The strategy part of Albion

Albion is not only the name of the gamemode but the place it is set in.

Albion is an enormous planet with a variety of landscapes.

When Albion is released the world will be randomly owned by either the Marytr, the Sky Wardens or the Elementals. The ratio of ownership will be something like 3:6:1. In every 10 maps, one will be owned by the Elementals, six will be owned by the Sky Wardens and three by the Marytr.

It will be a frenzy to capture the settlement, everyone will be in the lower levels and all you will have to fight with will be the weapon in your pack.

To capture a settlement, you need to hold it for a certain amount of time.

Here is a table of the relationship between amount of players trying to capture and the time it will take to capture.

Table:

Amount of players trying to capture Minutes it will take to capture
1 45.9
2 42.6
3 39.5
4 36.5
5 33.7
6 31
7 28.4
8 25.9
9 23.6
10 21.4
11 19.3
12 17.4
13 15.6
14 13.9
15 12.3
16 10.8
17 9.5
18 8.2
19 7.1
20 6.1
21 5.1
22 4.3
23 3.6
24 3
25 2.5
26 2
27 1.7
28 1.4
29 1.2
30 1.1
31 1
32 1
33 1
34 1
35 1
36 1
37 1
38 1
39 1
40 1
41 1
42 1
43 1
44 1
45 1
46 1
47 1
48 1
49 1
50 1
51 1
52 1
53 1
54 1
55 1
56 1
57 1
58 1
59 1
60 1
61 1
62 1
63 1
64 1

Excel formula: ROUND((ROUND((MAX(32 – #ofplayers, 0))^2.3, 0) + 60)/60, 1)

This assumes that at it’s maximum, the teams are only 32 strong. Since the server will be 64 slot, that will be the case.

Hopefully this setup will work quite well!

Albion’s Class System

Albion’s class system is now finished! It works exactly the same as the class system in Fretta, because it’s awesome..

You can view a pic of version 3.0 of the character creation screen. No, those classes are just there for show. I don’t want to give away the real class names and loadouts etc until they are 100% finished.

Stargate Cake

I want my wedding to have a cake like this…

I wonder what a wormhole tastes like?

Itriedtypinglikethisforawholeday

I didn’t get very far. After about 20 minutes of talking to people my thumb was twitching… I had to keep pressing space then deleting it!

It’s very wierd..

Sean Williams

I met one of my favorite authors, Sean Williams, at the 2009 Adelaide ‘Meet The Writers’ convention today!

As I suspected he was a very funny guy, and a complete and utter nerd! (Just like me)

He spoke about his life, his writing and the covers of his books. It’s funny to see what happens to the cover when a book is published in another country, the russian ones were, wierd..

It was Sean’s three, ‘Books of the Change’ that inspired the names and the general setting of Albion. The books are set in a very Australian setting, which I absolutely love!

All in all it was a great day with a lot of laughs.. Did I mention he also writes Star Wars and Doctor Who stuff?

New host

I am proudly now hosted by JuicedPC! Isn’t this wonderful..