10. Land

Benefits

Land ownership is a complex end-game progression system that grants users actual ownership over key elements of the game economy. Players can participate in the land system by either playing consistently and collecting enough Land Crystals to craft a land plot, purchasing one in the Auction House, or conquering an island as a guild via rare guild tournament opportunities.

Active ownership over land can grant:

• Passive yield of nuggies, the premium currency

• Player titles

• Guild titles

The land system is highly experimental and likely to go through iterative adjustment in the future. Do not purchase land as an investment or with the intention to speculate on real cash value.

Land Plots

Land plots are crafted by combining land crystals. Each island has a maximum of 10 land plots.

There are three types of land plots on each island:

• 5x Large plots

• 2x Medium plots

• 3x Small plots

Each type of land plot requires its matching land crystal size. The number of land crystals required will differ for each island depending on the total amount generated by players as rewards in the prior season.

Deeds

Deeds are also crafted by combining land crystals. Deeds, which represent various building types, must be paired with a land plot to be utilized. Large plots are paired with shop deeds, and medium and small plots are still in development and may have paired deeds and buildings later.

Shop deeds grant the holder ownership of a player-owned shop, which serves as a crafting station and may have additional utility later as development continues. Shops, when active, grant 20% of the crafting fees that players pay in nuggies back to the shop owner. As nearly all items inside the game are ultimately crafted by players, shops may be substantive sources of in-game currency income.

Per island, there can only be one of each type of shop deed.

Maintenance

Buildings require maintenance resources to remain active. Maintenance resources depend on the building type. Shops must maintain wood, ore, and/or cloth to stock their crafting stations. Each time an item is crafted at a shop by a player, 2.5% of the amount of ore, lumber, and cloth needed for that specific craft are deducted from the shop's maintenance resources in the owner's inventory.

If a building is not maintained by keeping the requisite amount of maintenance resources in the owner's inventory alongside the deed and land plot, the deed and land plots will automatically disassemble into their constituent land crystals 72 hours later. The deed and land plot can be crafted again by any player.

Island Governance

Islands each have a governing guild which is determined by way of periodic guild-based tournaments with varying objectives. The governing guild receives 2.5% of all nuggies crafting fees from all shops on that island. The leader of the governing guild receives the title of governor.