Game Reference — The Numbers

All values below are the live game settings as of this page’s last update. They are server-tunable, so the team can adjust them without an app update — treat them as current, not eternal.

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Claiming minimums (per activity)

A loop must meet both minimums to claim territory: A linear route needs 500 m to build a Wall.

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Track validation (anti-cheat)

Your track is always saved; these checks only decide whether it can claim: Exceeding a limit sends the march to review — nothing is deleted, and genuine routes clear review.

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Effort curve

Effort compares your pace to your own 30-day average for that activity: The curve scales linearly between those points. Everything effort touches — fortification, rank points, invasion damage and defence — uses this same modifier.

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Territory tiers

Fortification accumulates from every campaign through a territory (effort × km). Tier thresholds:

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Decay timers

A territory drops one tier if you don’t campaign through it within its window. Higher tiers hold out longer:

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Walls

• Re-running within ~50 m of a wall’s route counts as maintaining it.
• Upgrade to Reinforced: run the route twice within the window, or once at ≥1.5× effort.
• Consistent maintenance extends a wall’s grace period (up to a 30-day ceiling).

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Invasions

• Your loop must overlap a rival’s territory by at least ~50 m of route to start a siege.
• Damage per invading run: effort × distance through the overlap (defenders rebuild by the same formula).
• Defence at zero → the land transfers automatically.
• A capture that would leave the defender a sliver keeps remainders of at least 1,000 m²; smaller fragments transfer whole.

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Rank ladder

Rank points = effort × km, accumulated permanently: Baron and above are milestone-gated — the point thresholds apply, and Baron additionally requires the lifetime-area feat above.

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The Treasury — upkeep & looting

Unpaid upkeep never charges you twice — the holding simply decays faster. When a holding is captured, only its uncollected tribute can be looted; banked coffers are untouchable.

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Sellswords (mercenaries)

Hired steel, paid in Gold — always capped below what earned effort can do: Hiring any sellsword raises the Sellsword’s Mark on your house — a visible flag on your holdings and a Herald announcement that you’ve taken foreign steel. While marked, your holdings are a slightly richer target (a bounty of up to +15% loot for rivals who strike you, scaled by how contested your ground already is). The Mark clears 24 h after your last contract ends. Garrisons can be hired for a holding already under siege — reinforcing a siege is what they’re for — but their strength is always capped below your weakest earned wall: effort remains the real defence.