Life is Feudal - Update 0.2.0

Fiefs, taxes &
new wars

We are excited to introduce the all-new Territories & Taxation system. Learn more about new territories control mechanics and the significant update in Guild Wars! The Judgement Hour and IB Prime Time mechanics has been reworked and designed to be convenient for players from all over the world. And there’s more - meet the new Raid mechanics that, as we hope, shall bring more fun to guild rivalry!

New territories system: quick look

The whole world is covered with rectangular fiefs. This grid of fiefs is premade by us, fixed and is not going to change. Each fief is approximately 4900 tiles +/- 500 tiles (roughly early t2 claim radius with realm land included).

With this system, there are no town or real claims anymore, players can use the whole surface of the claim they control to build the castle design they want (no more circular castles, yay!)

We highly recommend concentrating on your most important buildings and belongings, along with the walls perimeters on the protection of your guild monument and neighbouring outposts fiefs.

Controlling of a Fief

A guild can control a fief by owning a Guild Monument or an Outpost on its land. Fiefs with Guild Monuments cannot border each other, so your noisy neighbours and troll claims will live further from you.

A guild monument Tier and its relation with the fiefs amount controlled by outposts described below:

Tier 1 – is when the construction of the Guild Monument is finished by the guild. It can only be constructed by a guild that has 10+ members and no other Guild Monuments. No neighboring fief prerequisites. Allows control of 1 Fief in addition to any bordering fiefs with a Guild Monument. Support multiplier: x1.
2nd Tier. In order to reach this tier, a guild must control at least 1 neighboring fief. Allows the guild to control 3 Fief in addition to any bordering fiefs with a Guild Monument. Support multiplier: x3.
3rd Tier. In order to reach this tier, the guild must control at least 2 neighboring fiefs. Allows controlling 6 Fief in addition to any bordering fiefs with a Guild Monument. Support multiplier: x10.
4th Tier. In order to reach this tier, the guild must control at least 3 neighboring fiefs. Allows controlling an unlimited amount of additional Fiefs. Support multiplier: x24.

At the same time outposts can also be upgraded up to the 3rd level. Upgraded outposts provide a faster production range, requires more time to claim them and are more resistant to the damage. But what is more important - successful claim of the outposts does not change the ownership of the outpost, but just lower its level by 1. Thus a level 3 outpost must be claimed 3 times in a course of few days in order to be actually captured by attackers.

Province

Roughly 50 fiefs are united into a province. Provinces are premade by us, fixed and will not change. Province can be controlled by a guild via a successful win in an instanced battle (IB).

Owning a province does not provide a controlling guild any special powers over the fiefs of this province and its residents. The only purpose of controlling the province is to gather taxes from the fiefs of this province.

Taxes

Taxes are gathered automatically and appear in a guild monument container of a guild, that controls provinces. So far we have a fixed tax rate of 20% of all coins that were spent for the support of the outposts and guild monuments on all the fiefs of this province. Thus rich provinces can provide a significant source of income for the guild that controls it.

Protectorate

Protectorates are the areas around 4 starting villages. Each area is roughly about 6 server nodes wide, resulting in a total of 24 of server nodes. Protectorates feature a ‘Very Green’ world setting, meaning that no PvP can happen here, no Guild claims can be set and only place where players can put their Personal Claims. Protectorates are designed to be a safe haven for small groups of players and solo players who want to stay away from the major guild politics and wars.

Though Protectorates contain provinces that can be captured by guilds meaning that 20% of the support coins that players will spend on supporting their personal claims will go towards the guild controlling this province in the Protectorate area.

Guild Judgment Hour (prime time windows)

Each guild upon its creation MUST pick 3 prime time windows (Primary, Secondary, Tertiary) out of the 6 possible. Those primetime windows are: PT, ET, Brazil, UTC, Moscow time, China time. Guild leader must pick the first, second and third primetime in order of priority, where the first primetime is the most strong primetime of his guild. The selection of the prime times can be changed with a 7 real life days timeout.

