Gladiatus.us FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)
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20lbMaul
In recent times, there has been much need for a revamp to the Frequently
Asked Questions. The sole purpose of this writing is to clarify and
answer questions that usually arise and fill the forums. Information by
the player, for the player.
Where does it all begin?
So you've registered, picked your name, and you're ready to start
glorifying Rome in your own image, right? The first thing you need to
know is that this isn't your average hack'n'slash game. All actions in
game (short of buying/selling to vendors) are going to take some time to
accomplish. You're going to need some gold, but you aren't going to get
any just sitting there.
Life and Death as a Gladiator:
As a Roman Gladiator, you're sure to take a beating in the process of your
apirations to greatness. Luckily for you, the General Goods store has
plenty of food merchandise to heal you. You cannot die, however, once
your health becomes too low you will be unable to go on any expeditions
and all arena battle will be instant losses the second your HP runs out.
Health also regenerates in direct correlation to your Constitution.
Where does my journey begin?
Gold is currency. Just as in the real world every piece has it's price,
and every experience hard earned. You can gain prestige by doing any of
the following:
- Work in the Stables
- Going on a Quest
- Going on an Expedition
- Buying/Selling Items
- Fighting in the Arena
What are the benefits to working in the Stables?
In the beginning, the Stables will be a meek job full of hardship and low
in pay. As your Gladiator gains experience, you will be promoted to a
higher paying job at a pre-designated level interval. The Stable will
tell you what level your next promotion is at. Other than that, you put
in how many hours you want to work, then in real-time whatever you chose
counts down until the work is done. When you're finished, you'll receieve
pay for every hour worked at your level's rate's pay as well as a nice sum
of experience. If you cancel, even if at most of the way through the
counter, all time into the job will be lost, thus no pay. You cannot do
anything else while you work, so it's best saved for times of inactivity
or while you're sleeping.
How can I find a Quest to go on?
Quests are given at the Tavern. You can accept a maximum of 3 quests at a time. After accepting one, you have to wait 30 minutes until you can accept a new one. Quests can range from finding something, killing
something, or even just talking to someone. To find an item for someone,usually you'll want to go on an expedition!
What's to expect out of an Expedition?
First and foremost, in order to go on an expedition you have to have expedition points. For non-Centurion (non-premium) players there is an expedition point max of 12 points. Every hour another expedition point is added to your total up to the cap of twelve. It takes 2 points to explore and face an enemy for 10 minutes, 4 points for 20 minutes, and 6 points for 30 minutes. Centurion players total cap for expedition points are doubled, and expedition points and durations are halved.
When you set out for an expedition, first you have to choose where to send your Gladiator. All fights are even to your level, so other than the type of enemy you will face, it's pretty much an even chance everywhere. No two fights will ever be exactly the same, save random coincidence.
Whenever your Gladiator returns, you'll know the success or defeat of your expedition down to the last blow. Although every expedition might not bring back any items or gold, you'll always recieve at least a little experience from it.
I went on an expedition and got an item. How do I receive it?
All items received have their own way of getting place to place, called, "Packages." From any page, all new alerts for journal entries and packages are put just left of the Highscore and Arena rankings. When a new item or entry is placed, there will be a clickable chest of sorts where you can see the item. All items are drag and drop to purchase, move, place, equip, or sell. Any interaction with an item (such as upgrading it) will in one way or another be dragged and dropped accordingly.
NOTE: Items will not move until the page and all scripts on the page are loading.
Item won't move? Make sure it's loaded, first!
Alternatively, inside the Message's page there is another way to get to Packages by following the respective links.
Is there a limit on the number of packages you can have?
No.
Do packages disappear after a while?
Yes, packages will expire after 7 days and the value of those items from packages is sent directly on your gladiator.
How do I Buy/Sell gear and equipment?
There are several shops to choose from. If you seek armaments, then you need to visit the Weapon Shop; For Shields, Helmets, and Chest Armors there is the Armor Shop; For Gloves, Shoes, Rings, Amulets, and Food seek the General Goods store; For boosts, item upgrades and potions check the Alchemist; For finer items to bid on, the Auction Building houses the finest of equipments; and finally for great deals or to sell an item at your own listing price visit the market. Be sure to keep up with your current equipment and wisely decide what gear you want, and what can wait. The finest blade of all the land can swiftly make work of your enemies, but it's still your hand that will stay it.
The Weapon, Armor, General Goods, and Alchemist stores all restock every 24 hours (1 day) or all four can be convinced to at any time if you have 1 rubie to entice them with. All types of items can be sold at the Market. You choose the price, but beware, if your price is too high,they're going to buy someone else's item before yours! If you don't want to rely on another player buying your items though, and you need your gold right then you can always sell items to the correct store that wares them.
