Artifacts and Item System Improvements

Dordiana Level 24

Muscards x 4 big, x 4 medium: nothing

Worms x 7 small: 300 wood

Birdhouses x 1 big, x 1 medium, x 4 small: nothing

Birdhouses x 6 small: Skythian Pectoral, research 1000 points, windlass crossbow, drum stick

Small chest: Plebian skirt

Worms x 3 medium, x 5 small: 3000 research points, 350 research points, flying carpet, iron 700 (I think)

Birdhouses x 5 big: stone 750, wood 55, science points 15,000 

I may have some of the reward sizes wrong - can be difficult to read while flying into the resources

level 5 hero, three groups of muscards:

3 big: Horseman's axe (renaissance, so useless), Chain breaker

1 big, 1 medium, 1 small: nothing

5 small: nothing

After this 5 gear items down to 99%, 3 still at 100%.

Akamai - level 50 - 

Muscards - 3 green, 5 orange.  Hero alone.-- Received:   Battle Cry, a crystal, 40,000 tech points, and either 10,000 or 100,000 tech points (went by too fast to see how many zeros, but it was the "computer" icon).

5 white worms -   hero alone - Received:  the safe, speaker horn, the face thing, and Merchant Badge.

I also attacked one opponent's dwelling.  

Gear levels after 3 above attacks:  

Wrist/arm gear 99%; Helmet 95%; Cape 90%; Bullova Axe 84%; Chest armor 93%; Shield 90%; Boots 89%; skirt 89%; and belt 99%.

Old George (Georgios) - Hero level 4

Since yesterday, have opened an unlocked chest (that I don't remember unlocking) containing a chisel.

Have fought a blue muscard, who dropped nothing, and raided probably two (maybe only one) neighbors' undefended towns. (Had killed defenders off in their players' absence several days ago.)

Durability 100%: Leaf Bracers

99%: Plebeian Helmet, Plebeian Collar, Spiky Club, Plebeian Coat, Spartan Shield

89%: Sandals (that we arrived in), Plebeian Skirt. (Guess I shouldn't have thrown away the other two or three such skirts I'd picked off trees and the ground! Particularly since Inventory space seems despite expectations to be quite elastic.)

Also 100%, all equipment not worn, including Apa Dagger used to cut a cabbage but not in fighting.

Jane Young - Hero level 1 (summoned yesternight)

Fought the three tutorial battles against mushrooms, with Club dropped as programmed in last battle; no other fighting. Visited Herald's Home and Opposition Hideout at least twice each. Removed all reachable fog SFAIK in all 3 locations; has not yet finished filling in Wade at the Hideout.

Durability 100%: *Wrist Ladies' Gloves (removed as soon as Club picked up if not before), *Cocktail Hat (worn thruout), Leaf Shoulders, *Art Deco Dress (worn thruout), Primitive Club. * = Clothing arrived in.

87%: *Heels, *Short Pantaloons, both worn thruout. Latter now stowed so won't wear out further until and unless they need to be visible!

I have to say I'm confused about all of this... The only pro I can see is that it enriches the game play a tiny bit. But if at some point of time each player reaches a conclusion that they have to play less - I don't think it's worth it.

The attrition is a part of a more rich item system which involves crafting, enchanting, repairing, deconstructing items into ores and so on. If it upsets yo so much that you can see only solution is to stop playing then I don't know what to say to you. I can only hope majority of players will come to the different conclusion.

I tend to be with ubique on this. The problem is that y'all have enthusiastically implemented the tearing down part while seeming to provide hardly any restoration. Iff that's truly the case, it seriously affects game balance.

My Georgios won't at all mind going near-naked; he's a Classical Greek! But if being unarmored or under-armored causes more frequent resurrections or even means there are some monsters he can't get past that he otherwise could, yeah, that will make us unhappy.

Hopefully my Miss Young's dress will wear until it can be replaced.

