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

• 4v and 8v Free For All queues; 8 positions = 4 corners + 4 edge midpoints.
• Classic arenas (single player / practice) use bots and are free.
• Euginarium Arena is real-money, never uses bots — every seat is a paying player. No player can join a game with fake money.

💸 Euginarium Arena — the bet (entry)

• Every player pays an identical bet to join a round. You must have the bet in your account before you enter — it is deducted the moment you join.
• Bets are set once per arena session (e.g. 100, 200 … up to 500,000 = €500 max) and stay fixed for every play-again — they never change mid-session.
• Higher bets scale rewards exactly ×(bet/100). The payouts below are shown per 100 Euginarium staked.

📊 Euginarium Arena — payout table (per 100 bet)

The arena always keeps exactly 1/8 of everything staked. The other 7/8 go back to the players as fixed rewards per placement, scaled proportionally to the field — the more players inside, the bigger every reward (1st: 250 → 415 → 608 → 803 → 937; `losers` also rise 20 → 32 → 47 → 61 → 72 per player). Nothing extra is printed — no money exists that wasn't first paid in via PayPal.

🔁 Euginarium Arena — play again (voting)

• After a round only the losers vote (8v → places 4–8; 4v → places 3–4). Winners don't vote — they wait.
• A loser who votes No, or can't afford the bet, goes to the lobby with their rewards.
• Winners always have the bet (their prize from the last round is bigger than the fixed bet), so they're drafted back in automatically — they can't refuse, only leave between sessions.
• The next match is formed from the losers who voted Yes, filled by winners lowest-first (3rd, then 2nd, then 1st):
• 5 Yes → full 8v with the 3 winners. 4 Yes → the 4 losers play 4v among themselves. 3 Yes → +1 winner (3rd) = 4v. 2 Yes → +2 winners (3rd & 2nd) = 4v. 1 Yes → +3 winners = 4v. 0 Yes → everyone returns to the lobby.
• When a new match forms, the same fixed bet is deducted from every participant before it starts, and the 4v/8v payouts apply to that new round exactly as above (7/8 back, 1/8 kept).
• Anyone who lost and wants to leave or change team can simply vote No right after their match ends.