#Stronghold kingdoms interdiction full#

Result is of many limitations and very basic management options… Producing ressources, buildings increase it, and the more you have the more troops you make, players can do “guilds’ and end of story. More freedom and tools available for playersĪll those games are highly concerned about egality in their games ( except when it’s about selling cheats for money ).

It will be like joining a Parish of Stronghold Kingdoms, unless the capital will be an actual player’s city… Having a ‘mentor’ player will also help newcomers to evolve, in exchange for taxes payed by the colony. Moreover, newcomers in aged servers will spawn on colonies created by players, and so will inherit some population of an existing civilization, starting with technologies and achievements of the motherland instead of starting from scracth. Your sucess will depend more on how you play ( especially in diplomacy ) than for how long you’ve been playing. In Ymir, game balance allows ingalities and give more freedom to players, meaning players will have more opportunities and more ways to evolve faster… or slower. Players who don’t join the server at it’s beginning often have no hope to catch up the ones who started at the first day… It’s considered as egality : a player who’s been in the game for weeks would find it unfair to see a newcomer achieve in no time what he took days to get, or to lose everything to a player considered ” weaker “.

Hope for players not joining a server at it’s beginning.Ī major issue in those games is that player evolution is too proportionnal to time spent in the game.However, there might be micropayments, but only of real services (meaning you pay for a job done), and never for something that consists in giving an advantage to the player over the non paying ones. There will be no such thing in Ymir, ever. Most of those games sell cheats to their players, allowing them to gain an arbitrary advantage over players who don’t pay : additionnal ressources, military advantages… It’s as if you would pay for the “lumberjack” cheatcode in Age of Empires 2… Players don’t pay an actual REAL service requiring a work, but they pay a virtual ressource, a change in a txt file on a server. Here, all the world map is online and viewable, and every region is unique, offering different oportunities and ressources. Most of the time, you can’t even visit other player’s villages, wich by the way happen to be just “points” on a map instead of an actual land surface. No game allows this, and moreover no game has a fully online real-time world. Battles won’t be just boards with numeric results, but actual real time battles taking really place in your cities, where you’ll be able to view and control your armies. You have a Civilization like strategy world map and also a local region view where you can build like in a classical building constructor game the city of your dreams. You’ll be able to procedurally evolve it, choosing your architectural style, discovering new technologies.

You will handle your civilization from beginnings of neolithic, managing its politics, stability, economy and military. In this game, you have more to do that just cumulating production buildings with levels. Ymir is a complex civilization simulation game ( imagine, the Civilization games online ) crossed with Anno, Age of Empires or Pharaoh.

#Stronghold kingdoms interdiction full#

Ymir is a full-screen standalone game with completely animated units and graphisms, music and sounds, where you can explore a full planet with randomly generated unique regions composed of rivers, coasts, mountains, hills, tropical forests and more. For exemple, Travian hasn’t changed a bit in years, and why would they, considering the money they make ? They didn’t even take the time to do specific civ buildings : Romans and Goths are all using the “celtic” asterix-like buildings, when we’re talking of 10 small png drawings that would require 2 days of work to do… And if you claim “ but it’s browser games!” then what about Stronghold Kingdom, a standalone game that is just re using the graphics of their first game (2001! ) placed on terrains made of static images… Lets face it, those games produce so much money right now that they have no reason to make them better, and they’re just lazy to change anything. Ymir is one of the only games of this gender -not to say the only one – to have real graphisms at the level of a traditional game. What makes this game different and worth the try instead of playing one of those games already finished and famous ? Ymir, as a day by day online strategy game, can be compared to existing games such as Stronghold Kingdoms, Travian, Ikariam or Ogame. Why choose to play Ymir and no other game ?