The Corpse Creek Contest (CCC) is a dynamic, guild-versus-guild PvP event focused on capturing and holding territory within the notorious town of Corpse Creek. Lasting for 30 minutes, the contest challenges guilds to strategically position their members near Control Beacons to maximize points earned through zone control and eliminating rivals. All system messages related to this event are prefaced with "[CCC]".
Equipment Note: In CCC, high-end equipment bonuses are normalized to standard GM levels during participant combat.
Location and Environment
Corpse Creek Contests invariably take place within the confines of Corpse Creek town. The event utilizes permanent Control Beacons scattered throughout the town. The entire Corpse Creek region functions as a Grey zone, meaning all players within its boundaries are freely attackable at all times. However, during a CCC event, participating guilds adopt special flagging rules to help distinguish friend from foe: members of the same guild or alliance appear Green, while members of opposing participating guilds appear Orange. Players not in a guild, and thus unable to participate, remain Grey.
Participation
Players automatically become participants in the Corpse Creek Contest upon entering the Corpse Creek town region while the event is active, provided they are members of a guild. Certain actions impose temporary restrictions: using Recall, player-created Moongates, or entering/leaving a house previously incurred a cooldown (this may be superseded by the Stationary Player Penalty). Participants cannot use Incognito, Polymorph, or Disguise Kits during the event, and any such effects are cancelled upon joining. Corpse Creek Contests are always mounted events.
While participating in a CCC and inside the event zone, players are prevented from using Recall, Gate, or Hike to leave the area.
Follower Restrictions: While inside the Corpse Creek Contest event zone, players cannot cast Summoning spells and cannot issue Combat commands (Attack / Guard / Patrol) to any Followers. Existing summoned followers entering the zone are unsummoned, and followers with active combat commands switch to Follow mode.
Special Spell Handling: The Meteor Swarm and Chain Lightning spells have adjusted handling when cast during the Corpse Creek Contest, affecting target selection, damage scaling, and potentially applying friendly fire penalties. See the individual spell pages for details.
Scoring
Victory in the Corpse Creek Contest is determined by guild score, with the guild accumulating the most points by the event's conclusion declared the winner. While allied guilds flag Green to each other, they compete as separate entities with independent scores. Individual players also accrue personal scores, which influence their rewards and battle records but do not affect the guild rankings for the event outcome.
Guild Scoring via Beacons
Every 30 seconds, a "Control Check" occurs, awarding points to guilds and players based on proximity to Control Beacons. All beacons function as "Gold" beacons.
- Controlled Beacon: If only one guild has members within range, that guild earns 20 Control Points per tick.
- Contested Beacon: If members from more than one guild are present, each guild present earns 10 Control Points per tick.
- Guild Point Cap: A guild is capped at earning a maximum of 40 Points per control tick from holding multiple Beacons (e.g., controlling 2 Beacons earns 40 points, not 20+20=40; controlling 1 and contesting 2 earns 40 points, not 20+10+10=40).
If 5 consecutive minutes pass where no player in a Guild has contested any Beacon, that Guild's score will be reduced by 5% of its current amount for every additional 30 seconds that pass until activity resumes.
Player Scoring via Beacons
During a Control Check, individual guild members earn Control Points based on the status of the beacon they occupy:
- Controlled Beacon: Each player earns 20 Control Points per tick.
- Contested Beacon: Each player earns 10 Control Points per tick.
Player Kills
Eliminating participating players from enemy guilds contributes to scoring, but the score stealing mechanic has been removed.
- Player Kills are now worth 40 Points to the killing Guild.
- Player Kills grant a flat 40 Points to each individual player involved in securing the kill (no scaling by damage percentage).
Kill points are adjusted based on resurrection timers:
- Kills on players resurrected within the last 30 seconds are worth 0 Points.
- Kills on players resurrected between 31 and 60 seconds ago yield 20 Points (50% of base).
Players killed outside the event zone count as valid kills if they entered the zone at least once since their last death (or event start). Similarly, players only get credit for kills if they have entered the zone at least once since their own last death (or event start).
Penalties
Stationary Player Penalty
If a player uses Recall/Gate/Hike, or has been stationary for 5 minutes or more, they receive a Stationary Penalty. While penalized, they do not count towards controlling Beacons. The penalty is removed once the player moves 5 steps. A system message notifies the player of the penalty status.
Absent Player Penalty
Spending 2 consecutive minutes or more outside the Corpse Creek Region results in a cumulative 5% penalty per minute to the player's final score. This penalty is displayed in the Battle Results menu.
Excessive Player Count Penalty
If more than 10 players from a single guild have participated in the event (i.e., entered the Corpse Creek region while the event is active), all subsequent Individual and Team Score earned by any member of that guild will suffer a penalty.
- The penalty is 10% per player beyond the 10th participant.
- The maximum penalty is 90% (reached at 19+ participants).
- This penalty applies to points earned from both Beacon control and Player Kills.
Examples:
- Guild A has had 12 players participate. All further points earned by Guild A members suffer a (2 * 10%) = 20% penalty.
- Later, Guild A has had 16 total players participate. All further points earned by Guild A members suffer a (6 * 10%) = 60% penalty.
Rewards
Multiple Characters
If a player participates with multiple characters linked to the same OutlandsID, only the score of their highest-scoring character will be considered for reward eligibility.
Reward Capping
To discourage overwhelming numbers ("zerging"), a maximum of 10 players per Guild can receive Reward Points or Battle Commendations from a single CCC event. If more than 10 members qualify, the 10 recipients from that guild are chosen randomly. Players excluded due to this cap will show a '*' in the Reward Points column of the Battle Results. (Note: This reward cap is separate from the Excessive Player Count score penalty).