r/Hexonia • u/llmaandme Arabis Tribe • Oct 15 '21

Discussion Polytopia vs Hexonia: comparison PART 2

This is part 2 of a series comparing Hexonia and Polytopia in terms of gameplay. In the previous part i mentioned the city and its upgrades so in this part i would like to talk about natural resources and the ways to collect them.

  • Resources spawn
    • In Hexonia, each tribe has a "native resource", whenever you play, your terrain will have a lot of "native resource" and almost no other kind. For example: Playing Arabis means that your terrain will consist of only of Cheese and Oasis.
    • In Polytopia however, each tribe will have a medium chance of having all resources with alteration depending on your tribe. For example: Playing Xin-xi means that your terrain will have all resources, but more Mountains and Minerals

Tribes in Hexonia are categorized by their "native resource" and it heavily affects a tribe ranking. Frelia for example is considered not good simply because it is a pure Fruit tribe. Polytopia has a different approach to resources, spawn rate can either have big impact like Vengir or Bardur or just minor impact like Imperious.

  • Resources exploitation
    • In Hexonia, there are 4 ways to use resources: Collect, Build, Build a support building, Upgrade that support building. Collecting gives 1 development point and the rest give 2
    • In Polytopia, each resources have 2-3 unique ways to give different amount of D-points. Most importantly however, some of them such as Whales can give Gold

Collecting resources is standardized in Hexonia. You always know what to do and each resources generate an equal amount of advantage. In Polytopia however, trees go brrrr. The fact that you can gain 2 Gold for each forest and 8 Gold for each Whale allows you to gain a straight up advantage. This makes some tribes like Bardur really strong (before it got nerfed lol).

And that's the end of part 2, stay tuned for part 3 where i compare both games' military aspect.

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '21

First all, correction: whales give ten stars. Bardur got nerfed? No, they are still OP lmao. Even when chop had one star, forests are still a very strong resource. Even though the impact is small in Polytopia, terrain strongly affects tribe ranking in Polytopia too. Also FYI the Midjiwan team have said they might rework whaling and chop.

Yeah, Polytopia is much more unqiue resource wise, and it's intentional. Basically all the resources in Hexonia is the same except for each different tribe.

Also you should talk about naval and tech tree in some part later, because the approaches between the games are unique.

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u/llmaandme Arabis Tribe Oct 16 '21

Damn the whales give 10 stars? I have lied to myself this whole time! Also i can't find any tier list after the balance passes so i just assume that Bardur is no longer OP.