Sapphire Beacons - Dev Notes
Ready for a new challenge? Reinforce Beacons with Defensive Units and produce Sapphires!
The scholars have recently passed down knowledge of Sapphire Beacons to each League in Stormfall - and it is time to start harnessing that power.
Sapphire Beacons. Overview
Sapphire Beacons are special Beacons that allow League Members to produce Sapphires with the Units they station there.
Any Beacon can become a Sapphire Beacon – it just needs to be activated by the League Marshal.
To activate a Beacon, simply open the “Sapphire” tab of the respective Beacon’s interface and tap “Activate”.
Once activated, League Members' Defensive Units stationed at that Beacon will start producing Sapphires. The more Defensive Units a member stations at the Beacon, the more Sapphires they will produce.
Sapphires are produced over a certain number of days at each Beacon, after which each League Member is able to claim the Sapphires they produced. If a Beacon is lost or captured by another League, all unclaimed Sapphires will be lost.
The amount of Sapphires each League Member can produce over that period depends on the Level of the Beacon.
The actual amount of Sapphires each League Member will produce over that period depends on the total Defense Rating of the Defensive Units that player has stationed at that Beacon. Offensive Units don't contribute towards a Member’s Defense Rating.
League Members' Units will only start producing Sapphires once their Defense Rating for that Beacon hits 100,000.
Only League Marshals, Captains, Commanders, and Fighters can view each League Member's Sapphire Production information at their League's Beacons.
Defense Rating
Each League Member reinforcing a Beacon will be given a Defense Rating for the Units they have stationed at that Beacon.
League Members' Units will only start producing Sapphires once their Defense Rating for that Beacon hits 100,000.
Their Defense Rating is equal to the sum of the Average Defense Ratings of all the Defensive Units they have stationed at the Beacon.
A Defensive Unit’s Average Defense Rating of each Unit is the average of their four base Defensive parameters (without Bonuses).
Their 4 Defensive parameters are:
- Infantry Defense,
- Cavalry Defense,
- Occult Units Defense
- Bestiary Units Defense.
Offensive Units do not have an Average Defense Rating.
Sapphire Beacon Interface
You’ll find an assortment of statistics in the interface for each Sapphire Beacon.
- TOTAL Produced. The amount of Sapphires produced at the Beacon since its activation.
- Max. Production Rate. The maximum amount of Sapphires that can be produced at the Beacon at its current Level over that production period. (Assuming 145 League Members)
- Current Production Rate. The amount of Sapphires that will be produced at the Beacon over that production period given each player’s current Defense Rating.
- My Units. Under this section you will see “Produces every 30 d.” followed by 2 numbers, such as “10 / 50”. The first number is your current Production Rate. The second number is the Max. Production Rate at the Beacon for each individual League Member. As covered in the “Overview” section, the amount of Sapphires a League Member will produce over that production period depends on the total Defense Rating of all the Units they have stationed at the Beacon.
- Produced. This shows how many Sapphires your Units have produced so far over that production period.
- There is also a timer showing when the Sapphires can be claimed. If you don't claim them when the Beacon Sapphire’s storage is full, your Units will stop producing Sapphires.
Beacon Deactivation
League Marshals can choose to Deactivate a Sapphire Beacon at any time at no cost. However, all unclaimed Sapphires will be lost.
If a Beacon is lost or captured by another League, all unclaimed Sapphires will be lost.
