Strategus changelog

[chadz]

I'll try to keep a list of the changes in here so people don't have to search it from all around. Also, I'll unsticky it when I'm adding something, because no on reads stickies.

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(The area to the north west of the red line is NA territory, south and east is EU territory.)

Ok, let's see.. formulas:
troop upkeep for heroes:
ceil((pow($troops, 1.03) * 1.8 - 100)/24)
troop upkeep for locations:
ceil((pow($troops, 1.02) * 1 - 100)/24)

faraway goods bonus:
round(pow($distance_percent*100, 1.28));
max distance = 139 km

movement speed:
$speed = (0.25 * ($terrain['speed']/100));
$troop_influence = (pow($troops, $terrain['troops_influence']/200)/100); #capped at 0.99
$speed = $speed * (1-$troop_influence);

terrain look distance:
(distance_in_pixel/(($my_geo['look_out']/100)*($other_geo['look_in']/100)) < 100 )

terrain:
http://strategus.c-rpg.net/geo_calradia.png


movement table:

color name speed troops_influence look_out look_in 000080 Sea 0 100 250 50 22b14c Plains 100 100 100 100 c3c3c3 Hills 60 100 140 140 ffffff Snow Plains 70 100 100 100 003e00 Plain Forest 60 110 70 20 008080 Snow Forest 50 110 70 30 535353 Mountains 30 140 200 120 00a2e8 River 0 100 100 100 96924f Steppe 100 100 100 100 697801 Steppe Forest 70 110 80 40 000000 Cliffs 0 100 100 100 f000ff Road 180 100 40 170 fff200 Desert 100 100 100 100 53a600 Desert Forest 80 110 90 50 b45e34 Bridge 10 150 100 30

So, let's see if i can remember everything:

- Item price got multiplied by 4 (from /100 to /25)
- you can no longer work in towns
- instead you can either beg (gives you +1 coin per hour)
- or craft (read below)
- trading distance bonus got buffed (you can now get up to 450% of the price, so selling stuff far away for 25 gold means you get 113 gold per trading item)
- you can now trade goods with other players directly
- castles give lots of recruits,
- villages give lots of crafting opportunity
- towns will have a marketplace - in a town, you can put up your goods for trade with other players. The idea is that people produce goods in villages and bring them to the towns where big merchants will transfer them to faraway places
- you can have as many goods on you as long as you don't move. When you move, you lose 1 good per minute until you are down to goods_amount=troops_amount
- gold from crpg got nerfedrestructured - it's 1 gold per x2 and x3 tick, 2 gold per x4 and x5 tick
- selling items to the bank was changed from 70% to 20% return value.

-probably some thing i forget which i will add asap

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Crafting guid:
There are 2 different crafting values: The first percentage is a general percentage for this fief. It's a general yes or no random pick per hour. If this is 100%, you will get to stage 2 every hour. If this is at 0%, you will never produce anything
Then you can decide what to craft. Trading goods (the first entry) are always 100% and you always get +1. Production of those always costs the good price in the village divided by 2. You can either sell them directly to the village (low profit), sell them to a nearby village/castle/town with a higher price, or sell them to other merchants.

Then you can also produce items, accordin to your smithing skill. Smithing skill is defined by the mysterious text within crpg.
The percentage means two things: first, it means you can produce a good cheaper than buying it. When an item costs 500 gold to buy, and you have 10% smithing skill in it, you can produce it for 450 gold. Apart from that, the skill also defines how many items you produce per hour. Every hour, there is a random chance of 15% per smithing skill to produce it. so with a smithing skill of 10, you have to chances against 15% to produce the item, so you will probably get 1 or 2 of those items. You only pay when you succeed in smithing, but you pay for every item you succeed. Only produce items if you need them or you know someone who pays you more for it than it costs you to produce it. Selling it to the bank will not give you profit.


Note: this is all a work in progress, especially the crafting thing. I feel it doesn't reward enough for the smithing skill, so it will probably be somehow changed.

