Age 80 Revised Changes

REVISED changes for Age 80:

Greetings Utopians!

Most important things to note:
- Freeze time will be extended (instead of Monday start we will start on Tuesday)
- Undead is a race
- Cleric has returned
- Sitting time available and the way it's used is being adjusted
- MunkBot will no longer function...enter UtopiaBot/IntelBot natively embedded in game, see details below:

We are very excited to announce changes for Age 80! We apologize for the delay in releasing proposed changes however we hope that you will appreciate the work that we've done behind the scenes to ensure that the proposed changes would function as we expect before announcing since what we have in store is such a major development for the game. We really wanted to be certain that our plans would be ready and that we could deliver a product ready to go live.

The major development we've been working on mainly revolves around the complete integration of natively stored intel directly within the Utopia-Game framework. There will no longer be a need for the '3rd party tool' MunkBot (or others) to store your gathered intel and everything that goes along with it, i.e. requiring users to register on other sites, download other tools, set up in-game functions and all the confusion that goes along with that especially for new users or users that are unfamiliar with these types of tools. At first, the integration will continue to appear similar to MunkBot but will be re-developed continously to improve the User Interface, intel storage displays, bot commands and more. There are many ways we plan to take advantage of natively storing intel and will continue deploying improvements to this system throughout the age and in the future.

A very important key feature to understand now is that there is no need to have separate login information for MunkBot or that 3rd party Intel-Site, in fact there is no login required at all except to your Utopia account. The moment you enter your Province on the server you will be automatically able to access the intel stored by your Kingdom. Your intel and any intel you gather will be automatically sent to your Kingdom storage and available to your Kingdom mates. There is also an irc-like chat box at the top of your browser which will replace the ReverbIM chat system, all Kingdom members will join this upon entry to the server and the chat history will persist indefinitely. Any bot notifications will be displayed here as well.

Some side notes to mention as they are still in development: there will be some form of administration to allow blocking of provinces from KD intel storage (we recognize the need for this and are still fleshing out exactly how this will function), we expect there will be methods to add additional chat areas (tabs) to allow private rooms or areas for bot spam etc, the KD-Site administration area will also allow for customization of notifications/operation info and lastly there will be a method for connecting this chat area directly to your own private discord server and in this way you can be connected to user/in-game chat without being logged into Utopia (via discord) and vice versa however the exact details on this will be explained later.

I hope that I have explained this well, we are very excited to complete this integration and look forward to all the possibilities this now offers to Utopia!
As for gameplay changes, as mentioned we wanted to shake up the races/personalities and instead of recreating the wheel we've decided to utilize some of the ideas and suggestions from users (thank you everyone who participated and let us know your thoughts!) along with taking some concepts from past Utopia ages.

We look forward to hearing feedback to help us better tweak the changes so that Age 80 will be fun and exciting for everyone to enjoy.

As always, we encourage new Kingdoms looking to form their own private Discord server to visit our Template Kingdom Server that illustrates the potential features provided by Discord for your Kingdom. Join the MUGA Discord for all the details (link below)

Please join us for some discussion of next age changes on Discord: https://utopia-game.com/discord


Age 79 End Schedule

Age 80 Revised Changes: February 2, 2019
Age 80 Final Changes: February 3, 2019

Age 79 End: Saturday February 2, 2019 @ 00:00 GMT
WoL Age 80 Open: Saturday February 2, 2019 @ 12:0018:00 GMT




Age 80 Revised Changes

Races

Avian

Bonuses
-20% Attack travel time
+1 Defensive Specialist Strength
-50% Ambush Land Losses

Penalties
Cannot Use War Horses/Stables
+15% Military Casualties

Spell book: Fanaticism, Greater Protection, Aggression
Elite: Offense: 7 Defense: 3 Networth: 8.0 Cost: 750
Soldiers: Offense: 1 Defense: 1

Age 79
Bonuses
-20% Attack travel time
+30% Birth Rate
+30% Specialist Credits from Attacks

Penalties
Cannot Use War Horses/Stables
-5% Battle Gains

Spell book: Fanaticism and Greater Protection
Elite: Offense: 8 Defense: 1 Networth: 9.0 Cost: 900
Soldiers: Offense: 1 Defense: 1

