Post by Cao Pi on Jun 4, 2009 8:25:56 GMT -5
Building/Construction
In this RPG, we strongly encourage the construction or the development of items, equipment or machines/buildings. As default, every city is equipped with a standard selection of utilities that will be located in the City Statistics, these don’t do anything, but you can use these to your own advantage when creating bigger, better things.
For everything you build, a value will be placed. So if you make a new designed catapult it will be given its own specific stats to take into battle. Now let us remember one thing, anything that is feasible to create is creatable, if you know how it’d be constructed then by all means start building, the more effort and planning you put into your work or development the bigger the reward will be.
A lot of these tasks will give benefits or rewards, but the true reward would be in what can be done with this, let’s think of trade. If you build a new specialised catapult, you can place this on the market for a default value, so let’s say 1000 gold.
The kingdom who owns the rights to the catapult will be given a 20% discount when purchasing the product, what more, is that whenever anybody else pays for that catapult you get 20% of the gold spent. So if Wei owned a catapult for 1000 gold, all Wei officers would buy it at 800 and whenever anybody else bought that product they’d get an extra 200 gold because they own the blue prints of the product. Only a mod can finalise the payments you’ll receive, but the markets will be monitored daily, so there isn’t anything to be worried about there.
These rules apply for everything you create and sell, but for you to put something on the market you must pay 1500 gold. You’ll get all the money back in time so consider it an insurance policy for the traders of the site.
Note: You cannot develop/and sell off the product if there is another purchasable item similar to it, these must be original inventions that everyone can benefit from. Also, you can petition to an admin if you feel somebody has stolen your idea, we will not accept adaptations. Every new invention must be unique and original. With that being said, if you try and make a very basic design yours by copyright, you’ll get a fist full of hate. You can only bring a case to the administrators’ attention if the invention you’re selling on the site is actually original, unique and un-heard of or if it’s a complete re-design of an existing model. A slight adaption of a catapult cannot be sold on markets nor can you argue should anyone else build the same thing.
With that said, you can also build boats, buildings and additions to armour or swords, so long as you know what you’re doing it is possible to have certain things mass-produced, but it’d cost you twice as much as their default value. For instance, Wei builds a catapult they want no one else but Wei to have, so they market it to themselves, if its original value should be 800 they must now pay 1600 for it. With that being said, they can guarantee that nobody else but Wei officers will have those siege weapons, which could be really good if you had a good inventor on your side.
When building or buying Turrets or any other defense mechanism, make sure you specify which side/and which sector of the wall you're placing it on. Once the turret is placed it can not be moved unless you do it via a task.