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Emperor’s Road Detailed Instructions
1. Every state has a State Capitol. The Capitol becomes available 60 games after the server starts.
2. When the Capitol becomes available, initially there are NPC occupations. Players must first eliminate these NPC before conquering the capitol.
3. The first one to successfully capture the capitol will find that the capitol’s resources are completely full. All the buildings are completely built. Players may not add or demolish buildings in the capitols.
4. The amount of capitols one can capture depends upon their Nobility Rank. Generalissimo and Lords are able to occupy 2 capitols simultaneously. Other ranks (including civilians) may only capture one capitol at once.
5. Capitol does not occupy the player’s sub-city quote (irrelevant to commercial value).
6. If the invader is still allowed to have more capitol, then they may occupy the capitol but successfully eliminating all existing forces in the city in the Destroy mode.
7. If the invaders and the defenders end up in a draw, the city remains with its original owner.
8. You may only use the Destroy Mode, rather than the Plunder Mode to invade capitols.
9. Alliance forces’ attack will be automatically converted to support.
10. Each time the capitol is taken over by a new owner (other than the first time), the resource within the city are reduced by 1/2. All the recruiting units are cancelled. Deployment that has been issued prior to the take-over will also disappear.
11. When a capitol is taken over, the current heroes are switched to wander status.
12. Population in the capitol is not taken into consideration in calculating the total population of the player. Neither does the commercial value nor city count.
13. State Capitols cannot be renamed. Cannot be relocated with Capital Move Token or State Token.
14. All capitols’ buildings are pre-built. Players cannot add, upgrade or demolish existing buildings.
15. All available technologies for unit upgrades are researched.
16. The basic resource field structure for capitols is 3 Wood, 3 Stone, 3 Iron and 9 Farm.
17. State Capitols enjoy additional bonus features in resource output, recruitment speed, and movement speed.
Wood, Stone, Iron Output Increase by 100%, Food Increase by 150%
Recruitment Speed Increase by 50%
Movement Speed Increase by 50%
18. Players cannot attack capitols with Battering Rams, Demolishers or lobbyists.
19. Capitols cannot use the functions within the Governor’s House such as Taxation, Relief, Curfew.
20. Capitols can accept resources from other cities, but cannot export resources to other cities. The capitol has an abundance of storage space (240,000 Warehouse, 960,000 Granary). Capitols are not restricted to use five resource packs a day. The use of resource pack is unlimited.
21. All the owners of the capitols are restricted to how many troops they may mobilize. In another word, they can only deploy a certain number of troops simultaneously. (Generalissimo 4, Lord 3, Infante 2, other ranks 1.)
22. Click on the “Emperor’s Road” button on the left hand panel. Players may check the ownership of the State Capitols. As well as the time needed for military forces to reach these targets.
23. Each player may occupy 2 Capitols at most.
24. All Wood, Stone, Iron resource fields are level 14. Food resource fields are level 19.
25. There is only one National Capital in each city. Two months after the server starts, the capital becomes available for all players. The city structure and the bonuses are equal as the capitols. However, occupying a capital will not take up the player’s quota for capitol. The most a player may capture is 1 Capital, 2 Capitols, and 2 County Capitols.
26. The Capital is different from any other city in the sense that it has a special Imperial Palace. The Imperial Palace may upgrade. The level of this palace is related to whether a player may be crowned as the emperor or not.
27. Only after players have acquired two State Capitols can they acquire the National Capital. Players who do not have possession of two Capitols are allowed to attack the Capital, though they cannot occupy it.
28. Newly added Rank 1 nobility title: Emperor. To become the Emperor, one must have possession of the national capital, reach 2234400 for contribution value, acquire 4 State Capitols and fully upgrade the Imperial Palace. Starting at level 5, every time the Imperial Palace upgrades, a group of Loyalists will attack the National Capital, till the Imperial Palace reaches level 20. At any point, if the player loses a State Capitol or the National Capital, or if they could not resist the wave of loyalists, then the Imperial Palace will return to level 5.
29. Players that have reached the Emperor status are granted the following bonuses: A. Increase recruitment speed of all cities by 20%. B. Increase Contribution Value by 20 pts per Contribution Token. C. All army’s attack and defense increase by 15%.
30. Newly added Rank 2 nobility title: Prime Minister. To become the Prime Minister, players need to have possession of the National Capital, reach 1396500 pts of Contribution Value, and four State Capitols. If the player loses the possession of the National Capital or have less than four State Capitols, then they lose the Prime Minister status as well.
31. Players who become Prime Ministers may enjoy the following benefits: A. Increase Contribution Value by 20 pts per Contribution Token. B. All army’s attack and defense increase by 15%.
32. New Rank 2 nobility titles: Lord of Wei, Lord of Shu, Lord of Wu. To achieve one of these titles, players must reach 1396500 pts of Contribution Value and acquire at least one State Capitol. Lord of Wei: Pu-yang of Yanzhou. Lord of Shu: Cheng-du of Yizhou. Lord of Wu, Jian-ye of Yangzhou.
33. The titles of Lord of Wei, Shu and Wu offer the following benefits: all army’s attack and defense increase by 15%.
34. New Rank 2 nobility title: Lord of Qin. To become the Lord of Qin, players must reach 2234400 pts of Contribution Value. After reaching the previous limit. The player with the highest Contribution Value of each server will be the Lord of Qin. The server recalculates every Saturday at 24:00 and issues a new title. The new Lord of Qin is in effect for one week.
35. Players who obtain the title of Lord of Qin may enjoy the following benefits: Increase all army’s attack and defense by 15%.
36. To see where you stand among other players in term of Contribution Value, we have added the Contribution Value Ranking. Players may easily view their Contribution Value and compare it to that of other players.
37. One player may obtain multiple titles as long as they qualify the criteria. However, the title benefits do not stack. The player may only enjoy bonuses of the most beneficial title.
38. When war occurs in the County Capitols, State Capitols and National Capital, the chance to trigger the Empty City Strategy is limited to 25%.
2010-02-01 18:48:11
