Offensive defeat

Losing a battle in attack.

Offensive victory

Winning a battle in attack.

Officer

Common name for all officers in second loyalty stage.

Officer Candidate

Military rank conferred to players with 3 000-7 499 military points.

Officers’ wing

Alliance structure unit consisting of all officers. Officers’ wing members have individual special bonuses.

Operative message

A message giving operational information regarding the result of recent actions, daily routine events or alerting the player about upcoming expiration dates, start or end of restriction periods or any other system detail every player should be informed about. Operative messages are always received in yellow envelops, but, since there are several types, each of them is labeled in a different way in System tab of Messages menu as it follows:
- Army mobilization – a messages informing about automatically mobilized groups of soldiers in training.
- Subscription for festival with gradual effect - a message informing about the activation of a festival with gradual effect paid with diamonds as well as the amount of diamonds taken automatically for the service.
- Expansion - a message informing about recently annexed province, recently founded colony or a province recently turned into a vassal.
- Premium - a message alerting about Premium expiring in short time, already expired once or successfully received group offers.
- Other – this label incorporates messages notifying about beginner protection expiration, offline block coming into effect, babysitter invitations and attack appeal results.

Optimal income

A button located in the "Hire workers in all provinces" menu. It hires the whole population first and foremost to produce the resources with highest bonus; if the bonuses are equal, the population is hired to produce first on iron, then stone and finally wood.

Ordinary member

An ally with no particular rights in the alliance and no special bonuses.

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