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Default service buildings
Default service buildings are service buildings that come pre-built with a node. Some of these buildings are unique based on the type of node. Others may be present based on the acquisition of relics.[2]
List of default service buildings
- Default service buildings
Service building expansions
Default buildings they specialize as they expand. So this isn't like a traditional skill tree, it's exclusionary, more like a tech tree. So selecting the next upgrade for it will lock out the other two paths. So as you get better with the building it will continue to narrow, which allows lots of nodes to carve out lots of niches in the world.[4] – Chris Justo
Service buildings are upgraded by expansions, which are unlocked through the placement of passive service buildings.[5][6]
- Service building expansions allow buildings to be specialized via a tech tree, such as moving from a generalized Blacksmithing building to an Armor smithing building, then finally toward a building that specializes in Plate armor.[4][6][7]
- To upgrade your building, you choose expansions, you build passive buildings to allow you to unlock those expansion slots and just a little- basically specialize your service building down a path; and the building specialization will narrow down a specific path. So you might start as a generalized Blacksmith building and then you'll specialize towards maybe armorsmithing, and then towards specifically, like plate armor through the expansion tree.[6] – John Collins
- Building expansions unlock higher tier workstations at the cost of dedicating service building plots. Lower stage nodes can achieve higher tier service buildings by dedicating a majority of their service plots to that path. Mayors decide how to specialize their node. Once they choose certain things they won't be able to choose other things.[8][9][10]
- The pathway of upgrades is exclusionary. So when I choose a path down a particular building type in order to reach a tier five benefit: when I eventually reach a higher stage, or even if I'm lower stage and want to dedicate a majority of my service plots toward one particular crafting building; like I may get a very top tier workstation as a result, even if I'm still a Village node. It's like I'm the village node that makes the T5 swords because I've dedicated all of my plots to that.[8] – Steven Sharif
- Vassal nodes can benefit from the types of service buildings present in their regent node.[11]
- You might have a parent node, or a Regent node, that has a vassalship over your node and you're getting benefits conferred to you through either the prerequisite of the building types that you can construct as well to make a bit more headway there.[8] – Steven Sharif
Service building tech trees
Service building upkeep
Service buildings incur a regular maintenance cost of node commodities and gold from the node treasury in order to continue operations.[5][12]
- Building maintenance is auto-paid from the treasury in order of the most valuable buildings first.[5][12]
- If maintenance is not paid, or a building is damaged as the result of an event or siege, the building will enter a state of disarray.[5][12] Any NPCs or services offered by that building will not be available until the building is repaired.[13][14]
- Players must contribute materials to repair disarrayed buildings and restore them to an operational state.[5][12][7][14][15]
- Larger more advanced buildings will require more resources to repair them. In-node housing will likely require the least resources to repair.[16]
- Previously building repair was restricted to node-citizens.[14][15]
Service building destruction
You could be more precision oriented in the decision to attack a city. Let's say it's a rival node that's trying to reach a node stage five or something and you want to disable their ability for the religious system to progress so you target the temple during the attack, or you want to disable their scholars academy from reaching a higher level so that your nodes can; or you want to disable multiple buildings that allow for experience and quests to be undertaken by its citizenship, which prevents them from keeping up in pace of experience gained with your node. These can be more precision oriented and don't have to effectualize an actual takeover of the node.[18] – Steven Sharif
Node buildings (including player housing) have hit points and can be damaged or destroyed by different systems.[7][14]
- NPC-driven events that are a response to story arcs or node atrophy.[7]
- Node sieges and node wars.[7]
- Attackers may not be capable of destroying a node during a siege. Instead they may carry out precision attacks to disable specific service-oriented buildings within the node. These buildings can be targeted with siege weapons and bombs.[18]
- Hazardous events such as tornadoes or hurricanes.[19][7]
- Mayors have the ability to demolish constructed node buildings. This will have a node mandate cost and will require player buy-in via a vote.[5][12]
- Mayors will also have the ability, if they want, to demolish constructed buildings. So if they if they so choose they can destroy a building if they don't think it's needed anymore. But this will have mandate cost and a player buy-in votes. So we want to make sure that [the] mayor can't just go and blow up the whole node if they're trying to grief or something. So this is very important and impactful decision.[5][12] – John Collins
If building maintenance is not paid, or a building is damaged as the result of an event or siege, the building will enter a state of disarray.[5][12] Any NPCs or services offered by that building will not be available until the building is repaired.[13][14]
- Players must contribute materials to repair disarrayed buildings and restore them to an operational state.[5][12][7][14][15]
If a node siege is successful, or if buildings otherwise take significant damage, they are destroyed and appear as rubble on the plot they occupied.[5][12][7]
- Node leadership must clear any rubble on plots before any buildings can be reconstructed. Any prerequisites for the building reconstruction must be satisfied beforehand.[7]
