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You have seen it here first! The first released official Utopian Report, Volume 1! Read a bit about our owner David, the Czarina herself, Sonja, our wonderful Development Team and what the team has been up to lately!

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__JANUARY EDITION 1 Yr 2__

 __COLORS__

 **Who are they?**

 I spoke with the Monarch and this is what he told me about them,

 __1) Your title and position in the kingdom?__

 I go by price, nothing fancy, just my last name :slight_smile: I'm the monarch of Colors!

 __2) Background about colors ?__

 Colors was founded back in the ... Age 70's ... ? I think ... as a new KD.  Initially we have about 8 of us who all split off of an older warring KD.  We went to recruiting in the lower KD ranks for active players that were interested in forming an organized, successful and competitive warring KD in the 22-man tier.

 __3) What does this age mean to you ?__

 This is our FIRST age in 25-man, over the past few ages we've had some players leave from the game all together and it forces us to go back to our pavement pounding roots to fill the KD.  As you can imagine, taking a kingdom of mostly new faces over the past 2 ages to a 25-man level of warring is a daunting task, but we are excited to be 25 strong and looking forward to the challenge and the learning experience for all of our team.

__4) How was the war with WC, what would you do differently?__

 The war with WC was very competitive.  The opening wave of attacks was pure chaos of course, they took down two of our attackers and threw in a few hits on 2/3 of our rogue provinces, which shutdown any economy they had, but did end up making them stronger in the ops game moving forward. We took down 1 of their attackers and then had a few semi-chains of other high peasant provinces.  The following waves were a dog fight of land trades with our side focusing on deep chains while our rogues focused on their 2 top enemy rogues who were bordering on UB status with propaganda.  In the end, their best gains / shallower chains allowed them to gain a peasant advantage when coupled with the benediction ritual.  We ended up withdrawing once we saw their top def provs begin to pack on further defense and their overall peasant count begin to snowball out of our FB and Kidnapping suppression.  If I were to change anything ... it would be to take down those higher def provs earlier in the war before they were able to get out of reach.  Hats off to WC for a well fought war, we'll be back and ready to rumble with many lessons learned in 4-5 days time. :slight_smile:

 It was a tough war indeed with Warcraft showing up on all fronts! According to colors they were having some issues with their new provinces who are not used to warring in the world of legends. Still a fantastic effort put forward by the Colors Leadership and withdraw could not have come at a better time for them!

Speaking of wars, they did have a Yr0 War as well, read more below! **1) What is your kingdom and your position?**

So, our Kingdom is Colors, and I'm the Monarch and Founder, this is our first age as 25-man, so we were excited to have everyone showing up for waves and reporting for targets, etc

 **2) How did you find your last war? (arranged or wave)** I did not find my last war, my last war found me!  I don't know if that's a good thing or not! :joy:

but they were a great opponent, and

 **3) Who was your opponent and why did you pick them?** We connected through the MUGA discord server, which has been a great addition for the community.

 **4) When you run your wars, is it micro managed waves or do you have a preset plan?**

 typically we have a plan going into the wave, but each hit is micromanaged by our target selection guys.  We try to chain in NW order, but that does require everyone to be online and ready at a certain time, sometimes it pays off, sometimes the plan gets altered :)

 **5) How did you feel about your attacker choices?**

 we went with Undead/War Hero, as a young team, I wanted to keep our core a simple war machine, that would be easy to maintain and give us time to learn the war system that our council is implementing to a lot of newer faces back to the game.

 **6) Did your TM choices compliment the attackers well this age?**

 I think it's too early to tell.  Having 4 heretics and 2 mystics with low runes in an OOP war definitely left us wanting more support from our mystics, but I think as the age progresses, we will get to see how the heretics can compliment the deep chains and attacker waves with their nightmare capability.

 **7) What was the biggest issue your attackers faced?**

 In this war? Dragons... we killed 5 dragons in 48hrs.  Our attackers were relied on heavily for their defense and then for their offense to help kill the dragons, and it ended up costing us the war eventually.

