Players, Provinces, Kingdoms & Alliances

== Structure of the game ==
Utopia is a persistent team-based game and there are different levels of coordination. The game is a sandbox where players and teams can pursue different goals like warring, growing or exploring. Players can be could be followers or leaders, "Some people loved taking on the challenge of leading kingdoms that lacked activity or leadership; others loved playing with super-active people like themselves."#http://forums.utopia-game.com/showthread.php?618730-UF-News-An-interview-with-Mehul-Patel-creator-of-Utopia retrieved on 02/04/24 
=== Players ===
Each player signs up to the game and creates an account with a password, then creates a province. A province has land, buildings, science, population, military units and resources. players can use their province to attack, cast spells, run thievery operations on other provinces.
=== Provinces ===
Each player can have one province on each server at one time. A player can choose to abandon a province and create another one on the same server later in the same age. Only one player can play a province, the sharing of login credentials is against the game rules, though some paid features like having other players temporarily sit or mentor your province are now available. 
=== Kingdoms ===
A kingdom is a group of up to 25 provinces and the game mechanics are designed so that each kingdom functions as a team. Kingdoms can compete in rankings for land, networth, honor and wars. 
Actions can be taken at any time, while many updates are processed as each hour passes and each round of the game (known as an age) typically lasts several months. Success in the game often depends on coordination with your team mates, so the game is regarded to be demanding on player time as players may be required to be online at a particular time regularly over the course of several months. This aspect of the game and the complexity of mechanics have resulted in the game being described as 'a strategy rpg for hardcore players' on the game's main web page. 
=== Alliances ===
Alliances were groups of kingdoms that agreed to work together. At one time alliances dominated gameplay but are now quite rare. There are no in game mechanics to show or manage alliances, so many kingdoms in alliances have added an alliance reference in their kingdom name and coordinated activity using third party communication tools like IRC.
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