Beta Server
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Beta Server
This is The Reincarnation's server for live testing changes to the game-code.
Basics
Turn Rate: 1 turn per 3 minutes, 500 max turns - storage (480 Turns every 24 hours)
Guilds allowed (max 6 members)
No Guild Alliances / No Guild NAPs
Chronicles will now display in 12hr increments
Server Status: Active
Green are changes compared to last set
Examples
The following types of developments are tested out on the beta server first.
- Changed spells, units, items for balance issues
- Changed game mechanics
- Changed coding to speed up page display, database-actions, avoid server lag during the rush hour at armageddon
- Changed graphics to speed up day-to-day play
- Changed interfaces for the game-admins and developers themselves
- New features
- New spells, items, units
Current Beta Features
Commencing: UTC (GMT-Zulu) TBC
Armageddon Scheduled to Begin: UTC (GMT-Zulu) TBC
- Increased exploring rate similar to Lightning Server.
- Land Inflation - Explore cap raises 1-3% a day.
- 24 Hour Damaged Status
- 48 Hour God Favor
- 96 Hour God Most Favored
- Land Counters disabled (unless enabled via Guild Supremacy Perk)
- Individual NAPs disabled.
- Meditation now lasts for a minimum of 48hrs.
- Devil prince lasts for 72hrs.
- Hallucination no longer blocks attacks in Armageddon.
- Seals will now break in increments of 12 hours leading up to Armageddon. Additionally, the end of the world has been reduced to 12 hours.
- Fort damage is now increased when hitting from outside the 50% - 200% range (this now functions in the same way as LS)
- Spell Resistance and Reflection checks now work in the following priority:
- 1. Check for Heavenly Protection - Reflection
- 2. Check for Mirror of the Grey Witch - Reflection
- 3. Check for Barrier Resist - Resistance
- 4. Check for Spell Resist - Resistance
- Research rate has been reduced by approximately 50%
- Guild Supremacy is now re-enabled.
- Attacking Bots now only yields 50 supremacy points
- Attack Humans yields 200 supremacy points
- Tithing - Increased gold Income from taxing by 20% - Costs 21,000
- Mana Siphon - Increases mana income from m.p charging by 20% - Costs 21,000
- Arcanum Codex - Increases skill point income from training by 30% - Costs 21,000
- Casus Belli - Enables you to counter until you have captured or destroyed all land that was lost by enemy attacks (Enables Land Counter) - Costs 40,200
- Reconnaissance Corps - Allows you to send small groups of units on scouting missions - Costs 18,000
- Foreign Embassies - Enables diplomatic relations with another guild. The other guild must also have Foreign Embassies in order for an alliance to be made - Costs 10,200
- Council Bribes - Reduces the damage needed for DAMAGED status by 10% - Costs 31,800
- Defensive Pacts - Allows each mage to have one additional alliance - Costs 6,000
- Sacred Ground - Grants The Star of Luck to each mage - Costs 45,000
- Nondimensional Storage - Increases maximum turn storage by 20% - Costs 36,000
- Lucky Cauldron enabled.
- Lucky Cauldron base pack prices are 15m/30m/60m/120m
- Packs increase by 20% of their base cost after every purchase
- Ultra packs now only give 16 items
- Large packs now only give 12 items
- Medium Packs now only give 8 items
- Lesser packs now only give 4 items
- Packs cost revert back to original base cost after 22hrs
- Time for when cost reverts back is now displayed via Mouseover or Tap (smart phone) on the pack name
- Black Market disabled except for Altar of Darkness.
- Skill Training (Similar to devoting turns to double the speed of Researching.)
- Skill points accrue more slowly similar to Lightning Server.
- Training Grounds Heroes can now be trained.
- Spell Changes:
Conflagration enabled, Inferno disabled.- Battle Chant lures ~100-1000 goblins to your army per turn, on-color only. Upkeep raised to 350 MP/turn.
Contract of the Soul: Devils last 25 hours. Devil Prince lasts 72 hours.- Sword of Light and Foul Water now now affect unit's AP when cast off-color (50% of effect) and opposite-color (25% of effect)
Gate disabled.- Armageddon is enabled
- Item Changes:
- Unique Items will no longer be subjected to minimum bid price increases, and will be able to sell for high values again.
- Horn of Valhalla disabled.
- Staff of the Archmage
- Wand of the Moon
- The Amulet of Kael has been improved. Battle XP has been increased from 2x to 10x.
- Ring of Djinni Summoning is now a reusable unique with a 100 turn cooldown. The effect remains unchanged.
- Blue Ice no longer has any negative effects for non-cold units
- Soul Eater no longer has any negative effects for non-demon units
- Hero Changes:
- White Knight's Honor ability is replaced by Inspire and generates Preachers instead of Knights (due to the lack of Spawning Hatchery.)
- The Heroes Killed and Heroes Lost section of the Statistics page will once again show enemy mage information.
- New Units:
- Storm Giant — (Spell: Call Storm Giant)
- Goblin — (Spell: Lure Goblins, Battle Chant)
Phantom — (Recruitable)- Empyrean Inquisitor — (Spell: Call Empyrean Inquisitor)
Elven Blade Dancer — (Spell: Call Elven Blade Dancer)
- Several Flying Units' Power Rank Reduced:
- AI / Bot Changes
- AI mages can now gain and use Illusionary Heroes through the reset.
- AI mages can now get favor from the gods.
- AI mages have a chance to have the Divine Balance effect applied to them.
- AI mages are now far more aggressive and will attack more often.
- AI mages will now have access to complex/ultimate spells and enchantments much sooner.
- AI mages are smarter and more aggressive with their counters; they are more likely to counter mages above them if the mages have smaller armies.
- AI mages will now ally each other and receive reinforcements.
- The ratio of AI to human mages has been increased dramatically.
When a regular server resets, those changes that succesfully passed beta-testing are ported to the main server.
