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Conquest is a gameplay mechanic which allows the player to conquer territory for their pledged faction, or the faction's allies, by slaying the NPCs of enemy factions. This means frequency of enemy NPCs spawning in conquered territory may be reduced, and that of the conquering faction or an allied faction may be increased, even if those NPCs don't normally spawn there. Conquest can also unlock enemy default waypoints for fast travel if it is above 500 points in the tile that contains the waypoint.

Conquest is disabled in M.E. Classic mode due to the lack of a map.

Starting conquest[]

Slaying a Gundabad Orc in the Lone-lands while pledged to the Blue Mountains

In order to conquer territory, you must first earn at least +100.0 alignment with a faction and pledge allegiance to them.

For each enemy of the chosen faction you kill, you will now be shown two numbers. One for the alignment (gold ring), and one for the conquest (crossed weapons). The picture to the left shows the slaying of a Gundabad Orc in the Lone-lands while pledged to the Blue Mountains. This earns you +0.0 alignment (outside the Area of Influence), but +1.0 conquest points. NPC's of the faction you pledged for start spawning when you have 200+ conquest points in the same area.

In Update 36 a conquest bonus was added for defeating an invasion.

Table of Command[]

Grey colour indicates no effect

If you place a Table of Command and right-click it, the conquest map will appear. The map is divided into squares of 1024x1024 blocks (64x64 chunks).

Each square has a conquest counter for each faction, which is now +1.0 for the Blue Mountains in the example, gradually decreasing from the centre square to the adjacent squares further out.

The grey colour indicates that the conquest has no effect on spawn rates in this location, so it's wasted effort to kill enemies in this case.

You can use the slider and the category button below the map to select another faction. As you gain conquest points, the scale at the bottom of the map adapts to this fact. The darkest colours shown on the map always indicate the highest value shown there.

Red colour indicates positive effects on your own faction

If you slay enemies on your own territory (Blue Mountains in the example) , you'll get red coloured squares. Each kill increases the conquest. The red squares indicate an increase of the spawn rates for your own faction.

Striped squares indicate positive effects on an allied faction

If you slay enemies on the territory of your allies (Iron Hills in the example), you'll get striped squares. Each kill increases the numbers. The colour of the squares indicate a spawn benefit for an allied faction.

Please note, that in the picture to the left, the top and bottom squares are grey, because those are completely outside the Iron Hills.

Hired units[]

If you have hired some friends, they will not grant you alignment, but they will, however, grant you some conquest, at the rate of 1/4 the conquest you would earn if you were to kill the units yourself.

Decay[]

Conquest decay begins only after there have been no changes in that square for one hour. It then decreases by about one point every hour. In order to keep up high rates, you need to keep on fighting enemies in the desired region.

Commands[]

The following commands can be used to set conquest rates:

/conquest <set|add|radial> <faction> <amount> [x] [z]

Change conquest points for one faction at a certain location.

  • [x] [z] are the map coordinates. If left out, the current player (or command block) position is affected.
  • set and add influence only a single square.
  • radial adds the desired amount of conquest points to multiple squares in a gradually decreasing manner, like killing enemies would.
  • <amount> negative amounts can be used to reduce/remove effects.
/conquest clear [x] [z]

Clears the conquest points for all factions at a certain location in a single square. [x] [z] are the map coordinates and can be left out.

/conquest rate [value]

The conquest rate determines how much conquest points you get by killing enemies. The standard value is fixed to 1.0. For example, killing a Gundabad orc gives 1 conquest point because 1*1=1. If you fix the conquest rate to 2.0, killing a Gundabad orc will give you 2 conquest point because 2*1=2. As you got it, conquest rate acts as a multiplicator of conquest point. This command allows you to speed up or slow down your conquest progress. Fix it to 10.0 and you'll conquer very quickly ; fix it to 0.1 and you'll conquer very slowly ; cetera, cetera... Note to fix conquest rate to 0.0 has same effect that disable the conquest system.

In the mod, there are two types of conquest rate: the global conquest rate and the biome conquest rate. As said before, the global conquest rate is naturally fixed to 1.0 and can be modified with the command. The global conquest rate influences the conquest points got by the players, wherever they are.

The biome conquest rate influences the conquest points achieved by players in a specific biome. This mechanic makes some biomes more difficult to conquer than others. Generally, the biomes have a conquest rate of 1.0. But some biomes, like The Shire, Ettenmoors, Angmar, Mordor or Dol Guldur have a conquest rate lower than 1.0. In contrast to global conquest rate, the biome conquest rate cannot be changed with the command.


Configuration[]

The configuration file allows two settings related to the conquest system:

B:"Enable Conquest"=true

This is part of the gameplay section and enables/disables the complete conquest system.

B:"Map Labels - Conquest"=true

This is part of the GUI section and decides whether map labels are shown on the table of command or not.

Gameplay mechanics of the Lord of the Rings Mod
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