Terraform Pricing

In February 2017, Dakota published an article on terraform prices. As it has been some time since then, I decided to do a refresh of it. In the previous article, terraforms were broken down into three categories; custom, prospect, and alliance.

Custom terraforms are ones where the buyer can choose the distribution, such as a 7 food / 3 stone distribution. Prospect terraforms are terraforms that use the starting distribution of a race, such as the human's all 5s distribution. Alliance terraforms are terraforms for alliance-mates.

As before, this is for a standard terraform, a rushed terraform will often cost more.

	Custom	Prospect	Alliance
Mean	38.4	31.8	15.6
Median	36.5	36.5	0
Minimum	25	25	0
Maximum	73	36.5	36.5

10 Terraformers were surveyed, and the price of a scrap was taken as being 36.5 mil.

Compared to the last survey, there has been a significant increase in the average price of a custom terraform; from 30.9 mil to 38.4. However, the most common price was 36.5, just 1.5 mil above the previous mode, with 70% of respondents giving a price of 1 scrap. Most prices were given in terms of scraps, with those who didn't give a price in scraps saying that they would take a scrap as payment. This is perhaps the largest change, as in 2017 all prices were given in gold.

A scrap was also the most common price given for prospect terraforms, though there was a bit more divergence with one player offering a 10 million gold rebate for scraps. The shift to scraps has led to a 13.3 million gold increase in the price of prospect terraforms.

Alliance terraforms were by far the cheapest, with an average price of 15.6 million, however this is over three times the average in 2017. Most players either offered them for the same price or for free to alliance-mates. Players often said that prices for alliance-mates would vary based on how long their buyer had been in their alliance, as well as their size.

Author: Eowan

Is Rok Breaking the Code of Conduct?

 

A concerning report has reached me that Rok may have broken the ToS. At 05:55 server time on the 12th of December Rok distributed the email of former NIGHT member Mike, seemingly in retaliation for Mike's exposing of the Lady Kynecha situation. This would seem to violate the 10th rule of the code of conduct which 'strictly prohibits [...]  posting personal information such as address, phone number, real name or other identifying information'.

This does bring to mind a second apparent code of conduct violation. The second violation revolves around the account currently known as Lucille. The account was formerly known as Sir Bradly, a name that was previously used by Rok and it did appear to be controlled by him. Since the renaming, the account has seemingly passed to Daisy who was recently linked with illegal account sharing. As Rok currently has control of two accounts, his alt being Judge, this would seem to be in breach of multiaccounting rules, potentially in addition to account sharing rules.

When asked in GC about these allegations, Rok refused to comment.

An anonymous source in NIGHT stated that Rok had been 'drinking heavily' recently, a claim backed up by AC logs where Rok described himself as 'shitfaced'. This could have impacted his judgement, leading to the alleged code of conduct violations. When asked to comment on this, Rok deflected saying 'Well, I drink coffee excessively'

Author: Eowan

Amid Rumours of Internal Confusion, NIGHT Leadership Disagree On Age Of Alliance

Controversy has emerged as to the age of NIGHT. Today, second in command Daisy stated in GC that NIGHT are a 'new alliance'. This runs contrary to leader Succulent's previous claim that NIGHT are in fact the same alliance that landclaimed back in February. NIGHT's alliance page would indicate that the alliance was formed in September 2020. 

This comes as rumours have emerged that there are tensions within the NIGHT alliance. An anonymous source speaking to the telegraph stated that  the conflict was between Morghulis, Succulent and Daisy. The conflicts were said to arise from a lack of direction within NIGHT. My source had the following to say:

'no one calls the shots

no one plans ops, no one can plan an op

daisy is too busy sending all her cav at the coanhara tile to impress axis

no organization'

It could be that the blame for this lack of organisation and shot calling is the result of Succulent being largely absent. In an AC log from NIGHT, she had the following to say 'So idk what this shit is about I'm never here'.  

However, Daisy could also be muddying the waters. In the same AC log, she said 'we need to come up with a game plan and who does what, please'  to which Succulent responded 'We laid out in slack who's in charge of what.'. Daisy refused to comment on the tensions when asked repeatedly in GC.

Whether the organisational problems are the result of Succulent's inactivity, Daisy's failure to read slack, or something else is up for debate, however it is worrying to see in such an old/new alliance.

Author: Eowan

NIGHT is 'ruining the game' says former NIGHT member

 

Yesterday, NIGHT member Mike began mailing many alliances across Illyriad. The IGM detailed the case of Lady Kynecha [Aerie] who had been the subject of NIGHT's recent efforts to establish a landclaim in the deserts of Coanhara.

Lady Kynecha complied with this request, moving towns from Coanhara to Westmarch where she already had towns. One town in Coanhara was razed as it did not have exodus. After moving and allowing a town to be razed at NIGHT's request, Lady Kynecha came under attack from a now former member of YARR, Axis, who has since joined NIGHT, as well as other NIGHT players.

The continued attack by NIGHT players on Lady Kynecha is was prompted Mike's mailing spree, as Mike viewed this as a betrayal of his word to Lady Kynecha. In further correspondence with Mike, he went on to state that these 'assholes are ruining the game'. In addition to this, he made an accusation of account sharing towards Kimmyeo stating that her 'other illegal is salgerluk'.  This is in addition to the Petrus Fons account named in the original IGM.

Other NIGHT players refused to comment directly to the telegraph, however Mike did send me IGMs between him and Succulent on the matter. In them, Succulent said 'I don't particularly agree with what he's doing but I take the side of NIGHT>everyone else.' going on to say 'Plus we haven't officially LC'd WM, but we may at some point in the future.'

I was also sent a number of AC logs. In these, some interesting revelations about low troop counts in NIGHT came to light. Ininaatig, upon being asked how many spears he had, stated he had 25k spears while Daisy gave a count of 120k spears.

So, inhabitants of Coanhara and Westmarch beware; an alliance with low troop counts is coming for you.

To read the full text of the original IGM, click here

EDIT: After publishing, Captain Kindly got in touch to say the following about Salgerluk:
He is active. And does not sound like Kimmy. I recognize an older guy when I see one

Author: Eowan