Hey guys, we're starting an unofficial ladder. The first season started a few days ago and is pretty casual and it's mainly to iron out different rules, strategize, and so on. Right now there's only an Omni org: "Ladder (Season 1)", and I don't have plans for a Clan or Neutral org. There's no companion website, achievement tracking, ladder bot, etc., for this season but that's something we're talking about for future seasons (probably no sooner than 2017). We have four real-life people on the ladder right now and 7 characters. Two level 30s, and a team of five 25s that are currently prepping for Abmouth.
Most rules are common sense but here are some specific ones:
No multiboxing, but multilogging is okay. For multilogging in active combat, I'm thinking a limit of 2 characters is reasonable.
Veteran points are allowed, but we're not sure about this one for future seasons.
Inspect must remain open.
No looting of mobs that can't be easily killed by the ladder (unless you just killed it). Like a level 10 dyna boss corpse you find is fine, but Abmouth isn't and won't be even after the ladder has killed him once.
You can join the ladder on any char <= 25, we just have to inspect your char and (roughly) verify that you're using ladder-attainable gear. Stricter for future seasons probably.
No game-interactions with anyone not on the ladder: no teaming with, trading with, receiving buffs from, and so on. We need to iron out the details here.
You're in the ladder if and only if you're in the "Ladder (Season 1)" org.
Feel free to discuss the rules/organization of the ladder here or get in touch with any of the following in-game if you want to participate:
Cryptoxic
Speculataxia
Thunderanged
Inveniamviam
Corautmors
Feistyrandal
Nefirteti