The troop limit is removed for now - everyone is free to carry as many goods with as few troops as he wants. This is only a temporary solution, though, and I can't tell yet what will be added instead - either showing how many goods someone is carrying with him, or doing a speed penalty when you have fewer troops that goods.

Either way, for now, nothing of those is added.

Due to a bug (trading multiplies items) we will have to do a rollback, about 24h.

Sorry.

- changed upkeep formula
STRATEGUS_WAGE changed from 2.5 to 1.8
$wage = (pow(troops, 1.03) * STRATEGUS_WAGE - 100)/24

- added horse speedup - if you have more horsies than goods and troops, you get a speed buff:
 sumpter horse *1.3,
 every other horse * 1.8

- removed gingerpussy

- changed AI visiting fee from 5 to 1

So:
you can put up offers in towns. This means your goods/items are stored there and when someone accepts your offer, you get your money. Hopefully this helps independent traders and crafters so they don't have to contact people to set up trades.

Troops can carry equipment on their body (1 helmet, 1 armor, 1 pair of boots, 1 pair of gloves, 2 weapons [up to 4 stacks of arrows, bolts or throwing weapons count as 1 weapon]). If you have more than this, you carry stuff in crates. Trading goods, Spare weapons and armors - that goes into crates. One crate takes 30kg. Two men or one horse can carry a crate without additional penalty. Trading goods have a weight of 5.

So, this is the speed you will achieve:
180% speed with more horses than troops, and equipment worn directly,
130% speed with slow horses,
100%-90% with equipment worn directly (depends on the weight of the equip you wear),
85% if you have more horses than crates,
75% to 40% if you have troops carrying crates.

Faraway goods bonus was manipulated so it's a) higher and b) it goes more like this:

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The idea is that, once you have reached around 70%, the increase is getting lower again, so you don't necessarily have to move to the very last village in the corner.

some other stuff I forgot and will write some details about when you remind me of them.

[Anwyl]

More money! horray!

[Dalhi]

changed upkeep formula
STRATEGUS_WAGE changed from 2.5 to 1.8
$wage = (pow(troops, 1.03) * STRATEGUS_WAGE - 100)/24

So now you can have up to 50 troops without paying upkeep? (if my calculations are correct).

[serr]

So, you need horses>(troops+goods) or (horses>troops and horses>goods)?
Ok, already found the answer.

But now i have 0 troops, 0 goods, 1 rouncey and my speed is the same as without it. At least with Quick Match  activated.
I'm in desert(25) , activated quick march and i have 60 speed. Yesterday i had the same value without horse.

[chadz]

You need a rider

[Teeth]

- removed gingerpussy

lol

[Jarlek]

Dotted.

[serr]

Ok, now i have 1 troop, 0 goods, 1 rouncey and 74.350 speed with quick march, without horse it was 60. Where is 1.8 multiplier?

[Balton]

The issue with trade goods should be prioritized above all. The amount of goods you are carrying being visible is a sensible suggestion, and significantly better than the previous system.

Also, the horse speed up is a very nice change.

[Gingerpussy]

- removed gingerpussy

Nah IM NOT letting go....... untill the 27th this month for obvious reasons

[Gingerpussy]

Hey chadz, ur reason for not sitting in a town for gold is NOT changed.

A clan will not ofcourse have 20 ppl in a town getting trade gods and they ALL WILL STAY THERE DO NOTHING UNTIL THEY transfer there gods to another member of the clan who do the trading. How is this a change at all ? The game is still to sit in a fief for a week or two or maybee forever to craft shit and its even more STUPID then getting gold sitting around.

I know i am getting unpopular by saying the truth, but the truth sometimes hurt so live with it.

[PhantomZero]

Can you trade multiple types of goods yet?

[Fluffy_Muffin]

A changelog???

The end is nigh

[Digglez]

what is the actual formula to determine how many actual players you will be able to field on your roster?

Ie...if I'm sporting 100 troops, how many actual live players will be able tosign up and fight on my side?

[Bjarky]

still find the Bridge stats very unbalanced