Perfect World Territorial Wars

August 12, 2007 · Filed Under MMORPG News, Perfect World

Also called CITY BATTLE, this higly anticipated feature of Perfect World is all set to patch soon. If I’m not mistaken, it will be this week. Mental note: confirm with GM Justice and post an update ASAP.

At any rate, I’ve compiled important information about Territorial Wars in this post so that you and your guilds can prepare for this massive PVP-fest!

First, let’s check out the map:

After the jump: City Battle mechanics and rules

OVERVIEW

There are 44 territories available for conquest. The map illustrates the location and accessibility of the territories. The higher the level of the territory the bigger the return for the clan.

Benefits of ruling a territory
A Clan can gain various advantages and awards from occupying cities.

Protection Money

Every week, the conquered territory gives fixed protection money to the ruling clan. The higher the level of the territory the bigger the ruling clan will get.
A clan can get 1,000,000 in in-game Yuan every week for a Level 3 territory.
Protection money is given to the head of the ruling clan every Friday noon. (12NN)
A mail shall be sent to the head of the clan and once the head of the clan reads and accepts the mail, the amount shall be added to his character

Free Teleport

Members of the ruling clan shall pay no fee to teleport to the territory. (This is treated as a usage of the Teleport skill, with a 1 hour cooldown) (GM T’s note: like Agitation benefits in pRO)
Players who are not part of the clan shall have to pay for teleportation services
Transfer skill has a cool down period

Map ownership

Ruling clan shall have their name placed on the map details.
Every time a player hovers the mouse through the territory location, the name and logo of the clan shall appear

OCCUPYING TERRITORIES AND BIDDING

Occupied territories are marked by a color, and with the emblem of the occupying clan. Unoccupied territories are marked with a generic beige map color.

Territory Selection

Each clan can attack only one territory every week
New clans can only attack rank 3 territories.
If a clan is already occupying a territory they can only attack neighboring or adjacent territories.
Only players who are members of a clan before 4:00 PM on Monday (100 hours before the start of the first War Period) prior to the battle schedule are allowed to join the War.

Declaring War

In order to attack a territory, Clans must declare their intention for war at any City Battle NPC during the proper period every week.
The minimum fee to declare war on a territory is 500,000.
The bidding period begins every Wednesday at 7:00pm, and ends every Thursday at 7:00pm.

Bidding for the right to attack a territory

If multiple Clans are attempting to attack the same territory, they must enter a bidding process throughout this period (Wed 7:00 PM � Thurs 7:00 PM) to determine which Clan will earn the right to attack a particular territory
Bids made shortly before the deadline will increase the bidding period by 20 minutes.
These last minute bids can extend the bidding period in increments of 20 minutes only 4 times, or up to 8:20pm Thursday. The Bidding Period cannot be extended beyond that.

Rules governing the bidding process:

Increments to a previous bid must be at least 100,000 more than the current bid.
The maximum bid is 200 million. Any clan that bids this amount automatically wins the right to attack the territory this week.
The Yuan used to bid will immediately disappear from a player’s inventory.
Bids made to the City Battle NPC are locked and cannot be used by the player
If there is only one bid to conquer a territory by Thursday 7:00 PM, then the right to attack the territory is automatically given to the sole bid.
A system prompt shall be sent once the bidding ends at 8:20 PM
System shall also send out the list of all the war schedules to the entire server

After the Bidding Period

After the bidding period has ended, the game will broadcast an automatic message to all players announcing the attack schedule and clans involved. Furthermore, losing bids will be returned to the clan masters.

Clans that lose the bidding process will receive their full amount of Yuan via in-game mail.
Clans that win the bidding process will need to win the City Battle as well to receive a refund.

Bidding refunds after a City Battle
Clans that win the bidding process have the opportunity to receive a significant refund of the amount of Yuan they used to win the bid. This refund will only occur after the City Battle Schedule of Friday to Sunday every week, and will be automatically sent to the Clan master via in-game mail. The details of the different refunds are listed here.

Clans that win the bidding process but lose the City Battle will receive no refund.
Clans that disband after bidding, or before receiving a refund, will receive no refund.
Clans that win a City Battle for an unoccupied territory will receive a 90% refund.
Clans that win a City Battle for an occupied territory will receive a refund based on these factors:
Number of Clan Members that logged into the game for 1 week prior to the initial bid.
The average level of those active Clan Members.

SCHEDULES

Battle Schedules

Right after the Bidding Period every week, a City Battle Schedule is automatically released. (You can view these schedules by speaking to any City Battle NPC). The City Battle Schedule begins every Friday at 8:00pm and end on Sunday at 11:00pm. This schedule is automatically generated and the assigned schedule and Territory informed of their schedule

There are a total of 7 available time slots during the City Battle Period. These available time slots are listed here.

Day	From	To
Friday	8:00 PM	11:00 PM
Saturday	9:00 AM	12:00 NN
	2:00 PM	5:00 PM
	8:00 PM	11:00 PM
Sunday	9:00 AM	12:00 NN
	2:00 PM	5:00 PM
	8:00 PM	11:00 PM

Clans that are occupying 3 or more Cities may only have a maximum of 3 Cities scheduled for a City Battle within the same time slot.

Joining A Scheduled City Battle

All the Clan Members of both the attacking and defending Clan will be notified via an automated announcement when their scheduled City Battle is about to begin. Clan Members that wish to participate in that scheduled City Battle can speak to any of the 6 City Battle NPCs or 45 Teleport NPCs around the world to enter the battlefield, but must remember the City Battle conditions listed here.

There can only be a maximum 80 Clan Members present from each team in a single City Battle.
The City Battle must be ongoing to enter the battlefield.
The number of Clan Members currently in that particular battlefield is less than 80.
The Clan Member must have been part of that Clan for at least 100 hours.

Members of Clans defending or attacking multiple Cities simultaneously can select which City Battle to participate in by speaking to any City Battle NPC or Teleport NPC. Clan Members can freely switch between multiple ongoing City Battles by exiting a battlefield through the Battlefield NPC, returning to the world, and then speaking to a City Battle NPC or Teleport NPC again to enter a different ongoing City Battle.

Here’s additional info on the battlefront, the actual battle map and arrow and catapult towers.

I’d love to hear any possible strategies you have in mind. Do you notice the similarity of the map to DOTA? /heh

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Comments

4 Responses to “Perfect World Territorial Wars”

Kevin on August 15th, 2007 4:20 am

too bad the protection money is just 1m yuans, not like in china where it is 2m-10m yuans
GM T on August 15th, 2007 1:08 pm

I think when this evolves over time, it will be increased

thanks for the comment.
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