27th of June 2003
Official Updates
22.12 Talrias
Peter Tyson has been interviewed at <a href="http://www.gamechronicles.com/">Game Chronicles</a>. Here is a sample of what he had to say:
<br /><blockquote>City ownership and the economy are tied very closely together in Dragon Empires and the result is a world where ownership of bits of the land really does matter. Clans fight other clans for ownership of the cities and should a city change hands the local economy is changed drastically. Firstly, a new tax rate has to be set by the ruling clan, this is a tax on all goods bought and sold in the local economy. Second, a manufacturing specialty has to be set, this becomes, in time, what the city is most efficient at producing. Along with this, when a city changes hands the old specialty is reduced to its base value.</blockquote>
<br />You can read the <a href="http://www.gamechronicles.com/qa/dragon/empires.htm">article in full here</a>.
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Peter Tyson was also interviewed at <a href="http://www.quadract.com">Quadract</a>. You can <a href="http://www.quadract.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=15">read the interview here</a>.
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The fifth part of Beginnings has been posted. An excellent read, you can <a href="http://www.codemasters.com/dragonempires/uk/library/literature.php">click here to read it</a>.
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The developer diary that was due to be released today has been postponed, as the person who was writing it has some more important work to do. Expect it on Monday.
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