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This page explains how a skirmish or multiplayer match is won, lost or drawn. Story missions have their own objectives and are not covered here.<br />
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== Winning ==<br />
A match ends when '''only one side is left standing'''. A side is a player together with their allies.<br />
* In a free-for-all, the last player standing wins.<br />
* In a team game, the match ends as soon as every player still in it is on the same team. That '''whole team wins''', including any teammate who was knocked out earlier.<br />
* While players from two or more sides are still in the match, it goes on.<br />
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== Losing ==<br />
There are three ways to be knocked out of a match.<br />
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=== Elimination ===<br />
* You are '''eliminated''' when you have '''no living units and no standing buildings''' left.<br />
* Every unit and building counts: a single villager, ship, house or piece of wall keeps you in the match.<br />
* Bodies and the rubble of destroyed buildings do '''not''' count.<br />
* Every player sees ''"(name) has been eliminated."'' in the chat's System tab.<br />
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=== Resigning ===<br />
* You can '''resign''' from the in-game menu (opened with '''Escape''', see [[Controls]]).<br />
* When you resign, '''all your units and buildings are destroyed at once''', and every player sees ''"(name) has resigned."'' in the System tab.<br />
* In a team game, your teammates fight on. If they go on to win, you are on the winning side too.<br />
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=== Disconnecting (multiplayer) ===<br />
* If a player's connection drops, the game '''holds their seat for 2 minutes'''. Their units and buildings stay in the match, and so do their resources.<br />
* The match does not stop while the seat is held: there is no pause in ''Dawn of Embers''.<br />
* If the player reconnects with the same account within the 2 minutes, they take back their seat, units, buildings and resources.<br />
* If they do not, they '''forfeit''': every player sees ''"(name) did not return and has forfeited."'', their units and buildings are destroyed, and the match carries on as if they had resigned.<br />
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== Draws ==<br />
If a match is decided with nobody left standing, it is a '''draw'''.<br />
* A match is decided the moment one side is left, so in a normal match the last two sides cannot both drop out: when one goes, the other wins.<br />
* A match with no opponents at all never ends on its own. If its player resigns, it ends as a draw.<br />
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== Computer opponents ==<br />
Computer opponents can be eliminated like anyone else, and they can also '''resign'''. A computer opponent gives up when its position has been hopeless for about 30 seconds without a break. Hopeless means all of these at once:<br />
* it has '''no building that can train units''',<br />
* it has '''no soldiers''' left (villagers do not count),<br />
* it '''cannot rebuild''': it has no villager left, or cannot afford any building it would build,<br />
* and an '''enemy army''' is still on the map.<br />
A computer opponent that is badly beaten but whose enemies have no army left does not resign. See [[AI difficulty]].<br />
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== The end of the match ==<br />
* When the match is decided, every player sees a '''Victory''', '''Defeat''' or '''Draw''' banner, with a line saying why: the enemy was eliminated, resigned or disconnected (or, for the losers, that they were). In a team win, a teammate's line may simply say that your team is victorious.<br />
* The end screen shows a table of every player's match statistics, your own row highlighted.<br />
* Knocked-out players stay on the scoreboard, greyed out.<br />
* A victory or defeat sound plays.<br />
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== Ranked matches ==<br />
* Leaving a ranked match that is still going '''counts as resigning''': the game resigns for you before you leave.<br />
* A ranked match that is still undecided after '''6 hours''' ends with '''no result'''.<br />
* Ranked and online play are not part of the demo.<br />
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== Not in the game ==<br />
These victory types are not in the game today:<br />
* '''Conquest''' by destroying specific buildings only (for example, the town centre). Today you must destroy '''everything'''.<br />
* '''Wonder''', relic or score victories.<br />
* A '''time limit''' in ordinary matches.</div>DTX Studios