User:Jacky 50A/Sandbox 2

"When worlds war, only one may reign."

- Tagline

Worlds at War is a real-time strategy game developed and published by 50A Studios, released on the 4th of August 2025 for Xbox One, Microsoft Windows, and Nintendo Switch. The game revolves around the battles of forces from multiple science fiction media, who clash to attain dominance over a single planet of abundant resources for their own interests.

Plot
Far into the depths of space lies a verdant world of diverse climates, organisms, and resources. From rich mineral veins to endless fertile soil, the planet is heaven to its inhabitants, who prospered in a paradise of ecological wonders. Alas, the nameless globe's peace would not last, as circumstances drove the armies of distant realms to the planet for legions of reasons and interests. Though peace could be maintained, such agreements were tenuous, and inevitably, conflict fell over these visitors, plunging the planet into a war of worlds, where only one may dominate the planet.

Gameplay
The following details concerning the gameplay mostly pertains to campaign and player vs. artificial intelligence modes.

Overview
Much like typical real-time strategy games, Worlds at War has the player choose their playable faction, gather resources, construct buildings, and amass armies to achieve the specific objectives set within the player's game session. In the case of this game, the multiple resources that are present aren't always usable by every faction in the game due to their differing needs. For example, human-centric factions may always require food and mineral supplies for their efforts, but certain non-human factions may only require minerals to sustain themselves. With these resources, players may construct buildings, which they could use to harvest other resources, research certain technologies, recruit soldiers and war machines alike, as well as defend the player's own holdings.

Basic Resources
In-game, there are several fundamental resources that are available for each faction to make use of as the foundation of their operations. These resources are typically exploitable by every faction, but those who are unable to make use of every resource tends to present challenges of their own. The resources are as follows:


 * Energy : From oil veins to rivers that can be dammed for power, players require sources of energy to keep their buildings operational. Certain units may also require energy to sustain them, making it crucial for players to keep a steady stream of energy. Energy-producing buildings can be immediately built by players, but they tend to require minerals to run to provide the player power, which slowly depletes the longer the player does not feed it minerals. The more energy a player gathers, the longer a player may sustain their infrastructure, especially higher-level buildings, as they require more energy to operate.
 * Mass : The nutritional foundation of every living being, mass is attained by farming, fishing, hunting, and harvesting certain sites on the map. Civilized factions generally construct buildings that assists them in gathering mass, such as farms, fisheries, and processing factories. Players who hunt edible creatures and forage fruits and the like must drop them off on certain buildings to truly reap the benefits, usually by utilizing worker units. The more mass a player amasses, the more units the players can maintain.
 * Mineral : Ores, rocks, and other precious rocks that boost the player's construction capabilities and allow for the manufacture of powerful war machines and defensive measures. Minerals can be attained by mining particular sites with worker units or building mining structures on top of them. Like mass, minerals extracted from the sites must be delivered to resource-gathering buildings by workers units to really make use of them. The more minerals a player has, the more buildings and upgrades the player can improve and attain.
 * Water : A resource vital to the lives of carbon-based beings, particularly humans. Water serves a similar purpose to mass, where water allows for the sustainment of the player's armies, especially if they play as human factions. Non-humans may not require water to sustain themselves, instead utilizing water to power their dams, should their gameplay allow it. Waters need to be purified before they are usable, and like mass, they need to be delivered to resource-gathering sites for safekeeping and utilization.

As noted above, these basic resources tend to require the players' attention, as they need to be delivered to resource-gathering buildings before they are capable of usage. Farm produce has to be transported to granaries, whilst minerals can be transported to either resource depots or straight to refineries to provide energy. Energy does not need these kinds of deliveries, but they may require the previous resources to continue operating, which makes the loss of resource-producing buildings and spots deeply damaging to the faction.

On the map, the game identifies the ideal places where the players may build resource-producing buildings by informing them of the number of resources each site may yield to the players, such as fertile fields ideal for farming, as well as water sources appropriate for damming. However, these sites themselves may be destroyed by enemies to deny the players access to these resources. For example, the adversary's bombers may destroy annihilate not only the mining structure the player built to extract minerals, but also the site itself, which closes off the player's access to the minerals. Biological weapons used by certain factions may also turn fertile fields into barren wastelands, whilst weather events may alter the environment to the point that new resource sites appear while old ones disappear or even receive boosted resource production capability.