 **8) What was the biggest issue your TMs faced?**

 Massacres. The enemy used massacres on our rogues and heretics scattered in with their semi-chains of our attackers on the second day of war.  This was after council made the decision to sacrifice TM defense in favor of further attacker defense or offense.  This left our TM vulnerable to attack and they wisely chose massacre, leaving our kidnapping of their large elves unsuccessful.

 **9) What approach did you use on your waves? did it work?**

 We would typically take their highest offense, or maybe 2-3 offense but a lot of peasants, and also had to have low incoming acres, and chain them to sub 100.  It certainly worked.

 **10) How did you plan to FINISH THEM off?**

 We planned to continue to deep chain two of their high offense provinces with low incoming land to sub 100.  By min-time we had most of their attacker squad under 5k def and 30k offense, the only thing still standing on their side were the 4 elves.

 **11) Any honorable mentions to your kingdom mates who went above and beyond?**

 Council and Steward @spoony for helping me lead the waves for 3 days straight, huge props.

 **12) Is there anything you would change about the 'WAR' experience in Utopia?**

 I would like the community ground to be more interactive in war.  right now the only thing we have is the war forum, and it's a great first step. but we need to improve the community aspect if we want people to continue playing.  maybe if there was a "War Hall" or something with a better name :joy:  where both teams could go to see overall progress, comment on individual hits or ops that are public knowledge and talk trash and also get a bird's eye view of the war.

 **13) Any final thoughts?**

 Thank you for doing this for the community, I think the more stories members can share, the more utopia interest and knowledge share can grow.

  Thank you Price for taking the time to show the Utopia community who Colors truly is! Thank you for your contribution to the community!

Welcome Utopians!  The Age 71: The Metamorphosis has come to an end, and Age 72: The Era of Venerated Bastions  will begin shortly.

We would like to thank everyone for their feedback and help devising what are now the final changes for Age 72.  

Schedule

Age 72 Freeze Start: Saturday 20th May at 12:00 GMT

Age 72 Protection Start: Tuesday 23rd May at 18:00 GMT

Age 72 Protection End: Wednesday 24th May at 18:00 GMT

Mechanics

NW Changes - Peasants will now be 0.25 NW, and soldiers will be 0.5 NW and 1/1.

SOT change - we are considering adding a 'last seen' line to SOTs that will show most recent activity in addition to displaying information related to any active Kingdom Ritual

Scientists - generated on a flat ratio similar to wizards instead of via RNG.

Explore pool - remove kingdom wide explore pool and replace it with province level exploration pools.

Paradise - will still consume explore pool, will be available only to Mystic or Rogue personality (Not Faery)

Gains - Replace Networth Based Gains (NWBG) with a hybrid Land Based Gains (LBG) system that incorporates NW.

Networth Protection - Significantly reduced for spells and sabotage operations.

Op success rate - Success rates made significantly easier to achieve

OOW honor gains - Significantly reduced.

WW Chart Chains - In order to incentivize conflict between top WW kingdoms, we have altered the formula to provide additional WW points (scaling from the current if the kingdom you war is outside of the top 50 for land, honor, NW, and warwins) to double the current points.

WW Bonus - Additionally, we are adding a new set of WW bonuses. Kingdoms will receive recognition on their kingdom page based on the number of WW points they achieve. Each additional 'tier' that they obtain will also increase their WW bonus -- land, honor, credits, etc -- by 10%. This is capped at a WW bonus that is 50% larger than the baseline bonus.

Finally the WW bonus will scale with kingdom size under 20 provinces to reduce the potential for abuse with kingdoms that remain intentionally small in the number of provinces.

The War Win bonus will also include a provision of additional land to every province's individual explore pool in both kingdoms, this is mainly aimed at helping provinces that are destroyed in war to have a chance to grow back to a functional size.

