Server concept

Work in progress

The concept is still being worked on and details may change. This version includes the update after the community surveys.

Structures on the island

The merchant and the harbour

• Buying and selling goods from and for the mainland
• Roleplay figure for the global quest series
• The place with the most NPC quests

The castle ruin

• PvP KoS zone (day and night)
• Certain quests send players there
• Loot events
• Some characters on site are played by GMs

Changed and new game content

Reducing and delaying market saturation

• Only one character is allowed per player.
• Food spoils.
• Armour can only be repaired with equipment maintenance at the workbench.
• Weapons and tools can no longer be repaired.
• The steel cost for Vostaskus is reduced by ⅔.
• The flux cost for steel is reduced to 10 per ingot.
• Workshops (smithy, kitchen, carpentry, apothecary) only become available later, and then only in limited numbers.
• Certain items can only be made at workshops, for example metal armour at the smithy, reinforced staves at the carpentry and 4- and 5-star meals at the kitchen.

Global quest series

The quest series is announced on Discord and played by the merchant when needed. It motivates all players at once to pursue a certain goal in order to unlock certain progress, for example workshop tokens.

NPC quests

• Craft master (harbour): skill points
• Harbour master (harbour): quest for the starter pack
• and much more

Skill cap and day length

According to the community surveys:

• Skill cap for crafting: 800 points
• In-game day length: 5 real-life hours

Claims

• Monuments must be fed with coins.
• Registered absence freezes the upkeep points.
• Claim levels have requirements and partly changed sizes. Defences and the number of allowed workshops depend on the claim level:

Level	Radius (tiles)	Requirement	Defences	Workshops
1	20	1 player	Palisade	0
2	30	2 players	Palisade with walkway	1
3	40	3 players	Palisade with walkway	1
4	55	4 players	Stone walls	2
5	75	6 players + territory capital	Castle walls	3

So that smaller claims have more room for design, the radius of the first four levels was increased by 5 tiles each.

Workshops

Workshops are the smithy, kitchen, carpentry and apothecary.

• Workshop tokens are the items needed to build workshops. A limited number can be bought via the homepage, and more tokens are available from the merchant in roleplay.
• Consequently, not every claim will be able to build every workshop.
• For solo players: once the workshops have been unlocked through the global quest, workshops will open in the harbour town shortly afterwards. Solo players who do not belong to a territory can use them for a fee at an NPC. The right of use is time-limited but can be bought again and again.

Territory

Anyone can found a territory on the island if the following is met:

• It includes at least 3 claims.
• The territory capital is at least claim level 3.
• It has at least 6 inhabitants spread across all claims.

Benefits:

• The territory capital may build one additional workshop.
• The territory capital gets its coat of arms in game as a hanging shield.

KoS at night

In addition to the PvP zone (where KoS applies day and night), there is KoS at night on the server, with these restrictions:

• KoS applies only in the time window of complete darkness. The exact in-game times will be announced at server start.
• KoS is only allowed outside claim areas. It does not matter whether it is your own claim or someone else’s.
• If someone escapes into their claim during the night, KoS is over for that situation. A KoS PvP action begun earlier must not be continued.
• Anyone carrying a torch and standing on a road must not be attacked under KoS.

Important

At night you can still be raided in a roleplay-compliant way on your own claim or on the road with a torch.