What's the differences between all the weapons?
The different weapons are all the same in terms of attacks they can make and how they are made. The only real variables that should heed admission of thought of weapon should be damage and their possible (though not guaranteed) bonuses to stats. Weapon types, lengths, and shapes have are no indicator to it's usefulness. As with any other items, the higher the level, the higher the quality of item. The name also has a pretty direct correlation on the items worthiness, though sometimes misleading. Hover over any items to see what exact benefits or losses come to equipping them.
I placed a bid on an item in the Auction House and now the item's gone
and so is my gold!
Odds are, you were outbid. In any case where you are outbid, all gold (as advertised on the Market, and heatedly debated on the forums) is lost to the cause. In the random case where you just so happen to check back and realise that someone outbid you, then you can re-earn the gold that you lost as well as enough to overbid the other player and try to snake them at their own game. However, usually it's much easier to amass a nice sized pile of gold to throw at an item if you absolutely don't want to lose the item. On the opposite side of the coin, sometimes great items can be purchased for lower than what you would expect.
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How can I use powders and upgrades from the Alchemist on my equipment?
Powders that increase your general ability can be found at the alchemist.
Only one powder/upgrade can be used per item. Short of a detergent sponge up to the proper level of the item that's been upgraded, there's no way to remove one once you apply it. Beware, before you use your first good upgrade on an item you plan on retiring in a few days make sure you couldn't stave it off for a better item. In some cases, there truly is no time like the present, though you don't want to bang your head on the keyboard because of too little fore-thought. Potions can also be bought to upgrade stats that last in length dependant on the size of the bottle.
In general, the larger the bottle, the longer it works. A boost that stays active for 8:00hrs is easily founded.
Some equipment has level requirements, but I see others using them at a
lower level?
Items are kind of funny on here as there are no requirements of this moment. As of right now the item level is nothing more than the quality of the item. From defence bonus to plus skills and even damage, the
higher the level of the item, the more likely it is to be of superior quality. The sky is the limit as far as for what you can equip, save that you can acquire it.
There are almost as many levels for items as you can gain, and many sub-classes of rarer items. Coloured text items are stronger than their ordinary counterparts. The weakest of these upgraded rarities are the
green text items. After that comes the purple which of course is another tier higher. It is said there are quite a few colours, but you know enough of them now to get you started!
How do I train my Gladiator?
In the city, there is a dedicated training ground overseen by a veteran of the Roman armies who will give you tips from time to time. In the beginning of your adventure you will be weak and susceptible to all types
of misfortune. For a sum of gold you can have your gladiator trained in the art of a certain stat resulting in a permanent and base of +1 to that stat. As you sink more and more gold into your gladiator you will find it simply takes that much more to pursue further training. Some skills are easier learned than others. For instance, you will have much less trouble gaining in agility than you would in skill. As a direct result, it will
take less gold to raise agility regardless of how high the stat is.
The stronger your Gladiator gets, the hardier an adventurer he becomes.
The once meagre earnings of a hard day's battle will be achieved seconds on the battle field. The arena can be just as easy as it can unforgiving.
Always remember to check out each opponent you face and how they've trained and equipped their gladiator. Although it usually hardly makes the difference in the beginning, the further down the line you get the less margin for error. Try to use as much intelligence as you can as you build your gladiator to your liking. The more you delve into your equipment, the less stout your character will be fundamentally, but usually will receive more boosts from items. The more you invest statistically, the less gold you can put towards equipment, but the more reaped of %stat bonuses and stat caps which are purely dependant on base stat. If you have 6 base strength with +20 strength boost throughout your equipment, you can only boost the max difference between your skill's base and it's cap. The more into a stat, higher the cap.
How do my stats infer directly to combat?
Strength is the most expensive statistic to train and is a relative gauge of physical prowess. For every ten points of strength, you will get 1 extra melee damage. Skill is your chance to hit your opponent, it's matched up directly against your opponent's agility in battle. The difference in the two is the resulting chance above or below 50% for you to hit depending on whether the integer is positive or negative. For a
value that comes up +15 skill versus opponents agility (SkillLvL - 15), you will have a chance of (50% + 15%) 65% to hit. If their agility excels yours by 15 (SkillLvL +15), making the value -15 then you'll have a chance to hit of 35%.
To check any of these stats at any time go to your overview and hover over the green bars. Just like your skill is paired, so is your agility, except this time it's your agility versus your opponent's skill with the
same math ideal as skill, except reversed for this example. Constitution is a measurement of your toughness and resilience. Each point into Constitution reaps 2 vital health points plus 1 to your total of health regeneration per hour. With 20 Constitution, that would be a bonus of 40 HP and 40hp/hour regenerated with rest or while working. The stouter you are, the more damage you can sustain before needing to eat, and heal faster while resting.