Dwarf

Bonuses
+20% Building Efficiency
-40% Building Construction Time
+25% Building Credits from attacks

Penalties
+75% Food consumption
-20% WPA

Spell book: Mystic Aura, Inspire Army, Clear Sight
Elite: Offense: 6 Defense: 6 Networth: 8.5 Cost: 825
Soldiers: Offense: 1 Defense: 1

Age 79
Bonuses
+20% Building Efficiency
Free Building Construction
-50% Building Construction Time

Penalties
Can't use Accelerated Construction
+75% Food consumption

Spell book: Mystic Aura, Inspire Army
Elite: Offense: 7 Defense: 4 Networth: 9.0 Cost: 925
Soldiers: Offense: 1 Defense: 1

Elf

Bonuses
-25% Rune Costs
Can Cast Self Spells on Others
-25% Military Train Time
+1 Defensive Specialist Strength

Penalties
+15% Explore Cost

Spell book: Inspire Army, Mage's Fury
Elite: Offense: 8 Defense: 4 Networth: 9.5 Cost: 950
Soldiers: Offense: 1 Defense: 1

Age 79
Bonuses
+25% WPA
+30% Tower Efficiency
+1 Defensive Specialist Strength

Penalties
+30% Wages

Spell book: Inspire Army
Elite: Offense: 8 Defense: 2 Networth: 9.5 Cost: 950
Soldiers: Offense: 1 Defense: 1

Faery

Bonuses
Access to All Racial Spells (excluding Paladin spells)
+20% TPA

Penalties
-1 General
-10% Maximum Population

Spell book: All spells excluding Paladin spells
Elite: Offense: 4 Defense: 8 Networth: 11.0 Cost: 1100
Soldiers: Offense: 1 Defense: 1

Age 79
Bonuses
+30% Self Spell Duration (will not affect spells on others)
+20% Sabotage Operation Damage
+15% Instant Spell Damage

Penalties
-10% Income

Spell book: Greater Protection, Tree of Gold, Animate Dead, Mystic Aura
Elite: Offense: 3 Defense: 8 Networth: 10.0 Cost: 1100
Soldiers: Offense: 1 Defense: 1

Halfling

Bonuses
+50% Thievery Effectiveness (TPA)
-50% Thief Losses
Mercenaries and Prisoners fight with 10 strength
Can use Specialist credits to train thieves


Penalties
Cannot use hospitals

Spell book: Aggression, Town Watch
Elite: Offense: 5 Defense: 5 Networth: 8 Cost: 200
Soldiers: Offense: 2 Defense: 2

Age 79
Bonuses
+25% Thievery Effectiveness (TPA)
+5% Population
-50% Thief Costs


Penalties
-5% Building Effectiveness

Spell book: Aggression, Town Watch
Elite: Offense: 5 Defense: 7 Networth: 9.5 Cost: 900
Soldiers: Offense: 2 Defense: 2

Human

Bonuses
+15% Science Effectiveness
+1 Offense Specialist Strength

Penalties
-1% Mana Recovery Per Tick

Spell book: Greater Protection, Inspire Army, Quick Feet, Revelation
Elite: Offense: 4 Defense: 7 Networth: 9.5 Cost: 1050
Soldiers: Offense: 1 Defense: 1

Age 79
Bonuses
+30% Income
Income Penalty Protection
+20% Credits (Building & Military from Attacks)

Penalties
+20% Spell Rune Cost

Spell book: Greater Protection, Inspire Army, Quick Feet
Elite: Offense: 8 Defense: 3 Networth: 9.5 Cost: 1000
Soldiers: Offense: 1 Defense: 1

Orc

Bonuses
+10% Maximum Population
-50% Draft Costs
+10% Enemy military casualties

Penalties
20% of Spells Fail
20% of Thievery Operations Fail

Spell book: Inspire Army, Bloodlust
Elite: Offense: 9 Defense: 2 Networth: 8.75 Cost: 1050
Soldiers: Offense: 1 Defense: 1

Age 79
Bonuses
+20% Battle Gains
-75% Draft Costs
+15% Enemy casualties when attacking

