Habitat Takeovers Are Here

Last time, we left with a warning that leaving your habitats unattended for too long may have consequences...

Habitat takeovers are live

A habitat is no longer just a marker you claimed once and forgot.

If a habitat is unvisited for more than a month it become abandoned. When that happens, another player who is nearby (IRL) can challenge it to try to take the deed.

The map notices who still shows up.

TL'DR

• Patrol protects. Visit your own habitat to refresh its protection.
• Quiet habitats become vulnerable. If the owner has not patrolled for long enough (or any other player visited), the habitat becomes abandoned.
• The challenger has to be near it. Takeovers are tied to real presence near the habitat.
• The clash decides it. Win the takeover clash, pay the habitat value, and the habitat becomes yours.
• The old owner is not robbed for free. The takeover price is based on the habitat value and built structures, and the previous owner receives that value back as sparkles. And old mayor can always take it back - if the new mayor abandons it!

This is not a normal raid.

A raid leaves an orange scar and lets you loot a little from someone else's ground. A takeover is bigger. It is about who owns the habitat after the fight.

If you own habitats

Patrol what you want to keep.

You do not need to guard everything every second. But if there is a habitat you don't want to see go, visit it and refresh its protection. Virtual visits count too - all you have to do is send your Mebot on a patrol. Collecting energy from habitats counts too.

Even once the attack starts on your abandoned habitat but you patrol it in time, the attacker gets blocked...

A fresh patrol says: somebody is home.

If you want new ground

Open 3D map and look for abandoned marked habitats, or open /map and turn on "Hunt" mode.

When you are near an abandoned habitat, the map will surface it as a takeover candidate. If you have enough sparkles and you win the clash, you take over that habitat.

Your habitats can be protected, pressured, raided, watched, and now, if they are abandoned, taken over.

So pick your ground.

Patrol what you want to keep.

Then go see what the rest of the city forgot...

Next up: the orange smoke may not just mark trouble. It may start pulling mebots into it.