It basically is a PvP version of Kingdom of Loathing (without the humour or stories or pictures), where players pick a class of Hero and each hour they improve in gold and can buy new land or soldiers to grow their kingdoms. They also can progress by attacking other players, which is really the whole point. It’s a straight out PvP game that so far does not seem very balanced. Players can increase in level, but AFAIK they can only do so by attacking others or successfully repelling attacks. There’s no honour in just being good at making gold. And while all you have to do to make gold is wait an hour and hope no one attacks in the meanwhile, you can make trading packs with other players as well send gold and troops friends. And they also allow to create alliances (think guilds) which is basically just a group in Facebook world.
Having been attacked by some people 10 or more levels higher than me, there’s not a lot of balance so far. Also, there is no game board. There’s only a search function whereby you have to find players in a range of level or land or gold that you want to target. You can employ spells to spy on them to learn their stats and present inventories before you attack. There’s not much of a profile otherwise, and really it’s a game that feels still in Beta. Certainly, its database is not robust, so be prepared to wait several seconds for any updates.
However, crap infrastructure aside, there seems to be a fair amount of attention and it’s worth noting as another webby game example. Certainly it’s a good example of what you can do to capture a lot of players quickly. Although, I’m only guessing there’s a few thousand just because of Facebook memberships and the poor availability. It’s very minimalist but also very mainstream.
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