King's Age

[WayAbvPar]

Linky

Build a settlement and castle, train troops, make other people miserable. Everything you have come to expect in a browser game! I am in as WayAbvPar.



Edit- Unfucked the link. I am on World 1 @ (360|238) K23 whatever the hell that means.

[Musashi]

You're logged in in the link.  It takes you to an error page.

[Musashi]

Also.  What's the RMT catch, and is it worth it?

[Nebu]

Which world shall we dominate? 

[grebo]

Is the game bwoken?  I can't get it to do anything or show any messages. 

[Nebu]

Try THIS LINK.

[Viin]

Linky

Build a settlement and castle, train troops, make other people miserable. Everything you have come to expect in a browser game! I am in as WayAbvPar.

From his broken like, it looks like WAP is on World 1?

[grebo]

Ok, started a thingy on Continent 36 on world 1.  Whee, building stuff.

[Kageru]

You can't read the forum without registering, lose.

It looks like the typical resources -> buildings -> troops -> war game.

[Viin]

Ok, started a thingy on Continent 36 on world 1.  Whee, building stuff.

Is Continent 36 NW, NE, SE, or SW?

[Viin]

These guys have a ton of browser games:

http://www.gameforge.de/content/view/24/23/lang,en/

Oo a vampire/werewolf game .. http://www.bitefight.org/  (Say Viin is your friend on registration if you try it, gets you on the same server).

[Kageru]

Looks like starting and re-starting position are randomized. So I'm in on the periphery of civilization, surrounded by strangers waiting for the slow tick of resources. I think I prefer the West and Estiah approaches were you're actually a participant in a larger organisation (town, guild) and can actively work to grow your character.

Looks like you can't actually take over other villages until you have a count (an awful lot of resources) so turtling, opportunistic raiding on empty towns and getting rolled by established players constitutes the end-game.

[grebo]

Ok, started a thingy on Continent 36 on world 1.  Whee, building stuff.

Is Continent 36 NW, NE, SE, or SW?

Hmm, I dunno, how do I find out?  I'm 667|396 but I think that's just within my continent.

[Kageru]

shady_records_92?

From reading the forums it looks like it's only one (infinite?) landmass. New players or those who lose their land get started on the rim of expansion. The initial choice would then be which edge of the sphere you get placed on. I guess they don't want people being able to choose their starting positions or set up near their allies. Which is a shame really, because it would be more fun that way and better for defending against established players.

Hm, not infinite.. 0 to 998, so initial point was probably 500,500. If there are other continents it doesn't look like there's any way to see them or travel to them. It tells me I'm on 23 though (370,230).

[Musashi]

In as Musashi.  The RMT looks retarded, and I don't think I'll pay for this one.  But my inner douche bag yearns to destroy people.

[Kageru]

There's not a lot of "width" in the tech tree or strategic options. And the berserker troops are just designed for zerging with.

According to the in-game calculator 20 berserkers vs 20 templar (the strongest defensive infantry) hiding behind a level 5 wall will lead to 2 templar surviving the battle. That's hardly a comforting outcome. And other than having more numbers or more wall there's no other troop structure I can find that does much better.

[Musashi]

You can sleep better knowing I'm going to make someone else pay for what you just wrote.

[Tannhauser]

This is a good looking game.  So far I'm really into it, but my village is right beside someone with a lot of points 680, compared to me (50).  A bit worrying. :)

[Kageru]

The points build up pretty fast.. I'm at 490.

I've been happily launching attacks against a nearby abandoned settlement. While it has no defences it still has resources to pillage. However the travel times are pretty substantial. I'm in one corner of a map grid box and it's on the other side centre so about 5 units of distance meaning a 2 hour and 40 minute round trip for my squires.

[Tannhauser]

I'm frantically going for Barracks so I can raid an abandoned settlement as well.

[Musashi]

About how many dudes do I need to attack a noob town?

[Musashi]

Also.  Whoever made Bat Country, toss me an invite?

[WayAbvPar]

I checked and no one had started BC, so I did and invited everyone who's IGN is the same as their forum name here. If you didn't get an invite, post your name here or send me a PM in game or here.

[Viin]

Might as well invite me: Viin

[gryeyes]

Invite please, same name.

[Tannhauser]

Invite me too;  Tannhauser.

[Kageru]

I take it this game is fairly typical of Travian / Tribal wars and a whole bunch of other similar games?

Some other bits from the forums / help. You get a 5 day immunity from attacks on starting, you can't be attacked by someone with 20x more development points than yourself and a duke (required to take over settlements) cannot travel more than 70 "fields". Oh, and the top people in world one generally have about 26 settlements to their name.

[Tannhauser]

Thanks for the invite, I'm in.  I am currently researching berserkers and have about 5 squire and 5 templars.  Stone seems to be my scarce resource.  I am the king of wood if anyone would like to trade.

[Kageru]

From what I can see trading is advanced tech. You have to set up a level 5 warehouse, level 3 mule farm, then a market, before you can use up the mule to move some amount of resources... probably with massive travel times too.

Just tested with a squire (hopefully mules are faster) and you are more than 7 days travel time from me. Wow, I thought travel times in "The West" were extreme. At least that did allow me to confirm that the different "continents" are really just zones of the single map.

[WayAbvPar]

Lesmana is attacking WAP I

Feel free to practice your PvP on whoever this is tia.

[Kageru]

You are the most advanced amongst us and your attackers castle is 4 times more advanced. I cannot see any other outcome than you getting rolled. It could be a spy mission though, I think those show up as attacks.

Maybe time to dodge? build a hide to protect your resources and send your army somewhere safe (eg. an abandoned town or ally). They probably don't have the stream of counts needed to take your settlement.

[Ghambit]

Send invite; "Ghambit."

[Tannhauser]

I don't know how to find that guy to attack him.  Also don't know how long the newbie-shield stays up but I now have a tiny force and my raids on the abandoned settlement are bringing me a little extra resources. 

[Kageru]

If you press the ranking button on the top left you can search by player, and thus find their towns.

On the help display there's a "Other information" panel which says the newbie protection is 5 days.

Also be aware that attacking at night comes at a 50% penalty. And night is always from gmt+1 to gmt+9 (I think) so you'd want to map that to your own time before you consider attacking.

A lot of this is not at all obvious from the game intro or info.

[Ghambit]

Anyone else having trouble loggin in?  I cant get in unless I use my activation link.