Prepare for the Battle Royale!
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Christmas is over, the practice Sandbox is ending, and it is time to prepare for the event we’ve all been waiting for.

Tomorrow at 8am PT Sandbox Wars: Battle Royale begins!

10 prestigious neighborhoods will compete, led by 10 worthy Champions, but only 3 will go on to compete in the championship. You’ll want to make sure you read every detail in order to perform at your best!

UPDATE: We realized it is important to disclose the tie breaker criteria in advance. It is as follows.

1st tie breaker: Number of unique builders (non-cell tower).

2nd tie breaker: Total number of structures (non-cell tower).

Prep Your Strategy

Players will have to strategically use their limited Spud (the temporary sandbox form of Spark, the building resource) and form a well planned alliance with others. Players will have to base their strategy on a balanced approach to building time, points scored, points deducted, property placement, and more!

While teams will technically be organized around neighborhoods (as the neighborhood itself will win the prize), players are free to associate with any neighborhood they would like, at any time during the competition.

In order to effectively compete in the Sandbox Wars, Uplanders will likely have to team up and form into neighborhood alliances, coordinating their resources and building strategy. If you haven’t joined a neighborhood team yet, read the pitches here .

All buildings will be demolished after this event.

Players will not be able to spend UPX to speed up development.

Construction Process

In order to build properties, each citizen in Upland will receive a certain amount of Spud (updated before the event starts), based on their status.

During each Sandbox War challenge, that spud can be used to construct different types of buildings.

When you use spud to construct a building, you are “staking” it. This means that the spud is utilized while it is staked against a building’s construction, but once that building is complete, your spud can be staked against another construction effort (learn more).

Each building type will also have a price tag in the form of spud hours (SPDHR), which is the number of hours it would take if one single spud were staked against it. The more spud staked against the building of a property, the faster it will be built!

You can build more than 1 building at a time, but each project will have a minimum amount of spud required to begin construction.

You can only construct buildings (of any type)on your own property.

You can not pause construction of a building and resume later. You can however, stop construction, which demolishes the building that has progressed so far.

All building models will be centered on the property they are built on. Players will also be able to control the color of the building as well as the direction it is facing.

Properties with ongoing construction can not be sold. If you sell a property after construction of a building has been completed, then the building will also change ownership with the property. This means that a player could buy a property with a house on it in a competing neighborhood, and then demolish that house (in order to reduce the competing neighborhoods score).

How To Win

Each building type will have a number of points associated with it. These points will be used to score the challenges.

At the end of the 5 day event, the 3 neighborhoods with the highest score will win!

Players must also protect the buildings in their neighborhoods from the construction of cell tower that will lower their neighborhood’s points.

For every cell tower in a neighborhood, that neighborhood will lose 1 point. If a cell tower is within 30 meters of another building type, the cell tower will nullify the points that building would otherwise contribute to the neighborhood.

Cell tower distance will be measured from the center of the property the cell tower is on, to the center of other properties. You will not have any in-game indicator that you are building within range of a cell tower, or that your cell tower will impact any particular building, so you’ll have to carefully measure and use maps as a reference for distance.

The winning neighborhood(s) will receive a prize that will boost that neighborhood’s development rating (read more about neighborhood development rating in our roadmap to property development).

For more details, check out our AMA on Discord where we answered over 50 questions about this event!

Most importantly, have fun and compete hard!

Enjoy the Battle Royale!

-The Upland Team