New Gameplay Feature - Gadgets
Gadgets are limited items that grant players consumable powers. Four gadgets have been added:
- Boom Drill: Accelerates the extraction of underground deposits by unearthing multiple ores.
- Smokescreen: Provides temporary invisibility to stationary military units. Effect stops once they move or attack.
- Emergency Alarm: Provides 18 temporary citizen guards that are very weak outside of their own territory.
- Mechanized Training Dummies: Instantly finishes the recruitment process or spawning timer for all recruitment buildings or residences in range.
New Buildings
Water Well
Water is used in all classic recipes and has new uses in research. Farm, Bakery, and Ranch now all take an additional input of water to produce.
Finesmith
The Finesmith produces Gears from Iron Bars, Coal, and Gold Ore. Gears replace gold as the recruitment cost for Faction Units.
Decorative Buildings
These ornamental buildings brighten up the look of any settlement. They are cheap to build, have low health, and offer no competitive advantage.
Workshop
Workshops are used create different Gadgets, including the ones mentioned above.
- Gadget costs vary by type.
- Gears are always part of the cost.
- Gadgets have a maximum storage of charges, regardless of the number of Workshops or Warehouses built.
- Gadgets have a long production time
Balancing Highlights
- Population limit for all 1v1 casual and PvP maps is increased to 999.
- Farms can no longer be placed near the coast.
- Replaced Advanced Alchemy with Defense Draughts, a new research option for Alchemists/Shamans/Mystics.
- Added a second rank to Focus Crystals
- Engineer vision range increased from 3 to 5.
- Recall cooldown increased from 15 minutes to 20 minutes.
