Skills

Barrier Proficiency | Animal Mastery | Spell Penetration | Undead Mastery | Spell Mastery
Grand Enchanter | Legendary Commander | Augment Summoning | Grand Conquerer

Introduction

The mages you can hire in Guilds can spend their time on thaumaturgical research, improving existing magic techniques. All this effort at some point can become useful even to most powerful mages, such as you. When you build Mage Guilds on your land, people working in them can not only help in researching new spells or uncovering ancient artifacts - they will also spend their time on mentioned thaumaturgy.

The 9 skills are divided into two groups: color-specific skills and neutral skills. Color skills are more powerful, but training color-specific skill that has different aligment from your magic specialty takes double amount of skill points.

When you train yourself in one skill, you increase your rank in it. There are 20 ranks in each skill, and attaining each next rank is more expensive (see the table below). Off-color skills take twice the investment.

Developing your skills

There are 10 different skills, that a mage can develop slowly over time. You need guilds on your land (the buildings where your population works on developing magic) and then by spending turns you generate skill credits.

The work by your guilds is reflected by a 'research points' income. 1 guild-building generates 10 points per turn (less if you build over 10%, because only small percentage of inhabitants of your country is talented enough do perform such exceptional science). For example, with 3500 acres your maximum income will be 3500 points/turn, as long as you maintain at least 350 guilds.

From time to time, when you have accumulated enough research points, they turn into skill credits (also called Skill Points). The amount of research points that make a skill point differ per server.

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server speed	research points
Blitz - 1turn/5min	???,???
Guild - 1turn/10min	250,000
App - 1turn/15min	???,???

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• You can invest gained skill credits any time you want. But:
  • Spending skill credit costs 1 turn.
  • You store max 5 unused Skill Credits. If you gain a sixst... it is lost.
  • You are forced to choose early, what skill to develop. You can switch ofcourse, but you cannot withdraw invested skill credits.

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Rank	Rank Invest	Total Invest	Rank	Rank Invest	Total Invest
1	1	1	11	11	66
2	2	3	12	12	78
3	3	6	13	13	91
4	4	10	14	14	105
5	5	15	15	15	120
6	6	21	16	16	136
7	7	28	17	17	153
8	8	36	18	18	171
9	9	45	19	19	190
10	10	55	20	20	210

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You can develop one skill very far (to level 20 over 2-3 months of time), or you can develop a couple of skills to a decent level. The game rounds (resets) last to short to develop all skills to the max. Developing plain and on-color skills is cheap. Developing off-color skills cost double. It is nearly impossible to get an off-color skill to level 20.

Having over 10% of your land guilds, means you generate skillpoints at the maximum rate for your amount of land. Having more land, and building up to 10% guilds on it, will make you generate more skill points.

Additional Info - random

Q: It would even take more than a month to get 210 skill points at 10k land on s1.

• A: Yes it does. Ranks above 15 are considered very high and take loong to gain. But, i'll adjust skill points income during the reset, this is just a draft.

Q: The peope who are good at the game will increase dramatically faster than people who aren't that good at the game (like me). It will take a longer time for somone in the lower ranks to gain in the ranks cuz the higher ranked people will have more skills.

• A: People who rank fast will be most probably interested in completely different set of skills than people who sit in mid ranks. The worst effect comes to good rankers who intentionally sit low for first month or two, but it's their own decision :)
• Besides, I count on general human tendency to MAX one thing instead of mixing various effects. And it is very costy and takes looots of time even for big mages.

(sogrom answers)