WOE! aka The War of Emperium

[GM-Ayu]

In light of multiple controversies and speculations, the heRO GM team will make 2 new official rules regarding how heRO server handles when War of Emperium will be cancelled, and how castle rotation works.



1) War of Emperium will ALWAYS take place as long as the server is available at the start of War of Emperium. If the server is offline when War of Emperium is supposed to start, then War of Emperium will be cancelled with no changes to castle ownership, and chests will not be taken away from the owners of the castles. No "compensations" of any sort will be given to anyone.


This means that War of Emperium will take place regardless if a previous outage take place before WoE. It will be up to the guilds that are interested to participate in WoE to prepare for it regardless of what happens. This also means that heRO will no longer cancel War of Emperium for "other" reasons either, such as but not limited to holidays such as Christmas.




2) Previously, castle rotations were done randomly regarding which castle becomes the Saturday option, and which becomes the Wednesday option. To address players' passionate concerns about which region ought to be on Saturday/Wednesday, we will set a schedule to clear all uncertainties about WoE rotations.

Rotation will now take place after the 3rd Saturday WoE on the scheduled month.

July 2021: Wed- Geffen Sat- Aldebaran
Oct 2021: Wed- Prontera Sat- Payon
Jan 2022: Wed- Aldebaran Sat- Geffen
Apr 2022: Wed- Payon Sat- Prontera

Cycle repeats on an annual basis. This should allow each region and their respective treasure chests to appear on both Saturday and Wednesday WoE once per year. The exact castle will rotate in order of 1 => 2 => 3 => 4 => 5 => 1 and repeat within its region. In the case where a castle has technical difficulties for any reason such that it cannot be used for WoE, it will be "skipped" and the next castle of the same region will replace it.

If new castles are introduced, or old castles are removed, then a new cycle will be created.

[GM-Ayu]

The war of emperium castles have rotated!

On Wed WoE: Geffen 4 takes the place of Payon 4, currently held by Hellstorm guild.
On Sat WoE: Aldebaran 4 takes the place of Prontera 4, currently held by Wine Brewing Society guild.


Please report any issues you see with the castle rotation. And as a catch-call "just in case", if the upcoming Wednesday and Saturday WoE reports any technical issue due to the castle transfer that will interrupt with WoE and require WoE to be skipped, then WoE will be skipped with no compensation/penalty for any guilds involved.



The next rotation is in Oct 2021, some time after the Oct 16 WoE but before Oct 20 WoE (exact date/time pending on GM availability to carry out the rotation.)

[GM-Ayu]

There's reported mismanagement in rotation schedule, so castle rotation took place again:

On Wed WoE: Geffen 5 takes the place of Payon 4, currently held by Hellstorm guild, not geffen 4.
On Sat WoE: Aldebaran 5 takes the place of Prontera 4, currently held by Wine Brewing Society guild, not aldebaran 4.

Please report any issues you see with the castle rotation. And as a catch-call "just in case", if the upcoming Wednesday and Saturday WoE reports any technical issue due to the castle transfer that will interrupt with WoE and require WoE to be skipped, then WoE will be skipped with no compensation/penalty for any guilds involved.

[GM-Ayu]

3rd time's the charm: this time here's the table and the next years to come:

If there's more mistakes, again let me know. The woe times/castle rotations were done once again.

http://www.pandoraonline.net/heRO_wiki/i...oE_Castles

[GM-Ayu]

The following rule will be REMOVED from hero server:

No Blank Emblems During War of Emperium (WoE)
While the War of Emperium is ongoing, it is forbidden to enter a castle if the guild you are in uses no emblem, a transparent emblem or one that is not clearly visible. Note: It is however permitted to be unguilded.

The wiki pages have been updated accordingly.



Explanation


On Wed July 21st, a guild changed their emblem mid-way through War of Emperium. Due to a technical issue with the client, this resulted in an invisible emblem in the view of another guild, even though everything looks fine to the guild members that changed the guild emblem during WoE. (The cause of this is very similar to Mounts having the wrong color: the person on the mount never notices it, but other players can sometimes see the mount to have all the colors messed up.)

Originally, I thought that we can easily fix this issue by forbidding guilds to change emblems mid-way through a WoE. However, upon further technical investigation, the GM team found more and more edge cases that makes it possible for a guild to do nothing with their emblem, yet the emblem will appear invisible to another player anyway. The GM team found that there are too many possible false-positive cases, and it will be very difficult to enforce or judge if it is intentional on all sides. Furthermore, a player can even locally modify emblems they see as a one-sided change, thus making it difficult for even externally recorded replays to be sufficient evidence to enforce such a rule.

So instead, we will remove the old rule about empty emblems. If it can happen on accident in many scenarios, then it is best if all guilds are very aware of such possibility, and just plan for it accordingly as part of their game strategies. This rule changes have been discussed and agreed upon by 3 of the GMs.

We apologize for the barrage of rule changes for War of Emperium lately, as we recognize it can be rather tiring to see new rules being added/removed once every 2 weeks. The heRO GM team prefers to keep the rules to a minimum, and we'll only make new rulings for War of Emperium when absolutely necessary to the fairness of all players involved.

[GM-Ayu]

Castle has rotated:

Wed WoE: Geffen 4 => Prontera 5
Sat WoE: Aldebaran 4 => Payon 5