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[IronyOwl]

Endless Legend is a 4X fantasy (technically scifi) game set on the world of Auriga. Barbarians are stirring, empires are rising, and winter is coming... sooner and harsher than last year, in fact. Create sprawling cities, subjugate native peoples, command mighty heroes, and weather the relentless cold while vying for power with rival empires. Just don't take too long, or you'll find yourself a lord of ice...

Game Info

Spoiler: Basics (click to show/hide)

The world is divided into hexes, with an overland movement and city map. Combat takes place on isolated maps made by stealing the surrounding terrain for use as a battlefield.

The world is also divided into Regions, which units don't care about save as diplomatic borders, but which cities are constrained by. Only one city can exist in a given region, though the placement of the city within that region can still be important.

Victory comes from the usual sources- murder the world, form a super alliance, complete a long quest chain followed by constructing an obscenely expensive monument to yourself, and so on.

Spoiler: Cities and Resources (click to show/hide)

Cities consist of a central district surrounded by exploitations, all of which provide their terrain's basic resources. Citizens may be assigned as workers to produce resources of any desired type; a variety of buildings and other factors can increase the number of resources produced per worker.

Cities may expand to adjacent hexes in order to spread their range of resource capture, but may not expand past the region's borders. Only one city may inhabit a region at a time.


There are several types of resources in Auriga, and different terrain will produce a different mixture of yields.

Food is used to maintain and expand your population. Population is calculated independently per city.
Industry is used to manufacture units and structures.
Dust is used to maintain armies and structures, as well as to buy items immediately rather than manufacturing them with Industry.
Science is used to research technologies.
Influence is used for a variety of diplomatic and social purposes, but generally serves to strengthen your empire and interact with entities that are not your empire.


Some terrain is relatively uninteresting, and produces fairly basic yields.


Other tiles contain interesting and usually profitable anomalies.


Finally, some tiles contain strategic or luxury resources. In addition to sometimes increasing standard resource yields, strategic and luxury resources are harvested as separate resources. Strategic resources are used to construct some buildings and in advanced weapons and armors. Luxury resources are activated to give an empire-wide boost for a number of turns; typically, this boost will consist of an approval increase and another resource-specific benefit.

Unlike basic resources, harvesting strategic and luxury resources require a specialized extractor to be researched and then built on top of them. City districts may also fill in for extractors here, allowing you to expand cities over valuable resources without concern.

While expensive, it is also possible to acquire strategic or luxury resources from the luxury marketplace, once the appropriate technology has been researched. Doing so requires Dust, and the cost goes up the more is purchased.

Spoiler: Technology (click to show/hide)

Research is divided into Ages. Within a given age, any technology may be researched at any time. When enough technologies from the current era have been researched, the next age unlocks, revealing new technologies, resources, and other benefits.

Technologies from earlier ages are always available, and count towards unlocking the next age. They are also cheaper than more current technologies, though typically not by a great deal.

Spoiler: Heroes and Units (click to show/hide)

Each empire starts with a basic unit type, and can research two more. Units may be customized and upgraded as technology and costs allow, with more advanced designs costing additional Industry to produce fresh, or Dust to upgrade from existing units. Appropriate strategic resources are also required for most advanced equipment.


Heroes function as units, including upgrading themselves with equipment. However, they have a few other important uses as well.

Heroes may be assigned to lead a city or army, and often come with specialized traits to help one or both. Heroes level faster when commanding more units, either in their army or garrisoned inside their city.


In addition, all heroes have access to three skill trees which provide additional benefits in a variety of settings. Many extend beyond the hero personally to benefit their entire army or city. Most skills require a prerequisite skill to unlock, and this prerequisite functions only moving outward or to the side; skills do not unlock options connected to them but from a lower tier.

The three trees available to each hero are Class, Common, and Faction. Common is identical between all heroes, and tends to be a mixture of exploration, utility, combat, and city traits. Class and Faction vary considerably, though are slightly redundant with each other since each hero of a given faction shares the same class. Class is the combat-oriented tree, typically boosting the hero and his army's stats. The Faction tree is the governorship tree, typically improving city outputs, but often including a few oddball traits as well.

Each faction starts with a hero. To hire more requires researching the Mercenary Marketplace, a tech available at the start of the game, and then hiring them with large quantities of Dust. The selection of heroes changes regularly, and is not limited by faction.

Spoiler: Minor Factions (click to show/hide)

Scattered throughout the land are minor faction villages. These outposts have a number of effects, the most automatic of which is periodically spawning roaming armies to terrorize your own units and cities.

Minor villages can be pacified in a number of ways. The simplest is simply to assault the village, defeating its guardians (the number of which are listed in the banner above the village), and burning it to the ground. Destroyed villages remain on the map but have few effects. More advanced methods of pacification involve bribing or accepting and completing a quest from the villagers, either of which will produce a pacified and whole village. Razed villages may also be rebuilt by the city whose region they inhabit.