All of these basic resources decay over time during their usage. As long as the players' units are present on the map, mass, energy, and water are passively depleted to keep the units afloat, unless the units in question have special traits that allow them to sustain themselves. Players need to keep their flow of resources steady, protecting their supply lines from enemy attacks to prevent them from handicapping the players in the effort to attain supremacy. Due to this, it is crucial for players to take great care in constructing and maintaining their resource buildings.

Other Resources
Whilst the basic resources are absolutely needed for the continuation of the players' operations, there are other resources that players can use to support themselves without having to focus on attaining them. These miscellaneous resources can only be used by certain factions, but they are not as important as the basic resources. Basic resources allow players to maintain armies, buildings, and attain more resources, but other resources grant players support to better make use of their assets in certain times of need.


 * Allegiance : A resource utilized by factions capable of diplomacy, allegiance increases as more and more beneficial agreements are done between two or more factions. Should a faction refrain from being hostile to the other groups, the faction's amount of allegiance points will slowly increase over time. Actions and decisions considered hostile or unfavorable towards other factions will reduce the player's amount of allegiance points, which by themselves are used by the game system to factor in whether or not the factions will be aggressive towards the player or not. Allegiance points are also used to grant factions the ability to build embassies, thereby giving factions a steady flow of allegiance points and the ability to recruit certain low to mid-tier units from diplomatically related factions. These allied units do not require any of the basic resources to recruit, but they will still consume such resources for upkeep costs and will automatically become hostile should the player's relations turn hostile with the formerly allied faction. Factions can build more than a single embassy, representing the multiple factions they are in diplomacy with. However, the player's allegiance points are differentiated between allied factions, meaning that although a faction may accumulate a thousand allegiance with one faction, they cannot use such points to recruit units from another allied faction, which uses a separate set of allegiance points.
 * Requisition : A resource also available only to star-faring or dimension-hopping factions, requisition allows factions to summon units of their own selection into the battlefield without expending the basic resources required to build or recruit them through buildings, albeit at a limited amount of time. Factions may be able to field powerful late-game units to turn the tide of battle, but their units can't stay in the battlefield forever, as their presence is limited by a set time limit. Additionally, requisitioned units still suffer from unit maintenance upkeep, which means that they are going to considerably strain the parent faction's resources the longer they are in use.

Diplomacy
As mentioned previously in the allegiance section, players are able to engage in diplomacy with other factions, as long as their interests are not at conflict with one another. Each in-game faction will have preference towards certain factions who possess characteristics they would consider favorable, which means that both players and artificial intelligence will find it more preferable to engage in a positive relationship with factions sharing similar values and interests. To enter diplomacy with another faction, the player has to first meet at least one of the other faction's units. After the initial encounter, players are then notified of the eligibility of diplomacy with the other faction. If the factions can conduct in diplomacy with one another, players can access a diplomacy panel, which allows them to make agreements with the other factions in real time. Factions, including those of the player's, do not use allegiance points to make agreements with one another. Instead, the factions' agreement of diplomatic endeavors is calculated based on their preference towards one another through reciprocal actions.

The list of agreements featured are as follows:


 * Military Access: While faction units are allowed to traverse wherever they want, including on the territories of neutral factions, such actions will garner suspicion from the other faction, who considers the action to be trespassing. A military access deal allows the engaging factions to move freely between territories belonging to them, negating the allegiance point malus received and increasing the amount of allegiance points received during peace between the factions.
 * Non-Aggression Pact: A simple deal where the engaging factions agree not to commit any acts of hostilities towards one another. Should a faction break this agreement, war is immediately declared between the factions and the breaker's allegiance points towards the other faction will be greatly reduced. Conversely, holding true to the non-aggression pact gradually increases each factions' preference for one another, granting a small but steady flow of allegiance points.
 * Trade: Should factions possess resources that are important to one another but do not wish to engage in war to gain access towards such precious commodities, they may agree to a trade deal, where factions send each other precious resources through trade routes. Players and artificial intelligence factions may chart their own trade routes on their own HUD maps, which grant them paths to send resources to one another. To chart the trade routes, the factions themselves must use their units to uncover the fogs of war, enabling them to clearly mark eligible trade routes. Afterwards, factions must muster their transport units to move the resources gathered for trade either manually without a trade route or automatically with a trade route. These transport units, which are designated as trade caravan units, must drop off their load upon designated warehouse structures to accomplish the trade, granting the trade caravan's allegiance points. Of course, to truly benefit from the trade, factions must accomplish these caravan runs as to not risk a reduction in allegiance points, as well, should the trade appear to be less fair than it should have been. Finally, factions may assign units to patrol along the trade routes, guarding precious caravans from marauding hostiles.