Vexi: Villages Feature Update
Introducing: Town Hall & Research Offices.
A brand new player advancement system is coming out with the release of build 0.8.9. Starting with this update, players will find a Town Hall building at the center of their city, which will introduce several new functionalities; research and unlock new features, collect taxes from your buildings, and appoint a worker to lead your city to success.
City Mayor
Every city needs a leader, and the town hall is their perfect venue. Within this building, players will be able to equip a worker as mayor of their city. The stats of the chosen vexi or proto-vexi will provide various passive bonuses:
- Wits: Tax collection.
- Smarts: Research speed.
- Swagger: City appeal.
Choosing a mayor with high levels on these relevant stats will boost your overall resource productions and city blocks performance.
Taxes
While a mayor is equipped, a city will generate Bits every 24 hours in the form of taxes. The amount of Bits collected is based on the current number of buildings in the city and the Wits level of the equipped mayor.
Unequipping the mayor will disable tax collection.
Research offices
Player levels are out, research is in! Instead of a single line of progression, players will now unlock bonuses and features by doing research.
Within the Town Hall building, players will find the Research section. Here, four research offices now contain the various advancement features that used to be tied to their player level: Frontier slots, city blocks, printer slots, and a brand new way to expand their workforce… unlocking additional proto-vexi!
Each research office contains one or more independent progression lines that unlock new features, and new ones will be soon implemented that will improve general bonuses to your production.
To research a new level, players must equip a worker, spend some currency and wait the designated research time. Though research times can increase drastically with each level, each individual office can work simultaneously on a single research level.
This extensive feature will not only allow players to customize their advancement to their specific needs, but also make the early stage of the game more accessible for new players.
New tutorial
Lastly, we have introduced a new tutorial sequence that will walk new players through the various features and get their resource harvesting operation running easier than ever before.
We hope these changes will impact both new and advanced players in a positive way, and give them more options to use their resources effectively. See you in the village!The Vexi: villages team.
