This makes playing a character with integrity more challenging, but also more potentially rewarding! The higher your score in Honor, for instance, the greater the Score benefits of doing things that are Honorable, but the greater the score hit you will take if you do something Dishonorable. You will gain and lose Reign Score for these Deeds in proportion to your devotion to the relevant Value. Throughout your reign, you’ll do things that are considered Humane, Honorable, and Pious - but also things that are considered Inhumane, Dishonorable, or Impious. The Value component of your score corresponds to your internal personality Values - Honor, Humanity, and Piety. There are 4 Tiers in each category as you complete a Tier Goal, you will unlock the next Tier and can then select a new Goal. If you complete an entire category, you’ll be entitled to an honorific depending on the Tier IV goal you completed - different goals have different rewards! Tier IV goals are also intended to be ‘capstone’ achievements - they are not easy, and you will most likely not be able to accomplish all of them in a single reign! The six Reign Goal categories are: Self-Mastery (goals that improve yourself), Expansion (goals that focus on expanding and claiming/connecting new systems and constellations), Security (goals that focus on developing the internal and external security of the Empire), Administration (goals that focus on planetary and Pop support), Exploitation (goals that focus on economy and production), and Discovery (goals that focus on science and stellar discovery).Įach Tier I goal and most of the Tier II goals act as a tutorial for that area of the game - you will have several subtasks that will introduce you to the basics of the game, and when you complete them, you’ll gain some Reign Score as well. Your Reign Score has three components - you get some straight from your Power, you earn some by completing Reign Goals, and you can gain - or lose! - Reign Score by acting in accordance or in conflict with your ruler’s Values. Your Reign Score determines your final rank, from ‘The Forgotten’ to… well, you’ll just have to see! There are well over 20 ranks you can earn, as well as specific honorifics depending on your Reign Achievements. The more you do, the better your Reign Score, and the higher rank you can attain. Your Reign is judged through your Reputation (Fear, Popular Support, and Power), your internal personality, and things that you do during that time. Your primary goal in Sandbox mode is simply to be humanity’s greatest ruler, and this is reflected in the Reign Score System. In the Sandbox mode - the only mode that’ll be available in Early Access - you’ll always start in 3050, as the newly-crowned, 18-year old ruler of the Celestial Empire. When you start Alliance, in the 1.0 release, we aim to have the option to play either a Sandbox mode or a specific Campaign - these will have their own win conditions, special rules, etc. I want to talk about a very important part of the game: the Reign Score System, AKA ‘What am I supposed to be doing in this game, anyway?” Hello everyone! Hope you’re all having a happy holiday season, and are looking forward to the new year!
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