Caps, timers and resets

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Account and service limits

These are the limits most likely to affect repeated activity. A request-rate limit controls how often the service accepts operations; it does not necessarily cap how much you can gather or earn. Every hourly limit below counts within a fixed clock hour and starts again at the top of the next one.

Activity	Limit or clock	Scope
Renown	15000 XP per account per clock hour, across all its characters; at most 5,000 XP counted per report (the game reports about once a minute)	Account; Court writ Renown is credited on a separate path.
Profession service	600 requests per clock hour (a harvest, a withdrawal, a delivery or a choice each count)	Account operation-rate limit, not a daily harvest counter.
Marks service	120 operations per clock hour (an exchange or a guild move each count)	Account operation-rate limit.
Combat Marks	150 Marks per UTC day from Dagon's Breach, town raids, the sea serpent, Redoubts and Starfall together	Shared account UTC-day ceiling across combat reward sources.
Bank of the Empire	300 Marks exchanged for gold per day (never gold for Marks), at 8 gold per Mark	Account UTC day.
Marks balance	10,000,000	Account or guild balance ceiling.
Market	30 active listings and 20 active orders; 60 new posts and 120 other operations per clock hour	Account; listings last 72 hours, orders last seven days.
Gathering nodes	A node slot resets at 00:00 UTC and is once per character per day	Character and node slot; there is no general daily harvest counter, though rare high-tier hides are limited to three a day.
Court writs	3 writs	Account per UTC day.
Motherlodes	Three world lodes each UTC day, at most 20 strikers per lode; one Marks reward per account per day	Shared world schedule plus account receipt.
Festival Soul Cakes	120 finds per account per UTC day; 1,500 find requests per day	Account; event dates are configuration and can change.
Starfall	Up to nine stars counted per account per UTC day (the day the star fell)	Account; its Marks also count toward the combat Marks ceiling.
Bounties	Four postings per town board per game day; four active bounties per character	Game-day board schedule; a taken bounty lapses after one game day.

Event clocks and pair limits

Event	Clock or limit	What it means
Dagon's Breach	One gate per game day of the event clock (two real hours); entry window is 20:00–22:00 on that clock, about ten real minutes	Scheduled world event; a registered account claims each gate at most once.
Town raids	Same two-real-hour game-day schedule; at most 32 raids per game day	One receipt per account per raid; the source establishes no separate daily raid count.
Sea serpent	Rises every second event-clock day (every four real hours) at the dawn watch	One account receipt per serpent.
Arena	Eight-week season; same rated pair counts five bouts per UTC day and ten per season	Later bouts between that pair can be played unrated.
Royal Tourney	Same pair counts three bouts per UTC day	Seat-week tournament, open through the week it is proclaimed; separate from the Arena season.
Seat influence	60 Watch per account per UTC day; gate influence at most 900 and Renown influence at most 400 per account per week; 2,000 per account per seat per week from all sources	Seat week; the Turning occurs Sunday at 18:00 UTC.
Abyss Dungeon	48-hour unbeaten lifespan; three-minute collapse after defeat; two-hour cooldown; census needs two accounts	Shared world event, not a personal entry cooldown.

World timers are not personal caps

Ordinary dungeon foes and containers respawn 20 minutes after they fell or were emptied, Elite Dungeon ones after 40 minutes, and those in an Abyss Dungeon or the Open Zone's halls after 30 minutes. Each foe and container keeps its own clock, whoever comes and goes. These govern respawns in a world, not how many times your account may earn a reward. The Abyss Dungeon's own rise and fall follow its shared event cycle, above.

Online account daily caps use UTC boundaries, while service-rate limits use clock-hour windows. Each daily book turns its UTC day at its own moment — up to ten minutes after midnight — so a cap or node slot can lag a little past 00:00 UTC; see src/net/dayTurn.js DAY_TURN_SPREAD_MS. Event schedules run on the shared event clock (a game day every two real hours), which is not the sky's hour you see in the world. A seasonal event's active dates are configurable. When the event notice and an old calendar disagree, follow the current notice.

