Sparring Reform
 

In the past couple days you may have noticed some of these changes we have been making in preparation of improving the quality of sparring on iClassic.

Many of the changes target the huge amount of illegitimate players (i.e: boosters, pausers) who have largely been ignored up till now.

New Features:

• The formula that determines spar rating has been changed to reflect active skill. Spar ratings have been reset in order to accommodate for this. Spar wins and losses will not be reset.
• Competitive sparring is limited to SuperNick's Spar Arena in Graal City. All other spar arenas can be used for practice and no longer affect wins, losses or spar rating.
• New rooms were added to SuperNick's Spar Arena with queue displays.
• A streak system has been added in the tournament spar, where spar winners can continue on without having to rejoin the spar.
• Brand new players can no longer participate in sparring at SuperNick's Spar Arena until they have experience on the server. New players will still be able to spar in the practice spar arenas.
• Map has been disabled in all spars.
• If two guild members end up facing each other in the spar, one players' guild tag is automatically removed, and then re-added once the spar is over.
• Guild spars now have a focus button.

Bug Fixes:

• Players who "pause" and lock their iDevices now distribute spar rating.
• Guild houses no longer distribute spar rating.
• Horses and transforms are automatically unset upon entering a spar.
• Spar score display now reflects accurate totals.
• The spar bomb no longer hurts players.

Enjoy the new age of competitive sparring on Classic!

The update I was waiting for! Excellent job to fp4 for devoting so much time and effort to fix things like this for us. Many thanks!

nice

Biggest update this year :) Thanks Rufus & FP4 & staff!

Nice update! Fantastic job staff! Now if i could only get better at sparring...

Great update, thx

I was wondering what happened to Master Li's dojo... :P

Love the update. Hopefully I can learn how to spar without sucking. xD

Love the new update, thank you to all staff who helped improve sparring!

Just an idea to improve spar even more: when a player has a certain amount of lag (like 150ms or more) they should be atomatically kicked from the spar.

Don't thank the staff as I doubt they did anything.

this is great for me. it really does suck sparring, and doing okay, then someone else comes in and destroys you and your record. example? i was having a nice winning streak, then i sparred nite twice, rufus once, some other US member, and another really good person. i can practice now and get better without my record suffering a lot. great job guys!

So happy that all boosters are now owned.

I like the update! there should be an automatic hat awarded when a person reaches a certain winstreak, like 20 wins, or 30 wins. because the most i have seen was 10, and i have gotten 5 and im decent. this would motivate people to get better to obtain that winstreak. Especially because there is no 6k hat.

Step 1. Attempt to get good at sparring.
Step 2. Still get destroyed by US.
Step 3. Go back to Graalians.com

Damn.

no. no hat rewards. people shouldnt do something just to get a hat.

YA!!! I LOVE ALL THE STAFF WHO WORKED ON THIS UPDAATE!!! <3