A'Chard PK Trophy Drops

RULES

RULES

Event	Reward
Kill of Character with the same IP Address as Killer	BOTH Characters 10% Vitae Penalty
Kill of Character with the same Monarch	Nothing
Killed Character had >10% Vitae	Nothing
Killed Character Level <50: Nothing	Nothing
Trophies Turn-in	Hannibal Lector

REWARD CONDITIONS

REWARD CONDITIONS

CONDITION	REWARD	KILLED PLAYER TROPHY DROP TIMER
FIRST BLOOD Kill of a Character Level=>50	(1) Small Vial of Blood in Killed Corpse (1) Death Certificate Killers main pack for kills Level 150+ Kill is recorded Kill is Ranked Experience Reward = 10,000,000 Luminance Reward = 100	60 MINUTES
Kill of Character Level>= 50 & Level<= 99	Experience Reward = 5,000,000	30 MINUTES
Kill of Character Level>= 100 & Level<= 149	(1) Small Vial of Blood in Killed Corpse Experience Reward = 10,000,000 Luminance Reward = 100	30 MINUTES
Kill of Character Level>= 150 & Level<= 199	(1) Large Vial of Blood in Killed Corpse Kill is recorded Kill is Ranked Experience Reward is calculated The BASE payout is 15,000,000 Experience The MAX payout is 30,000,000 Experience The Killer is rewarded either the calculated Experience or 15,000,000 Experience depending on which is highest up to a max of 30,000,000 Experience Luminance Reward is calculation The BASE payout is 200 luminance The MAX payout is 1000 luminance The Killer is rewarded either the killed players (rank number / 2) in luminance before the kill occurred or 200 depending on which is highest up to a max of 1000	Death Streak 0-3: 30 MINUTES Death Streak 3-10: 4 Hours * Current Death Streak up to a Streak of 10 Deaths in row. 10 Deaths * 4 Hours = MAX of 40 hours(1.5 days) Death Streak >10: Kill is not ranked No rewards The Killed player receives a META flag in the database
Kill of Character Level>=200 & Level<=274	(1) Small Vial of Blood in Killed Corpse (1) Death Certificate in Killers main pack Kill is recorded Kill is Ranked Experience Reward is calculated The BASE payout is 25,000,000 Experience The MAX payout is 50,000,000 Experience The Killer is rewarded either the calculated Experience or 25,000,000 Experience depending on which is highest up to a max of 50,000,000 Experience Luminance Reward is calculation The BASE payout is 400 luminance The MAX payout is 3000 luminance The Killer is rewarded either the killed players (rank number / 2) in luminance before the kill occurred or 400 depending on which is highest up to a max of 3000	Death Streak 0-3: 20 MINUTES Death Streak 3-10: 4 Hours * Current Death Streak up to a Streak of 10 Deaths in row. 10 Deaths * 4 Hours = MAX of 40 hours(1.5 days) Death Streak >10: Kill is not ranked No rewards The Killed player receives a META flag in the database
Kill of Character Level 275	(1) Large Vial of Blood in Killed Corpse (1) Death Certificate in Killers main pack Kill is recorded Kill is Ranked Experience Reward is calculated The BASE payout is 50,000,000 Experience The MAX payout is 100,000,000 Experience The Killer is rewarded either the calculated Experience or 50,000,000 Experience depending on which is highest up to a max of 100,000,000 Experience Luminance Reward is calculation The BASE payout is 600 luminance The MAX payout is 5000 luminance The Killer is rewarded either the killed players (rank number / 2) in luminance before the kill occurred or 600 depending on which is highest up to a max of 5000	Death Streak 0-3: 15 MINUTES Death Streak 3-10: 4 Hours * Current Death Streak up to a Streak of 10 Deaths in row. 10 Deaths * 4 Hours = MAX of 40 hours(1.5 days) Death Streak >10: Kill is not ranked No rewards The Killed player receives a META flag in the database
Suicides	-50 Points MINIMUM	Suicides Base Point Loss per Suicide -50 Suicides add an Additional -10 Points Lost per target in the area Suicides logged to the database for webpage of SHAME! Suicides do not affect the Player or Monarch Incident # Suicides do not affect the Player or Monarch Player Death # Suicides reset the Player Streak to 0 Suicides adds +1 to the Death Streak of the Player
META KILLS	Kills of META marked characters are not ranked	If the Killed has a Death Streak >=10 the Killed gets marked as META and the kill is ignored |

Calculations

Experience Calculation

Experience is calculated using the following information about the killed player before the kill occurred