WAR - Exploration during End Of War Cease-Fire will have reduced cost penalties (from 500% to 250% of normal cost).

Explore Penalty - Kingdoms smaller than 10 provinces will see an increased explore penalty.

Several New Spells dedicated to the Paladin Personality Only

Kingdom Rituals

Kingdom Rituals (KR) are a new mechanic that serve as a kingdom-wide bonus.

- The Monarch or Steward will select one of 3 rituals the kingdom will begin (similar to the starting of a dragon)

- To complete the ritual the Kingdom must cast a new 'ritual spell' 100 times within 48 hours of the ritual being started

- The ritual spell will have a very expensive rune casting cost; and have a difficulty similar to the most difficult self spell

- A successful KR will last for 120 hours

- Only one KR can be active, another KR can be started before the active KR ends, very similar to Dragons. Once the KR is completed, the previous KR will be replaced

- All users will have a KR page; on this page only you will have the KR spell available to help initiate the KR

- The KR page will also display various information such as: current KR status (type and strength), whether a new ritual is being cast, how many more successful casts are necessary

- For enemies: an active KR will be displayed via Spy on Throne, where you will see which KR is active and current strength

There are three kinds of KRs, we do not yet have names for them, and the numbers are likely to change drastically:

1) Barrier - Increases defensive TPA and WPA by 25%; reduces gains via attacks against the kingdom by 10% (similar to Guard Stations); +10% DME

2) Affluent (WAR ONLY) - Increases income by 25%, Birth Rate by 20%, and draft speed by 25%

3) Onslaught - Increases OME by 10% and enemy casualties on your offensive attacks by 15%

Note: The Prosperity KR can be initiated and completed at any time regardless of your stance (relations) however, if it is active and you are NOT in war you will receive no effects from it.

Spells

Self Spells

Inspire Army is no longer a baseline spell, it is being replaced by a Paladin Only spell called Paladin's Inspiration and has ~25% increased effects (low difficulty;moderate/high duration)

New Spells:

Scientific Insights (Paladin Only) - This spell will increase the science effectiveness of target province by +10% (moderate difficulty/short duration)

Illuminate Shadows (Paladin Only) - Provide target with -20% damage from thievery operations (moderate/high difficulty;moderate duration)

Wrathful Smite (Paladin Only) - Attacks against province while this spell is active will result in higher casualties for the attacker (moderate difficulty;low/moderate duration)

Divine Shield (Paladin Only) - Increase magic defense of target (will stack with Magic Shield;low/moderate difficulty;moderate duration)

Sorcery

Magic Ward (Unf Only) (Paladin Only) - Increase target's spell cost in runes by 25% for duration (moderate difficulty)

Barrier of Integrity (Unf Only) (Paladin Only) - Stops all drafting that would normally take place in target province (moderate/high difficulty;very short duration)

Races

Avian

Attack time -25%

Birth Rate +40%

Can Train Elites with Credits

Penalties

Battle Gains -10%

Can't Use Stables

Minus 2000 Starting Spec Training Credits

20% fewer credits generated

Spell book: Fanaticism, Greater Protection, Bloodlust

Elite: 11/4, 775 gc, 10.5 NW

Dwarf

Bonuses

Building Efficiency +25%

Construction Cost -100%

Construction Time -50%

Use Credits to Raze

Access to Greater Arson

Penalties

Food Consumption +100%

Can't Accelerate Construction

Spell book: Mystic Aura

Elite: 8/9, 900 gc, 10 NW

Elf

Bonuses

Instant Spell Damage +25%

WPA +35%

Towers Efficiency +20%

+2 dspec strength

Penalties

Wages +50%

Spell book: Clear Sight

Elite: 9/7, 1000 gc, 10 NW

Faery

Bonuses

All Spells (Including Tree of Gold; Excluding Paradise & Paladin Spells)