Monster drop report from caves - numbers are for science points (I hope I got the numbers right, they fly by quickly)

Naya L50 fighting spider groups

2 chickens, grain pile, sword

dove, standard, grain pile, 45000 

45000, manual

25000, chicken

4000, Veles, grain pile

10000, skirt, grain bag

trommel

horn, 45000, 25000, 10000, veles

750, chicken, drumstick, 300000

grainbag, chicken , buddha *chickens/grainbag keep respawning :D

potion, 2 chickens, manual

Jamie L 34 fighting mummys

grain pile, 3x 15000

3 chickens, 45000

Veles, 45000, devil, weapon

devil, 4000, hoe, 3500

***from chest*** trommel, Veles, hoe

450, 1000, devil, manual

3x 1000, safe

devil, armbands, grain bag, ore

1000, 4000, chicken

devil, potion, pants

potion, 2 chickens, manual

1000, fireworks, chicken, hoe

2x chickens, trommel

chicken, manual, grain bag*, ambrosia  * kept renewing :)

chicken, grain bag, hoe

Hope this is useful :)

Hero level 4. Fought those porcupine-like monsters, 6 of the 102-point size, 2 larger 266-pointers. Got the same size blue research vial I've always seen.

Fought same array of same monsters in next bay of the mountains. Got nothing.

Level 5 hero:

Chest in second town that needed 200 lumber to be unlocked.  Gave Torch.

ETA: which finally let me progress in my Small Cave.  Yay!

Level 5 hero (a different one):

Chest in second town that needed 5 legionaries to be unlocked.  Gave Butterfly Net.

Monster Drop Report
Hero level 40
* Dragons: 4. Had given: 300 food, Scent of Freedom, Lorica Shoulders, Teck vial
* Birdhouses, Big: 4, Medium: 2. Had given: Speaker Horn, Flying Carpet, Chain Breaker, Teck vial
* Warms, Big: 3, Medium: 5. Had given: 4 Teck vials
* Dragons: 4. Had given: 900 stone, 900 iron, Paton’s Hammer, Teck vial
* Birdhouses, Big: 3, Medium: 5. Had given: 1500 iron, 75 stone, Teck vial 30000 points
* Warms, Small: 4. Had given: Speaker Horn, Battle Cry, Chain Breaker, Teck vial
* Dragons: 4. Had given: 700 wood, 700 food, Fist Mace, Novice Manual
* Birdhouses, Medium: 2, Small: 4. Had given: Vele’s Helmet, 1000 stone, 500 wood, Teck vial
* Dragons: 4. Had given: Plague Rumor, Speaker Horn, Potion of Reconsideration, Teck vial 40000 point
* Dragons: 4. Had given: 850 food, 80 iron, 850 stone, Teck vial
* Warms, Small: 8. Had given: 1500 wood, 2 Teck vials
* Dragons: 5. Had given: Solid Hatchet, Microscope, 2 Teck vials
* Dragons: 4. Had given: 1000 food, 1000 stone, 600 stone, Paton’s Hammer
* Dragons: 4. Had given: Chain Breaker, Trommel, Paton’s Hammer, Day of the Merchant
* Birdhouses, Big: 3, Medium: 5. Had given: Nothing
* Warms, Big: 3, Medium: 4, Small: 1. Had given: Chain Breaker, 900 iron, 2 Teck vials
* Warms, Medium: 3, Small: 4. Had given: Devil in Disguise, Purified Iron Ore, Swarog’s Spade,Teck vial
* Birdhouses, Big: 4, Medium: 4. Had given: 850 stone, Locksley Boots, Lorica ... Torso
* Birdhouses, Big: 4, Medium: 2. Had given: 700 iron, 200 stone, Speaker Horn, Teck vial
* Birdhouses, Big: 4, Medium: 4. Had given: 750 food, Yarilo’s Axe, Black Jack, Teck vial
* Warms, Big: 5. Had given: Day of the Army, Flying Carpet, Figurine of Enlightment, Teck vial
* Birdhouses, Big: 4, Medium: 3, Small: 1. Had given: Ambrosia, Flying Carpet, Novice Manual, Teck vial 150000 points
* Birdhouses, Big: 3, Medium: 3. Had given: 4 Teck vials
* Birdhouses, Big: 1, Medium: 2, Small: 2. Had given: 550 stone, Apprentice Manual,, Paton’s Hammer, Teck vial
* Birdhouses, Big: 3, Medium: 5. Had given: 300 food, Purified Iron Ore, Teck vial
* Warms, Big: 2, Medium: 4. Had given: Potion of Reconsideration, Speaker Horn, 2 Teck vials
* Dragons: 3. Had given: 1500 wood, Truce Proclamation, Microscope, Teck vial

Chests Opened
Medium size chest required 5000 wood production gave: Cornucopia, 2000 iron, 1000 stone, 1500 wood, 200000 tech points
Big size chest required presence of 40 Artiste units gave: Trommel, Computer type tech vial and 2 other tech vials.

