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Group Combat Missions

By Jon Wood on Apr 14, 2008

The folks from Flying Lab Software have released a new Dev Journal on their official site talking about Group Combat Missions.

One of the new pieces of content that we’ve created for 1.3 is repeatable group missions for port conquest. We wanted to give players of all levels the chance to participate in group-oriented content to generate or reduce unrest so they could more easily participate in the PvP game. For the aggressors, this takes the form of destroying a fort’s defenses in order to make way for a ground invasion force. On the defender side, this involves protecting a fort from multiple waves of attackers on both sea and land.

Because this was designed to be group content but also repeatable, there were several design considerations I had to take into account while developing these missions:

Read it all here.

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