Frequently asked questions

Crownpupil is a browser strategy game. You start with one city on an island continent, grow it into an empire, raise armies, trade, join an alliance, and compete with real players and computer-controlled players to build monuments and win the world. Everything runs in your browser; there is nothing to install.

On the home page, open Register, choose a player name (3–20 letters, digits, spaces, _ or -), a password of at least 6 characters, and your email. Then accept the Terms and Conditions and press Create account. You get a starter city right away.

1. Open the City tab and build Forester's Camps next to forest nodes. Resource buildings produce more next to matching nodes.
2. Add Craftsman's Huts next to your producers. Each hut boosts the buildings around it.
3. Upgrade the Town Center. It unlocks new buildings and more building slots.
4. Build a Storage Depot before your resources hit the storage limit.
5. Claim your Daily Reward and complete Quests (Dashboard → Quests) for free resources.

Yes. New players have beginner protection for 144 hours. Nobody can attack you during that time. Use it to build your economy and defences.

• Dashboard: summaries, reports, rankings, mail, market, research, quests, items, settings and this FAQ.
• City: build and upgrade in your active city.
• Region: the detailed map around your city.
• World: an overview of all continents.
• Store (gold button in the top bar): buy currency.

The ? button on most panels explains that panel.

Each Town Center level gives 10 building slots (level 10 = 100 slots). Resource nodes, the Town Center, the wall, ramparts and unique buildings don't use slots.

Forests, clay deposits, ore veins and lakes boost production buildings placed next to them. A producer next to one matching node gets +55%, and each further node adds +40%. Farms also gain +40% for each empty neighbouring tile. You can demolish a node to free its tile, which refunds 750 resources.

Huts raise the production of every producer next to them. A good layout puts huts in the gaps between several producers.

They multiply the output of adjacent producers of their resource and raise storage. They unlock at Town Center levels 6–9.

Up to 18 jobs. You can pay now or later, reorder jobs, cancel with a refund, and lock the queue order.

Yes. Use City Automation in the city's settings:

• Automatic Construction upgrades buildings towards target levels you choose. It also builds anything you drew in the City Planner layout.
• Automatic Recruitment keeps unit counts at your targets.
• Automatic Trade sends surplus resources to a hub city or requests them from one.

At Town Center level 8 you can build a Castle (2×2). Castled cities can be captured by sieges, can be chosen by altars and can raise monuments.

Wood, clay, ore and grain are produced by buildings. Silver comes from the Bank and from raids. Influence and refined resources (lumber, brick, steel, bread) are used for titles and research.

Your storage is full. Build or upgrade Storage Depots and boosters, spend resources, or trade them away. Or let the overflow be refined automatically (see below).

Normally they are lost. A city with an Arcane Sanctum at level 10 refines everything that no longer fits, for all four resources: every 1,000 wood, clay, ore or grain above the storage limit becomes 1 lumber, brick, steel or bread. A level 10 Lumber Yard, Brickyard, Ore Smelter or Flour Mill does the same for its own resource only. This works for production, trades, plunder brought home and item rewards. Amounts below 1,000 are kept and counted towards the next refined unit, so nothing is lost.

Troops eat grain. If grain reaches zero while your troops eat more than you grow, the city starves and 10% of its troops desert every hour until you fix it. Build Farms, or send grain by trade.

It protects part of each resource from being plundered.

Higher building levels unlock stronger units and recruit faster.

Troop space, which comes from Quarters. Every unit uses space (cavalry 2, siege 10, ships 100+), and units in the recruitment queue count too.

Yes. Queued batches can be cancelled for a refund, and you can dismiss troops you no longer need. The queue holds up to 5 batches.

• Assault: fight only.
• Plunder: fight and carry off resources above the defender's Hidden Cache.
• Siege: fight, and with a Governor in the army, capture part of a castled city.
• Scout: see what a city holds.

Each won siege on a castled city with a Governor in the army takes 34% control. At 100% the city becomes yours. A player's last city cannot be taken.

Yes. Reinforcements sent to another player's city stay there and fight alongside its defenders until they are recalled. They can be sent home all at once or in part.

Attack power is compared with defence power, including the city wall bonus. The stronger side loses fewer troops. Combat reports (Dashboard → Reports) show both armies before and after, and can be shared with a code.

Yes. Commands can be scheduled to leave or arrive at an exact time, and can be cancelled within a short window after sending.

