# Powering Up a Kingdom to Seven Stars **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Created:** [October 16, 2016, 8:26am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/powering-up-a-kingdom-to-seven-stars/13861 "2016-10-16T08:26:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mistaaytch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7c8e57/32.png) [@Mistaaytch](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Mistaaytch)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2016, 8:26am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/powering-up-a-kingdom-to-seven-stars/13861/1 "2016-10-16T08:26:34Z")
I’ve been working on getting Forest of Thorns up to 7 stars. Typically when I leveled a troop from that kingdom, I would get 10 points toward power every time I bumped a troop up a level. When I got within 15-20 points of hitting 7 stars, I only started getting 2 points per level. Is this something that was changed recently? I’m hoping it’s a bug, because otherwise it’s going to be incredibly painful to level up kingdoms past 7 stars (once that option opens up.) ---
**Author:** ![Kharybdys](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/kharybdys/32/2023_2.png) [@Kharybdys](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Kharybdys)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2016, 11:29am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/powering-up-a-kingdom-to-seven-stars/13861/2 "2016-10-16T11:29:48Z")
Your 11th troop, 201st level and 31st trait (and beyond) give only 20% points. This is by design. ---
**Author:** ![Fifthelement](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/fifthelement/32/8383_2.png) [@Fifthelement](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Fifthelement)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2016, 11:44am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/powering-up-a-kingdom-to-seven-stars/13861/3 "2016-10-16T11:44:55Z")
Yup, you get max points only for fully lvling/traiting 10 troops-worth of troops, so : ## 10 x 50 = 500 from owning the troops 10 x 75 (3 x 25) = 750 from traits 10 x 10 x 20 = 2000 from levels so 3250 possible points from 10 troops (but that’s assuming you trait / ascend and lvl to max all of them), it also works as a “CAP” for those full points (as in you can spread those 2000 points from lvls and 750 from traits amongst more than 10 troops (i.e. having 12 troops at lvl 16 = 192 , lets say two of them are ascended and lvl’d to 20, that’s +8, and that adds up to 2000 points, any additional lvl on any of the troops will be above the cap already, thus diminishing returns kick in)). like @Kharybdys said, anything above the cap gives only 20% of the points, so each lvl is worth 2 pts, each trait 5 pts and owning 11th (and every next) troops 10 pts. Personally I’d suggest focusing on the traits a bit more, when going for 7 stars (I noticed that when 5-staring kingdoms I used mostly souls, so I’m relatively far away from the 30 traits “cap” in most kingdoms, and that’s 25 pts each - so 1 trait = 12,5 lvls worth 😃 when we consider being in the diminishing returns zone with lvls). ---
**Author:** ![actreal](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/actreal/32/1945_2.png) [@actreal](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/actreal)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2016, 1:35am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/powering-up-a-kingdom-to-seven-stars/13861/4 "2016-10-17T01:35:20Z")
For more information on powering up to 7 stars (and eventually beyond), check out my guide: > [@Kingdom Power Guide](http://community.gemsofwar.com/t/2-1-kingdom-power-guide/12509): > > So with 2.1, we now know that 6 gold stars and 7 gold stars are possible. But which Kingdoms is it possible in yet, and which still need more Troops? The first thing to know is how Kingdom Score works: The first 10 Troops are worth 50 points each and then 10 points each The first 30 Traits are worth 25 points each and then 10 points each The first 200 Levels are worth 10 points each and then 2 points each Then we need to know how many points for each Kingdom Level: Silver star 600 Gol…