[Not a bug] PVP restrictions are the same all the time

The restrictions are random so they can be the same back to back. I’ve given the team feedback that it would be better if they rotated less randomly. I’ll re-raise it.

I was originally focused on this week and last week but ended up going back over previous weeks as well to be sure and found that week 5 and 7 looked to have the same restrictions so I dug into it more.

Currently pre-determined region restrictions are being used which were hand generated. This will last until the week ending 5/03/2024. After that, the server will randomly generate the restrictions for all regions (except Central Spire), using the same seed (the seed will regularly change) for each player, so that all players have the same restrictions as each other each week.

The way the PVP restrictions are chosen may change again in future updates.

I apologise for saying it was random before - this was the information I had from the design, which is intended to be random as mentioned above. I have told the team that this is exactly the sort of thing we need to know and they’ve let me know they will do their best to provide that level of detail in future if something deviates from the implementation plan.

Agreed. At the time 7.3 released we had further plans for PVP. 7.3 was just the base release of the PVP re-work. Almost everything (or just everything?) we add to the game is expandable due to being a live service game. Because it’s not a one and done release, we always have plans for future content, expansions and improvements to come at a later date after each update.