===[PANDEMIC RULES]===
1) In Age 334: Four Countries will start on the map. Each will have a certain amount of cities, however they are subject to be infected by the pandemic infections. There will also be neutral grounds, to keep yourself busy with while awaiting the pandemic to arrive.
In Age 335: Normal age setup from start: 10 countries to start with and random joining set. Pandemic will kick in on day 5.
2) Up to four different types of Infections will be slowly but surely trying to takeover cities. Only nation's capitals are safe from this danger. The spreading decease CAN kick commanders to capital, so think twice if you want to border an infected city for a lenghty period of time!
3) You can battle against NPC commanders in PvP fashion. They might showup at your border when you are bordering infected cities. They can be spied and attacked like a normal commander. The commanders are quite strong, they will need multiple people pvping it in order to defeat. See this as a commander you hit, without getting pvp protection. Eventually the NPC commander will be defeated if it gets injured enough (or killed..).
4) There will be a special ranking for this event, which you can find under the button 'Pandemic' in your leftside menu. The medals as you know them will be handed out, but there will be special xmas-pandemic medals in addition to that, for the players who scale up in those rankings. The pandemic ranking will have 10 medal winners, instead of 5!
5) Spreads only happen once per hour/once per two ticks. However, the amount of spread will be random, and could suprise you any time, do you know whats its like to never feel safe?
6) Pandemic Commanders will not participate in the citybattles. So even if you are bordering a good bunch of them, but dont have the activity of pvpers to take them out: sfing is possible.
7) We are planning for 3 pandemic ages, with roughly 10 days each. However, killing a pandemic or killing other nations might trigger an early countdown timer.
8) Joining will be set to free joining ages! You can pick your friends and battle the madness together! Howeverrr, one nation cannot defeat all on their own, planners are required everywhere, and being in country with less superactive people might give you the opportunity to score more points in pandemic-pvp!
===[PANDEMIC PRESENTS]===
Here is where it gets really rewarding, in the most literal way.
When you succesfully take an infected city with a Strikeforce (sf), you have a chance to receive one of the following rewards: (All the joiners+sfleader get the same reward for that sf)
- A random number of extra mps
- A healing turn
- A random amount of gold
- One day of free Nobility!
Especially the last reward will be somewhat rare. Its not every sf you will find this reward. However, the free nobilities will be given out, no doubt, its not one in a thousand either. Every active player should be able to gather a few days per pandemic-age!
===[PANDEMIC COMMANDERS/UNITS]===
The Commanders which might show up on the borders of the disease, can have 4 different kind of units.
1) Elves (heavy infantry)
2) Reindeers (lancer type of unit)
3) Sugercane Slingers (light artillery)
4) Red Firepit Socks (light infantry with high strength)
Form your armies wisely to have a proper answer to these evil units!
===[THINGS TO CONSIDER]===
1) The four nations would have to work together to make sure pandemic doesnt grow too big. Nations can kill eachother, but is thatsomething to look forward to? When opposing 4 different pandemic countries, it doesn't seem to be the brightest idea. You can sf and pvp eachother though, nobody is gonna tell you that you can't.
2) Pvpers want to pvp. They want to score points for the 'normal' pvp ranking by pvping other players, and they want to pvp the pandemic commanders, to score in the pandemic-ranking. But are the pvpers really gonna miss out on the rewards that sfs are giving?
3) Roughly 10% chance in pandemic sfs to receive/score extra mps (only odd/chance that im revealing..) would it be tactical for a LD to hit those sfs, in order to get extra mps on your main? You tell me if that is worth the shot or not.
===[CREDITS]===
Special thanks to Nubby for editting our UI/Background to a nice seasonal setting!
(ctrl-f5 or hardrefresh for the fancy layout!)