Ok, the new map is almost ready to roll out. To give us chance to put the amount of work needed in to each of the new concepts we're using in this map we will be staggering the release of parts of it.

Gang HQ Movement (Day 1)
Gang HQs will retain the ability to go mobile but will not be allowed to go beyond the 9th row of squares. Meaning there is a line across 1,8 to 15,8 that Gang HQs may not pass.

Roaming NPCs (Day 2)
The roaming none player characters are called Sentries, they will patrol around regardless of gang control / guards and attack any they perceive to be their enemies. They will only be active for a few hours at a time and this time will be selected randomly.

Objectives (Day 3)
This map contains 3 new objectives, you can control them at first but you will not be able to access them until Day 2. They have the following functions.

The 'Sentry Control' allows the controlling gang to select which gangs the Sentries attack on sight when they are active.

The 'Phase Disruptor' can be activated once per day. Once active it will remain active for 1 hour and disable cloaking, radiance, summoning, phasing and astral blasting for all gangs including the gang that activated it.

The 'Satellite Uplink' can be accessed from the Hive and will allow the controlling gang to monitor the movement of enemy avatars in real time. This system will only catch a percentage of movements and can be circumvented with the cloaking ability.

Moving Bridges (Day 5)
After 4 days the northern island that contains the 'Sentry Control' objective will retract all 3 of its connecting bridges. After this point only 1 bridge will extend per day to allow access, this process will be random.

This staggered release will allow us to properly test each system on Dev rather than rushing them all out together. Some of the above may change based on our testing. Have fun!