Round 70 Changes

Gameplay

• Working on some new ideas and concepts, but nothing major this round.

World News 2.0

• An almost entirely technical change only, but one which was well overdue. The previous World News code was a huge mess.
• In terms of game impact, just some minor cosmetic changes that will become apparent during the round.
• General World News (i.e. not for a specific realm) changed from max 48 hours ago to max 192 ticks ago.
• No, Erik, you still cannot disable Barbarian news. Sorry.

Factions

Demon

• Congregants produce an additional 0.70 blood/tick if paired with Archdemon (i.e. when the Archdemon is home).

Dimensionalists

• Cosmic alignment production changed from 1 to 10 per tick.
• Cosmic alignment cost to invade changed from 24 to 240.

Dwarg

• Cleric changed from 6/8 to 0/8. Cost changed from 1,000 gold, 100 ore to 700 gold, 150 ore.

Lux

• Pax training time changed from 7 to 6 ticks.

Norse

• Berserkers changed from +0.45 to +0.50 OP per victory in the last 96 ticks, and can now be released into a Champion.

Orc

• Experimental.
• Perks:
  • +20% food consumption
  • +50% lumber production
  • Starts devoted to Urugdakh
• Land perks:
  • Plains: 0.002 yaks/tick
  • Mountain: 0.006 yaks/tick
  • Swamp: 0.001 yaks/tick
  • Forest: 0.002 yaks/tick
  • Hill: 0.004 yaks/tick
  • Water: 0.001 yaks/tick
• Units:
  • Impaler: 4/2 — 600 gold, 80 ore — +2 OP if paired with 0.05 Warbosses.
  • Shieldbearer: 0/4 — 600 gold, 80 ore — +2 DP if paired with 0.05 Warbosses.
  • Doomrider: 0/8 — 2,000 gold, 400 ore, 1 yak — +20 OP and +8 DP if paired with 0.50 Warbosses, dies into 0.90 yaks.
  • Warboss: 8/8 — 1,200 gold, 200 ore, 1 gem — +2 OP if paired with 20 Impalers.

Vampire

• Gnarl conversion to Ravager changed from 0.50% to 1.50%.

Yeti

• Fighter food cost changed from 440 to 480.

Advancements

• No changes.

Buildings

• Beacon (Lux only) changed from 30 housing to 36 housing.
• Portals unit production penalty removed, but unit production capped at 20% of land being portals (portals beyond 20% produce nothing).

Deities

• No changes.

Improvements

• Urugdakh range multiplier changed from 0.80x to 0.75x.

Resources

• New — Yak: slower than horses but much stronger.

Spells and Sorcery

• Mana cost now calculated on the fly on the Sorcery page. It doesn’t always update so you might need to wiggle the Wizard Strength slider a bit if trying different spells with different base costs.
• Fixed a lot of bugs with duration spells.
• Charring Flames (Firewalker only) changed to +10% casualties, -10% construction costs.

Spy Ops

• No changes.

Titles

• No changes.