- Buildings also live within a prerequisite system. So in order to build down the tech tree of what these buildings provide, as the node grows larger to access stronger building types, you may get a kink in that chain if it's destroyed and you'll have to stand that back up in order to support the service again.[7] – Steven Sharif
- If the node is destroyed by a node siege, the debris field will contain spoils that are lootable by attackers or defenders.[20][21][22][14][23][24]
- Player housing that is destroyed during a node siege can no longer be sold.[25] Furnishing and decorations are retained and can be placed again later.[25][26][27]
Node layout and style
The layout and architecture within a Node’s development area are determined by influential race. For example, a stage 3 Node with the majority of player contribution being Py'rai would have a Py'rai village with Py'rai architecture. Most NPCs would be Py'rai elves, and offer questlines within the Py'rai narrative.[28] – Margaret Krohn
Each player’s contributed experience is flagged with their character race and other identifiers. When a Node advances, the race with the highest experience contribution determines the Node’s style and culture. This style and culture change can happen at every Node Stage. For example, if a Node advances to Level 2 - Encampment Stage and 51% of all experience was earned by Ren’Kai players, the Node will be a Level 2 Ren’Kai Node. If that same Node advances to a Level 3 - Village Stage Node, but the Py'Rai contributed 62% of all the experience earned, then the Node will be a Level 3 Py'Rai Node.[29] – Margaret Krohn
Node layout and style is determined by several factors:[30][31]
- The way that the node system is built is that they can exist across a spread of 18 biomes, but at the same time have to represent the cultural influence of these cultures that are intrinsically a part of a specific biome.[32] – Steven Sharif
- Environment (biome) and location of the node.[32][30][31]
- A node's footprint is a 1 km2 development area where a node's buildings are located.[21] Nodes can adjust the local topography of their footprint to fit the aesthetic and mechanical requirements of the node.[33]
- Some parts are determined by the area it's in. Some parts are determined by the type it is. Some parts are determined by the race it is; and then the rest of it is determined by the mayor.[31] – Jeffrey Bard
- Race that contributed the highest percentage to the node's advancement will alter the racial appearance of its buildings, NPCs, props, and narrative systems.[34][35][36][30][29][31][37][38]
- All nodes, whether they're associated with a castle or associated with normal node structure, has cultural influences that replicate over to the buildings that are produced and the NPCs that are present.[40] – Steven Sharif
- The rest is determined by the node's mayor.[31]
- It should be possible for a node to complete several building projects within a mayor's one month term in office.[41]
- Q: How long would you say it will take players on average to fill/build up a node completely from wilderness to metropolis?
- A: It's one thing to get a node to a certain level: it's another thing to develop the node; and I can't really give you an on-average expectation, because there's a lot of variables at play. There's how many citizens does the node have attracted to it; what's the type of traffic that the node is attracting to it based on things like its tax rates, or the specialization that it chose to spec into, based on the building types it's chosen to build. All of those things are variables that can affect the quote-unquote "average build-out time" of a particular node. So it's difficult to give you an average when there's so many variables along those lines. But the idea is that if there is a particular project that players are interested in in developing based on the node stage, that they would have the ability to complete several of those projects as within a single term of a mayor; and a term of a mayor is one month.[41] – Steven Sharif
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See also
References
- ↑ Video, August 31, 2023 (49:05).
- ↑ Livestream, August 31, 2023 (56:18).
- ↑ Video, August 31, 2023 (46:54).
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Video, August 31, 2023 (34:37).
- ↑ 5.00 5.01 5.02 5.03 5.04 5.05 5.06 5.07 5.08 5.09 5.10 Blog: Development Update with Village Node.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Livestream, August 31, 2023 (50:25).
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6 7.7 7.8 7.9 Livestream, March 31, 2022 (1:13:00).
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Livestream, August 31, 2023 (52:56).
- ↑ Livestream, January 20, 2018 (38:17).
- ↑ Livestream, May 19, 2017 (33:57).
- ↑ Livestream, August 31, 2023 (54:44).
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 12.5 12.6 12.7 12.8 Livestream, August 31, 2023 (57:23).
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Interview, July 9, 2023 (1:32:45).
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 14.4 14.5 14.6 Interview, July 8, 2020 (57:46).
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 Livestream, November 22, 2019 (17:59).
- ↑ Interview, July 8, 2020 (59:38).
- ↑ Livestream, October 31, 2019 (36:20).
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 Livestream, November 22, 2019 (16:56).
- ↑ Forums - Livestream Q&A 2022-08-26.
- ↑ Interview, July 9, 2023 (1:36:24).
- ↑ 21.0 21.1 Livestream, October 14, 2022 (52:31).
- ↑ Podcast, September 29, 2021 (14:21).
- ↑ Livestream, April 30, 2020 (1:14:44).
- ↑
- ↑ 25.0 25.1 Livestream, June 26, 2020 (1:02:12).
- ↑ Livestream, July 18, 2017 (40:14).
- ↑ Livestream, November 17, 2017 (47:10).
- ↑ Blog - Know Your Nodes - The Basics.
- ↑ 29.0 29.1 29.2 Blog - Know Your Nodes - Advance and Destroy.
- ↑ 30.0 30.1 30.2 Livestream, October 30, 2020 (39:17).
- ↑ 31.0 31.1 31.2 31.3 31.4 31.5 Livestream, September 27, 2018 (53:06).
- ↑ 32.0 32.1 Livestream, February 25, 2022 (41:00).
- ↑ Livestream, February 26, 2021 (1:12:18).
- ↑ Interview, October 20, 2024 (1:10:00).
- ↑ Livestream, March 31, 2022 (4:57).
- ↑ Podcast, April 11, 2021 (29:47).
- ↑ Interview, May 11, 2018 (54:34).
- ↑ Livestream, May 26, 2017 (21:23).
- ↑ Podcast, April 11, 2021 (23:36).
- ↑ 40.0 40.1 Interview, May 11, 2018 (47:27).
- ↑ 41.0 41.1 Livestream, July 29, 2022 (1:13:09).