Articles - Ymir

Ymir is a 4X multiplayer strategy game combined with a city builder where each player develops a civilization of pigmen starting at the stone age. On one hand you have to govern your state : colonizing new lands, securing resources, dealing with your neighbours, choosing civics, discovering technologies, waging war.. And on the other hand you have to organize your cities : creating fields, houses, industries, defences, managing your population, your resources and your armies... Ymirs relies on an economic simulation more than a set of abstract game rules. Your society is divided in social classes with a dynamic incomes and wealth, depending on the resources they produce and sell at dynamic prices based on offer and demand. It's also a game of diplomacy between players. With a wide range of diplomatic treaties, you'll be able form federations of players, or empires centralized around a single king. You'll be able to setup permanent trade routes, taxes, tributes and alliances.