What are Tribe Skills?

With this feature joining a tribe and remaining within it's ranks will grant you benefits to help you in the wars ahead. After joining a tribe a player will be rewarded with Prestige every week and can do Tribe Quests. Prestige can be used to boost your villages and/or defensive troops located in your villages or offensive troops sent from your villages, or can be donated to the tribe to unlock even more bonuses and make the current ones more powerful.

You can access the Tribe Skills via the entry "Tribe" in the main menu and then select "Levels".


Prestige
Prestige is the currency that is used to activate the skills (boosts) or can be donated to increase the level of the tribe. It is exclusive to this feature and not used anywhere else. Currently prestige is awarded once a week. The amount you get depends on the time you have been a member of the tribe and the quests you and you tribe complete (see below for more info on the quests). Due to this "loyalty" Long time members of a tribe will have more weekly prestige to spend than newcomers. Prestige can be accumulated and saved for a later date but upon leaving the tribe the saved prestige will be lost.

Skills
Currently there are seven skills to choose from. Each gives a bonus to a specific aspect of the game and can be activated in return for some prestige points. The skills are unlocked by reaching a specific tribe level and their power increases with the tribe level. Each tribe member can freely choose which of the available skills they want to activate for their own villages. The skills are active instantly and shown on the right hand side of the menu. A timer and a progress bar shows you how long the currently active skills will remain so. The following table gives you an overview on the skills, their effects and costs.

Skill		Unlocks	Costs	Effect
	Friendship	Level 1	50 Prestige	Incoming support sent while this is active will travel n% faster. Has no effect on previously dispatched support.
	Fast Looting	Level 2	70 Prestige	Attacks sent to barbarian villages will travel n% faster.
	Overtime	Level 4	100 Prestige	+n% wood production +n% clay production +n% iron production
	Technocracy	Level 6	100 Prestige	All construction speeds are increased by n%!
	Conscription	Level 8	100 Prestige	All recruitment speeds are n% faster!
	Vanguard	Level 10	140 Prestige	Axeman: +n% attack power Light cavalry: +n% attack power Mounted archers: +n% attack power
	King's Guard	Level 10	140 Prestige	Spear fighter: +n% defense power Swordsman: +n% defense power Archers: +n% defense power

Tribe Level
The tribe level dictates which skills are unlocked for the members as well as the power of the unlocked skills. To increase the level tribe members will need to donate some of their prestige to the tribe to increase the tribe's experience points (XP). When reaching the necessary amount of XP the tribe level will increase.
While a tribe can never have less than zero XP, tribes can loose some XP when kicking players. The amount of XP a tribe looses depends on how long the player has been a member of the tribe and the amount of members the tribe currently has. If a tribe looses a level by kicking members the previously unlocked skills will be locked until the requirement is reached again. Players leaving a tribe will not deduct any XP from the tribe. Kicking inactive players will also not deduct any XP. The amount of XP lost for kicking a player will be shown in a tool-tip.

Tribe		Skills
Level	Required XP	Friendship	Fast Looting	Overtime	Technocracy	Conscription	Vanguard	King's Guard
1	0	1%	-	-	-	-	-	-
2	400	2%	1%	-	-	-	-	-
3	985	3%	1%	-	-	-	-	-
4	1.668	4%	2%	1%	-	-	-	-
5	2.425	5%	2%	2%	-	-	-	-
6	3.241	6%	3%	3%	1%	-	-	-
7	4.108	7%	3%	3%	2%	-	-	-
8	5.020	8%	4%	4%	2%	1%	-	-
9	5.971	9%	4%	4%	3%	2%	-	-
10	6.959	10%	5%	5%	3%	3%	2%	2%
11	7.981	11%	5%	5%	4%	4%	3%	3%
12	9.034	12%	6%	6%	4%	5%	4%	4%
13	10.116	13%	6%	6%	5%	6%	4%	4%
14	11.225	14%	7%	7%	5%	7%	5%	5%
15	12.360	15%	7%	7%	6%	7%	5%	5%
16	13.520	16%	10%	8%	6%	8%	6%	6%
17	14.703	17%	10%	8%	7%	8%	6%	6%
18	15.909	18%	12%	9%	7%	9%	7%	7%
19	17.136	19%	12%	9%	8%	9%	7%	7%
20	18.384	20%	15%	10%	10%	10%	8%	8%

Tribe Quests

With this feature a weekly quest is added to the Tribe Skills window. Each player of the tribe has to (well, can) participate in those to gain prestige. There is also the tribe progress, which is calculated by the (mathematical) average of all the tribe members progress. The progress is measured by the milestones (20, 40 and 100 in the picture above) all tribe members reached. Not participating, or failing to reach a milestone in the active quest is calculated as "0" (no milestone). So if a tribe consist of 10 players, out of which five reached milestone 2 and five did not reach milestone 1, the tribe progress would be milestone 1.

Currently there are six different quests. Each tribe gets a random quest each week. Which means the quests are the same for players within a tribe, but not necessarily between tribes.

For each week a player has been playing (register date in the player tool) the milestones get a modifier. The modifier is maxed out after week 52. In the table below you can see the difference in the milestones that need to be reached. This way the milestones are dynamic and remain challenging throughout the lifetime of a world.

Quests	Week	Milestone 1	Milestone 2	Milestone 3
Attack barbarians	1	10	40	80
	52	236	944	1.888
Plunder resources	1	2.000	10.000	20.000
	52	188.120	940.598	1.881.195
Recruit Units (Population)	1	50	100	200
	52	12.629	25.258	517
Building Buildings	1	10	20	50
	52	37	75	187
Spend X resources (via recruiting, building)	1	2.000	20.000	50.000
	52	749.955	7.499.547	18.748.867
Defeat X units (offense or defense) (population)	1	50	200	500
	52	3.860	15.440	38.599
Rewards
Player		5	15	30
Tribe		50	150	300

To get a quick overview on the feature we have created a video for the initial release, explaining the most important aspects of the Tribe Skills and teasing future improvements.

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