Groentje Players Manual Ch4 - Revision history

Groentje: /* Exploring and Wilderness */

2009-08-02T14:35:20Z

‎Exploring and Wilderness

Groentje: /* Exploring and Wilderness */

2009-08-02T14:34:50Z

‎Exploring and Wilderness

Windflare at 19:03, 16 April 2008

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Groentje: /* Barrack troops */

2008-03-01T15:38:14Z

‎Barrack troops

Groentje: /* Building Settings (supporting player feature) */

2008-01-05T10:26:18Z

‎Building Settings (supporting player feature)

Groentje: /* Destroying Buildings */

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‎Destroying Buildings

Groentje: /* Building Settings (supporting player feature) */

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‎Building Settings (supporting player feature)

Groentje: /* Building Settings (supporting player feature) */

2008-01-01T14:42:37Z

‎Building Settings (supporting player feature)

Groentje: /* Towns and Geld */

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‎Towns and Geld

Groentje: /* Building Settings for Supporting Players */

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‎Building Settings for Supporting Players

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 The amount of land determines a large part of your net power. Exploring a lot of land means you will quickly rise in ranks, defending new explored land and maintaining ranks is a different matter, and requires using the resources of your land. Newly explored land comes as barren wilderness. After exploring, you’ll need to build structures on these acres of wilderness to use and defend the land of your kingdom.
-On some servers, the maximum amount of land to which one can explore is limited (e.g. to 3500 acres). There is no hard cap on exploring, but the wilderness returns will just drop to about zero (apart from [[Nature's Lore|enchantment]] bonus). When a mage has reached the point where on-averge 0 acres per turn are generates, exploring 200 turns gives a few single acres and exploring without enchantment help is no longer practical.
+On some servers, the maximum amount of land to which one can explore is limited (e.g. to 3500 acres). There is no hard cap on exploring, but the [[Wilderness]] returns will just drop to about zero (apart from [[Nature's Lore|enchantment]] bonus). When a mage has reached the point where on-averge 0 acres per turn are generates, exploring 200 turns gives a few single acres and exploring without enchantment help is no longer practical.
 ==Buildings and Resources==

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 ==Exploring and Wilderness==
-In The Reincarnation, exploring is the safe way to gain more acres of land, in contrast to gaining land in battles with other kingdoms. Exploring is very efficient when you have little land, and becomes increasingly less efficient when you have gained more. You can specify the number of turns you want to spend exploring in the Explore screen. Exploring many [[turns]] at once does not give a land gain benefit. On some servers, the maximum amount of land to which one can explore is limited (e.g. to 3500 acres). The rate at which land is explored also depends on the length of the game so far (late comers can explore faster) and is effected by enchantments. There are also items that give you extra land.
+In The Reincarnation, exploring is the safe way to gain more acres of land, in contrast to gaining land in battles with other kingdoms. Exploring is very efficient when you have little land, and becomes increasingly less efficient when you have gained more. You can specify the number of turns you want to spend exploring in the Explore screen. Exploring many [[turns]] at once does not give a land gain benefit above exploring turn-by-turn. Note that the rate at which land is explored also depends on the length of the game so far (late comers can explore faster) and is effected by enchantments. There are also items that give you extra land.
 The amount of land determines a large part of your net power. Exploring a lot of land means you will quickly rise in ranks, defending new explored land and maintaining ranks is a different matter, and requires using the resources of your land. Newly explored land comes as barren wilderness. After exploring, you’ll need to build structures on these acres of wilderness to use and defend the land of your kingdom.
 ==Buildings and Resources==

