Default service buildings

[[{{{2}}}]] (estágio 3) node Town hall default service building in Alpha-2.^[1]

Default service buildings are service buildings that come pre-built with a node. Some of these buildings are unique based on the type of node. Others may be present based on the acquisition of relics.^[2]

List of default service buildings

Default service buildings

Service building expansions

Alpha-2 Service building expansions.^[3]

Alpha-2 service building tech tree work-in-progress UI.^[4]

Default buildings they specialize as they expand. So this isn't like a traditional skill tree, it's exclusionary, more like a tech tree. So selecting the next upgrade for it will lock out the other two paths. So as you get better with the building it will continue to narrow, which allows lots of nodes to carve out lots of niches in the world.^[4] – Chris Justo

Service buildings are upgraded by expansions, which are unlocked through the placement of passive service buildings.^[5]^[6]

Service building expansions allow buildings to be specialized via a tech tree, such as moving from a generalized Blacksmithing building to an Armor smithing building, then finally toward a building that specializes in Plate armor.^[4]^[6]^[7]

To upgrade your building, you choose expansions, you build passive buildings to allow you to unlock those expansion slots and just a little- basically specialize your service building down a path; and the building specialization will narrow down a specific path. So you might start as a generalized Blacksmith building and then you'll specialize towards maybe armorsmithing, and then towards specifically, like plate armor through the expansion tree.^[6] – John Collins

Building expansions unlock higher tier workstations at the cost of dedicating service building plots. Lower stage nodes can achieve higher tier service buildings by dedicating a majority of their service plots to that path. Prefeitos decide how to specialize their node. Once they choose certain things they won't be able to choose other things.^[8]^[9]^[10]

The pathway of upgrades is exclusionary. So when I choose a path down a particular building type in order to reach a tier five benefit: when I eventually reach a higher stage, or even if I'm lower stage and want to dedicate a majority of my service plots toward one particular crafting building; like I may get a very top tier workstation as a result, even if I'm still a Village node. It's like I'm the village node that makes the T5 swords because I've dedicated all of my plots to that.^[8] – Steven Sharif

Nodes vassalos can benefit from the types of service buildings present in their regent node.^[11]

You might have a parent node, or a Regent node, that has a vassalship over your node and you're getting benefits conferred to you through either the prerequisite of the building types that you can construct as well to make a bit more headway there.^[8] – Steven Sharif

Service building tech trees

Smithy tech tree

Service building upkeep

Alpha-2 Service buildings.^[5]^[6]

Service buildings incur a regular maintenance cost of node commodities and gold from the node treasury in order to continue operations.^[5]^[12]

Building maintenance is auto-paid from the treasury in order of the most valuable buildings first.^[5]^[12]
If maintenance is not paid, or a building is damaged as the result of an event or siege, the building will enter a state of disarray.^[5]^[12] Any NPCs or services offered by that building will not be available until the building is repaired.^[13]^[14]
Players must contribute materials to repair disarrayed buildings and restore them to an operational state.^[5]^[12]^[7]^[14]^[15]
- Larger more advanced buildings will require more resources to repair them. In-node housing will likely require the least resources to repair.^[16]
- Previously building repair was restricted to node-citizens.^[14]^[15]

Service building destruction

Destructible castle.^[17]

You could be more precision oriented in the decision to attack a city. Let's say it's a rival node that's trying to reach a node stage five or something and you want to disable their ability for the religious system to progress so you target the temple during the attack, or you want to disable their scholars academy from reaching a higher level so that your nodes can; or you want to disable multiple buildings that allow for experience and quests to be undertaken by its citizenship, which prevents them from keeping up in pace of experience gained with your node. These can be more precision oriented and don't have to effectualize an actual takeover of the node.^[18] – Steven Sharif

Edificações de Base (including player housing) have hit points and can be damaged or destroyed by different systems.^[7]^[14]

NPC-driven events that are a response to story arcs or node atrophy.^[7]
Cercos de base and node wars.^[7]
- Attackers may not be capable of destroying a node during a siege. Instead they may carry out precision attacks to disable specific service-oriented buildings within the node. These buildings can be targeted with siege weapons and bombs.^[18]
Hazardous events such as tornadoes or hurricanes.^[19]^[7]
Prefeitos have the ability to demolish constructed node buildings. This will have a node mandate cost and will require player buy-in via a vote.^[5]^[12]

