Revision as of 14:06, 8 March 2024

Age 97

Original details can be found in the forums here: http://forums.utopia-game.com/showthread.php?640273-Age-97-Final-Changes

Mechanical Changes

• Specialists once again convert to Elite Units on successful Traditional March Attacks for all Races
• Military Wages penalty from the Kingdom Wall removed
• Daily Activity Bonus will be calculated from the average Income of the last ingame Month
• Provinces will no longer be affected by Dragons during Protection
• An indicator for current MAP (Multi-Attack Protection) level will be visible on State Council
• Out of Range Wars will no longer transfer War Score
• Aggressive FCF will no longer transfer War Score

Buildings

• Farms production reduced from 70 to 60 bushels per tick
• Training Grounds now also reduce Mercenary costs by 2% (max 50%)
• Universities now increase Science Book generation of all Categories; base Book generation effect reduced to from 2% to 1% (max 25%)

Science

• Cunning Science has been split into Sorcery:'Increased Instant Spell Damage' and Cunning:'Increased Sabotage Operation Damage'
• Cunning Science efficiency scaling reduced to ~2/3 of current
• Sorcery Science efficiency scaling reduced to ~2/3 of current
• All Personalities will generate bonus Science Books based on their area of focus (see Personalities section for more information)

Relations

• Military Casualties will be proportionally reduced by the scaling Effectiveness penalty for hitting into/out of War
• Points needed for reaching War Tiers have been adjusted (each tier provides additional bonuses to the winning Kingdom of a War)

War Score Tiers

• Tier 1: 120
• Tier 2: 140
• Tier 3: 165
• Tier 4: 190
• Tier 5: 220

Rituals

• Number of Casts needed to start a 100% strength Ritual changed from 80 to 3 times the number of provinces in the Kingdom (to a minimum 45 Casts for 15 provinces or fewer)
• Undercasting a Ritual has been removed
• The overcast Ritual efficiency formula has been adjusted to account for the new requirement
• Ritual effects have been adjusted

Rituals

• Affluent: +15% Income, +20% Draft Rate
• Barrier: -20% Damage from Enemy Instant Magic & Thievery Operations, -10% Combat (Resource) Losses
• Expedient: -20% Training Time, -20% Training Cost, -20% Construction Time, -20% Construction Cost
• Expropriation: removed
• Godspeed: -10% Attack Time, +20% Honor Gained in Combat, +20% Credits Gained in Combat
• Havoc: +20% Offensive WPA & TPA, +5% Instant Spell Damage, +5% Sabotage Damage
• Onslaught: +10% Offensive Military Efficiency, +15% Enemy Military Casualties on Attacks
• Stalwart: +10% Defensive Military Efficiency, -15% Military Casualties

Spells

• Returning Spell - Miner's Mystique: Peasants provide a stable, supplemental source of Income from mining precious metals, generating an extra 0.3gc each (medium duration)
• New Spell - Salvation: protects military in battle, reducing all Military Casualties by 10% (medium duration)

• Abolish Ritual - Rune Cost reduced
• Amnesia - availability changed to limited (Heretic)
• Bloodlust - Self and Enemy Military Casualties adjusted to +15%/+15%
• Chastity - effect changed to -50% Birth Rate
• Divine Shield - average duration reduced by ~15%
• Expose Thieves - effect has been changed to -1 Stealth Recovery per Tick (short duration); difficulty and cost increased
• Fanaticism - average duration reduced by ~25%
• Invisibility - TPA bonus reduced to +10%
• Meteor Showers - availability changed to War only
• Support Spells list has been updated

Support Spells

• Minor Protection
• Greater Protection
• Fertile Lands
• Magic Shield
• Natures Blessing
• Love and Peace
• Builders Boon
• Inspire Army
• Patriotism
• Illuminate Shadows
• Wrathful Smite
• Divine Shield
• Fanaticism
• Mist
• Salvation
• Town Watch

• (note: in order to cast a particular Support Spell, you must have access to it)

Operations

• Sabotage Wizards Damage cap reduced by 50%
• Assassinate Wizards meter points value increased to .12
• Arson meter points value increased to .08
• Greater Arson meter points value increased to .1

Dragons

• Dragons no longer have baseline effects
• Dragons maximum duration reduced from 120 to 48 Ticks
• Dragons now also require an extra 1/10 of their GC cost as Food to launch
• Dragon page will now show Cost and HP w/o starting a project
• Dragon stats and effects have been adjusted

Dragons

• Amethyst Dragon: removed
• Emerald Dragon: (HP and Cost scaling reduced to Ruby's scaling)

• +15% Military Casualties
• -15% Combat Gains
• -50% Credits Gained in Combat

• Ruby Dragon:

• -10% Military Efficiency
• +20% Military Wages
• -25% New Draftees

• Sapphire Dragon:

• -25% WPA/TPA
• +10% Instant Spell and Sabotage Damage taken
• -25% Spell Duration

• Topaz Dragon:

• -25% Building Efficiency
• -15% Income
• Instantly Destroys 2% of Buildings, and then again every 6 Ticks