every fight at rate of 10 per win and 1 per loss.

 

 

 

TLDR: We hear you and made changes. Plans for new Olympiads are:

- Olympiad will run from 19:00 to 23:00 (last reg at 22:40) server time.

- Olympiads will run only at Friday and Saturday.

- Olympiad cycles are calculated monthly.

- Buffing time is 60 seconds.

- Call time is 60 seconds.

- Registration can only be done on the Olympiad Manager.

- Players can do up to 30 matches per week.

- Every month on first day eligible character (lvl 70+ with second class) receives 1000 points.

- Total remaining points after Win or Loss creates "bracket" increasing probability of high player finding other high players.

- Heroes will get skills Heroic Miracle (new version) and Heroic Valor (new version).

- Heroes will get Hero Cloak and Wings of Destiny circlet

- No Hero weapons at least for now.

- No mass hero skills (dread, grandeur, UD, berserker).

- Marks of Battle are rewarded every match instead of end of cycle. (Olympiad shop prices will be rebalanced to account for this change)