PLANNING
Design draft
Season One: Borderlands
The first production season model for United Factions: phases, contracts, score windows and reset policy.
Seasons
A season is a playable plan, not a blog post.
Seasons give the realm a rhythm: founding, expansion, conflict, endgame, finale and a permanent archive.
Current season model
The playable plan is split into seasons, rulesets and contracts.
Each record explains what players can work toward without exposing private wealth, bases or live tactical information.
Rules and contracts
The playable season model is split into versioned parts.
1.2-design
Balanced Gameplay Season Model v3
Anti-runaway caps, physical gold economy, shards, warpilot and public stats boundaries for Frontier.
Open record 1.1Ruleset 1.1: Season Framework
Versioned rules for season phases, rewards, public standings and anti-leak boundaries.
Open record review-windowDiscipline Contract: Culture & Building
Make builders visible through reviewed milestones and Chronicles.
Open record balance-designDiscipline Contract: Trade Logistics
Reward supply variety and route risk instead of raw item dumping.
Open record pilot-onlyDiscipline Contract: War & Defence
Objective-first war scoring with loss severity review.
Open record balance-designDiscipline Contract: Realm Development
Land progression without permanent combat stat power.
Open record designContract: Signal Posts in the Borderlands
A repeatable faction-neutral objective that can feed future standings through signed snapshots.
Open record