Recommendation system in Freya

Recommendation system

How it all started: In January 2010, the Korean developers ran the Navigation Blessing event, aimed at speeding up players' leveling through the recommendation system. Players liked the event so much that the developers made it a permanent part of the game as a service. The service was introduced by reworking the game's existing recommendation system.

What came of it:

The number of recommendations each player has received and given resets daily at 13.00. Then the player gets 9 starting recommendations. Every 2 hours from that moment, another 10 recommendations are given. A player hands out recommendations as follows: 1 recommendation per unique character 1 time every 24 hours; relogging to farm recommendations, as before, no longer works.

When a player receives a certain number of recommendations, they get a bonus to exp rates. The maximum reward is +50%. The bonus lasts 1 hour. The formula for the leveling bonus is: (exp received x 3+(exp received x 3 x Bonus exp %))= Final exp value.

Leveling bonus table by character level and number of recommendations accumulated:



An NPC Priest Nevit was added to every town, who sells 2 special items for a certain amount of adena:

for 100k adena you can buy Nevit's Voice from this NPC, which automatically adds 10 extra recommendations to hand out. It can be bought again 1 time every 20 hours.

You can also buy this hourglass from the NPC for adena 1 time every 20 hours. Its effect: it randomly extends the bonus duration by one of the following values: 60 minutes/90 minutes/120 minutes/150 minutes/180 minutes. The hourglass is shown in the buff slots. The same restrictions apply as for getting/removing a buff. Exception: the Steal Divinity buff can't steal this buff.