King of the Hill

🕐 Match flow

Every match loops through 4 phases until someone wins:

• Planning — 6s. Read the battlefield, pick your push.
• Build — 20s. Spend gold, train units, buy talents, queue mass production.
• Battle — 45s. Your army fights on its own. No micromanagement — composition decides.
• Round end — 4s. Rewards land, next round starts.
• Max match length: 120 seconds (fast, furious games).

🏔️ How you win

• Hold the hill: keep 30 of your units inside the capture radius for 30 seconds → instant win.
• Domination: wipe out every rival base.
• Time up: after 120s the player with the most hill control / best score takes it.

💰 Economy

• Start with 500 gold and 3 starting units.
• +90 gold per round (plus +10/round for the Taxation talent).
• +1 gold per hit, +10 per kill, +4 assist, +6 killer split.
• Units cost 10–25 gold, heroes 55–60, tribal champions 300.

⚔️ Combat & counters

• Counters deal 1.5× damage to their prey class (e.g. Mage melts Archer).
• Tribe triangle: Darkotics → Exotics → Lumanotics → Darkotics, each gaining +30% dmg / +10% armor vs its prey.
• Attack schedule matters: a Knight hits every 0.9s, an Archer every 1.2s.
• Every tribe gets a flat +5% damage on all units.

🪖 Army

• Up to 40 units per player (expandable).
• Auto-spawn every 5s keeps idle production flowing.
• Mass production queue floods the hill when you're ahead.

⭐ Talents (upgrade tree)

• Sharpen Blades +2 dmg/lvl (max 5)
• Reinforced Plate +2 armor/lvl (max 5)
• Vitality +15 HP/lvl (max 5)
• Swift March +8% speed/lvl (max 3)
• War Machine +10% build speed/lvl (max 3)
• Taxation +10 gold/round/lvl (max 4)
• War Banners +5 army size/lvl (max 4)
• Thorns Aura — reflect 25% of damage taken (1 level)

🎒 Items & the Crafting Cube

• 7 equip slots: Weapon, Helmet, Armor, Gloves, Boots, Ring ×2, Necklace.
• 5 rarities: White → Green → Blue → Purple → Gold, each with bigger combat stats (dodge, crit, range, move speed…).
• White items give a flat +10% Damage Reduction.
• Crafting Cube: combine 4 same-rarity items → 1 higher tier. The cube is shared by all players.
• 10 materials craft 1 white item.

🎁 Loot & placement rewards

• Every placement earns something: 1st = blue, 2nd = green, 3rd = white, 4th = white item.
• +5 XP per kill — 99 levels with 5 skill points each (STR / DEX / VIT / AGI).
• All placements also earn coins: 1st→20+, 2nd→10+, 3rd→5+, last→kills.

🪙 Euginarium — premium economy

• 1€ = 100 Euginarium, and every full €100 of a top-up upgrades the rate by +1/€ (€99→9,900, €100→10,100, €300→30,900).
• Top up with PayPal directly on the login screen or in-game shop.
• Cash-out: 12,700 Euginarium = €100 (€1 per 127), max 50,000/day.
• The arena keeps 1/8 of every stake as the price-stabilizing sink.

🏆 Arena modes & play again

• 4v and 8v Free For All queues; 8 positions = 4 corners + 4 edge midpoints.
• Default arena entry: 100 Euginarium; pure-skill, auto-balanced, no items.
• Arena rewards: 1st=300, 2nd=150, 3rd=110, 4th=60, 5th=50, 6–8th=10 Eugi.
• Play Again vote: after a match everyone votes — majority restarts the same room instantly (staked entry is re-charged automatically).
• Free rooms restart the moment every still-present player says Play Again; bots fill the empty slots.