Challenge Authority

Challenge Authority Skill(s) required: Compacts & Constitutions Waste Size: 2x2 Object(s) required: Any Poop x100 Bar of Copper x2 Moldy Board x4 Nails x2 Rope x1 Needs lighting?: No Move/Destroy: Liftable?: No Repaired with: unknown Required by: Required by: None

About A Challenge Authority, commonly known as a "Poop Claim", is an aggressive structure used to drain an opposing Town's Represented Authority. To build a Challenge Authority you must be a Citizen of a Town Claim as well as have the "Manage Claims" right within that Town. A Challenge Authority must be built on Town Claim but as long as the Challenge Authority is built all at once this action is NOT a Crime. A Challenge Authority CANNOT be Salvaged. A Challenge Authority increasingly reduces the Represented Authority of the Town Claim each hour after it has been built. Each hour after a Challenge Authority has been built it will ring the Town Bell of both the challenging and the challenged Town, as well as send out a message to the Town Chat. Until a Challenge Authority is Destroyed it continue to drain, and eventually keep the Town Claim's Represented Authority at 0. Once Destroyed, Represented Authority will recover at a rate of 120 per hour. Hour Authority Drained 1 40 2 80 3 160 4 240 5 480 6+ 960 Represented Authority vs Actual Authority While often used interchangeably a Town Bell has several types of Authority. A Max Authority which is represented by the Silver capacity of the Town Bell. Actual Authority which is the Silver in the Town Bell, and Represented Authority which is calculated based on the Max Authority and Actual Authority, modified by any Challenge Authorities that may be built on that Town. Represented Authority can never exceed Actual Authority. Only Represented Authority, not Actual Authority, is drained by a Challenge Authority therefor a Challenge Authority will not harm a Town Claim in any way. Tax Rebate His Majesty, in his graciousness and wisdom, refunds 20% of all taxes he takes from the Player Stalls back to the top 10 Town Claims with the highest Authority. You can speak to Right-clicking Benjamin Bryberry in Providence and selecting "View Town Register" will show you a list of the Top 10 Towns with the highest Authority. Town Rank Amount Refunded 1 38.53% 2 23.81% 3 14.72% 4 9.09% 5 5.63% 6 3.46% 7 2.16% 8 1.30% 9 0.87% 10 0.43% Competing For Top 10 Status Towns that want a bigger cut of His Majesty's tax rebate can raise their Town Claim's Authority by building Boundry Stones, Cross of Saint Georges, or by building a Challenge Authority on one of the other Top 10 Town Claims to drain their Authority and thus drop their rank. Building Structures Selecting a structure from the build menu or its sub-menus will place a Building Blueprint Sign at the position of the cursor and then clicking a valid building location on the ground will place the sign and open a window prompting the player to deposit the necessary materials and build the structure. Each material is followed by a series of three numbers. The first indicates how many of that resource are needed but have not been deposited. The second number indicates how many of that resource have been deposited but have not been built into the structure. The third number indicates how many of that resource have been built into the structure. Players can take their time building structures by depositing and committing resources to the build sign by clicking the "build" button. The character will build as much of the structure as they can with the available resources. They can return with more resources in the future. Note that if no resources are deposited, the build sign will disappear when the player walks away. If resources are deposited, but the player hasn't built them into the structure, the uncommitted resources will slowly disappear over time. This is to combat players using build signs as cheap and overpowered storage containers they can deposit and retrieve resources from.

Game Menu Build (B) ⇒Buildings & Structures (B) ⇒Claims & Defenses (C) ⇒Waste Claims (W) ⇒Challenge Authority (?)