Charisma is (as far as combat is concerned) pretty much just how lucky you are. Charisma can allow you to attack two times to the opponent's one.
Like the two variable stats above, this is also dependent on the difference between your training level and theirs. For a value that is greater than your opponent's charisma then for every point you are higher
you gain 1% to chance for a double attack every time you attack. (ChaLvL +1 = 1% for double attack, so ChaLvL +20 would be 20% chance and so on. All Equal and Negative integers are tossed and instead automatically given 0%.)
Armour is the cumulative sum of all of your equipment's armour bonuses.
The main point of armour is it absorbs damage. At 0 it absorbs 0 - 0.
After ~90 it absorbs 0 - 1, ~160 its 1 - 2, and ~280 it's 3 - 4 etc., etc., etc. Damage is pulled together from strength (StrLvL/10 = +1 damage) and any bonuses on your items that may add to damage.
I've got my equipment and some experience under my belt. How do I
challenge another Gladiator to an Arena bout?
When you first start out, you will be high in the levels 2-9 tournament rankings. To the left of the Arena screen is the top five, however you may only face Gladiators so many rankings below you. The display to the right will show you what position you are and who you can take on to improve your ranking. You can click the players' names to get information on their equipment, stats, and more. The catch is you have to beat 'em to earn their spot.
While you're ranked low and amidst many competitors, you'll be able to advance across more ranks at once. The higher you get though, the smaller the gap becomes. When you choose the one you wish to challenge, a message will be sent to your inbox telling you the winner with the detailed result log of the battle below. For non-Centurion players an arena battle can take place every 15:00 minutes. For Centurions the time is cut into a third of that, once every five minutes. There is also a function to
attack based solely on username, but it will cost ten gold and not be counted in rankings.
How can I become a Centurion?
In order to become a Centurion, you have to spend
real money to order Rubies. It only takes 15 rubies to activate Centurion for 14 days and receive many awesome benefits for supporting the game.
The best items for my level and Centurion require rubies, what gives?
In order to keep maintenance and upgrades current and up-to-date for the game, there has to be funding. Rubies are invaluable when it comes to buying new equipment. However, if you can wing it with what you have the further you get the newer items will take rubies to buy, however the older items will be just gold. You'll be a little later without the rubies, but the turtle can keep pace with the hare if he's persistent. Rubies are not necessary, but can highly increase your chances.
In order to purchase rubies, you must have an acceptable form of payment, viewable at the jeweller. All information that is required shall not in any way and is simply for payment and authorisation purposes.
What are the benefits/disadvantages of being in a Guild?
Guild's are brothers-in-arms. Fight together, die together, stand together. There are many perks to being in Guilds. The most obvious of which is finding communities of like-minded individuals who can help fend
off a foe or just provide idle banter. Guilds have their own Fortune containing all donated gold (Gold can be donated by any guild member) to use for guild-matters. Though there are currently no huge advantages to
Guilds that a solo-player couldn't achieve on his own, look for this to be expanded more by the developers as time passes.
On the other hand, just as a guild can function as a tight-knit, well-oiled machine, it can just as easily be fruitless. While guild wars can be fun, any war your guild is in, you are in as well. Make sure you at
least approve of your guild leader, or else you never know what he could get you into (and sometimes out of!).
How do I find x item to complete a quest?
Often when given a quest you will be asked to find an item. When this happens you need to asses if the item is a special item, or just a weapon or piece of armor, or sometimes a ring or food item.
Examples of special items are:
- Stolen casket
- Long fingers of bandit
Examples of normal items are:
Examples of food item are:
To find the "special" items you need to know where to find them, Bandit fingers come from a Bandit, so you need to win a battle against a Bandit, stolen caskets can also be won from Bandits.
Normal and food items can be won from any enemy if you win.
To find each item you need to win against the enemy, but the enemy will not always drop the item that you want on the 1st win. (With food it makes more sense to buy it from a shop)
How do I find x character to kill?
If you are asked to kill a certain number of enemy characters you will need to find them. Naturally the best place to look would be the one most associated with the character. Below is a small list of who you will find where.
(Note: all characters can be found in more than 1 place)
Mist Mountains - Harpy
Dark Woods - Wolf
Barbarian Village - Barbarian
Bandit Camp - Bandit
Ancient Temple - Guard
Pirate Harbor - Pirate
Wolf Cave - Wolf
*Deserters are found in all locations, but possibly more often in the
Barbarian Village.
For more information on quests please try to ask an Moderator or use the support area.
[b]How often are expedition points added?
Expedition points are added at the rate of 1 each hour regardless of whether you have Premium or not.[/b]
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