During today's maintenance, the changes in the technical structure which are needed for Harbor Occupation War have been applied. This does not affect your regular gameplay. The Florensia Staff would furthermore like to apologize for the delay of the season 2 Harbor Occupation War patch: We are still engaged in internal tests, but to shorten the waiting time for you, we present you the official Harbor Occupation War preview! Find out more about the contents and goals of this exciting update and prepare yourselves for upcoming guild wars!



Announcement

Once Harbor Occupation War is online, Florensia season 2 will officially commence. Further updates in season 2, for example Droes Dungeon and the Pet System, will be added in the future after Harbor Occupation War.

With the addition of Harbor Occupation War ("HOW"), a public test will start. All players are invited to test the new guild versus guild system. This also means that there may still be unexpected problems with HOW and this also means that new parts of the HOW system, improvements and changes will be added during the tests.

According to the current plan, the following parts of HOW will not be applied yet when the public test starts:

• Defense Cannon NPC system
• Guard NPC system
• Base buff effect system
• Guild ranking system

These parts will be applied during the public test. Points you and your guilds collect during the HOW public test will be gathered and rankings will be added later on as well.

The HOW testing will not affect your regular gameplay, as the matches are instanced and will thus take place in another technical environment.


What is Harbor Occupation War?

HOW is a 24 vs 24 players guild PvP feature. All guilds can participate to fight for the ownership of the harbors in the big cities Roxbury, Castle Hall, Glostern and Cherrytown. Guilds who wish to participate in HOW must not only rely on their members' powers, but they have to establish a strategy for defending the base and for attacking.

Harbor Ownership And Rewards

• The following harbors can be conquered on each server: Roxbury, Castle Hall, Glostern, Cherrytown
• The emblems and names of the guilds which possess the harbors are displayed on the map
• The guild which possesses a harbor receives its own tower in the center of the city
• Furthermore, a guild which owns a harbor is eligible to set taxes on NPC prices to earn Gelt
• Taxes and tax rates are levied once every day
• The top guilds can also use special emblems

Harbor Occupation War Setting

• One HOW match includes two guilds and 2x24 guild members
• Guilds with more than 24 members can participate in more than one HOW match at the same time, but not at the same location **
• Your guild can hold more than 24 members if you upgrade the guild's rank
• The guild master or a vice guild master has to register the members who participate in a HOW match
• Players who want to participate in HOW must be members of a guild and they must hold the rank "Elite" within the guild **
• A certain number of "Elite" grade guild members must be online for participating in a HOW match **
• HOW matches affect all worlds of one server, so guilds from LuxPlena [IT] can for example play against guilds from LuxPlena [EN]. The HOW ranking also counts for all worlds on one server
• Guilds from LuxPlena however cannot play against guilds from Pardioc or Bergruen

Offense Is The Best Defense?

• The guild with the higher ranking (= more points) will automatically take the defending position (green circle) , the guild with the lower ranking will atuomatically take the attacking position (red circle)
• If both guilds have an equal amount of points, the guild which applied first will take the defending position
• The HOW map includes three bases (blue circles) which will buff the players (e.g. max HP increase, attack power increase). To benefit from the buffs, players have to destroy the bases to unleash the effects. Bases can also be healed
• Each side will own five so-called Defense Cannons which will automatically attack players within their range. Defense Cannons cannot be destroyed
• Each side will own a Guard which is the symbol of the guild. If one guild's Guard gets destroyed during the match, the guild automatically loses the match
• A warning will appear on the screen when the Guard of one side gets attacked

Guild Ranking Points System

• With its creation, every guild automatically receives 1000 Guild Ranking Points (GRPs)
• Guilds can earn points when they win HOW matches and they can lose points when they get defeated
• The overall GRPs, calculated from wins and losses of HOW matches, determine the guild's rank
• GRPs are calculated right after a HOW match**
• The HOW rank of a guild will be displayed in the guild window
• The top 10 guilds will be listed at the HOW War manager NPC
• Further rankings will be added to the website, the current EXP ranking will also be fixed in the future

Battle Points & Base Occupation Points System

• You can collect so-called Battle Points (BPs) within a single HOW match
• If you kill a member of the opposing side, you will earn 1 BP for your guild
• Battle Points are visible on the screen (e.g. 75 : 45)
• You can also collect Base Occupation Points (BOPs) within a single HOW match
• If you obtain the center base, you will get 30 BOPs
• If you obtain one of the bases on the sides, you will get 15 BOPs

Important note: BPs (Battle Points) are not the same as BP (Bonus Points) which you can get when you recharge your AP!


Victory? How To Win A HOW Match

• There are three ways how you can win a HOW match: timeout, death match, Guard destruction
• Timeout: Each HOW match has a time limit of 45 minutes. If the battle is not decided after these 45 minutes, the guild with the higher amount of BPs and BOPs wins. Five minutes before the 45 minutes limit is reached, a warning will appear on the screen
• Death match: If one guild reaches 100 BPs within a match (which equals 100 kills), it will automatically win the HOW match
• Guard destruction: If the Guard of one guild gets destroyed, the guild will automatically lose the match

Harbor Occupation And Ownership: Weekly Cycle And Ranking

• Once a week, the harbor ownership will be reset and the guilds with the highest rankings will occupy the harbors on the four islands for one week
• Guilds will keep their GRPs and their ranks
• As already mentioned, winning matches will add GRPs to the guild's balance, but losing matches will substract GRPs
• After a certain time, a HOW season can end and GRPs can be reset to 1000, so all guilds have the chance to occupy a harbor (this will be announced in advance)
• In the case of a GRPs reset, rewards will be given out to the best or to all guilds which have participated in HOW **

Other Information

• Saint class characters can resurrect members of their guild
• If there's no Saint around, dead players will automatically rebirth every two minutes

Preview: Harbor Occupation War (Part 2)

Part 2 of the HOW preview will be added with the HOW patch. Part 2 will explain where and how to apply for a HOW match and further details this part of the preview hasn't covered yet.

Florensia Staff

** Got questions, need more detailed information? Missing details about HOW will be posted on the website after the HOW patch. As always, all information is subject to modifications.