Invitations

Brief Summary

Monarchs can invite people to join their kingdom from the Invitations page. This page is accessible via the Invitations link which is added to the Monarchs navigation menu.

Sending Invitations

There are two kinds of invitation available for a monarch to send:

• Kingdom Invitations - to move into a free space in a kingdom
• Province Invitations - to move into an abandoned province in a kingdom

Invitations can be sent to leaders of another province within the game and to email addresses of people you know who may not have played Utopia before.

Invitations are honoured on a first-come first-served basis. A monarch can invite multiple people to move into the same single space in his/her kingdom. The first person to accept the invitation will successfully move into the space. Subsequent attempts by others to accept the invitation will fail gracefully explaining that the invitation has been taken up already by another player. A player moving into an already established province will assume command of that province without any changes to it. A player moving into a free space in the kingdom may choose their race, specialty, ruler and province name. Please note however that the "Reset" option is not available to provinces once Freeze time has expired.

For short periods of time, some places in a kingdom may be empty, but reserved for other players. Invitations can not be issued for these reserved spaces.

Kingdom Move Limit

Each kingdom has a maximum number of moves it can perform in an age (maximum move count). Each time a invitation to move into a kingdom is successfully accepted that kindom's move count is incremented. Once the maximum move count has been reached the kingdom cannot successfully invite more players in. Currently issued invites will fail if the recipient tried to accept.

Receiving Invitations

Existing Player

When an invitation is sent to the leader of an existing province, the invitation will be displayed on the Province Lobby page for that player. Even if the player's province dies, the player will still be able to access the invitation until he/she either accepts or rejects it.

Email Address

An email will be sent to the email address. The email will explain that it is an invitation to join utopia-game.com. The monarch's message (filled out by the monarch when issuing the invitation) is also included. The email will include an invitation URL which the recipient may follow to view a formatted version of the invitation. If the recipient signs up to Utopia at this point they will see the invitation in the Province Lobby as with any other existing player. The account used to sign up must be associated with the email used to receive the Invitation.