               CalculatedXPReturn = irank + ikills + istreak + iincidents;
               CalculatedXPReturn = CalculatedXPReturn -ideaths -ideathstreak;
               CalculatedXPReturn = CalculatedXPReturn + (iincidents * imod1);
               CalculatedXPReturn = CalculatedXPReturn + CalculatedXPReturn * iincidents;

150 && Level <= 199
imod1 = 80

Level >= 200 && Level <= 274
imod1 = 100

Level >= 275
imod1 = 120

Lum Calculation

if (killed.CharRankScore) > RankedKillGrantLum)
{
   RankedKillGrantLum = killed.CharRankScore);
   if (RankedKillGrantLum > RankedKillMaxLumPaid)
   {
       RankedKillGrantLum = RankedKillMaxLumPaid;
   }
}

META Flag

• The META flag is strictly enforced to prevent bots from raining the fun for others
• Without the META flag, several custom content PK areas were easily broken by META players in the past

META Flagging

• Players who acquire 10+ ranked PK deaths in a row are now alerted when they are marked as a META character at the time of the 10th death
• When a player is META flagged the will receive a message about being META flagged every time they login until the flag has been cleared

META Flag Removal

• Removing the META flag from a character requires the player to score a ranked kill on a player who has a PK Ranked 50+ http://a-chard.ddns.net/
• Players who meet the removal requirements are now alerted when the META flag is removed from a META marked character at the time of the qualifying ranked kill
• Once a players META flag has been cleared, they will no longer receive a message about being META flagged every time they login.

Server Global PK Message Flow

• Check killer and killed to for valid data
• Check Fight Club Status
• Get kill location data
• Reject admin kills unless debug testing enabled

• Reject Level <= 49 kills
  • [NOOB]

• Reject attempted PK Trophy/Rank Farming kills
  • [PK]

• Collect Monarch information for killer and killed

• Reject Friendly Fire (Monarchy/TK) kills
  • [DUEL]

• Reject kills where the killed is marked as META
  • [META]

• Reject kills where the killed HAD Vitae >=10%
  • [PK]

• Get a head count of friends and targets
• Determine if the kill is First Blood or Ranked

• Process First Blood Kills
  • [FIRST BLOOD]

• Process Ranked kills
  • [RANKED]

FX's Notes

• A Killers PK Trophy drop timer is reset with a kill of a RANKED player Level 150+ with a Rank Score >= 100

Trophy Drop and Rank Example

• YOU get killed and get a drop timer of 20 minutes.
• Someone else kills YOU again in 8 minutes and you will not no drop PK trophies or produce rank points
• YOU then rank kill someone over 150+ with a rank of 101 (4) minutes later
• This causes YOUR drop timer to go poof and you start dropping again 8 minutes early

META FLAG NOTES

It's clear that some of the new players do not fully understand the importance of the server marking players as "META"

The META flag IS NOT DIRECTLY related to un-attended macroing.

IF you are marked as META, you died 10 or more times in a row without a ranked kill.

No kills on anyone, not even a level 50+ first blood kill. No kills on a PK server to be a little more clear.

The flag name META was used due to the issues that were caused by players who were not at the keyboard but killed in PK fights over and over without any resistance at all.

BEFORE the META flag was put into play, These players broke just about every custom server and content dynamic I have created.

Flagging them as META so that the server can mark them as a non-factor was the only course of action that could be taken to prevent future abuse.

Some examples of what was boked by players not being marked as META...

Without a META flag, I couldn't stop the farming of Death Certificates, Violence Keys & Hollow and GRUE keys from macros

This was a open season to farm all the keys and DCs you wanted off macro's without even a fight.

Without a META flag, I can't stop the farming of PK Ranking points.

Several players abused this in the BETA.

One player racked up a kill streak over 200 off just Marcos in the BETA of the PK stats data.

Without a META flag, I can't stop the fuckery of actual META's in my custom content areas.

BEFORE the META flag, someone setup META's to do nothing but recall to Ragako and circle the castle 24/7 to prevent the players inside from getting any rewards.

The METAs already had 10+ deaths and were not producing rank or rewards no matter how many times you went outside and killed them. It was futile and not very fair on a PK Server.

After the META flag was added, it is now used to filter much of my content from AFK players.

Players marked as META can circle the castle all day now and not cause an issue.

The META flagging will not be removed from the server.

The META flag from the (16) players who are currently marked as META will not just manually be removed by me.

META flagging is of public record.

If you are marked as META, someone tried really hard to put you there, and they are proud of applying that grief.

They also scored a good number of ranking points, somewhere between 10-20 DCs and 10 each of Violence & GRUE keys in the process.

It would not be fair to anyone on the server to just remove a META flag so that someone can continue to soak DC's, Rank and Keys from a player freely.