A daily and weekly checklist

Keep this page open while you play. The boxes are saved in this browser and reset on the game's UTC clock; the limits themselves are in the tables above.

Today

Resets at 00:00 UTC. Saved in this browser.

Check the Notice Board's Seat and Work tabs for writs and bounties you can fill.Spend the day's combat Marks and bank exchange before they reset.Clear the day's gathering node slots before the day turns.Post or refresh market listings you want seen today.Check the HUD event board for today's shared events.

This week

Resets Monday at 00:00 UTC. Saved in this browser.

Check the guild's seat pledge before the Friday 18:00 UTC lock.Check the seat standings before the Sunday 18:00 UTC Turning.Review Arena and Royal Tourney pair counts before a rated bout.Review your Renown and craft plans before spending stars or a craft rank.

Common mistakes

Treating an operation-rate limit as a daily reward cap can make you stop an activity for the wrong reason.
Treating all daily resets as local midnight ignores the UTC account bucket.
Counting an event schedule as a personal cooldown mixes shared world timing with account receipts.
Treating the Arena pair limit as a cap on every match ignores its pair scope.

Sources & checked facts

src/net/renown.js, server-account/src/renownTracks.js: RENOWN_XP_REPORT_MAX, RENOWN_XP_HOUR_MAX, the clock-hour window
server-account/src/accounts.js: overRate (fixed clock-hour windows for the service rate limits)
src/net/professionLaw.js, src/net/nodeLaw.js: profession request rates, node slots, hides, claims and writs
src/net/marksLaw.js: operation rate, balance, combat, gathering and bank limits
src/net/marketLaw.js: market operations, listing/order counts and lifetimes
src/net/motherlodeLaw.js, server-account/src/motherlodes.js: Motherlode schedule and account receipts
src/net/festivalLaw.js, server-account/src/stars.js, src/net/starfall/starfallLaw.js: event reward caps
src/net/gate/gateLaw.js, src/net/raid/raidLaw.js, src/net/serpent/serpentLaw.js: shared event clocks and receipts
src/net/arena/arenaLaw.js, src/net/townSeatLaw.js, src/net/siege/siegeRef.js: Arena, Royal Tourney and seat limits
src/systems/bounty/bountyBoard.js: BOUNTIES_PER_DAY, BOUNTY_ACTIVE_MAX, BOUNTY_LIFETIME_MINUTES
src/net/wire.js, src/net/skyLaw.js: the event clock (sharedClassicMinutes) and the sky clock; RESPAWN_MS
src/net/dayTurn.js: DAY_TURN_SPREAD_MS (daily books turn up to ten minutes after 00:00 UTC)
src/net/superDungeon/sdLaw.js, src/systems/dungeon/dungeonRespawn.js: shared and dungeon respawn timers (dungeonRespawnMs)
Research note: handbook/research/X1.md; handbook/research/L1.md

Facts used on this page

Renown XP per real hour: 15000 XP
src/net/renown.js · RENOWN_XP_HOUR_MAX
Combat Marks per day: 150 Marks
src/net/marksLaw.js · MARKS_COMBAT.perDay
Marks bank exchange per day: 300 Marks
src/net/marksLaw.js · MARKS_BANK.perDay
Bank exchange gold per Mark: 8 gold
src/net/marksLaw.js · MARKS_BANK.goldPerMark
Maximum market listings: 30 listings
src/net/marketLaw.js · MARKET_LISTINGS_MAX
Market listing lifetime: 72 hours
src/net/marketLaw.js · MARKET_LISTING_S
Court writs per day: 3 writs
src/net/professionLaw.js · COURT_WRITS_PER_DAY
Public dungeon respawn: 20 minutes
src/systems/dungeon/dungeonRespawn.js · DUNGEON_RESPAWN_MS
Elite dungeon respawn: 40 minutes
src/systems/dungeon/dungeonRespawn.js · ELITE_DUNGEON_RESPAWN_MS