The arena in MMORPG Genesis
The arena in Genesis is a mode inside the game. Randolph in Berneo queues a single player or a party, the server builds two teams of similar level, and they fight for ten minutes on a map of its own, Arena. A match pays arena points and moves a rating.
Rules and formats
Every number below comes from the server code and the client's ArenaBase.lod table, not from anybody's memory of the old days.
| What | On this server |
|---|---|
| Solo queue | 2v2, 3v3, 4v4 or 5v5; the server builds the team out of other solo players |
| Party queue | the leader signs up the whole party, up to 5; the opponent is a party of the same size |
| Who may enter | level 20 and up, after the first class change |
| Channel | channel 1 only; the client refuses on the others |
| Queue split | six level bands: 1-19, 20-39, 40-59, 60-79, 80-99, 100+ |
| Gathering after «Обнаружен матч» | 10 seconds |
| Waiting behind the gates | 30 seconds; the gates open at «Матч начался.» |
| Match | 600 seconds, the same countdown the client shows |
| After the end | 15 seconds, then you go back to where the arena took you from |
| Leaving a match | the «Дезертир» (deserter) effect for 30 minutes, no sign-up until it ends |
| Free arena | from level 10, also on channel 1, no queue and no rating |
A player who is in a party cannot take the solo queue: leave the party, or have the leader sign everyone up. Run speed and attack speed potions work on the sand. Anything that heals or restores mana does not, and that includes tombstone tablets and scrolls.
How a match is decided
A fighter who falls stays down until the match is over. A side with nobody left standing loses on the spot. When the clock runs out, the team with more people standing wins. If that is even, kills decide, and if kills are even too, it is a draw.
Walking out on your team mid-fight counts as a loss for the rating, pays nothing and puts a line under «Отказ» (refusal) in your record.
How a match is put together
Randolph stands in Berneo, next to the «Выход с арены» (arena exit) point you are returned to afterwards. His sign-up window has four solo boxes, from «2 против 2» to «5 против 5», a «Участие в отряде» (party entry) button and the free arena box. While you wait, squares light up in the waiting popup: those are the people in the same queue and the same level band as you. A level 45 character, for example, is only matched against levels 40 to 59.
The solo queue fills oldest first: whoever signed up earlier gets into a match earlier. The server sorts the gathered players by level and deals them into two teams in a snake order, so the two highest are never on the same side. Parties are paired with a party of the same size and the same level band. Once a match is ready, «Обнаружен матч» (match found) arrives, and 10 seconds later both teams are moved to the arena map.
On the sand
Teams arrive in the pens, «Зона арены 1» and «Зона арены 2», behind the north and south «Врата арены» (arena gates). There are four gates in all: north, south, west and east. In a match they open at «Матч начался.» (the match has begun), and until then a team has 30 seconds to buff and take position.
While a character holds a seat in a match, open-world rules stop applying to it: the PK flag, reputation and level gap do not matter. You can only hit a fighter of the other team in the same match, and only while both of you are alive. Log back in while standing on the arena and the server returns you to Randolph.
The free arena works differently. Its gates never open, so the server puts players straight onto the sand beside one of the four gates. After a death the spot is drawn again, at random every time, so you cannot stand up in the same place and carry on with the same opponent.
Who is on top right now
| Place | Name | Class | Rating | Wins / losses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | чупапи | Десперадо | 2030 | 169 / 3 |
| 2 | Bogdan | Головорез | 2015 | 418 / 0 |
| 3 | гуччифлипфлап | Потрошитель | 1951 | 418 / 4 |
| 4 | какашигодзе | Следопыт | 1913 | 417 / 1 |
| 5 | Работяга | Потрошитель | 1902 | 339 / 0 |
As of 23:38 Moscow time (UTC+3), the first five rows of the arena ladder.
The full hundred, with matches, wins and losses, is on the arena ranking. The site's table only lists characters with at least one match and leaves out banned accounts.
The rating, briefly
Everyone starts at 1500, and the rating is held between 800 and 2200. Beating a stronger team pays more than beating a weaker one: the server uses an Elo formula with K = 30 over the average rating of each team, so one match never moves you more than 30. The formula, a worked example and the points table by level are on the arena rating page.
Fighting without signing up
The PK flag works almost everywhere on this server: of the nine open-world maps, only Berneo refuses PvP. The flag rules and what killing a peaceful player costs are on the PK page, and the guild war for the castle is on the siege page. For the arena you need an account and level 20.
Questions
- How do I get into the arena in Genesis?
- Walk up to Randolph in Berneo on channel 1 with a level 20 character past the first class change, then pick a solo queue from 2v2 to 5v5 or sign up a party of up to five.
- How long is a match?
- 600 seconds, ten minutes. Before it come 10 seconds to gather and 30 behind the gates; after it, 15 seconds until you are sent back.
- Where is the arena ranking?
- On the site's arena ranking tab: the top hundred by rating, with matches, wins and losses. In the game your own record is in Randolph's arena window.
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