WOE! aka The War of Emperium

[GM-Ayu]

The following rule will be REMOVED from hero server:

Quote:No Blank Emblems During War of Emperium (WoE)
While the War of Emperium is ongoing, it is forbidden to enter a castle if the guild you are in uses no emblem, a transparent emblem or one that is not clearly visible. Note: It is however permitted to be unguilded.

The wiki pages have been updated accordingly.



Explanation


On Wed July 21st, a guild changed their emblem mid-way through War of Emperium. Due to a technical issue with the client, this resulted in an invisible emblem in the view of another guild, even though everything looks fine to the guild members that changed the guild emblem during WoE. (The cause of this is very similar to Mounts having the wrong color: the person on the mount never notices it, but other players can sometimes see the mount to have all the colors messed up.)

Originally, I thought that we can easily fix this issue by forbidding guilds to change emblems mid-way through a WoE. However, upon further technical investigation, the GM team found more and more edge cases that makes it possible for a guild to do nothing with their emblem, yet the emblem will appear invisible to another player anyway. The GM team found that there are too many possible false-positive cases, and it will be very difficult to enforce or judge if it is intentional on all sides. Furthermore, a player can even locally modify emblems they see as a one-sided change, thus making it difficult for even externally recorded replays to be sufficient evidence to enforce such a rule.

So instead, we will remove the old rule about empty emblems. If it can happen on accident in many scenarios, then it is best if all guilds are very aware of such possibility, and just plan for it accordingly as part of their game strategies. This rule changes have been discussed and agreed upon by 3 of the GMs.

We apologize for the barrage of rule changes for War of Emperium lately, as we recognize it can be rather tiring to see new rules being added/removed once every 2 weeks. The heRO GM team prefers to keep the rules to a minimum, and we'll only make new rulings for War of Emperium when absolutely necessary to the fairness of all players involved.