Strategies to advance
The Orion Meter is very intentionally a ‘slow ticking’ combat meter. The entire “Black Pearl” project is intended to be a fun, creative roleplay environment. The island supports NCS combat and Orion RP. Orion has been written and will be adapted even more over time to support that goal. In versions below 1 (nicknamed ‘om_one’) the meter is mostly combat oriented, with a fast melee, solid range damage and a good selection of skills for each class.
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Roleplay
The most preferred way of earning experience points (XPs) is, to engage in roleplay with other players and create stories, from humorous to horror, almost everything is allowed. (please see ‘rules’ for some limits we would like to observe)
Drop the cleaned up notecard into any of the existing barrels and a small team will evaluate the amount of awards your narrative will receive.
Here is a guideline:
- Ideally the play is at least 1 hour long.
- Battle logs can be part of the play, but by themselves are not valid for awards.
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Events
Events like LMS, Fightclubs, Npc chases, hunts and so on will be the most lucrative source of XP income. The awards vary from event to event, but are generally generous.
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Gates
There are several ‘gates’ on the island. These are passages you can walk through and if you haven’t been there in the last 4 hours, they will give xps (orion) or ncs-pearls, which can be exchanged for xps for the ncs meter. Just collect the pearls in a folder and send them to our GMs (Elan mostly, or Rhia).
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Find artifacts and plants (not active at the moment)
There are several ‘things’ to find, and plants to consume. They won’t give huge amounts of whatever it is they give, but it will add up. There is a certain randomness to these kind of environmental interactions. Randomness is a pattern throughout the entire Orion Meter System.
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Combat (Orion meter)
YES!! Combat might lead to XP awards. The Orion Meter can pay out ‘bounties’ by its own. This functionality needs to be enabled individually for each participating sim. Also the amount of the bounties is set on a region level. See here for more info.
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Play and be present
The most basic method of gaining XPs is to be here. The meter is intentionally ‘slow’ and ticks with 1xp per 140 seconds.
