Update 13OCT10 - Biome Release

Hi all,

As promised, major biomes (Polar, Desert, Marshes and Jungle) plus the faction hubs have been released onto the World Map.

Please bear in mind that the graphics that these biomes are currently using are placeholders; a full set of new world graphics is in progress and should be delivered reasonably soon.

These biomes have new and unusual resource distributions, and if you go to the areas of the map where they exist (see here for a copy of the world map) you can see their resource distributions.

Please note a few things:

1. There will be further NPC square seeding of these biomes, but this will not occur for a few weeks (ie after the ability for players to move cities has been released next wednesday)
   
   
2. These graphics are placeholders (just thought I'd repeat that, so people don't complain)
   
   
3. Most of these biomes are fairly inhospitable, and many have less than 25 plots in total for the town
   
   
4. Travel within these biomes is likely to be extremely slow, once unit pathfinding is introduced to Illyriad
   
   
5. These particular terrain types (polar, jungle etc) will be receiving their own unique combat terrain modifiers shortly; but they're not in yet
   
   
6. We have not yet assigned any Sovereign Structure Production bonuses to these terrain types, but this will be done tomorrow

We have not yet released the faction relationship tables and faction descriptions - these will also come ingame tomorrow.

I will be making a full post tomorrow, outlining and reconfirming *all* the rules about moving cities so that there's as little confusion as possible.

Best wishes,

GM Stormcrow

You may have already said this elsewhere but what can we do with the factions at this moment in time? :s

Edited by hanoth - 13 Oct 2010 at 23:20

don't move there then

Yes as will most of the unreleased biome graphics

What I don't understand is why anyone would want a biome city. From what I've seen, the resource distributions still only give 6 or 7 to one top resource, and then 5 or less for every other one. The sum is almost always less than 25, and there are no special production bonuses. I was expecting distributions closer to 7.1.2.9.3 or something, but as it is now, I see no reason not to just carry on as if biomes were never released.

Edited by TGE - 14 Oct 2010 at 00:17