UC: lords, vassals, honor

From BluWiki

Guide about how to speak to your lord

1. always reply to all his questions. he intends to help you, but he needs info from you
2. keep your lord up-to-date with the latest things you've done (e.g. you just finished researching K-class ships, or you just made a new upgrade to your system, or you just won 100k planets) at least once a day, or agree with your lord to a time period different than a day (depends from lord to lord)
3. ALWAYS reply with his words included. cut from the text only if it's VERY VERY old in the message or if you can't write anything because the message is too long. your lord may have up to 20 parallel conversations and it's hard for him to keep track of all the discussions
4. always leave an empty line between your text and what the original message was (one above and one below you text)
5. if you're in trouble, don't restart immediately, ask you lord for a solution. he may have the solution to your problem
6. ask your lord what you have to ask even if he's not online, he'll answer later, for sure, when he'll see your message
7. DON'T YELL, it's very frustrating to read such messages
8. if you lord does not respond immediately, don't panic, he may have 10-20 messages to reply to, before is able to read your message. If it's something very important, try to get him on the chat, but don't count on this, since some lords don't have time to watch the chat ;)
9. you just got attacked and if you got no reinforcements from him, don't panic and start shouting at your lord, just ask him nicely to replenish his outpost telling him that your ass is getting kicked ;) and you got no reinforcements from him. It's hard to watch the outpost all the time
10. you want to get away from the game more than 15 days? then set your vacation mode (VM) for that period, because you risk getting kicked out due to inactivity. However, if you have your VM set, then you're not ;)

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Good lords

Choosing a good lord helps you grow, and very importantly protect your weak systems with few ships from being taken by low level players (this saves you planets in most invasions as lower level players take more of your planets).

• Give you lots of game advice if you need it, and be patient with your questions.

• Give financial help to empires who are just in their very beginning or in trouble.

• Give protection by making an outpost. Keep in mind that the lord can only have two outpost stacks and that if both those stacks are above 25% of your PR you get no protection at all; remember this when lord-shopping for protection.

• A good lord will get you in contact with a few helpful people.

• They will give you your freedom if you need it!

• Sends you transports of food (full ones) for the high population count you have

How I, for example, distribute the tributes for high population count?

Well, very easy to explain:

1. I make the list of all with empire lvl >=8
2. then I sort it descending based on the population count
3. I distribute the tributes starting from the top until I run out of transports, so the higher the population count, the more chances you'll have to get a tribute ;)

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Bad lords

Choosing a bad lord can handicap you for weeks if he won't let you go for a lord that is helpful.

-Offer you protection, but fail to tell you about the 25% of your PR max rule and usually expect you to accept occasional money instead (even if it's a billion, it's not as good as protection). This happens a lot with lords with too many vassals to protect them all.

-Have someone else give you the protection they promised to give themselves; this means you are stuck in the lord's pet federation which may be a liability or separate you from your friends.

-Fail to anwser game questions

-Fail to share optimal strategies for each race or combat situations, and give you advice that is good enough for immediate survival or no better

-They insist you do housing/taxation for the higher income regardless of the truth or they exagerate or hide the tax-related problems, because they want to gain more empire level from you.

-Regardless of how non-helpful they have been, they refuse to let you go.

How to quit a lord

-Ask him nicely. Some lords are jerks and will refuse to let you leave because they want their empire levels to be high. But nice ones will let you go.

-Have him accept you into his federation; if he (not his lieutenants) accepts you this will give you your freedom. This works best when the lord doesn't know about this game rule. (-;

-Wait for him to be beaten attacked (or if you are nasty have someone attack him); this happens a lot to first-time weak lords who can provide no benefit at all to their vassal but won't let go because of empire levels greed.

-Wait until you have honors equal to X10 his... (not sure - PR?). The screen says X100 but that is an error.

-Bribe him with big time capsules, planet cores(can they be used on others in UC? please verify), or threaten them with historias. This is a last ressort against a stubborn lord that is just too long to quit by paying honors.

How to get vassals

-Look in the ranks for the link called "newer". Day-fresh empires that are terran are usually day-fresh players eager to get help or a billion $ (usually to get 500,000 terran metals for a mission).

-Offer it in the chat, especially to those who beg for money or protection.

-Offer it to someone who will quit his lord soon; offer much better than what his old lord did and have happy vassals to prove it's a good deal.