Penalties
+10% Military Casualties
-20% Science Effectiveness

Spell book: Reflect Magic
Elite: Offense: 9 Defense: 1 Networth: 9 Cost: 925
Soldiers: Offense: 1 Defense: 1

Undead

Bonuses
+20% Maximum Population
-40% Military casualties
Some specialists convert to elites on Traditional Marches
No food needed
Spreads and is immune to the Plague

Penalties
Only Basic Thievery Intel Operations available
-25% Science Effectiveness
-1 Offense Specialist Strength
-1 Defensive Specialist Strength


Spell book: Animate Dead
Elite: Offense: 11 Defense: 3 Networth: 10.5 Cost: 2050
Soldiers: Offense: 1 Defense: 1


Personalities

The Heretic

All Guilds are 75% more effective
Reduced thief losses on failed operations (-75%)
+25% WPA and TPA
+25% Cunning Science Effectiveness
Access to Blizzard, Fool's Gold, Nightmare and Gluttony
Starts with +400 Wizards and +400 thieves

Age 79
All Guilds are 100% more effective
Wizards do not die on failed spells
Reduced thief losses on failed operations (-66%)
+35% Sorcery and Crime Science Effectiveness
+25% Cunning Science Effectiveness
Access to Blizzard, Fool's Gold, Nightmare and Chastity
Starts with +400 Wizards and +400 thieves

The Mystic

All Guilds are 150% more effective
+60% Sorcery Science Effectiveness
+1 Mana per tick
Access to Meteor Showers, Chastity, Mage's Fury and Paradise
Starts with +800 Wizards

Age 79
All Guilds are 150% more effective
+75% Sorcery Science Effectiveness
+1 Mana per tick
Access to Revelation, Meteor Showers, Chastity, Mage's Fury and Paradise
Starts with +800 Wizards

The Paladin

Troops attack dragon with +35% increased power
+50% Valor Science Effectiveness
Starting Soldiers +600
Starting Specialist Credits +600
All Paladin Only Spells
Paladin Only Spells

Paladin's Inspiration (Paladin Only) - This spell has ~25% increased effects as Inspire Army (low difficulty;moderate/high duration)
Scientific Insights (Paladin Only) - This spell will increase the science effectiveness by +10% (moderate difficulty/short duration)
Illuminate Shadows (Paladin Only) - Provide -20% damage from thievery operations (moderate/high difficulty;moderate duration)
Wrathful Smite (Paladin Only) - Attacks against province while this spell is active will result in higher casualties for the attacker (moderate difficulty;low/moderate duration)
Divine Shield (Paladin Only) - Increase magic defense (will stack with Magic Shield;low/moderate difficulty;moderate duration)

Sorcery
Magic Ward (Unf Only) (Paladin Only) - Increase target's spell cost in runes by 25% for duration (moderate difficulty)
Barrier of Integrity (Unf Only) (Paladin Only) - Stops all drafting that would normally take place in target province (moderate/high difficulty;very short duration)

Age 79
All Guilds are 50% more effective
Can cast support spells on Kingdom mates
Troops attack dragon with +30% increased power
+25% Valor Science Effectiveness
Starting Soldiers +400
Starting Specialist Credits +400
Starting Wizards +400
All Paladin Only Spells

The Rogue

All Guilds are 50% more effective
+1 Stealth recovery per tick
Access to all thievery operations, including 3 unique to rogues: Greater Arson, Assassinate Wizards and Propaganda
Thieves Dens are 50% more effective
+50% Crime Science Effectiveness
Access to Invisibility and Paradise
Starts with +800 thieves

Age 79
All Guilds are 50% more effective
+1 Stealth recovery per tick
Access to all thievery operations, including 3 unique to rogues: Greater Arson, Assassinate Wizards and Propaganda
Thieves Dens are 50% more effective
+50% Crime Science Effectiveness
Access to Revelation, Gluttony, Invisibility and Paradise
Starts with +800 thieves

The Tactician

Attack Time -15%
+20% Specialist and Building credits gained in combat
Accurate Espionage
+20% Siege Science Effectiveness
Starting Soldiers +800
Starting Specialist Credits +800
Access to Fanaticism

