Town Construction System - Player Facing

Town Resources

Construction Resources

Basic Resources

Ore: Refinable metallic ores, commonly used in protection and sturdier buildings.
Lumber: Sawn wood, commonly used in construction.
Stone: Blocks of quarried rock, cut into rough shape, commonly used in foundations.
Forgesources: Sources of power, often drained in the process of construction.
Wealth: Basic coin of the realm, used to pay for labor and materials.

Advanced Resources

Cast Metal: Large chunks of metal, often in ingot form, refined for specific uses.
Cut Lumber: Lumber, planed down to specific dimensions for precision woodworking.
Dressed Stone: Cut stone, able to be fitted together with a minimum of mortar, if at all.
Luxuries: Notable pieces of conspicuous wealth, such as tapestries, large rugs, furniture and the like.

Conversions

Conversion Building: Scrapper’s Workshop

Ingots: 50 Ingots or 4 Plates < => 1 Ore
Bloom: 50 Bloom or 4 Plates <=> 1 Lumber
Rare Minerals: 25 Rare Minerals or 2 Plates <=> 1 Stone

Skills

Various skills might be required for creation, use, or advanced use of some buildings, such as: Alchemy, Tinkering, Enchanting, Arcane Rituals, Divine Rituals, and so on.

Profession: Architect, City Planner

For these professions, the Town can replace Construction Resources paid to build buildings with Wealth by utilizing the resources more efficiently and with reduced waste.

Apprentice Architect: 1 Basic Resource: 30 Coin
Journeyman Architect: 2 Basic Resources: 60 Coin
Master Architect: 1 Advanced Resource: 120 Coin

No more than half the total amount (rounding down) of Construction Resources can be paid for in this manner, regardless of skills used.

Profession: Lumberjack, Miner, Quarryman

For every three levels of these professions for paying, attending, and community shift completing characters, one of the Town’s corresponding Basic Production builds produces an additional output of the relevant type.

Thus three Apprentice Quarryman will produce an additional Stone, one Master Lumberjack will produce an additional Lumber, and so on.

The amount of additional Resources gained cannot exceed the Basic Production Buildings of each type.

Profession: Merchant, Smuggler

For every three levels of Mercantile professions for paying, attending, and community shift completing characters, corresponding costs from NPC merchants will be reduced. Other buildings may have additional cost or price adjustments noted in their descriptions.

Profession: Scout, Spy, Intelligence Officer

For every three levels of Intelligence professions for paying, attending, and community shift completing characters, the corresponding values for the Scouting reports are improved to the next tier of Scout Tower.

Thus three Apprentice Scouts would improve the report by one Tier, or 2 Master Scouts would improve the report by 2 Tiers, and so on.

Tiers gained in excess of Grand Watchtower may be spent by the Council for particular insight into the nature of the incursion or the plans of the attackers.

Profession: Construct Administrator

For every level of Construct Administrator professions for paying, attending, and community shift completing characters, the corresponding number of Builder Constructs that can be controlled by Town increases by 1.

Thus an Apprentice Construct Administrator would improve the ability of town to control on additional Builder Construct, while a Master would improve the number by three.

The default number of Builder Constructs that can be controlled by town is 1.

Buildings

Default Building Statistics

Unless otherwise specified builds have the following default properties:

Base Life Points: 100
Immune: Unaccented attacks below 4
Resistant: Accented attacks below 4
Immune: Effects that cause Conditions
Shatter: 10 Damage to the Building
Mending: Repairs Life Points: 2 Mending = 1 Life Point
Rebuild: Repairs 10 Life Points to the Building
Siege Weaponry does full damage

Building Durability

Buildings owned by the “town” are perpetual, as long as the number of each type is less than or equal to the Campaign Year + The Tier of the Building the Shrine of Voxus is housed in.

Campaign Year is 3
Shrine Dedicated to Voxus is 0
Durability: 3

Buildings owned by non-town groups always have a duration on them, usually one campaign season, where they will fail due to exhaustion or other problems. This duration is “visible” to the players, and is explicit when it is purchased/built.

Example Building Layout

Requirement: Any other prerequisites needed to construct the building, such as earlier iterations, or other buildings, actors, or plot needs.

Build Cost: The Required amount of resources required to build the building.

Relevant Skills: Skills or professions may affect the building (positively or negatively) mechanically, sometimes at plot discretion.

Description: Description of what the building is and does. The full effects of the building may be hidden, and include other benefits or effects that aren’t immediately apparent.

