Key concepts

In this game every player (computer or human) presides over the destiny of a tribe. After a few years the tribe will become a village and a city. It will be able to subjugate its neighbours and extend its influence.

Influence model

• influence is the strength of the empire control on every tile, decreasing from the tribe/village/city source
• extend from the empires center like a waterfall
• shown when selecting a tile
• terrain cost is the minimum influence required to control a tile
• shown in discoveries screen
• military power is an help to increase influence in focused situations (wars, territory near armies)
• shown on armies button, per armies in armies screen
• growth is the increase of influence power per turn (as a simple percentage of current power value applied every turn)
• shown (+x/turn) next to current source power
• if the empire pays a tribute to another a part of its growth goes to the other empire
• health is the limit to power growth
• increased chance of disaster when power is growing above health
• reduce power to half of health when a disease strikes
• stability is the limit to the area covered by influence, as a number of tiles
• detailed in policies screen
• instability is the missing stability and a chance for revolt when superior to a tile influence
• shown on policies button
• detailed in policies screen

Discovery model

• discovery progress is a percentage of the points for next discovery, increased from a base level + tiles of a certain type depending on the discovery + bonus from past discoveries
• shown on discoveries button
• detailed on discoveries screen
• discovery bonus is added at each turn to discovery progress
• shown on discoveries screen