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I have activated a Temple of Poseidon Miracle at 20%. The miracle description says:

"Travel time shortened by 5% for all ships"

Some of my ships were already traelling, and I checked the arrival time remaining. Same as without the miracle. I checked the time necessary to move resources / troops between 2 of my islands (cargo ships) . Same as before. I also checked the time necessary to move a "war ship" (Ram Ship to be exactly) between 2 colonies. Same as before.

Is the miracle working? Is the display bugged?

First of all, thanks Octavius for your excellent guide on the wiki. It gave me the original push to try and investigate the wonder system. Unfortunately it doesn't have a lot of detail, and that's the resaon why I started this thread.

Today I triggered the wonder again (Lvl-I) and, just like yesterday, nothing happened. For more than half an hour I tried a lot of things but none of them worked. I was convinced the wonder was bugged (or I was just doing something wrong), and suddenly, the miracle happened. I checked the time needed to pillage a town in an adjacent island and the display showed this:



Then I checked transport to the same place, and I got it too:



As you can see, both images have a 5% faster speed (19m instead of the standard 20m). From this point on, all my ships sailed with the increased speed (and the increased speed for those missions remained even after the miracle effect finished). Why didn't worked in the first place? I don't know. Something changed that triggered the effect, but what?

1.- I checked the server time, and it was 11:01:xx, so maybe the game "refreshes" changes every hour (the miracle was activated at 10:15:xx).
2.- I checked my ships. All of them were at my base, I had no ongoing pillage/transport events.

So one of those 2 reasons are responsible for triggering the effect... or maybe both. Tomorrow I will activate the miracle again with all my ships at home, and see what happens.

Regarding Temples and Faith I found out something interesting, check out this image:



I had no scientists and no workers, so total population was 77 (and I'm the only city in the island). Total conversion should have been 31.18% (4 out of 77) but the display shows 25%. Here's the deal: the total population is not the current one, but instead the maximum population allowed by your Town Hall. My Town Hall was Lvl-II (96 max.), and 4 out of 96 is 25%.

I'm also investigating the number of priests needed to increase faith, but I need more reseach on it. So far I've found that 20% conversion keeps your faith stable. Less than 20% decreases your faith, and more than 20% increases it. But those numbers are for a Lvl-I wonder, I need more reseach on Lvl-II and above.

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Once the miracle's effect went out in 2 hours, travel times went back to normal. However, the ones that started out during the mriacle effect maintained their originally reported arrival time, i.e 6 hours, which was 4 hours after the miracle effect ended. A mediocre effect, IMO.

Mediocre effect? I'm sorry but I totally dissagree. Let's say you're pillaging a town 6 islands away in a straight line. Standard time would be:

- 2h to arrive to your target. X turns for the battle (let's say that there is only 1 turn). 33m to load cargo (or less depending on the extra cargo ships). 2h to come back. Total pillage time: 4h 33m.

Now, with a Lvl-5 miracle, the travelling time will be increased by 40% each way, saving 1h 36m (2x48m) for a total pillage time of 2h 56m. A huge save in time, IMHO. Especially compared to the Hermes miracle, which will, at Lvl-5, save 17m of loading cargo time in the same example.



Thanks for reading,

- Aulbath -