Monster camps on the map (in forests, hills, mountains, rivers and the sea) that hold resources and silver. Raid them with troops that can carry loot. Stronger dungeons hold more but cost more troops. A dungeon runs dry as it is raided and later respawns.

Yes. Send a raid once, continuously, or until a set time. The raid income summary shows what you earned.

Powerful monsters with big rewards, including currency. If you send enough troops, you win. A defeated boss respawns after a day.

Build a Market for caravans and, in a water city, a Seaport for ships. Each caravan or ship carries 1,000 resources. Caravans travel only within one continent, and ships sail between water cities anywhere.

Put resources up for auction for silver. Others bid (with automatic bid steps), and the highest bidder gets the shipment when the auction ends. Outbid players get their silver back. You can subscribe to auctions to follow them.

Create one or accept an invitation. Up to 20 members. Leaders set ranks and permissions, diplomacy (allies, non-aggression pacts, enemies), announcements, the description and the banner. Alliances have their own chat, log, member list and rankings.

Yes, but you must wait 3 days before joining another.

Research permanently improves production, unit strength and speed, trade speed and more. It costs silver and refined resources (lumber, brick, steel, bread).

Your title sets how many cities you may own and how much influence you can hold. Advancing costs refined resources and silver. The first advance (Baron → Viscount, 40 of each refined resource and 40,000 silver) allows a second city.

1. Reach a title that allows another city.
2. Build a Warrior's Temple to level 10 and train a Governor.
3. From the Region map, send settlers to an empty plain tile. This costs 100,000 wood, 100,000 clay, 25,000 ore, 25,000 grain and the Governor.

Quests track goals such as resources produced, buildings reached, troops recruited, enemies defeated and city count. Press Complete Quest when a goal is met to collect the reward, and the next level of that quest starts.

Item strength grows with your title tier.

The world is a grid of island continents (00 to 55) separated by sea and crossed by rivers. New players start on the spawn continent. Other continents open as the world grows.

Ships sail anywhere between water cities. Land armies can cross only through a Gate, while it is open. Gates open and close on a cycle that the gate panel shows.

Altars periodically choose a nearby castled city. A chosen city can raise a Monument of the altar's belief, paid for with wood and clay donated by other players through monument trades or monument items.

An alliance wins when the highest monument of each belief its members own adds up to the target (36 levels). For example, six level-6 monuments, one of each belief.

Currency buys items, speed-ups, city and castle skins, and avatars. There are two balances: world currency, earned in play (quests, bosses, daily rewards), and purchased currency, bought in the Store. Items use world currency first, and skins use purchased currency first.

1. Press the gold Store button in the top bar, or Buy Currency under Dashboard → Items.
2. Pick a pack.
3. Fill in the billing details the payment provider requires, and accept the terms.
4. Pay on the secure payment page.
5. You come back to the game, the currency is added, and an invoice is issued.

Your purchase history is under Dashboard → Settings. Every purchase has a PDF invoice you can download.

Purchased currency is delivered immediately, so the right of withdrawal ends once it is delivered (see the Terms). If a payment went wrong, or the currency didn't arrive, contact us and we will fix it. Refunded or charged-back payments remove the currency they bought.

Yes. Some players are bots run by the server. They build, raid, trade, settle and sometimes attack like everyone else, and they can join alliances or accept your invitations.

1. On the home page, open Log in and click Forgot password? (or go straight to the reset page).
2. Enter your player name or the email address of your account and press Send the reset link.
3. Open the email from us (subject "Reset your password"). If it isn't in your inbox within a few minutes, look in the spam or promotions folder.
4. Click the link, type your new password twice (at least 6 characters) and save it. Then log in with the new password.

The link works for 1 hour and only once; you can ask for a new one at any time. Resetting logs your account out on every other device, and we send you an email to say the password was changed. If you get that email but did not change your password, reset it again right away and write to support@crownpupil.site.

No email arrives? Your account may have no email address or an old one. Write to support@crownpupil.site from the address you think is on the account and tell us your player name.

While logged in, open Change password, enter your current password and the new one twice. Your other devices are logged out. If you don't know your current password, use Forgot password? instead.

No. One player per account and one account per player per world. Multi-accounting and account sharing break the Terms.

Report messages from the chat menu, or write to support@crownpupil.site. Please report bugs instead of using them.

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