Difference between revisions of "Changelog"

Revision as of 20:55, 25 January 2012

This page will detail game mechanic changes to serve as a quick reference to returning players

Age 52

• Undeads will not convert any troops if they hit out of the end of war ceasefire period.
• Fog is removed from the game.
• Honor generation will be reduced as the amount generated on attacks is too high
• Casting Storms or Drought on a Shepherd will not be blocked but you will get a message that they are immune on a successful cast.
• End of War Ceasefire period can be extended up to 4 days
• Fake Wars are not allowed and will be actioned
• Stances extensively changed
• Meter changes: We count trads as 2 points, all other hits as 1. The attack gains reduction factor is built into all attacks except raze and ambush.
• Meter Cap 200 points:
• Gains throttling: Occurs after 100 points and slides linearly to 200 points having - 50% gains.
• Inactive provinces will automatically abandon after 5 day changes have occurred since last activity. The monarchs can then invite a new player into them, or delete them.

Age 51

• Province networth will be shown in SoT
• Kingdom pages will update when stance or monarchy is changed
• The End Of War Ceasefire period is extended to 72 hours but can now be exited after 12 hours with no daily honor loss in war
• Thief Dens loss reduction will take effect on successful operations, in additional to its existing effects.
• Chastity will cost twice the runes it does currently

Age 50

• Base peasant income increased from 2.25 gc per peasant to 2.75.
• Base building time reduced to 16 hours.
• Base thief cost reduced to 500 gold coins
• Dark Elf is removed
• Gnome is removed
• Undead will be added
• Faery will be added
• Artisan is removed
• Cleric will be added

Age 49

• ingame chat feature added
• Bloodlust. Type: Self spell. Cost: 2000 runes. Difficulty: Similar to shadowlight and animate dead. Effect: A province under Bloodlust will inflict 15% more kills and suffer 5% more kills on their next attack.
• Mage's Fury. Type: Duration self-spell. Cost: 1400 runes. Difficulty: Similar to Fanaticism. Duration: Max 12 days.Effect: This spell increases the province's WPA by 10% for offensive purposes while decreasing it by 10% for defensive purposes. No effect on self-spells.
• "Peaceful" stance has been removed. Its effects have been moved into "Fortified".
• Dragons have been boosted

Age 48

• Paradise: Base number of acres is randomised between 2 & 8. Quantity of acres no longer affected by Guilds. Mystics Spell Potency bonus does NOT apply.
• Espionage: Only need to send 20% thieves for best accuracy.
• Espionage accuracy no longer affected by target Watch Towers.

Age 47

• Halflings will be returning to Utopia as a strong thief race.
• Thievery operations will be split into two categories - Espionage and Sabotage.
• Espionage will consist of information gathering operations and Sabotage will involve destructive operations.
• Crystal Ball and Crystal Eye shall be removed from spells and added as espionage thievery operations named Spy on Throne and Snatch news respectively.

Age 46

• War Hero removed
• Tactician added

Age 45

• Server time is now in GMT/UTC
• Undead is removed
• Logout bonuses no longer exist (no rewards for staying off the server)
• Meteor Showers (spell) is only available to mystic
• Paradise: land created by Paradise appears from no-where - i.e does not come from explore pool
• Raze: in war this attack only destroys Buildings
• Removing NW based attack times in war
• On war declaration, attack time reduction will jump to -10% immediately, then phase to -20%
• War phasing will be reduced to 12 hours (this does not apply to protection which is still 24h)
• In end of war ceasefire, +200% increase in birth rates
• post war CF is 48 hours, monarch can opt out of the CF at any point after 24 hours have passed (each monarch can decide on his own - both kingdoms don't have to stay)
• Tax calculation is based on average KD NW (provinces awaiting activation are not included when calculating average NW, and this will only apply to provinces who are below the average KD NW)
• No Tax exemption for new provinces
• TB values - soldiers 100gc, runes 3gc, bushels 0.2gc