We're introducing a new raiding objective today: Monuments.

Monuments are different from the other three raiding objectives in several ways. First, to raid a monument you don't take it out of the city. Instead you deface the monument where it is with the DEFACE MONUMENT command. Defacing is a channelled action and only one person can deface at a time. The time it takes to deface a monument varies depending on the relative number of objectives between the attacker and defender, but it's designed to be faster than other objectives. Currently the time can range from 1 to 10 minutes based on the number of objectives the attackers and defenders have, but this may change.

A successfully defaced monument doesn't move, but rather room messages appear tailored to the winning circle. Every 24 hours those messages spread another room away from the monument. The longer the host city or council leaves their monument defaced, the more the messages appear. In addition, city guards will do about 10 percent less damage (including during a raid) due to the loss of morale from having the monument defaced.

Monuments are also unique in that they don't require a raid to get back. Instead, the defaced rooms can be cleaned by the Minister of Development with the commands CITY CLEAN ROOM <comms> and the monument can be repaired with CITY REPAIR MONUMENT <comms>. Only when all the rooms have been cleaned can the monument be repaired. We are open to changing the room assignments for the monuments, but I'm not promising anything.

As you may have guessed, cleaning rooms and repairing the monument is not free. Each room costs 5,000 gold, 1% generator, and 2 wood, stone OR iron. The monument itself costs 50,000 gold, 10% generator, and 25 wood, stone OR iron. Also, because the winning city does not keep the monument, they cannot ransom it back.

Monuments are incorporated into TOPCITIES with a value of 5.

Happy Hunting!

- Dec

Penned by my hand on the 22nd of Solis, in the year 130 AM.