Revision as of 19:21, 30 September 2010

Gang Warfare Screenshot
What: A feature of Legacy.
Why: To create a more realistic gangster feel; has been suggested several times in the past, as a way to make gang membership more meaningful. Also it is lots of fun.
More Info: Much more info in the "gang codex" book, in your gang library.

Gang warfare can be simply explained as fighting between gangs which occurs on a 15x15 square map. Each gang has a headquarters and any member of a certain gang has the ability to conquer and control territory.

Player Controls

Upon entering the wasteland, players can use the arrow buttons on the sides of the minimap to move in four directions (North, East, South or West). Statistics such as gang control, structures built, and players in the area are shown to the right of the minimap. Below is a small chat area, which relays various messages in addition to player chat. Messages entered in this box are only received by those on the same square.

Along with the basic controls, there are also commands. Commands do many different things, and some even require getting and finishing a certain ability. Below is a full list of commands in the Wasteland. In Update 1.7.00, Zorg released a tool in Settings meaning you could set the wasteland chat to your preference.

Colorblind Support

Found in Options, Legacy offers support for those that are colorblind. Just use the drop down menu to enable, or disable this feature. Make sure to hit "Save Changes" at the bottom after changing this option. Below is what each gangs squares look like, with this feature enabled.

Warfare Abilities

For a full view, or a more in-depth view of abilities please see the Abilities page.

Territory

Players can take territory by staying on any square adjacent to one owned by their gang. If it is a neutral square (not owned by anyone), the control percentage for the person's own gang will rise. If it is owned by an enemy gang, that gang's control percentage will drop. The rate of change is determined by the number of players and guards on the square. Once a gang's percentage reaches 50%, they then 'own' that square, and it will change to the gang's color. Sitting on your own territory will cause your percentage to rise (it will not exceed 100%).

Exposure

Due to the toxic atmosphere in the wasteland, a player's time there is limited. Every minute spent within the wasteland, his/her exposure to toxicity rises by 1%. Once a player's exposure reaches 100%, they collapse and are taken back to the hive. They then must wait until their exposure drops down to a reasonable level (90% or less) before returning. To recover, a player must spend 2 minutes per percent outside the Wastelands. Exposure drops 1% every 2 minutes in the Hive. This occurs on even minutes.

Fatigue

In addition to exposure, fatigue is another factor that weighs down on you in the wastelands, although in a different way. For every person you kill in the wastelands, you gain a fatigue point, which decreases your total stats at the following increments: 5%, 10%, 20%, 40%, 60%, and 90%. You lose one fatigue point every even minute tick, such as XX:02 and XX:04. This makes for a much more competitive experience, as Avatars on -6 Fatigue have to wait 12 minute's until they're back to normal strength. Before the Fatigue system was introduced a Fully Equipped Avatar could come into a square and wipe out everybody there, whereas now after six kills the persons Fatigue would put the person to the strength of a lvl 15-20, who, of course, could easily kill said Avatar.

Guards

Guards are similar to hunting NPCs, except they do not give XP, and must be cleared from a square to gain control, or destroy a building upon the square they were on. Guards keep an eye over gang territory for the councils, although they are controlled completely by AI. They redistribute themselves hourly, finding the most vulnerable areas to guard. Guards have different levels, with 85 on HQ - 80,60,40,20 fanning out from deployed HQ, and 70,50,30,10 fanning out from undeployed HQ. In basic, the further from the HQ, the weaker they are.

Headquarters

Headquarters are the base of operations; every gang has its own. When entering the wasteland, a player will begin at his/her gang's headquarters. According to Zorg's blog (Dec. 13th 2006), gang council will be able to move the gang headquarters by first undeploying them, then controlling their direction (move north, west, etc). Deploying headquarters will take one full day, as will undeploying. Once undeployed, a HQ can move one square on every 15 minute tick.

Deployed Gang Headquarters

Undeployed Gang Headquarters

Structures

Structures are purchased and built by gangs, and can be "attacked" by enemy gang members. This happens automatically as its housing square is taken. Stuctures cost Gang Points and metal to build, and power to stay active. These are the current structures available.

