Influence and settlement

Note

This page is about the Season of Rime, which uses Siege v1. From Season II the season is a world campaign of hexes and provinces: see the war table and provinces and winning.

Numbers from Siege rules v5.

Earning influence

When a ranked Siege ends, every player in it earns influence for their own faction, on the zone the Siege was fought over.

Result	Influence for each player
Win	3
Draw	2
Loss	1

Then these can change it:

If…	Your influence is…
the map counts extra right now (for example x2 in its final weeks)	multiplied by that
not both sides rolled at least once with an electronic Core	× 0.5 (a win is worth 1.5 )
you already played a ranked Siege today against any of the same opponents	× 0.5 for each earlier Siege (a win is worth 1.5 , then 0.75…)
you reach 30 influence from Sieges today	capped: you earn no more until tomorrow (UK time)

No influence for casual or practice Sieges, for ghosts, or if the map closed before the Siege finished.

Your total for the season shows on the Season tab, under Your influence this season.

Pending, then settled

New influence does not go straight onto the map. It waits as pending influence on the zone. The app shows it under Waiting to settle.

Settlement runs at five minutes past every hour (14:05, 15:05 and so on, UK time). Each settlement:

1. moves pending influence onto the zone, and
2. checks who holds each zone.

On Glacier zones only 80% of the pending influence moves in each hour . The rest waits for the next settlement, so glaciers change hands slowly.

When a map closes, all of its pending influence counts straight away.

Who holds a zone

The zone…	It changes hands when…
has no holder	the faction with the most influence takes it (if two are level, nobody does yet)
has a holder	another faction has more influence than the holder
is on Mountains	another faction has 25% more than the holder

Example: Magma holds a Mountains zone with 8 influence. Void needs more than 10 to take it.

See the whole journey in the worked example.