The Construction Process

Relevant Skills: Profession: Architect, Profession: Construct Administrator

Once the Council determines that a new building or buildings are necessary, the resources and coin must be gathered, that plan clearly documented, and the Building Constructs signed off by the Construct Administrator. These must all be presented to Staff on Sunday prior to 10 AM, so that the Town Construction mini-game can be prepared in time to be completed before close of game.

Environmental Effects

For some Buildings, such as the Advanced Production Buildings (Ex. Ironworks, Sawmill, Stonemasonry), there is a limit to the amount that a given Hex can produce without negatively affecting the surrounding environment. This limit is by default three: these slots may be taken up entirely by one production building type, or spread across the three. Beyond that, the excess production will negatively affect the area, causing Environmental Impact, which will show itself in economic, mechanical and plot affecting ways, scaling up with the amount of Impact, the amount of Time it remains at that level, and how much Environmental Infrastructure exists in the Hex to mitigate it.

Environmental Infrastructure

When the total Advanced Production in a township exceeds three total output, these buildings will negatively affect the surrounding environment. However, with pre-planning and foresight, these negative impacts can be mitigated or the tolerance of the environment can be enhanced.

Basic Environmental Infrastructure

Requirements: None

Build Cost: Any Two of: [Stone, Lumber, Ore], 2 Forgesources

This building takes the most basic of efforts to reduce the negative impacts of advanced buildings. Each of these foundational structures negates one point worth of Environmental Impact.

Townships

Each township contains the basic plot of land and environs the buildings within it occupy. The basic statistics apply only for the township, and any bonuses that buildings grant only apply within that township, unless otherwise explicitly stated.

By default, a new township itself starts with nothing - this is merely the foundational planning for the new town center, and this new town does not benefit from any other effects that are present in the core of Crowne Point. The Town Council should provide a name for the new township when it is requested - names will be reviewed for appropriateness and in-genreness. They may also consider re-naming the city-state or capital at some point, to reduce the confusion between the city-state and its capital, once that distinction becomes necessary.

Crowne Point’s borders currently contain five hexes: Oldtown, Forgetown, Gingersap, Avia and Aurora. Further areas may become available through Plot interactions.

Township Infrastructure

Requirements: Uncontested Owned Hex

Build Cost: 2 Stone, 2 Lumber, 2 Ore, 4 Forgesources

Environmental Impact Slots: 3

This creates the foundation for a small new region inside the greater reach of the city-state of Crowne Point. As part of this, it creates a new set of Environmental Impact Slots (3) for that Hex, and allows for the reduction of Environmental Impact by Production Buildings in that Hex, effectively allowing the new Hex to absorb up to three Impact before being affected by Impact.

Production Buildings

Environmental Production Limits

Each production building beyond the Basic builds can be used more than once per event to produce additional resources via the normal recipe they provide. However, doing so, causes waste, and additional Environmental Impact on the surrounding land. Each time a building produces it generates Environmental Impact based on the Fibonacci sequence, starting with its Base Environmental Impact value, and ascending from there.

Thus, the Ironworks, with an Environmental Impact Base Value of one would produce 1 Impact if used once, and then another if used twice, but then would produce two on the third use (for a total of four that event), as the building's efficiency and waste start to spiral out of control.

For reference: the first ten values of Fibonacci’s Sequence are: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, and 34.

Basic Production Buildings

Basic Production Buildings have a base of 200 Life Points.

Quarry

Requirements: Known unbuilt Quarry Location

Production: 3 Stone [Passive]

Relevant Skills: Profession: Quarryman

Logging Camp

Requirements: Known unbuilt Logging Camp Location

Production: 3 Lumber [Passive]

Relevant Skills: Profession: Lumberjack

Mine

Requirements: Known unbuilt Mine Location

Production: 3 Ore [Passive]

Relevant Skills: Profession: Miner

Advanced Production Buildings

Advanced Production Buildings have a base of 400 Life Points. Subject to Environmental Impact.

Ironworks - Built - “The Die is Cast”

Requirements: None

Build Cost: 4 Stone, 4 Lumber, 4 Ore, 2 Forgesources

Production: 1 Ore + 3 Lumber = 1 Cast Metal, 1 Environmental Impact

Sawmill - Built - “Drawn and Quartered”

Requirements: None

Build Cost: 4 Stone, 4 Lumber, 2 Cast Metal, 2 Forgesources

Production: 3 Lumber + 1 Ore = 1 Cut Lumber, 1 Environmental Impact

Stonemasonry - Built - “The Marble Slab”

Requirements: None

Build Cost: 4 Stone, 4 Lumber, 2 Cast Metal, 2 Forgesources

Production: 3 Stone + 1 Ore = 1 Dressed Stone, 1 Environmental Impact

The Guildhouse - Built - “The Loom of the Dark Wood”

