Atlas Dynamic Infrastructure

The Dynamic Infrastructure was released on Tuesday, February 7, 2023.

THE STATE OF ATLAS

"In its current state, Atlas castle ownership and defense can be softly exploited with a limited number of castle guards: cheaply creating blockades and earning bonuses and other rewards. We want teams to invest in a castle and castle guards in order to reap the benefits of the corresponding defensive mechanics, resource rewards, and castle victory points.

Running numbers back in September, about three quarters of all castles were employing <5% of their castle guard limit. We’d like to see that average percentage increase significantly in order to promote healthier and more dynamic gameplay. We hope this will create more attractive targets for all teams and will encourage more activity and glory hunting."

NEW MECHANICS

With the release of this feature, we instituted a new castle guard threshold of 10% (or greater) of the maximum hireable castle guards in order to receive any and all bonuses provided by infrastructure on each player-owned castle. Furthermore, castles who are under their 10% threshold will not receive victory points during end of round calculations on every second Wednesday at 2:00pm PT.

Bonuses provided at a specific time (like Fort resource bonuses toward your Daily Tribute) will consider the castle guard threshold in a single snapshot in time. This means that a castle that spends all day at 9% of guards until it adds guards to 11% right before Daily Tributes are calculated at 12:00am PT will indeed receive its resource bonuses. No averaging is considered at this time.

INFRASTRUCTURE UI UPDATES

Updates have been made to the castle infra UI to clarify the status of the guard threshold:

Castle Infra Enabled state where the 10% has been met

Castle Infra Disabled state where the 10% has NOT been met

RELEASE DAY

Upon release (2/7/23), thresholds were applied to all player-owned castles and new mechanics started being in effect. That is, castles below the 10% guard threshold lost their active infrastructure bonuses until the proper number of guards were hired.