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Mechanics
Timings
 Attack cooldown | s |
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| Build window | min |
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 New castle shield | h |
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 Payout | every min |
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 Read word regrows | min |
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 Full heal | min |
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 Shopkeeper visit | - min per hour |
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Reading
- scholars (up to with gear). Each word read: +1
- About words a minute to start with, fully trained.
- Read words vanish for everyone, then regrow.
- Only one tab at a time works: the one you clicked last.
- Scholar gear turns up while reading: % per reading.
Upgrades: scholar training
Castles
| Price | - - |
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| Payout | × prominence, up to % more on old articles (15 years) |
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| Loot if taken | % of price |
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| Limit | None |
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| Article | Words | Links | Age | Price | | Loot |
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Power
- Every article has a power from 1 to , from its words and links.
- A warlord has a power too: the strongest article he usually beats from full health.
- A fresh warlord is power . Training and gear raise it; city-hub sets raise it further.
- It is a guide, not a promise: fights have luck in them.
Defenders
- An unclaimed article is guarded by defenders of its power: 1 to of them.
- A castle is guarded by one ghost: a copy of its owner's warlord at full health, with his gear and sets.
- Fighting a ghost never hurts the owner. The same ghost guards all his castles.
- Fought one at a time. 600 rounds max.
| Power | Count | each | total | hit |
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Warlord
| Health | |
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| Damage | |
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 Speed | 1 attack per round |
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 Defense | 0% (max %) |
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 Min health to siege | % |
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Training
Each level costs ×.
Scholar training
Each level costs ×, like the warlord's.
City hubs
- An article that cites or more others is a city hub. Lists, indexes, years and disambiguation pages are not.
- Hold the hub and castles on the articles it cites. Each cited castle gives 1/ of the bonus, up to the full set.
- Without the hub itself the set gives nothing. A cited article counts for every hub that cites it.
- Each hub gives one fixed bonus. Several hubs of the same kind add up, up to a limit.
| Bonus | Effect at full set | Per hub | Limit |
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Shops and drops
- items per shop, same for everyone.
- Each item once per player.
- Siege win: % drop chance (weapons and armor).
- Stationers and bookbinders sell quills and tomes for the scholars.
Prices
Death
- Last castle lost: everything resets.
- Ranked by survival time and by warlord power.
