FAQ: Influence and How it Works

[Kruldar]

I am a little new to this; I will be adding information so it's made clear what influence is and how the new features of the recent update allow you to cap barbarian cities:


Can I cap a player without an academy?
~No, this only applies to barbarian cities.

How do Barbarian Cities work on these worlds?
~Each city has a base influence rate. Barbarian cities can become player-controlled if a player gets its influence to 100 points.

What is influence and how do you cap a barb city?
~Influence allows you to capture a city. When capping a barbarian city, any player can attack a barbarian city to bring its influence down. However, when capping the city a yours, you must make personal attacks on the city so it's yours.

How are Barbarian cities different?
~Barbarian cities unlike normal cities do not offer all the buildings a normal city has. They will have a different graphical overview as well. The buildings unavailable in barb cities are: Stable, Workshop, Competitions, Wheel of Fortune, and Academy. As barbarian cities don't have every building, the only troops they are able to produce are lancers, sentries, and berserkers. Additionally, the City Hall can only be upgraded to level 15 which diminishes the upgrade time of buildings. Resource buildings produce 80% of what they produce from a normal player's city.

I attacked a barbarian city and lost troops. Why?
~Barbarian cities produce troops periodically. There is a certain amount of troops built (lancers/sentries/berserkers). Once the unit cap is reached, unit production is stopped. If the city loses troops, troops are made periodically till it reaches the unit cap again.

How do I gain influence?
~Every world has a separate influence regeneration rate. This can be checked in the options or information when joining a world.

*Credit for this thread goes to Playmesh for posting the information. I have only made it clearer by posting this FAQ.*

[death123321]

Thanks, this is great...
Can we cap barbs with scholars and will doing so turn them into normal cities(with full capabilities)?

[PwnLaw]

Thanks, this is great...
Can we cap barbs with scholars and will doing so turn them into normal cities(with full capabilities)?

You need to cap barbs via influence. You can convert a barbarian into a lord city by sending a scholar to the barbarian when it has full influence.

[bananabandana]

You need to cap barbs via influence. You can convert a barbarian into a lord city by sending a scholar to the barbarian when it has full influence.

You would send the scholar to the city as support. And don't worry, guildmates can't steal your barb city by sending scholars to it; only you can convert barb cities to lord cities that way.

[LordEmitheBrave]

HOW do you see how much influence I have on a barbarian city and how many times I should attack it?

[Negrodamas]

I would love to know where the influence bar is as well, i have been puding this barb territory near me for hours now and nothing.

I have 122 Lancers, 121 Sentries and 66 beserkers. They are doing nothing but bringing back empty resources at this point.

[Negrodamas]

Can anyone tell me how i can see the influence on the Barb city i am attacking?

[Pauld2468]

Can anyone tell me how i can see the influence on the Barb city i am attacking?

Its at the very bottom of the attack report

[LordFirefall]

And sending defensive troops at it isn't going to do a lot of good. Lancers and sentries make only small changes to influence.

[T3hAwsum]

So basically it would be better for me to capture a city created by a player than to capture a barbarian city? Because barb cities don't have all buildings available? I'm talking about capturing with scholars and stuff