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Announce News Post #2640

Orrery updates

Written by: Razmael, the Synthesist
Date: Monday, February 13th, 2017
Addressed to: Everyone


Hi folks,

Here's another update to the Orrery, this time with some big changes to the way scoring works:

- During the active period, the Orrery will reset to neutral at midnight each Aetolian day.
- When this reset happens, whichever tether has the Orrery aligned to them will gain an attunement point.
- At the end of the Orrery active period, the tether with the most attunement points will have the Orrery aligned to them.
- The 'level' of the Orrery will be your tether's attunement points minus the opposite tether's points.
- For example, if the Orrery ends with 6 Shadow attunement points and 3 Spirit attunement points, then the Orrery will be Shadow-attuned at level 3.

Globes have also changed slightly as a result:
- The catch-up mechanic on globes where putting your tether's globes into an opposite aligned tether gave double points no longer exists.
- Globes no longer push/pull the Orrery through levels, but instead just adjust whether its aligned to Shadow or Spirit for the current attunement point.
- There is an upper limit of a 9 globe weight towards your Tether, i.e. the scale ranges from Shadow -9 to Neutral 0 to Spirit +9.

We'll be monitoring thes changes closely in the next Orrery season and be making further adjustments as necessary.

Penned by my hand on Gosday, the 11th of Arios, in the year 464 MA.


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