Penalties

-10% income

-5% population

Spell book: All Spells (Including Tree of Gold; Excluding Paradise & Paladin Spells)

Elite: 5/10, 1050 GC, 11 NW

Halfling

Bonuses

Max Population +10%

Thief Cost -50%

TPA + 40%

Extra Stealth +1

+1 ospec strength

Penalties

Birth Rate -10%

BE - 5%

Spell book: Aggression, Mage's Fury

Elite: 6/8, 700 gc, 9 nw

Human

Bonuses

Income +30%

Immune to Income Penalties

Increase Scientist Generation Rate +25%

+1 general

Penalties

WPA -10%

Spell Cost +50% Runes

Spell book: Greater Protection, Quick Feet

Elite: 11/5, 1050 gc, 11 NW

Orc

Bonuses

Battle Gains +20%

Draft Cost -100%

Enemy Casualties on Attack +15%

Penalties

Military Casualties +10%

TPA -10%

Spell book: Bloodlust, Reflect Magic

Elite: 12/1, 1000 gc, 11.5

Undead

Bonuses

Carries & Immune to Plague

No Food Required

Offensive Casualties -50%

Def Troop Losses 50% to solds

Convert Specs to Elites

Ospec strength +2

Mana +1

Penalties

Science Effectiveness -15%

Can't Train Elites

Basic Thievery Only

Spell book: Town Watch, Nightmares

Elite: 11/3, 11.5 NW

New Race - Dryad Bonuses Double Strength War Horses Mercenaries fight with 7 strength Each acre produces food Penalties +25% attack time -15% opponent kills Elite (Will O' The Wisp) 14/2, 1100 GC, 12.5 NW Offensive Specialist (Huldra) 6/0, 350 GC Defensive Specialist (Nymph) 0/6, 350 GC Spellbook Aggression

Personalities

Cleric

Bonuses

Military Casualties -35%

Plague Immunity

Starting Bonus

Soldiers +800

Spec Credits +800

Spellbook

Animate Dead

Greater Protection

Heretic

Bonuses

Magic & Crime Science Effectiveness +20%

WPA +20%

Runes Refunded 35%

No Wiz Killed on Failed Spells

No Thieves lost on Failed Ops

Spell and Op Damage +10%

Starting Bonus

Starting Wizards +100

Starting Thieves +200

Spellbook

Nightmare

Blizzard

Revelation

Mystic

Bonuses

Guild Effect +100%

Magic Sci Eff +75%

Spell Damage +15%

Starting Bonus

Starting Wizards +600

Spellbook

Chastity

Meteor Showers

Revelation

Rogue

Bonuses

Thievery Sci Eff +50%

Thieves' Dens Eff +50%

Extra Stealth / Tick +1

Access to ALL Thief Ops

Starting Bonus

Starting Thieves +400

Spellbook

Gluttony

Revelation

Sage

Bonuses

Abduct Protection +30%

Science Effectiveness +25%

Starting Bonus

Starting Scientists +25%

Spellbook

Amnesia

Tactician

Bonuses

Attack Time -20%

Accurate Espionage

Starting Bonus

Starting Soldiers +800

Spec Credits +800

Spellbook

Clear Sight

Warrior

Bonuses

Off Military Eff +5%

Full Conquest Access

OME in war +10%

Starting Bonus

Starting Soldiers +800

Spec Credits +800

Spellbook

Fanaticism

War Hero

Bonuses

Battle Gains +5%

Honor Bonuses +100%

Income Penalty Protection

Dragon Immunity

Convert Specs into Elites

Starting Bonus

Starting Elites +800

Spellbook

War Spoils

Pitfalls

Paladin

Bonuses

Can Cast Fading Self Spells on Kingdom Members (success will be based on WPA)

Troops attacks dragon with 20% more strength

Spellbook

Fool's Gold

Paladin's Inspiration

Scientific Insights

Illuminate Shadows

Wrathful Smite

Divine Shield

Magic Ward