Hero Equipment Degradation
Crusader Arms: 87%, Great Helm: 84%, Metal Shoulders: 90%, Pernach: 71%, Pavice: 90%, Subcoated Mail: 90%, Forged Boots: 84%, Mail Skirt: 84%, Crusader Belt: 100%

The whole proses took me about four hours (including the report writing time) with several breaks.

P.S. You can put a counter in the chests (like supporter’s pysanka), so after a week or ten days maybe, they can disappear or replaced by smaller ones. Training 70 priests is going to take a life in time and resources. Also the food production of a whole town to feed them!

Level 5 hero.  Chest behind ice in Keeper's Village: Ambrosia.

Hero level 4, 8 mushroom monsters, no reward.

Another 8, 10 Stone.

2 small muscards, pale blue, no reward.

I just fought 6 Dengrogs, 6 dogs again, 2 worms medium and small, 6 birdhouses and got NOTHING. I lost 3 Praetorian upgraded, 2 Centurions upgraded,  2 Legionaries upgraded, and 4 archers.  

level 38

7 small worms - devil in disguise

1 med dendrog, 7 big dendrogs - lorica segmentata torso

1 small muscard, 7 med muscards - 2500 science, mail skirt, 750 stone, plebeian wristlets

7 big birdhouses - 15k science, 70 food

6 med birdhouses, 2 big birdhouses - 25k science, 350 food

7 med worms, 1 big worm - nothing

6 small worms - 15k science, wolf vest

4 small worms, 3 med worms - 750 stone, 700 iron, 30k science, horse hoe

6 med birdhouses, 2 big birdhouses - 900 food, 30k science, mask of the many, potion of reconsideration

6 med birdhouses, 2 big birdhouses - 20k science, bronze merchant badge, 200 wood, padded belt

4 dragons - 950 food, 200 iron, 40k science, 10k science

5 dragons - 550 science, 30k science, army standard, all seeing eye of something...

most of the outfit down to around 60%, shoes and skirt - 40%

still hero 36

6 small muscards.1 chain breaker 360 iron, 10k research, 1 day of the army, 

chest needed 10k lumber: veles helmet, 1500 food, 1 miscroscope, 2k iron, truce proclamation

1 small 7 medium worms.80 wood, 60 iron, 300 iron, 10k research

4 small worms: 15k research, 1 yarilo axe, 70 wood, 1 onyx chrystal

4  small and 2 medium worms: 25 k research, 1 blueprint, 700 research, 800 iron

level 37:

chest needing 10 artistes: 500 iron 70,000 research

7 small, 1 big birdhouse: 30k research, patrician beltt (-12% army upkeep lvl 40), 40 wood, 30 food

2 small, 2  medium, 2 big worms: 1 microscope, 1 chainbreaker

Equipables:   they were at 100%, now after 11 fights

flopped  armlets 97%, armet helmet 94%, legionnaire Scapular 97%, flail 81%, wolf vest 97%, kite shield 97%, centurion boots 83%, mail skirt 83%, plate belt 100%

The Violator,  lvl 10

Fights:

1 med, 5 small muscard:  10 stone

2 sm, 6 med dendrog:  Chausses, 65 iron

1 sm, 1 med, 1 lg bird houses:  nothing

3 sm, 2 med, 2 lg dendrog:  nothing

ran into  a fight on way to another  lol  what  I saw that was left was 1 lg 1 med muscard:  nothing

found 2 chests:  1 had 9k tech points, the other had a whole chicken (350 food) and a leaf belt

Equipment damage:

Leaf bracers:  100% - 99%

leaf wreath:  98% - 97%

plebian collar:  100% - 99%

socket axe:  100% - 99%

plebian coat:  100% - 99%

wooden shield:  100% - 99%

leaf greaves:  78% - 76%

plebian skirt:  78% - 76%

plebian belt:  100% - 100%

Units used:

7 braves - 2 left

14 nomads - 8 left

10 witch dr - 10 left

15 archers (from hunters hovel) - 15 left

14 legionaires - 8 left

3 pratorians - 2 left

Hero level 4. Chest opened by bringing 5 Legionaries to it. Yielded a Curved Bow.

Level 5 hero.  Chest needing 5 Bells.  (Much-needed) Torch.

Level 5 hero.  Chest in Small Cave.  Water Bucket.