Updated the OP with the following information:
Keeps
In CiV, the concept of 'advancement' was based on your Technological prowess. This led to some unidimensional play-style where you had to pay attention to your Science at all times, with no other aspect of the game being so fundamental. It was not, however, a problem
per se.
In BattleCiV, techs do not exist anymore (as will be explained further down) and your advancement will be based on Keep Levels - which... are tied to Researches (the new techs), but they aren't as needed as Techs are in Civ5! Why? Because you can win the game with rushes while still having your Keep Level as 1 (there is one Civ which is specially suited towards this)!
The Keep will always be in your Capital, with the upgrades being unlocked by the techs - you'll still need to build the new Level, though.
Each alignment will have a different name for the Keep, while the aforementioned will always be the generic name. They are:
- Stronghold for the Evil civs.
- Bastion for the Good civs.
- Fort for the Neutral civs.
The Fort improvement is renamed as Redoubt.
Units, buildings, processes and others are unlocked with each new Keep Level, which ranges from 1-5.
A player gains access to the Keep research after reaching a high amount of points in it’s
Moral Compass (which I'll explain later), then, after the research is complete, the player may build the new Keep in the Capital.
Techs
Technologies are gone, although a very similar form of it assume it's place: The
Researches. These are very well known to players coming from WBC games, they increase power to your units, or give them new abilities.
While the Warlord games only had one victory type (Domination), Civ has plenty, BattleCiV has even more, which means Researches had to increase in scope.
With that in mind, the Tech tree is not a single path towards a repeatable tech anymore. There are a few independent branches, they are:
School Spells
- Each Research either increases your Spellcasting chance in the determined School, your maximum Spell level castable or gives bonuses; these may be specific towards Spellcasters of that school, civ-wide and sometimes to a number of units.
- At the end of this branch there is a Research called 'Master of Magic', which depends on EVERY tech on this branch.
Generic Research
- Researches that any Civilization may learn, they increase plenty of different capabilities, like military might, empire-managing and diplomacy.
- At the end of this branch there is a Research called 'Draconic Binding', which depends on EVERY tech on this branch and unlocks the training of the mighty Dragons.
Seal and Divinity
- Four Seals bind the Otherworlds away from this realm. This branch increases your chances at finding them, as well as manipulating the forces that arise from it. Another side of this branch is Faith and how it affects your Empire.
- At the end of this branch there is a Research called 'Deities', which depends on EVERY tech on this branch and gives you access to the special Spellcaster exclusively assigned to your Civilization.
Aligned Researches
- Between the three alignments, each is able to research from only one of these branches. They do not have the same amount of Researches, and that is by design; Neutral has the least of them, while Evil has the most.
A few other differences come in how early the different Keep researches come as well. An example is that the Good Civilization has a very early rush to Keep Level 3, but takes the longest to actually reach the last Level (which is 5).
- At the end of this branch there is an exclusive repeatable Research, which depends on EVERY tech in it's own branch and gives certain bonuses each time it is researched.
A few Screenshots of it:
* You can see that there is nothing in the Techs yet. I'm still trying to find a way to inform - in the tooltip - of what each Tech does. Another thing I need to do is to group Seal and Divinity and Generic Upgrades under the same 'screen', to avoid a too long tech tree.
