2 days ago, an expedition in ArcheAge Closed Beta 4 secured the game's first every territory capture. Called "Renaissance", this team of over 100 players braved through the many near-impossible tasks to secure this milestone. Korean website ThisIsGame had a chat with the team's leader, who happens to be just a 20 year old teen.


Q: Can you briefly introduce yourself and your team?

A: I am 20 years old currently, hitting 21 soon, so it is 2NE1 (a popular South Korea female pop group). Renaissance was established in July 2010, and it will be 2 years old in a few months' time. There are a total of around 170 players who took part in the expedition in ArcheAge, and our main aim is to seek adventures and to quest. We do meet in real life as well, having small gatherings for drinking sessions.

Q: How does it feel like being the first guild to have a territory in ArcheAge?

A: Very proud. All of the players worked hard together, and thank you all for your hard work. The original land was a place filled with volcano soot and barren lands. But after we placed the AKIUM (mineral to signify ownership of the piece of land), grass began to sprout out. We are happy to play a part in cleaning up the continent.


Q: Which was the hardest part of this expedition?

A: Collecting the required materials, especially the sunlight AKIUM which is rare.

Q: We saw many players gathering this item as well.

A: The system changed, we need to pack up the materials to build the ships, each time only allowing one bag to be transported over.

Q: Can you explain more about this new system?

A: After collecting 100 materials, we need to pack them up and carry. We need to reach the destination without dying.


Q: That means guarding the bundle is the main priority of this expedition?

A: Yes, if the player dies, the pack will drop and anyone else can pick it up.

Q: Can you tell us what items players need to prepare and the process of refining the AKIUM?

A: There is actually no strategy, everyone just collected the AKUIUM dusts and pieces and merge them together.


Q: How was the lumber and clothing material gathered? Many guilds are having trouble with this.

A: For lumber, we just needed to get more players to scout for trees to chop and monitor the progress. Clothing material can be dropped from a certain humanoid hunter monster.

Q:Was there any special planning or management done?

A: Within our expedition team, there are the information group, combat group and gathering group. Each group has its own mission and functions, for example the gathering group will find out where and where drop certain materials while the combat group will research on character skills and PvE combat. Our team has a number of veterans since Closed Beta 1, so we were able to guide them.


Q: If you need to transport AKIUM over to the old continent, ships are needed. For smaller boats, players can craft them easily, but what about those larger sail boats?

A: For sail boats, 1000 materials are needed, which means 10 packages. The new system also requires players to follow a standard pattern for inserting the materials to make the sail boat.

Q: The amount of 1000 materials is really staggering...

A: Yeap, and that is only for the smallest sail boat. When the bigger size ones are out...

Q: How did you overcome the Boss monsters along the way?

A: Different boss has different attack patterns, so we had to devise different strategies as well for each.


Q: It seems like your team is really strong.

A: When we were low level, 7 of us took down a boss. I guess it will only require 3 of us now.

Q: What are your plans now?

A: We will be gathering information about the castle building system and go gain some levels to prepare for castle siege.



SOURCE : http://www.mmoculture.com