Name	Image	Description	Effect
Solar Station		Solar power units that generate power from even the lowest light levels.	+50 total power
Metal Refinery		Mine deep in to the wastelands and refine metal.	+5 metal per hour
Defensive Turret		This turret will help fight off any enemies.	+5 to local guard level +10% to local player stats
Barracks		Increase the total guards at your gangs disposal. (Limit: 2)	+50 total guards
Beacon		Allow quick teleportation to a location with phase shifters (Limit: 5)	Phase to with shifter Enter from Overview with shifter

Objectives

Objective are what the gangs fight over, there have been many objectives and more still to come. Here is a list of the objectives that have been made for the Wastelands. Not all objectives have, or ever will appear on one map. This is just a list of the ones that have been made.

Name	Image	Description	Capturable	Round Used
Field Hospital		Allows the controlling gang members to heal 24 hours a day without having to wait for the hospital to open.	Yes	1,2,4,5,6,8
Warfare Shop		Sells various weapon upgrades to members of the controlling gang.	Yes	1,2,5,6
Alien Artifact		Can be used once per day, when activated this artifact can protect your gang members, granting them +10% armor for one hour.	Yes	1,3,5,7
Prototype ERS		Can be used once per day to clear your whole gang of fatigue and exposure. Has a 25% chance to malfunction. Using it requires your gang has 150 spare power. If it malfunctions it will clear every gangs exposure. If it is successful it will clear only that gang that activated it.	Yes	2,3,6,7
Radar Jammer		Can be used once per day when activated it blocks out the overview from all four gangs. Also stops the building of structures.	Yes	3,7
Neutral Square		This objective cannot be captured, it allows phasing by any gang and counts as one of your squares to all adjacent.	No	2,6

Objective Error

Objective Error is what you get when you try to enter an objective but it does not allow you to enter because your headquarters is too close to the objective. However you don't get the normal amount of points for holding it as of 2010. Here is a guide below which shows you where the objective is and how many squares away your Headquarters has to be to enable you to use it. Additionally, if a gang's HQ is within the red zone of an objective, the gang can gain no points, until the HQ has been moved. This includes points from all controlled squares, buildings, and objectives.

Warfare Points

Warfare points can be earned in a number of ways, such as helping take over an enemy square, helping increase your gang's control of a given square, defeating enemy players and guards, and destroying enemy buildings. These points can be donated to the gang to build structures and can be used to buy warfare rewards from the Gang Shop. Note: Guards must be within 5 levels to gains points. (Also see Warfare Shop)

Warfare Scoring

The Oct 2008 - Dec 2008 map was the first to have recorded points (The points system was created by Deeg). Note:You only get points when the building(s) are online and the gang HQ has sufficient power. This is the layout of the points system.

In Zorg's blog on October 1st 2009, Zorg had this to say about the parking of a Gang's HQ in an objectives red zone. "Also I'm well aware of gangs parking their HQs in an objectives red zone to farm points. This remains a valid tactic for this round if being able to use the objective is of no interest to you. However, January onwards having your HQ in any red zone will result in negative points greater than that you would get for even controlling the objective. I have no objections to this strategy being used and it is an imaginative loop hole in the points system. But it does negate the point of having red zones and it will be fixed come January."

Zorg was pleased by the results of the points system by Deeg, and as a result there was, and will be no changes to it.

Maps/Positions and Results

The following, is all of the Warfare maps, Gang positions, and Objective position. (Click to enlarge images.)

The Birth of Wastelands

In 2008, A vote was held after a few Wasteland Conventions (Wastecon's) in Online Chat. Everyone agreed to a Wasteland reset every 3 months, on the first reset in October 2008 Zorg released the next map.

First Rotation

Rotation Results

Second Rotation

Rotation Results

Third rotation

WTF Mode History

WTF Mode was the name given to a fun pre-reset map, it consists of a 3x3 grid with the gang HQ's in each corner and a neutral square in the center. (Click to enlarge screenshots.)

Between Round	Used	Screenshot
1 and 2	Yes
2 and 3	Yes	N/A
3 and 4	No	N/A
4 and 5	No	N/A
5 and 6	Yes
6 and 7	No	N/A
8 and 9	No	N/A
9 and 10	Yes