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Quote from: Darniaq on March 03, 2010, 05:30:45 PM

How does one get a Castle? I've got quite an army getting fat and lazy.

It's on the regular progression of buildings which open up as you upgrade your Town Hall. It's in the row following the Stonemason. Not recommended to build it the first moment it's available, you're just going into PvP at the weakest possible time, and you can lose your town but you can't yet take over anyone else's. That requires a Baron unit.

Quote from: Lorekeep on March 03, 2010, 07:01:40 PM

I wish I could tell my troops to haul off / target a specific resource.

The dungeon type determines which resource you get the most of: wood from forest, iron from mountain, stone from hill. Again, it's not a lot, but they might as well be attempting to earn their keep.

Castle is good if you have weak neighbors. I have people who put up a Castle and no army to support it. I now have three farms for resources. Only bottleneck is building time and army caps for me.

Out of curiousity, does this actually have anything in common with Ultima?

From what I can tell...

...not a damn thing.

Server wipe right when I conquered my first city. ;_;

Not actually a wipe Lorekeep - they just opened a second world and steer you there by default.

You can still get to your old city from the log-in screen.

So you can have 2 cities doing absolutely nothing very slowly.

Quote from: Lorekeep on March 05, 2010, 05:03:27 PM

From what I can tell...

...not a damn thing.

Yea, I'm not sure a) why they called it Ultima; and, b) why this isn't on Facebook. Perfect game for that system and easier to get a lot more people.

Game's in Open Beta now.

Quote from: Ghambit on March 19, 2010, 01:04:59 PM

In Open Beta now.

Is it a Travian clone? Any interesting innovation?

I'm still not entirely sure what the game is here. If it wasn't called Ultima, I wouldn't have even checked it out. But there's no Ultima to be had here really either. It's just optimizing build orders and resource collection. You can go PvP if you want, but you're not forced to. There's trading, but I haven't ever seen my resources get depleted. So it's not so much what I need as much as how long I'm willing to wait for it.]

Is that how Travian is?

Quote from: Aez on March 19, 2010, 02:21:35 PM

Is it a Travian clone? Any interesting innovation?

It's a Travian clone. Yes, some interesting innovation. It's ~~released~~ open beta now. Nice graphics.

Until you build a castle, you can't attack other players and other players can only scout and plunder you. As long as you've built enough hideouts to protect your resources, you can play the game in a mode where other players have zero incentive to attack you.

Dungeons provide a reason (though not a great one) for the castle-less to have an army.

The Ultima naming is a joke. Originally, the only Ultima reference was the name of the game (and it's font). They made it "more Ultima" in a recent patch by changing the name of the Mage's Tower to "Moonglow Tower" and the Temple to "Trinsic Temple". Those three names are quite literally the only Ultima in the game.

They recently went live. You can now spend real money to buy in game diamonds, which you use to buy/hire various advantages in game. Unfortunately, they made the classic move of reducing what you can do in order to make the upgrades worth buying... Things like: You use to have a building build queue of 10 buildings. Now you have a build queue of 6 buildings and can spend X diamonds per week to hire a building minister who will expand your build queue by 10 to 16 buildings.

Also interesting, most of the in game store items have different ranks. Higher rank players can buy significantly more powerful (like double), slightly more expensive variations of items.

The role of positioning things is kind of interesting. There are quite a number of cases of building X gets a bonus when placed next to building Y situations, including, of course, a building Z which gets a bonus for each empty adjacent location.

I've played it to the point where I have a well developed, non-castle'ed first town, almost ready to create a second. I probably will create it, make sure my hideouts mean I'm not leaving behind a farm, and then stop playing.

Edit: Fixed release state.

Meh. Those Travian clones are getting more annoying than RTS clones after Starcraft and Red alert 2.

Tough for me to be real critical of this game because I like the Studio, but yah... the force is not strong in this one as of now.

I started building up a city in open beta, and then couldn't really find any inspiration to log back in.

I logged in two days in a row and then forgot about the game until now.

Maybe cause it's so easy or not that in depth, but I've been logging in daily to this.

Help me.

What server are people on?

World 3. I'm on Continent 13.

I'm server 3, continent 11

What's your user name? We can be friends!

I'm on as JWIV.

And yah, the earlier critiques are still completely valid I think. Straight up clone with no tie to the IP outside of the title. Still, it's a nice timekiller for a bit.

Yeah, I just pop in once a day and set stuff to build/upgrade and send off a raiding party.

anyone else having issues getting in? it says waiting for...