Brotherhoods
When a group of friends play an MMO together, they often have different amounts of time available to play. Over time, this leads to those with more play time reaching higher levels faster, and no longer being able to group with their lower level friends. In Vanguard: Saga of Heroes, we’ve added the capability for a group of friends to form a fellowship, a persistent group of players who have agreed to split all experience gains between themselves equally, even while offline. When joining a Brotherhood, you must be within five levels of the highest level member of the fellowship. As Brotherhoods are meant to be somewhat permanent, you must wait at least four hours after having left a fellowship before you can join another one. Brotherhood can be made up of up to 6 members. The leader can also name your fellowship, and set a message of the day, and each member can attach a brief note to themselves. Finally, you can also view the ratio of experience contributed to experience awarded for each member.
Caravans
The caravan system is rather simple. Through a tiny element in our UI, group leaders will be able to form a caravan by inviting their members to join them much like they do to form a group.
Once you have accepted an invitation to join a caravan, you are free to log your character out at any location you desire.
When you return to the game, you will be presented with two options:
1. Log in exactly where you logged out previously, or
2. Log in at your caravan leader's bind point.