Age 79
Attack Time -15%
Accurate Espionage
+20% Siege Science Effectiveness
Starting Soldiers +800
Starting Specialist Credits +800
Access to Clear Sight and Fanaticism

The Cleric

Immune to The Plague
-35% Military Casualties
Starts with +800 soldiers and +800 specialist credits
Access to Greater Protection

The War Hero

Honor Bonuses +100%
+5% Military Efficiency In War
+25% Heroism Science Effectiveness
Dragon Immunity
Convert Specs into Elites
Starting Elites +800
Access to War Spoils and Pitfalls

Age 79
Honor Bonuses +100%
+1 Offense Specialist strength
+25% Heroism Science Effectiveness
Dragon Immunity
Convert Specs into Elites
Starting Elites +800
Access to War Spoils and Pitfalls

The Warrior

+15% Offensive Military Efficiency
+10% Tactics Science Effectiveness
-25% Military Wages
Full Conquest Access
Starting Soldiers +800
Spec Credits +800

Age 79
+10% Offensive Military Efficiency
+10% Tactics Science Effectiveness
Full Conquest Access
Starting Soldiers +800
Spec Credits +800
Access to Bloodlust

Mechanics
Hostile Meter
- Unfriendly will begin at 10 points
- Hostile will begin at 25 points
- Sending a Dragon will move the Hostile meter
Dragons
- Saphire HP will be increased
Science System
- Science effects will be adjusted (more detailed information will be provided in graphs)
- Book generation rate will be reduced
- Military Train Time science affects the train time reduction in an odd way and will be adjusted to be more intuitive
Overpopulation
- Peasant desertions will increase to be more comparable with military desertion rates
- The rate at which troops desert from armies away will be reduced




Game Administration Kingdom (restated) - Kingdom 1:1 will be dedicated to Game Administration and Utopia News Reporters. The provinces in this Kingdom will remain in protection for the duration of the age. These provinces should not be messaged to replace the use of Utopia Support e-mail or for reporting violations of the Game Rules. Utopia News Reporters will have a dedicated province in this Kingdom to enable them a safe and secure place to message Kingdoms with privacy for their in-game accounts and Forum accounts. Kingdoms or players that receive messages from these Reporter accounts can be assured the person they are speaking with is who they say they are and not some random person scamming for information.


Miscellaneous
- Sitting days per Province will be increased from 21 to 30
- Minimum sitting time used by using a sitting credit will reduce from 24 to 12 (for example, if using sitting for less than 24 hours in the past you would use a full 24 hours. Now, if you use less than 12 hours it will remove 12 hours and anything over 12 hours will remove the exact amount of time used)


Bug Fixes
- We believe we have fixed a significant bug affecting Kingdoms causing ticks to skip on day change for some Kingdoms

Ritual Types (Stats listed here are considered 'base effectiveness')
Affluent: Income +20% & Draft Speed +25%
Barrier: +10% DME & -20% Spell/Thief damage & +15% Defensive TPA & +15% Defensive WPA
Expedient: -20% Military Train time & -25% Training Costs (including Thieves) & -20% Construction Time & -25% Construction Costs
Expropriation: +10% Combat Gains & +20% Honor Gains on Attacks
Godspeed: 10% Reduced Attack Time & 15% Less Military Casualties on Offense
Havoc: +30% Offensive TPA & +30% Offensive WPA & +10% Spell/Thief damage
Onslaught: +10% OME & +15% enemy casualties on attacks

Age 79

Affluent: Income +20% & Draft Speed +25%
Barrier: +10% DME & -20% Spell/Thief damage & +15% Defensive TPA & +15% Defensive WPA
Expedient: -20% Military Train time & -25% Training Costs (including Thieves) & -20% Construction Time & -25% Construction Costs
Expropriation: +10% Combat Gains & +20% Honor Gains on Attacks
Godspeed: 10% Reduced Attack Time & 15% Less Military Casualties on Offense
Havoc: +30% Offensive TPA & +30% Offensive WPA & +10% Spell/Thief damage
Onslaught: +10% OME & +15% enemy casualties on attacks

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