Intact pacified villages have a few interesting effects. For one, they add a point of "free" population to any city in the region, increasing their production. Perhaps more significantly, minor factions you possess at least one pacified village of may be assimilated into your empire, providing a faction-specific boost per pacified village. Your empire possesses a limited number of pacification slots, but this number can be increased through research. Assimilated factions also grant you their unit type, allowing you to raise custom units of that faction as though it were your own.

Empire Info

Spoiler: Wind Walkers (click to show/hide)

Can see enemy armies in and adjacent to own territories
+25% defense in forests
+1 production on forests in summer

Spoiler: Broken Lords (click to show/hide)

Use Dust in place of Food
+1 Dust on any terrain that already produces Dust

Spoiler: Vaulters (click to show/hide)

+1 Yield from Strategic Resources
+1 Science on any terrain that already produces Science

Spoiler: Necrophages (click to show/hide)

Gain Stockpiles from enemy unit kills
Reduced District cost
-1 Food on any terrain that already produces Food
+2 Food produced per citizen assigned to Food production
May never be at peace or alliance, have no diplomatic techs, cannot bribe or parley with minor factions

Spoiler: Ardent Mages (click to show/hide)

Weird magic stuff

Spoiler: Roving Clans (click to show/hide)

Can relocate cities and districts
Receive 8% of all transaction fees paid by other empires
Can ban or unban other empires from the marketplace
Mercenaries receive x2 life, +1 movement
-50% Dust production, -25% trade route yields during winter
Receive additional marketplace transaction info
May not declare war
Commercial and research agreements are free

Spoiler: Drakken (click to show/hide)

May unilaterally declare truce, peace, or alliance
+2 Science, +3 Influence on terrain with Ruins
Empire plans unlocked 1 era earlier
Gives starting knowledge and contact with all other empires

Spoiler: Cultists (click to show/hide)

May not produce settlers
Districts may go to level 3 rather than level 2
Captured cities are automatically razed
Can convert minor faction villages regardless of location, bestowing all benefits of pacification, extra resources, and periodic mercenaries

Participation Info
Want to shout incoherent nonsense at me without even the slightest understanding of how the game works? Great! I will endeavor to take your insane ramblings into account when deciding the future of the world. Whether you're demanding a specific technology be researched or suggesting overall strategies for the entire empire, exercising authority well beyond your ken is both easy and fun!

If you're looking for something more involved, you may also request individual cities, heroes, units, or anything else you can think of to rule like a god, and I'll endeavor to ensure that they follow your wishes. Needless to say, founding a new city or scrounging together the Dust for a new hero may take some time and effort, particularly if your fellow oligarchs have other plans.



To start with, we'll need an empire (and color!) and world settings. World shape, climate, game difficulty, number of empires, you know. Random is an option.


Oh and then there's advanced options if that's not complicated enough.

[~Neri]

Necros.

[Darkening Kaos]

     Finally.  I might get some valuable tips on how to play this game.

    Otherwise I am nominating myself as one of the nonsense-spewing, incoherent ramblers.  Also requesting governership of my own city - something coastal with a research focus - build all the research stuff/buildings.

     I'll go along with Necrophages.  2 large continents, 6-7 other Empires, and ... other stuff.

[~Neri]

The necros are like the Craven, just less aesthetically pleasing and they lack guns.

[Chosrau]

Broken Lords. The dust must flow.

[Orb]

Broken Lords. Completely random settings for map.

[Iituem]

Cultists - let's teach those filthy meatsacks a lesson!

[Criptfeind]

Broken lords. Single continent other stuff random difficulty the highest you're comfortable with.

[Teneb]

Broken Lords for maximum Dust.

[GentlemanRaptor]

CULTISTS AHOY! Single city for ultimate victory!

[BFEL]

Just don't take too long, or you'll find yourself a lord of ice...

Not very "Endless" then is it?

Anyway

Land percentage low as possible.

ISLAND WORLD AHOY!

[Yoink]

Cultists!

[Teneb]

I'd like to throw a vote for at least continents if not a single continent. Islands have the problem that seafaring is only available at Era 2, which means a lot of turns sitting around in our little island.

[BFEL]

I'd like to throw a vote for at least continents if not a single continent. Islands have the problem that seafaring is only available at Era 2, which means a lot of turns sitting around in our little island.

EVOLVE GILLS YOU PANSY!

IF KEVIN COSTNER CAN DO IT SO CAN YOU!

[Teneb]

IronyOwl, are you going to be using the expansion? Just to know whether to expect Guardians or not.

(Also a new expansion was announced, I wonder how that would affect existing games, if at all)