During the primetime window the Guild Judgment Hour becomes active making the guild and its assets vulnerable to the hostile PvP activities. Depending on the rank of the guild, its primetimes become more frequent and longer in duration in a following scheme:

Prime time windows

Weekdays: Sunday - Thursday

Weekends: Friday and Saturday

		Weekdays				Weekends
Guild Rank	Primary	Secondary	Tertiary		Primary	Secondary	Tertiary
10th rank	-	-	-	-	1 hour	-	-
9th rank	-	-	-	-	2 hours	-	-
8th rank	1 hour	-	-	AND	3 hours	-	-
7th rank	1 hour	-	-	AND	3 hours	1 hour	-
6th rank	1 hour	-	-	AND	3 hours	2 hour	-
5th rank	1 hour	1 hour	-	AND	3 hours	3 hour	-
4th rank	1 hour	1 hour	-	AND	3 hours	3 hour	1 hour
3rd rank	1 hour	1 hour	-	AND	3 hours	3 hour	2 hour
2nd rank	1 hour	1 hour	1 hour	AND	3 hours	3 hour	3 hour
1st rank	2 hour	2 hour	2 hour	AND	3 hours	3 hour	3 hour

Thus, the bigger, the richer, the more influential the guild is - the more power it must field to protect itself and its assets. Ideally, such a guild must have a good presence in multiple time zones. Though we will make sure that about 50% of guilds will not go above the 8th rank, thus they will be less vulnerable in general and only really big and ambitious guilds will have to worry about presenting themselves in multiple time zones.

Fief based vulnerability (‘burning’ fief)

In order to be able to capture (or lower the level of 2-3 lvl outposts) the following requirements must be met:

A neighbouring fief must be ‘burning’
Guild that owns the targeted fief must have a Guild Judgment Hour active now

Basically, if you want to capture a certain fief that is controlled by another guild, you must have your own fief neighbouring with the targeted fief, you need to ‘light up’ your own fief, thus making its vulnerable to the capturing. And you must do it when the targeted guild is having the Guild JH. After that you move onto their fief and start the claiming process of the outpost and protect it from the owners of the outpost who will try to break this process - pretty much how it worked since we’ve introduced Outposts mechanics in Summer 2018.

You must keep in mind, that ‘lighting up’ and making your fief that is neighboring to the fiefs of different guilds to be ‘burning’ might be considered as an act of war by those guilds. You can expect that they will come to ‘extinguish’ your fief by capturing it in order to save their fiefs from the vulnerability that you have triggered.

IBs for Provinces

While capturing the certain fief gives you full control over the small portion of the land your guild can capture the whole provinces and protectorates.

In order for a certain guild to get control over a Province or Protectorate, it must win an Instanced Battle against their current owner. In order to initiate the IB on the province, the attacking guild must meet the following requirements:

Be in the state of war with the guild currently owning the targeted province
Issue it 24 hours before their Guild Judgment Hour starts (ideally at their current GJH, so the IB becomes active the next day at the same time)
Have a neighbouring province controlled OR have a fief with Lvl.3 Outpost in the targeted province

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New
skill tree

7 professions
Basic abilities will become available sooner
More useful skills

Professions

New crafting skills tree now shows 7 professions that are obvious for new players now.

Those professions are:

Builder
Miner
Carpenter
Blacksmith
Farmer
Naturalist
Cattleman

We hope that such obvious professions will help with the communication of new players and established guilds in terms of what kind of crafting professions those guilds are lacking.

Basic abilities will become available sooner

We believe that the Skill Tree upgrades and changes will be especially beneficial for new players and will help them get into the game faster and also be a productive and useful part of the communities sooner.

‘Household’ is a new, first tier skill combining basic cooking and sewing skills. Mining skills will allow both mining and tunnel digging abilities to be used. Forging will become available sooner (Tier 2) and will include forging skill abilities to develop your settlements faster. Procuration will become available earlier than Animal Lore and will make hunting more useful.

More useful skills

We decided that some skills gave access to the limited useful abilities, making them unpopular and, frankly, a waste of skill points. We combined some skills and rearranged some abilities so there is no more such waste of skill points for our players. Some skills were not as useful but blocked access to the more useful skills, so we’ve also fixed that.

Some of the changes include: Building Maintain is now divided between Construction (Repair ability) and Carpentry (Create Repair Kit). Brewing is now a part of the Cooking skill, as well as other changes that you will discover yourself later on!

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Reworked
trade system

Based on the numerous player feedback, and our own thorough review of the previous Trade system, we have created a quite extensive list of things that had to be changed. There are multiple changes, so we will cover only the most important ones.

Buy orders

If you need a certain amount of resources for your large crafting or construction work or if you want a certain type of weapon but cannot find it anywhere - you can now place a buy order! We expect that it will make the way intraguild and global trading works easier, allowing players to see the actual demand of the goods and decide where to put their crafting/gathering efforts next.

Partial purchase/buyout

Along with buy or sell orders, you can tick the certain checkbox that will enable partial fulfillment of your order. It might be more convenient when your order is large and it cannot be fulfilled by a single player, but a couple of players can do that and get their reward for doing so.

