Ronoplex game guide

Every completed building can be upgraded one level at a time, up to level 10. Upgrades are deliberately small — they compound instead of doubling — and each one takes construction time during which the building keeps standing but stops producing. Select a building on the map, open its panel and use the upgrade button; the panel always shows the exact cost and the exact gain.

• Housing gains a villager every three levels. A Hut Shelter holds 5 at level 1, 6 at level 4, 7 at level 7 and 8 at level 10.
• Storage rises 3% per level. A Storage Pit carries 600 capacity at level 1 and 762 at level 10.
• Production rises 3% per level, applied to produced resources and to quarry extraction.
• Job slots gain one worker at level 5 and again at level 9.

A star hovers above every building above level 1 so you can read a city's development at a glance without opening a single panel.

Upgrade cost scales with the square of the current level — 0.8× the build cost for level 1 to 2, and about 65× for level 9 to 10. Levelling one building to the cap is a genuine long-term project, so pick the buildings that carry your economy first. Upgrade work time is 0.5 + 0.35 × level of the original build time.

• Your first hearth is a 2×2 centre that houses 8, stores 200 per resource and sees 6 tiles.
• Worker parties physically walk to a node, occupy it and haul the yield home. Distance is real time, so a weaker node close to the hearth usually beats a rich node far away.
• The People console manages every crew globally: add or remove workers one at a time, recall a whole city, or snap the camera to a crew in the field.
• Storage is per resource. Anything gathered above the cap is lost, so assign Storage Pits to whatever your crews actually bring back.
• Nodes deplete. The world tracks depletion globally, so contested ground runs dry for everyone.

Scholars generate research, research unlocks technologies, and technologies unlock buildings and units. Age advancement needs XP, which comes from building, gathering, research and combat. Upgrading buildings also grants XP, which makes levelling a legitimate route to the next age.

Palisade segments knit automatically to their neighbours. A closed perimeter is truly closed: workers, scouts, armies and NPC units all reroute to the nearest open gate. Leave at least one gate or your own gatherers will stall at the wall. Damaged buildings must be repaired before they can be upgraded.

NPC tribes are classed F through SSS and plan on their own: they expand, garrison, trade and raid. Villages and trade hubs are worth more alive than burned early on; bandit camps exist to be cleared. Combat resolves on the server, and armies that lose still cost you the population you recruited.

• How to play — your first thirty minutes.
• Buildings — base costs, footprints and job slots.
• Resources, ages and NPC civilizations.