This update is taking quite a bit of time, and in fear of nightly pitchforks and torches, I'll attempt to explain a bit what I'm working on and what you'll get to play soon.
I finally caved to the pressure of the community that wanted expansion of the battle mechanics of Syx. My reluctance was based in the fact that city building stuff is pretty solid ATM, and adding the few more features I want in would be fast. The world management were still just loose ideas I had, and seeing them to completion would take a lot of effort. And it has!
So, having said that, this update will take some time. I'd say at least another month. But hopefully, it will be worth it.
As we all know, the world map is divided into regions. What's new is that each region now has an urban centre. If you control that, you control the region.
You'll now conquer regions with world armies. A world army is a marker on the world map, which you attach garrisons from regions / cities. You then move around with your armies, fighting other armies in field battles, or conquering rebel/AI regions.
Your regions make up your kingdom, and you can tax and manage them. And there is depth here, to satisfy all our needs. You'll be forced to focus on different things to achieve a strong kingdom.
On the city-building side, there will be two new rooms.
Army Depot - works like a trade depot. Battlegear, food and clothes will be collected when your city garrison is attached to an army somewhere else. this is your supply line. If you fail to deliver stuff, your army will fail.
Administration - This will employ clerks, that produce administration points, used to control your regions. It will work the same way as with knowledge.
Apart from this there will be some QoL improvements.
[ 2021-05-04 11:54:18 CET ] [ Original post ]
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- Scale Population caps and army sizes are 5-digits, while still sticking to the near 1:1 scale of traditional village-simulators.
- Nobility In the colony phase you will be busy managing individual subjects, but as you grow you can elevate your favorite plebs to positions of prominence and have them help you govern and boost different parts of your city and empire. Beware though, as even your most trusted and beloved friends might secretly forge plans to usurp you.
- Influence Being a ruler doesn't necessarily mean absolute power. You must grow and maintain your influence over time by accommodating your plebs and your nobility and be forced to make choices that lie in their interest rather than your own. If you overstep you can expect riots, betrayals, invasions, and emigration.
- Dynamic Culture Races and factions will start with a certain mindset, religion, and culture, but there is nothing stopping and influential king from molding a unique identity for their people. You will be able to dictate to your own laws and policies, to sophisticate or plunge your civilization in savagery.
- Trade Anyone can set up a self-sustaining shithole anywhere. But if you want a city and later, an empire, you need to get into the game of trading where goods are priced by supply and demand and wars and fierce diplomacy is waged for the control of goods and trade-routes.
- Maintenance Every construction you build and every technology you research will require maintenance in the form of labor and resources. Failing to deliver that might cause ripples that can quickly collapse a once-mighty civilization.
- Modding The game itself is built like a mod of simple text-files, sprite sheets, and a few scripts. It will be easy and encouraged to make your own races, stories, and worlds.
- Hordes, Immigration, Slaves The global climate might plunge into a mini ice-age, or suffer from a severe drought which can set in motion vast migrations and hoards, looking for their next meal, or fertile lands to settle on. Might be yours. Break the backs of slaves as they toil day and night plowing your fields and cleaning your latrines. They might not be happy about it though. Open your gates to all the kinds of strange races of Syx and see your economy and culture blossom from the diversity or hate and racism tear your city apart.
- OS: Java 8 compliant
- Processor: Pentium 2 266 MHz processorMemory: 256 MB RAM
- Memory: 256 MB RAM
- Graphics: 256MB with opengl 3.3 support
- Storage: 300 MB available space
- OS: Java 8 compliant
- Processor: 2.0 GHZ 4 cores or greaterMemory: 256 MB RAM
- Memory: 256 MB RAM
- Graphics: 512MB with opengl 3.3 support
- Storage: 300 MB available space
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