Utopia - Age 19 (An Era of Hope)

[Eli]

Well, I managed to grab 450 acres back ina single hit so it's not a big deal now.

Which wasnt worth a **** since as soon as the buildings on the new acres were done I was hit for another 450 acres.

We(KLA) and a few other top kingdoms are bringing down a top kingdom who tried to feed on another top kingdom and take KLA's #1 spot in the world's kd nw charts. It seems that Myth joined the war against us.

[Eli]

More from Mehul :

As mentioned above, we don't expect to make major changes this round to Utopia. Some potential changes include:

* Tweaking of war benefits / drawbacks to discourage "fake wars"

* Unique elite costs for each race

* The ability to generate Elite Units through long-term building investments (similar to Science)

* Additional tweaks to happiness, attack gains, etc.

* Race changes have not yet been looked at, but Faeries, Undeads, and maybe Avians will likely be improved.

Mehul

[War4ever]

zopper, once again we may have an opening for you...i am starting to take it personally now :P

the smurf squad is making waves in utopia..albeit, still little ones, but apparently we are getting a rep!!!!!

go smurfs go!

finally up to viscount again....a 500 acre grab on a marquis will do that for you hahahahaha

then they ran the fools.....too bad, we would have grabbed alot of honor from them

[Zopperoni]

Hm, I am in dubio.

On the one hand, I don't want to leave, but on the other hand, I do want to be in a KD where I can break my Marquis-record.

Perhaps, if my current KD ends up on WoL next round (not unlikely, since we're only with 17+2), I can play in both KDs

[War4ever]

i love afros :P

[Eli]

More about the next age :

On War Benefits & Drawbacks, we're looking at some combination of higher elite costs, higher science costs, lower specialist costs, lower science decay, lower income, and lower maintenance. We will likely pick some combination of 2 or 3 of these to add into war effects.

We may expand all Armouries to work as Halfing Armouries currently do.

For race changes, the primary change will likely be dropping elite costs for some of the weaker races and raising them for some the current top races.

We are also looking at expanding the exploration pool and reducing the overall cost of exploring (both in gold & soldiers).

As mentioned earlier, this next round will have very limited changes; the current round was primarily ended early due to a combination of scheduling issues and the extensive downtime mid-game.

More will be posted as available...

Mehul

[Zopperoni]

YES! For the ninth round back-to-back I've reached Lord (or higher)!
I came from 913 on Tuesday to 1,629 now!

[Zopperoni]

This is my final CB for the end of the round:

The Province of Zopperoni (13:38)
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Utopian Date: May 22nd, YR9
RL Date: March 24th, 2003 (3:00 GMT)

Ruler Name: Lord Belthazor the Sorcerer
Personality & Race: The Mystic, Faery
Land: 1,195 Acres
Money: 2,779,687gc (28,774gc raw daily income)
Food: 89,381 bushels
Runes: 3,449 runes
Population: 37,170 citizens (31.10 per Acre)
Peasants: 11,989 (100% Employed)
Happy: b:100%, t:3.0gc, p:101.5%, m:100%
Trade Balance: -179,246gc (0% tax rate)
Networth: 206,847 (173.09 per Acre)
Thieves+Wizards+Science Networth: 58,240gc

Soldiers: 24 (52.8% estimated draft rate)
Swordsmen: 0
Magicians: 9,988 (39,952 defense points)
Beastmasters: 6,000 (24,000 offense / 36,000 def.)
War-Horses: 2 (up to 2 additional offense)
Prisoners: 0

Total Attack points: 24,050 (20.13 per Acre)
Practical (0% elites): 50 (0.04 per Acre)
Total Defense points: 76,000 (63.60 per Acre)
Practical (100% elites): 76,000 (63.60 per Acre)

Thieves: 3,600 (3.01 per Acre / 21% Stealth)
Wizards: 5,569 (4.66 per Acre / 45% Mana)

Crystal-Ball on your province will show:
Max. Possible Thieves/Wizards: 9,707 (8.12 / Acre)
Estimated Thieves Number: 7,280 (6.09 per Acre)
Estimated Wizards Number: 2,305 (1.93 per Acre)

A Dragon ravages the lands! (-25% income,
-30% food, -5% strength, -20% draftees,
+10% gains attacking this kingdom!)

Buildings: 1,298gc to build, 649gc to raze
Away bonus: 59,945gc (12h) / 179,835gc (20h)

[Zopperoni]

More from Mehul:

Some more thoughts ...

Elite Prices:
$4000 for Orcs & Dwarves
$3250 for Faeries
$3000 for Undead
$2750 for Avians

Armouries may function for all races as they currently do for Halflings.

Additional War Benefits / Drawbacks:
-25% Income
-30% Maintenance Costs
-50% Specialist / Draft costs
+50% Elite costs
-20% Science Decay