Mayors will also have the ability, if they want, to demolish constructed buildings. So if they if they so choose they can destroy a building if they don't think it's needed anymore. But this will have mandate cost and a player buy-in votes. So we want to make sure that [the] mayor can't just go and blow up the whole node if they're trying to grief or something. So this is very important and impactful decision.^[5]^[12] – John Collins

If building maintenance is not paid, or a building is damaged as the result of an event or siege, the building will enter a state of disarray.^[5]^[12] Any NPCs or services offered by that building will not be available until the building is repaired.^[13]^[14]

Players must contribute materials to repair disarrayed buildings and restore them to an operational state.^[5]^[12]^[7]^[14]^[15]

If a node siege is successful, or if buildings otherwise take significant damage, they are destroyed and appear as rubble on the plot they occupied.^[5]^[12]^[7]

Node governments must clear any rubble on plots before any buildings can be reconstructed. Any prerequisites for the building reconstruction must be satisfied beforehand.^[7]
Buildings also live within a prerequisite system. So in order to build down the tech tree of what these buildings provide, as the node grows larger to access stronger building types, you may get a kink in that chain if it's destroyed and you'll have to stand that back up in order to support the service again.^[7] – Steven Sharif
If the node is destroyed by a node siege, the debris field will contain spoils that are lootable by attackers or defenders.^[20]^[21]^[22]^[14]^[23]^[24]
- Residência de Jogadores that is destroyed during a node siege can no longer be sold.^[25] Furnishing and decorations are retained and can be placed again later.^[25]^[26]^[27]

Node layout and style

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Layout de Base de um Vilarejo no Alpha-1.^[28]

Já no terceiro estágio de evolução, como uma vila, é um layout razoavelmente grande; e parte desses layouts inclui domicílos essencialmente estáticos, dentro da base, que os jogadores podem comprar.^[28] – Steven Sharif

Estilos de arquitetura Racial em uma vila no Alpha-0. Influência de Elfos Empíreos (acima). Influência de Humanos Kaelar (abaixo).^[29]

O layout e a arquitetura dentro da área de desenvolvimento de uma Base são determinados pela raça com mais influência. Por exemplo, uma Base em estágio 3 onde a maioria dos jogadores contribuíntes é Py'Rai terá uma vila Py'Rai com arquitetura Py'Rai. A maioria dos PNJs seriam elfos Py'Rai, e ofereceriam missões com narrativa Py'Rai.^[30] – Margaret Krohn

A experiência contribuída por cada jogador é marcada com sua raça e outros identificadores. Quando uma Base evolui, a raça com a maior contribuição de experiência determina o estilo e cultura da Base. Essa mudança de estilo e cultura pode ocorrer em todo Estágio de Base. Por exemplo, se uma Base avança para o Estágio 2 - Acampamento e 51% de toda a experiência veio de jogadores Ren'Kai, a Base será uma Base Ren'Kai Estágio 2. Se essa mesma Base avançar para o Estágio 3 - Vilarejo, mas dessa vez os Py'rai tiverem contribuído 62% de tpda a experiência obtida, a Base se tornará uma Base Py'Rai Estágio 3. Influências culturais trazem mudanças além da estética e das missões - benefícios são dados àqueles da cultura dominante dentro da Zona de Influência daquela Base.^[31] – Margaret Krohn

O layout e o estilo de uma Base são determinados por diversos fatores:^[32]

Localização da base.^[32]
Tipo de Base.^[32]
Raça que mais contribuiu para a evolução da Base.^[32]^[33]
- Aparências raciais dos prédios e dos PNJs de uma Base.^[34]^[33]
- Isso se aplica a todas as bases, incluindo bases de castelo.^[35]
O resto é determinado pelo prefeito da base.^[32]

Algumas partes são determinadas pela área onde a base está. Outras, pelo tipo da base; certas partes são determinadas pela raça, e o resto é determinado pelo prefeito.^[32] – Jeffrey Bard

Todas as bases, sejam elas relacionadas aos castelos ou não, têm influências culturais que são replicadas nas aparências dos prédios e dos PNJs presentes na Base.^[35] – Steven Sharif

Existe uma mecânica de atrito que afeta a experiência e influência para impedir que uma única raça domine o mundo inteiro.^[36]

Existe um atrito e esse atrito na experiência e influência aumenta de acordo com a performance da raça no mundo. Então se todas as bases forem de Orc, o nível de atrito deles será muito alto para competir com outras raças na hora de estabelecer a cultura de novas bases. Isso acontece pois já são muito influentes e existe uma opinião popular contra eles nas regiões que não influenciam.^[36] – Steven Sharif