Goods delivery by the Crown

Yes, some lazy and/or rich players asked for this feature and we have decided to go for it. For quite a significant payment, you can now order an instant delivery of the goods that you have purchased from a distant Trade Post to you.

Reworked UI

We have redesigned most parts of users’ interface windows and moved all the interface on a new web framework. The result that we expect (and partly observe) that the interface should work and feel smoother overall and be less of the pain to those who use it. Hope you will like it too!

...and Rare resources!

This was partly implemented to create a new type of goods that are abundant in some regions and are lacking in others, thus creating a healthy supply and demand global map situation. Rare resources are expected to be needed on a more constant basis, if compared with regional resources. Because regional resources demand appeared only and if the certain guild decided to build something big and demand would go down to zero after the construction is over. It will not be the case for rare resources, because they will be needed more on a more constant basis.

Want to learn more about Rare resources? Stay tuned more details are coming in the next article about 0.2.0!

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Counselors

It is not new that Life is Feudal:MMO has a very steep learning curve due to its complexity, an enormous amount of mechanics and overall hardcore gameplay. In order to help new players and make their first steps in the game easier, we have decided to implement the Counselors mechanics.

In a few words, these mechanics will allow current veteran players to take the role of a Counselor and help newcomers during their first steps on the newbie island. At the end of their education, the Counselor will receive a reward in God’s Favor, while the newcomer will receive a good amount of knowledge, help and maybe even a guild invitation that will welcome him on Abella!

How to find a counselor?

Once a newcomer appears on the newbie island, they can request live help. It’s really easy to do by pressing F1 button (Help menu) and clicking on Ask players tab. You will find a Counselor browser there where newcomers can choose the counselor that they will be most comfortable working with based on their spoken language, prime time and rating. If a counselor is online and can accept the newcomer application, the direct chat session between them will start.

What is more important is that we will recommend all Counselors link their lifeisfeudal.com account with their Discord account. As soon as you link your accounts, this private chat session will be connected with their Discord private messages system, which will allow the Counselor to answer newcomer’s questions even if they’re not playing the game at that moment.

One Counselor can help as many newbies as they can or want to. However, we should warn you that all newcomers that have successfully finished their education and transferred to the mainland from a newbie island will have an option to rate the quality of the Counselor’s service. Thus, if a Counselor wasn’t helpful enough, they might end up with a significantly lower reward.

On the other hand, a 5 star rating given by a newcomer will provide his Counselor with $5 dollars worth of God’s Favor! This number can be increased with the rank of a Counselor. Each Counselor’s rank will slowly rise up with every newcomer they have successfully educated and helped to bring to the main world.

And last, but not least - you can use Counseling as a sort of referral system to invite your friends to the game and get GF for it while helping them to get to know the ins and outs of the game. You’re encouraged to do so!

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FAQ about 0.2.0 update

Here we have collected the most frequently asked questions about 0.2.0 Update!

Find out more about:

How to transfer to the New World?
What is the name of the New World?
Will used Decoration kits be refunded?

... and much more!

Q: WIll there be any bonuses for the players who purchased the game at the release of 0.2.0 Update?

Yes, we have prepared some bonuses. First of all, we want to thank you for your continued support. Your ideas, suggestions and general feedback have helped us greatly as we progress and develop the Life is Feudal 0.2.0 Update.

We wanted to show our appreciation to all players who purchased our game and continually believed in us, and thank each of you for your dedication, patience and support.

As a token of appreciation to our long-term players, we are gifting one full month Premium Subscription, along with 10000 GF, an exclusive ‘Veteran’ title. All players who purchased the game will receive a special bonus at 0.2.0 Update release.

Q: Will Decoration Kits used in Old Worlds be refunded at 0.2.0 release?

Yes. We are happy to announce that all Decoration kits used in the old worlds will be refunded to purchasers and added to their Premium Shop inventory at 0.2.0 release, so you can build something new on a brand new map!

Q: Will there be any updates to the Premium Subscription?

