Party

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Parties

Blockgame is better together! Explore and run dungeons more safely with your your friends, town members or anyone you meet along the way. Enjoy the benefits of increased experience gain while in parties. Just remember that boss loot is not instanced so either be quick or share if you want that loot!

Parties are also currently the only way to private message people in Blockgame!

Managing Parties

Creating a Party

Create a new party by typing the command /party command into chat while not in a party. A GUI will appear for you to confirm or cancel party creation.

Initial Party Creation GUI

Inviting Players to a Party

Invite players to a party with the party gui accessed via the command /party Click on the invite player button at the bottom of the party Gui.

Party GUI Invite Highlighted

Instruction will appear in chat explaining how to invite a player. Type the palyer's name in chat and send it to invite them. (remember that hitting the TAB key will auto fill to help with spelling)

Invite Player Chat Message

Accepting or Declining an Invite

Players that have been invited to a server will receive an invite message in chat. Players can open chat and click on Accept or Deny

Chat Message When Invited to Party

Leaving Parties

Players can leave a party any time by accessing the party GUI via the command /party and clicking on the Leave Party button on the bottom of th GUI.

Party GUI Leave Party Button Highlighted

Kicking Players

Players can be kicked from by the party owner at any time through the GUI via the command /party Right clicking on a party members head will kick them from the party.

Right Clicking Players Kicks Them From Party

Benefits of Parties

Shared EXP

When partied all party members share ALL EXP gained by any member in the party. The EXP gain is for all professions EXP and class EXP. Each action that would grant EXP gives that EXP to all players in the party. This EXP benefits from gear bonuses and increased party EXP but is individually calculated for each player. The gained EXP is calculated with the following equation(Base EXP + Gear Bonus + Party Bonus)/Number of Players in Party.

Bonus EXP

Bonus EXP is amount is granted as +15% per player above 1 with a max of 8 players.

Players Experience
1 Player + 0%
2 Players + 15%
3 Players + 30%
4 Players + 45%
5 Players + 60%
6 Players + 75%
7 Players + 90%
8 Players + 105%

No Friendly Fire

While in a party there is no Friendly Fire! This is very helpful when running dungeons, but remember that boss loot is not instanced so you will have to share!

Party Chat

Party chat is currently the only way to Private Message players in Blockgame. While in a party you can you can type @ Followed by your message and it will only display that message to others in your party. This is currenlty the only type of Personal Message system in Blockgame.