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WHAT IS YMIR ?

Ymir is a multiplayer game of strategy and city building with a stand-alone
client (not a browser game!).



In this game, each player controls a faction of Pigmen living in a fully
persistent online world.
The current objective is a max 100 players per server on persistent mode( so not
really a ‘massively’ multiplayer game).
Also, with a variety of tweakable speed settings, the game will have a more
“real-time” mode for players who just want to play with friends in a more
traditional way.



The world is composed of regions and each region matches a unique zone you can
colonize and build a city on.
Each zone is procedurally generated to match the worldmap region.
There is 8 types of climat, 4 types of relief, rivers, lakes, swamps, coasts…
You’ll find some climate specific resources like olives in mediterran, apples in
the north, cacao in tropical… ore deposits, wild animals or cultivable plants.

Starting usually with a tribe in late neolithic, you develop your
cilivilization discovering new knowledges, building cities, gathering resources
and interacting with the other players.
Like an online browser game, in Ymir your people is persistent. Your citizens
produce, consume, breed even when you’re offline.

This game is, and will always be, absolutely free of any kind of PAY-TO-WIN. If
ever there is a premium account, they will only provide cosmetic improvements
but will never advantage the player over the non-premium ones in the game in any
way. Creating a game forever free of such thing is one of my main goal.

Population is a key aspect of the game.
– Population cannot be directly constrained : you can’t directly ‘delete’ or
block population. They breed naturally and will even spawn slums if you do not
provide enough housing.
– Population is divided in social classes : farmers, artisans, merchants… Each
class has its own stats such as Health, Life quality, happiness, intelligence… 
– Population has ‘needs’ organized by priority. Vital needs ( food and water )
come first, followed by level 2 needs such as furniture and clothing, and so on.
– Each need has a percent of satisfaction and a quality level. You can satisfy
your Porcos’ need for food just feeding them with wheat, but satisfying a need
with different types of resources will increase this need’s quality providing a
big Life quality and Health bonus. There is for exemples many different foods :
meat, beans, wheat, vegetables, fish… The more you’ll provide the better.



Ymir is a complex economic simulation.
This is probably one of the key aspects making Ymir different from all the other
city builders.
– Your city produces a material wealth and this wealth is divided between each
social class depending on their income. A class with the highest income will
monopolize the largest share of this wealth. The wealth then determines what
resources this class can afford to buy.
– A social class income is based on how many resources they sold : for exemple,
farmers selling their food at the market to the rest of the population, or
miners selling stone to the player for a new building . 
– The price of each resource is dynamic, and based on offer/supply and wealth
balance within your society. There is no predetermined “expensive” resource : if
you have a small elite of rich pigmens in your city and only produce a small
amount of pottery, that product will likely adjust its price to maximize
benefits and become expensive, only available to those rich. Start producing a
lot of it, and as it will become more beneficial to sell more at a smaller price
: the price will drop. 
– With technologies, you’ll gain tools to influence and control your
economy, like providing social help to some social class or adjusting income
tax, VAT tax, import/export tax, intermediaries ( do the producers sell the
resource directly or do i use a merchant who will keep a percent of the income
for himself ? ).
– Building more is not always the better : sometimes you’ll be in a situation
where distributing more of this specific resource will unbalance your society,
and understanding how things work is a part of the game and will differenciate
the good manager from the bad.



There is many resources to produce and gather on those Casear-like warehouses,
giving you a visual satisfaction of your wealth and many buildings to build and
upgrade.
Each building evolve over multiple levels, improving efficiency and resource
production. Some buildings can create “annexes”: a sub building belonging to the
main one and giving an additional production. The most common, for example,
beeing the “Field” annex belonging to a Farm building. But it can be mining
shafts for a foundry, or a quarry for a stone mason etc…

Ymir is also a game of politics and diplomacy.
Whether you’re just interested in creating a peaceful city or a huge empire,
diplomacy will be the core of the game.
Players will be given a wide range of diplomatic tools such as peace treaties,
tributes, vassality , taxes, right of passage and more.
Ultimately, players will be able to merge as a unique faction and to decide how
far they want to unite. Whether is a completely centralized kingdom sharing
taxes, technologies and diplomacy or just a federation of independent players
acting together.

There will be no limitations to a player’s behaviour : everyone will be allowed
to blackmail , threaten, pillage or attack anyone. Even a strong player against
a newly spawned one. Dealing with the particular situation where you’ll find
yourself in is the point of the game, including facing a much more advanced
opponent. Convince him to stop, team up with other factions, emigrate, become
the vassal of another equally strong opponent… It will be up to you.
However armies will be really expensive to maintain and create, requiring adult
males, equipment, salary and constant replenishment, lowering your kingdom’s
growth.



Players can create units containing any combination of troops they want,
military and civilian.You can create trade caravans by creating a unit with
mules, chariots, carriers and a few soldiers as an escort. You can create a
settler’s expedition by recruiting families and loading resources in the unit to
colonize a new tile. Or you can just create a regular army composed of archers,
footpigs, cavalry and even mounted Mammoths.
Players can also build and organize their defenses with a wide range of tools:
modifying the terrain, building elevated platforms and walls, towers, bridges,
crenelations, gates, stairs, but most of all simply by choosing a terrain with
good natural defenses like a hilltop or an island in the middle of a river.
They can also customize the deployment position of their defensive troops as
well as their behavior in battle.



When two enemy armies meet on a same tile, they trigger a battle that can be
witnessed in real time in the region view. Unlike many other online games, those
battles are not instantaneous and allies can reinforce the armies during the
battle. Fighting troops take into consideration terrain elevation, water ,
buildings and existing fortifications like walls.
They can cross rivers with rafts and climb cliffs or walls with ladders, though
it takes them a lot of time making them vulnerable to enemy fire. They can also
breach gates with rams. All troops are AI controlled during the battle itself.



Ymir takes inspiration in  games such as Civilization, Pharaoh, Anno, Age of
Empires, Travian, Ogame orStronghold Kingdoms. If you have any interest in one
of those games, this game might interest you.

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