Requirements: None

Build Cost: 2 Lumber, 2 Cut Lumber, 1 Cast Metal, 2 Forgesources

Production: 200 Bloom (16 Plates) & 50 Coin = 1 Fiber-based Luxury

Relevant Skills: Profession: Merchant

The Town is able to Produce and Sell Luxuries at a rate of 1 per every three levels of Merchant applied to it, up to a maximum of five per Turn.
The Selling price for Luxuries is a base of 200 coin, plus 10% per every three levels of Merchant applied to it.
In addition, the cost of Guildhouse production is reduced by 10 Coin or 10 Bloom. The total reduction of the Guildhouse cost cannot exceed 50 Wealth in this manner.Thus three Apprentice Merchants will reduce the cost by 10 Coin, or 2 Master Merchant would reduce the cost by 20 Coin or 20 Bloom and so on.

Refined Production Buildings

Refined Production Buildings have a base of 800 Life Points. Subject to Environmental Impact limits.

Arcane Ironworks - Built - “The Crucible”

Requirements: Enchant Recipe - “Charged Arcane Bar”

Build Cost: 1 Cut Lumber, 2 Cast Metal, 4 Forgesources, 1 Charged Arcane Bar

Construction Maximum: 1 per Township

Production: 1 Ore + 1 Cast Metal + 1 Forgesource = 2 Cast Metal, 1 Environmental Impact

Automated Lumber Mill - Built - “”

Requirements: Enchant Recipe - “Create Enchanted Saw Blade”

Build Cost: 2 Cut Lumber, 1 Cast Metal, 4 Forgesources, 1 Enchanted Saw Blade

Construction Maximum: 1 per Township

Production: 1 Lumber + 1 Cast Metal + 1 Forgesource = 2 Cut Lumber, 1 Environmental Impact

Construct Stonewell

Requirements: Enchant Recipe - “Create Inscribed Construct Plate”

Build Cost: 2 Dressed Stone, 1 Cast Metal, 4 Forgesources, 1 Inscribed Construct Plate

Construction Maximum: 1 per Township

Production: 1 Stone + 1 Cast Metal + 1 Forgesource = 2 Dressed Stone, 1 Environmental Impact

Town Improvement Buildings

Walls

Physical Barriers around the city. Prevents multi-directional attack from Incursions. Four Locations per Township.

Palisade Walls

Requirements: None

Build Cost: 15 Lumber Per Side.

While Palisade walls can be breached by sufficiently strong monsters, it provides protection against Incursions by bandits, thieves, and other more basic ne'er do wells. A Palisade Wall has 400 Life Points, and is:

Resistant to non-Accented damaging attacks.
Un-Accented Shatter Effects do 6 damage.
Accented Shatter Effects do 10 damage.
Accented Damage and Siege Weaponry does full damage.

Stone Walls - Built - “The High Road”

Requirements: Palisade Walls

Build Cost: 12 Stone and 6 Ore Per Side, Palisade Walls

Stone Walls must be destroyed by extremely strong monsters, magical creatures, or siege weaponry. A Stone Wall has 500 Life Points, and is:

Immune to Damage from non-Accented attacks.
Un-Accented Shatter Effects do 4 damage.
Accented Shatter Effects do 8 damage.
Accented damaging attacks are halved, minimum 1.
Siege Weaponry does full damage.

Reinforced Walls

Requirements: Stone Walls

Build Cost: 4 Dressed Stone, 4 Cast Metal Per Side, Stone Walls

Reinforced Walls must be destroyed by magical creatures, or siege weaponry. A Reinforced Wall has 600 Life Points, and is:

Immune to Damage from non-Accented attacks.
Immune to non-Accented Effects.
Accented Shatter Effects do 4 damage.
Accented Damage is halved, minimum 0.
Siege Weaponry does half damage, rounded up.

Arcane Reinforced Walls

Requirements: Enchant Recipe - “Create Arcane Reinforcement”

Build Cost: 6 Dressed Stone, 6 Cast Metal, 4 Forgesources Per Side, Reinforced Walls

Construction Skills: Journeyman Arcane Ritualist

Reinforced Walls must be destroyed by exceptionally strong magical creatures, avatars of deities, or siege weaponry. Arcane Reinforced Walls have 800 Life Points, and are:

Immune to Damage from non-Accented attacks.
Immune to Shatter Effects.
Resistance to Accented attacks that are not from the Accents Malediction or Maelstrom.
Siege Weaponry does half damage, rounded down, minimum 0.

Protection

Increases Chance of pre-sighting Incursions, and amount of detail. 400 Life Points Each, unless specified.