Due to major updates in several game mechanics introduced in 0.2.0 we decided to add some new features in Premium Subscription:

Leveling up any 2 skills from any Skill Tree at a Time
2X Larger Experience Pools (1 000 000 points)
Free Trade Post storage capacity increased to 1000 in all Trading Posts
Private claim of 150 tiles (600 sq.m.) for free with the possibility to extend it to 250 tiles (1000 sq.m), paying only for added cells
Crafting Experience Gain booster (Power Hour). Can be used once a day per every character, provides 2X faster crafting experience gain
Combat Experience Gain booster (Power Hour). Can be used once a day per every character, provides 2X faster combat experience gain

Good news for PvPers - we extended daily Death Insurance for Premium Subscription form 5 to 10 points magnitude. And all Premium subscription users will still receive 1 random skin set of Full Armor and 1 random weapon skin unlocked for a 1 month (items not permanent, changed every month of subscription).

We hope, you would like the changes in Premium subscription.

Q: What happened to the old game worlds with 0.2.0 Update?

The Old Worlds gone to make New Map available.

Only Epleland will remain a live server even after the 0.2.0 update. We are planning to continue developing Epleland to be a much deeper roleplay-focused server, as well as a comfortable place for the roleplaying community.

Q: What is 'Godenland'?

Godenland - is a name of the new continent of Abella that contains new map from 0.2.0 Update.

Q: What will happen to my characters?

All current characters from the Old Worlds were transferred to Epleland.

You can transfer your character from Epleland to Godenland once, or stay playing on Epleland.

All unused Abella tickets will be saved.

Note: characters will be transferred to the New Map with an empty inventory, a limited amount of skill points.

Guilds will be disbanded. Learn more about transfer issues below.

Q: How can I transfer my characters to Godenland?

You can transfer your character from Epleland to the New map by using the ‘Prayer for a Far Journey’ ability (Minor skills -> Piety).

But remember, you will not be able to come back to Epleland again!

Q: What can be transferred to Godenland?

Skills T1 (capped at 60 points) and T2 (capped at 30 points)
All stats will be capped at 20 points
Alignment points will be transferred unchanged
Character creation data will be saved
Character names and appearance will be saved

Note: characters will be transferred with an empty inventory, and the guilds will be disbanded.

Q: Where will I spawn on Godenland?

You will be randomly spawned in one of 4 starting villages, situated in Protectorates. Protectorates are relatively large (roughly 9x6 km) and very green areas, meaning that no PvP can happen here - you can rest assured that you will not be killed at the respawn point and will be able to safely begin to explore the world.

Advice: Guild code mechanics will work for the one-way transfer from Epleland to the New map. So, when you will find a comfy place - you can share guild code with your friends for the faster gathering.

Q: How can I update my client to 0.2.0?

No special actions need. Just open the LiF:MMO launcher and wait while your client will be updated. After that - choose Godenland in the game launcher and start playing. Good luck with exploration of the new world!

Stay tuned to our Official Discord channel to know when Life is Feudal 0.2.0 update become available.

Q: Will Epleland be updated to the 0.2.0?

Yes, Epleland will receive all 0.2.0 Update features, except New map. But, please, take in mind that Epleland will be kinda a separate game world. Trade and forth-back transfer will not be possible.

Also, with the introducing new Territories & Taxes system, the following changes on Epleland will be done:

With the new Territories mechanics, it will not be possible to build Private claims on Epleland. Existing Private claims will be wiped at the 0.2.0 Update release, so please take care in advance and move your belongings to the safe zone in the Guild town claim.
Guild Monument levels will not be wiped at the 0.2.0 Update release. Existing Guild claims will be converted into fiefs. At 0.2.0 release, only items on the Town claim (and on 1 fief respectively) will remain protected by the claim. Everything that is on the Realm claim will be available for everyone to loot. However, it will not start decaying for a week.We can say that Town claims territories will remain the same, but Realm territories may be changed due to Fief system conversion. Therefore, we strongly recommend that you move all valuable items into Town claim zone.
With the 0.2.0 Update all outposts on Epleland will be wiped. You will be able to build new outposts according to the new mechanics of the Territories system.
PvP activities will still be allowed on Epleland, but it will be impossible to destroy the monument on the fief; it will have a force field. However, ambitious guilds will have an opportunity to conquer outposts and provinces.

Q: Will the Godenland be Red or Green?

We significantly reworked this mechanics with introducing new System of territories. But technically, will have both Green and Red zones. Learn more about how new system of territories will work in our guide.

Q: How will JH and IB work on Godenland?

JH and IB mechanics were significantly reworked in 0.2.0 Update. Find out more in our guide about Territories, taxes and New wars.

Want to learn more about how the new mechanics will work in 0.2.0 Update?

Check the detailed Guides about 0.2.0 Update
Watch the special AMA with Bobik, or simply read the brief summary of the AMA
If you have any additional questions, feel free to contact us via Discord!

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