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Europe 1400 Review

by admin posted Jul 17,2010

I played on the Europe 1400 first german server Gilde 1400 since the game started as public beta in october 2009. A few weeks ago the first player on a german server had all enhancements at all his buildings, but a long time builder and foreman just reduced the building time 25% and not 90% like now.

You also will have problems to get all your skills on 100, because everytime you die you lose 10% of every skill (and for the last levels till 100 you need 40 AP for just one skill point).
At the german servers the best players have about 400 skill points (but many in the top ten have only about 300 skill points), but if you have all your skills at 100, you would have 600 skill points.

At the german servers, we had the problem, that just few active players were in one town, state offices weren´t in game, and you couldn´t move to another town, so i as example has the bishop office over weeks without an election, so it was really boring.
Therefore i stopped playing at the normal server and later started at the test server with fivefold speed.

I hope here we won´t have the problem with empty citys here, the gameforge should have learned from the german servers.

Producing will be something you just by the way (after you have the last title,which costs 1.000.000, and you built the palace, which costs 3.000.000) because you don´t really need the money, respectively you use it for election donations (at the testserver is often donate 50.000 – 200.000 for the feudal lord office)

But nevertheless you´ll spend most of your time on politics.
You will fight for offices, maybe honourable, just with items to increase your reputation and your rhetoric, maybe conventional, with some items which lower the opponents reputation or you use an intrigue so he loses his application, or maybe you will put out all the stops and decrease his life expantancy or kill him immediately. (at the testserver i died three times within a few days)
If you try to fight alone, you will early notice, that you have not really a chance, so you will fight in a guild. (which we have at the german servers just for a short time)

And you might haven´t noticed yet, but there are many possibilities to endamage other people.
It ranges from decreasing the building condition of a opponents workshop so he produces much slower by sabotaging or using incendiary bombs over stealing his AP by beating him up or duelling to decrease his life expantance (e.g. with your poison dagger, where just the increased intrigue resistance is temporary while the decreased life expantancy is permanent) so much that he dies at the end of turn or assasinate him immediately.

But it´s not possible that your work of month´s is destroyed, so ongoing feuds are possible and those feuds and fights for offices will be the things which keeps the game living.

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