Territory Control PTR2 Starting July 13th – How to Join & Details

All the core Territory Control and Sieging systems from PTR1 are still present, however many of them have received important improvements and iterations.

To list some of the most notable updates:

• Siege Tents
  • Siege Tents have now been split into 3 separate tents, one for each type of ammunition that is usable with Siege Machines.
  • The way each type of ammunition is shown in the tents has also changed, you can now see the exact amount of remaining ammunition.
    • For example, you may see a pile of 6 Boulders and when you pick one up there will be 5 Boulders left.
  • The resources required for each type of tent is also relative to the kind of ammunition that can be produced with it.
    • For example the Stone Cutting Tent only requires stone for making Boulders, and does not require wood or metal.
  • The tents which produce the different ammunition types are:
    • Stone Cutting Tent – For making Boulders. 
    • Boltsmith’s Tent – For making Ballista Bolts
    • Fire Pot Tent – For making Fire Pots.
  • These changes ensure that you have full control over which ammunition types you want to use, along with making sure you only use resources that make sense for each type, so you aren’t consuming stone when picking up a Ballista Bolt. 
  • The size of each tent has also been reduced and made more compact from PTR1 to help with placement.
  • Siege Machines can now be placed and built within 50m of a siege tent, increased from 30m.
• Alert Towers & Guild Structure Alerts
  • You may now purchase Alert Tower Plans from the Master Builder who has been placed in every town.
  • Alert Towers will sight any siege tents, siege machines, and players you are at war with when they come within range of the tower.
  • All guilded buildings will now alert the guild with a message that they are under attack each time their health drops by 5%.
• Supply Towers
  • 20 new Supply Towers have been added to Myrland in key locations.
    • One of the most common points of feedback we received from the PTR1 feedback form (thank you again to all who submitted responses!) was concern regarding the quantity of Supply Towers. Although this is mostly our fault for not communicating the purpose and design behind the towers and their mechanics, we could easily see that adding a few more in key, high traffic locations at high vantage points so they can be seen from afar would help players who are looking for them and to drive more engagement with them.
  • The health and defence values of the towers was unfortunately wrong in the PTR1 and has been corrected now. We will be closely monitoring player experiences with the new values and locations, and will adjust things as needed for PTR3 and the eventual release of TC.
  • When claiming or losing a Supply Tower, you will now see a guild-wide fanfare message (similar to what you see when you earn a new clade level)
• Guild Defence bonus & Supply Structures
  • The guild structure defence bonus percentage provided by Supply Structures is now visible in the Territory UI page.
  • When a Supply Structure (Such as a Supply Tower, Supply Storehouse or Supply Line) is constructed, you will slowly gain a Guild Defence bonus from it over time until the maximum bonus from that structure has been reached.
  • Similarly, once a Supply Structure has been destroyed, you will lose a certain percentage of the gained bonus defence immediately, followed by slowly losing the remaining bonus over time.
• Guild Supply
  • The cooldown for the Steward to produce ‘Production Goods’ has been reduced from 30 minutes to 5 minutes to aid with quickly testing on the PTR.
• Structure Placement Improvements
  • We have made several improvements to make the placement system more lenient. From our internal tests this has been very promising, so we can’t wait to hear your feedback about it.
• Damaging Siege Machines, Siege Tents and Supply Towers with Elementalism
  • You can now damage structures and vehicles with Elementalism spells that deal blunt damage. Due to the defence values of most structures, they will be extremely ineffective for damaging player houses and most TC structures.
  • Note: Due to an issue we have found in the release candidate we have had to disable the Elementalism spells from damaging structures initially, we plan to hopefully re-enable them in a hotfix for the PTR2 after we have solved the issue.
• Health & Defence balance of player houses
  • The health and defence values of all player houses, strongholds and keeps have been adjusted for necessary balance for sieging. In all cases their health has been increased, which will unfortunately result in these structures being slightly unbuilt once the PTR goes live as their health will remain the old value.
• Wheeled Siege Machines
  • Wheeled variants of both siege machines have been added to the Quartermaster NPC.
  • These machines can be moved after they are constructed, with the help of other players pushing the bars.
• Engineering Skills
  • Basic Engineering and Advanced Engineering now increase the speed of building structures and siege machines.

There are many, many more changes in PTR2 for you to experiment with that have not been mentioned here, but these are the most notable additions.