Round 56 Changes

General

• Resources 2.0! — beta
  • We are now beta testing Resources 2.0. There is a high risk of resource-related bugs this round.
  • Resources have been decoupled from the Dominion class, same as Spells 2.0, Buildings 2.0, and Imps 2.0. This means it’ll be a walk in the park to add unique resources, which in turn can be used for all sorts of crazy antics.
  • A few notes:
    • While the default is that employed peasants produce 2.7 gold/tick, this has been changed for some factions:
      • Ants: 2.25 gold
      • Artillery: 2 gold, 0.35 ore
      • Dragon: 2.2 gold, 0.10 gems
      • Growth: 0.5 food (including unemployed peasants)
      • Lux: 2 gold, 0.10 mana
      • Marshling: 2.7 gold, 0.10 mana.
      • Myconid: 2 food (including unemployed peasants)
      • Sylvan: 0.01 lumber (including unemployed peasants)
      • Swarm: 2 gold (including unemployed peasants)
      • Void: 0.20 mana (including unemployed peasants)
    • Each faction is assigned a set of resources. By default, this is gold, food, lumber, ore, gems, and mana.
    • Resources shown on Status page, overview bar, and on Insight are dynamic and only shows the resources that are used by that faction. For example, Void only shows Mana.
• Peasant burning, peasant eating, and draftee eating perks have been changed to scale with OP:DP ratio (max 1): [Damage] * (min([OP]/[DP], 1).
• XP is no longer a resource; instead of being a re-skinned tech/research points, it’s its own thing now. Pure technical change, but it matters to me, dang it!
• Daily land bonus now also yields 20 XP per acre.
• Prestige gains from hitting Barbarians lowered from 1/3 of normal to 1/4 of normal.
• Expeditions!
  • Send out units and gain 1 acre per [Land Size]^1.25 OP that you send.
  • Gain 25 XP per acre discovered.
  • Gain ([Land Discovered] / [Land Size]) * 200) prestige.
  • No casualties.
  • Units have ordinary return time.
  • Ammunition and immobile units and units with fixed casualties cannot be sent on expeditions.
  • Expeditions must discover at least 1 acre, meaning you can’t send less than the minimum OP to discover 1 acre.

Factions

• Ants
  • Lose -15% gold production perk.
  • Can no longer build Ore Mines or Gem Mines.
  • Lumber provides 2.25 imp points (up from 2).
• Beastfolk
  • All unit costs increased by 50 gold.
• Cult
  • Initiate cannot be trained.
• Dwarf
  • Cleric loses 1/4 wizard on offense but changed from 1/4 to 1/2 wizard on defense.
• Legion
  • Protectors changed from 6/8 to 4/8 and conversion into Elite Guards changed to 2.5% on invasion and 5% on fending off.
• Lux
  • -15% gold production removed.
• Merfolk
  • Manta cost changed from 1,600 to 1,480 gold.
  • Sea Serpent cost changed from 1,800 to 1,620.
• Sylvan
  • Barren forest mana production changed from 18 to 17.
• Void
  • Vision cost changed from 175 to 200 mana.
  • Vision and Distortion raw OP/DP per tick uncapped.

Advancements

• No changes.

Buildings

• Compound changed from 30 to 35 housing, but no longer provides jobs.
• Pearl Farms changed from producing 14 gems/tick to producing 16 pearls/tick.

Improvements

• Brutality (Beastfolk only) coefficient increased from 5,000 to 10,000.
• Compassion (Beastfolk only) coefficient increased from 5,000 to 10,000.
• Foundation (Kerranad only) faster construction changed from -80/8,000 to -60/7,000.
• Swarm line-up:
  • Digging: increases gold and gem production
  • Burrowing: increases population and population growth.
  • Perception: increases DP mods, XP gains, and XP generation.
  • Shield Plates: reduces defensive and offensive casualties.
  • Striking: increases OP.
  • Underground Navigation: increases land discovered, lowers explore costs.
  • Undulation: reduces unit gold costs.
  • Venom: increases enemy casualties, lowers ownpopulation growth.

Resources

• New: Pearls (Merfolk only): 16 imp points, sell value of 4.

Spells

• No changes.

Spy Ops

• No changes.

Titles

• General: changed from +10% to +15% prestige gains and from +25% to +30% morale gains.
• Pathfinder: gains 0.20 prestige per acre explored.
• Survey: added 2 ticks faster construction.