Prestige now a requirement for building?

Kelis wrote: I am shocked that I now must purchase the ability to build anything in Illyriad.

Huh?

Surely you must be mistaken.  Can you clarify?

I think he misread the insta build and increase production options one has if they use prestige.

You have always had to have prestige to add to existing production queues.  That ability comes at no prestige cost save for having your prestige account active (equivalent to very roughly 5 bucks a year).  If you cannot spend that much, you need only wait until the queue is empty before refilling it.

Users of HarmlessButler for UI 1.0 will recall they had an event schedule listing that showed them when queues were nearing completion, which helps managing this with minimal effort, whether using prestige or not.  The replacement for that tool will also have this feature, as well as support all major browsers (with a possible exception of IE, depending on how things go).

Kelis wrote: I mean that to produce military units, or livestock, etc. You need to have an active prestige account. I thought this was a new feature, but maybe I'm wrong. Kelis

Hi Kelis,

The only thing that's changed regarding prestige (with UIv2) is the ability to zoom out to 15 levels rather than 10.  Given that 10 was already a step up from UIv1, we didn't think people would mind!

But no, nothing's changed on the production side since the original UIv1 launch.  It's the same as it always was as regards queuing up production orders being an active-prestige-account-only facility.

Regards,

SC

I "try" to use prestige only to have an active account.  Multiple build queues are very important to me.  I might speed up vans in a pinch for others.  Or speed build if I screw up something.  I have tried the offense/defense bonuses...meh, I tried them.