PoW roadmap discussion thread

[Nate]

Next season will be the start of the new format. Below is a quick list of some of the more notable features:

* Seasons will last 4 weeks.
* Blood God gladiators will automatically fight (and be resurrected if needed at the owner's expense) once per day at 2pm PST.
* No more patron blood god teams.
* There will be two leader boards. Weekly and overall. The weekly leader board resets each week.
* Similar to how the lower brackets work, how well a gladiator does in a fight affects their rating, not just their record.
* Match making is no longer a round robin and will instead be based on a gladiator's rating from the overall leader board.
* A gladiator's next opponent is unknown and pulled from a pool of similarly rated gladiators.
* Gladiators can fight teammates if they are closely rated.
* BGP will be awarded weekly to all gladiators based on their rating from the overall leader board.
* Bonus BGP will be awarded at the end of the season to the top 3 gladiators in each category on the overall leader board.
* Bonus BGP will be awarded daily and weekly to the top 3 gladiators in each category on the weekly leader board.
* In the event there are an odd number of gladiators in the Season, the Arena officials will provide an opponent to whoever doesn't get matched up.

With the change to the match making algorithm and the inclusion of a weekly leader board that resets, all gladiators will have a good chance of competing for top spots on it and the Blood God bracket will be far more hospitable for the uninitiated. Promotions from Primus will continue to happen once per week, and as there will be a weekly leader board they'll be able to jump right into the competition.

Additionally, the slower pace in Blood Gods of one fight per day instead of 8+, I'm offering anyone who is interested in re-recruiting any of their Hall of Legends gladiators who were once Blood Gods free of charge for a limited time, provided there is room in their stable. If you would like to take me up on this offer, send me a PM ASAP and let me know the names of those HoL gladiators you would like to re-recruit.

Good luck in the Pit!

-Nate-

[Apoca1ypse]

Additionally, the slower pace in Blood Gods of one fight per day instead of 8+, I'm offering anyone who is interested in re-recruiting any of their Hall of Legends gladiators who were once Blood Gods free of charge for a limited time, provided there is room in their stable. If you would like to take me up on this offer, send me a PM ASAP and let me know the names of those HoL gladiators you would like to re-recruit.

Awesome update Nate! I'm very interested to see how it all goes. It does make it harder for Ahhnold to catch up to Sedris' kill record, but oh well. Totally worth it :P

The rerecruited HOL option is making me so happy right now. PMing you now

[Pit Lord]

* Blood God gladiators will automatically fight (and be resurrected if needed at the owner's expense) once per day at 2pm PST.

Does this mean that a gladiator in Blood Gods will automatically get a bit of XP every day without having to log in the game? I'm not very interested in the game below lvl 55 so this will fit good for me.