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 === Barrack troops ===
-Any mage can recruit numbers of 5 basic barrack-troops: militia, phalanx, pikemen, archers and cavalry (for specifications: see Book of Units: Plain units). In addition, most mages can also recruit troops that are specific to their colour (totally magic-focussed phantasm mages are the exception, they have to make up for it by summoning, see [[Groentje_Players_Manual_Ch5|next chapter]]). The Recruit screen allows you to specify what troops to recruit, and how many of them. Note that the units that you recruit, require food and residence so you may need to check your status report to decide how many units you can support (see Buildings and Resources).
+Any mage can recruit numbers of 5 basic barrack-troops: [[militia]], [[phalanx]], [[Pikeman|pikemen]], [[archer|archers]] and [[cavalry]] (for specifications: see [[units|Book of Units]]: {{Plain}} Plain units). Most mages can further recruit  units that are specific to their colour, but {{blue}} Phantasm mages are the exception. They have to make up for it by summoning ([[Groentje_Players_Manual_Ch5|next chapter]]). A list of recruitable units is found [[:Category:Recruits|here]].
-Troops will be recruited over a (large) number of turns (providing that you do not go bankrupt or hit council protection earlier). You can only recruit one unit at a time. It is possible to maintain more than one stack of recruited units by alternating your recruit settings once every so often. It is also possible to cancel recruiting by setting recruit to ‘none’. Setting a recruit costs you NO turns.
 Though barrack troops are generally not that powerful, they are relatively cheap to get, relative easy to replace, and they can come in huge numbers quickly. There are many strategies in which some stacks of barrack troops within your army play an essential role, in any phase of the game.

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 They have access to the Building Settings pages, where one can set target numbers for each type of building. This may be a fixed amount, or a percentage-of-your-land. The idea is that each time after you gained land, your settings help you to determine quickly what number of buildings should be build.
-They also have access to a 'maximize' buttons for each building on the building page, to help you quickly fill up 'unused' parts of your building turns. E.g.: Next to your so-wanted forts (which would take 2.4 turns), add 'a few workshops, barracks' (for max 0.6 turns) to use the 3 turns you are going to waste on fort building to the maximum. If you set a preferred farm/town ratio in the Building Settings page, the maximize buttons will add farms and towns at that ratio. Similar features are also present on the Destroy page. See [[Supporting Guild Features]] for more details.
+They also have access to a 'maximize' buttons for each building on the building page, to help you quickly fill up 'unused' parts of your building turns. E.g.: Next to your so-wanted forts (which would take 2.4 turns), add 'a few workshops, barracks' (for max 0.6 turns) to use the 3 turns you are going to waste on fort building to the maximum. If you set a preferred farm/town ratio in the Building Settings page, the maximize buttons will add farms and towns at that ratio. Similar features are also present on the Destroy page.
 == Gelding ==

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 It is possible to rearrange your land use without increasing your total land, using the Destroy page.
 Here you can destroy earlier built buildings - their land use becomes [[Wilderness]].
-Thereafter, rebuild the land using the Building page. You cannot destroy and rebuilt in one action.
+Thereafter, rebuild the land using the Building page. You cannot destroy and rebuild in one action.
 == Building Settings (supporting player feature) ==

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 ===Towns and [[Geld]]===
-[[Towns]] house population and generate you [[geld|geld (money)]] each turn. The amount of towns affects what population can be supported (check ‘residential space’ in the status report, and its relation to ‘max population space’). You'll need both towns and farmland in a certain ratio to optimally balance your [[population]] and [[geld]] flow.
+[[Towns]] house population and generate you [[geld|geld (money)]] each turn. The amount of towns affects what population can be supported (check ‘residential space’ in the status report, and its relation to ‘max population space’). You'll need both towns and farmland in a certain ratio to optimally balance your [[population]] and [[geld]] flow. Supporting players / guildmembers can use the Building Settings tool to set this ratio.
 Geld is a valuable resource because in principle you can store it in unlimited quantities. Your buildings and armies require geld to build/recruit them and to maintain them (how much is specified in the Encyclopedia’s Book of Buildings and Book of Units).

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 [[Barriers]] are your defence against incoming magic (spells and items) measured as barrier resistance percentage (see your status report). One exception: magic in-between allied mages always penetrates barriers (not yet implemented). Maintaining 2.5% of your land as barriers will grant your kingdom the maximum of 75% Barrier resistance, randomly blocking 75% of incoming spells and 75% of incoming items – but this will draw heavily upon your magic power budget. Developing the [[skills]] of your mage can modify these percentages.
-== Building Settings for Supporting Players ==
+== Building Settings (supporting player feature) ==
 Members of supporting guilds see an extra options in their building page.
 They have access to the Building Settings pages, where one can set target numbers for each type of building. This may be a fixed amount, or a percentage-of-your-land. The idea is that each time after you gained land, your settings help you to determine quickly what number of buildings should be build.