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Game Mechanics: Events

Events are going to be an interesting and important game-mechanism for home-owners and competing settlers.

Events are going to be an interesting and important game-mechanism for home-owners and competing settlers. Events are occurrences affecting a whole settlement – for better or worse, events can have positive and negative effects on an affected settlement. They hook into Coobico’s quest-system. An example for a positive event: during a “Goldrush” characters will earn more money for an accomplished quest. A negative example is “Great Fire”, which blocks the entrance to all buildings in a settlement until a certain amount of freshwater was disbursed to cancel the event.

So where do events come from? They are invoked by geomancers and alchemists, players can purchase events from such nonplayer-characters – but they don’t come cheap. There will at least be two shops where events can be “bought”. Any settlement can only be affected by one event at a time, so settlers might want to buy positive events for their villages here and there to block out negative ones.

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