Dear Ariella New Player Guide

Dear Ariella, What do we do?

The dilemma of the new player often referred to as a "Newbie". After three tales of playing I will attempt to give some helpful hints to help you get started and continue in your everyday life. Good luck my fellow Egyptian as this is a wonderfully complicated game and enjoyable socially. Our Egyptian slang will be in ().

Where shall I live?

Take your time! Don't rush into it at the first place you land. Yes, everyone is rushing around doing things like ants in a kicked anthill. But patience is a virtue also.

A polite citizen of Egypt will ask the current residents if it will be encroaching into their camp to live there. Always clean up after yourself the 'Newbie' beginner machines like your small distaff, brick racks, flax combs.

Chariot Stops (cs) are not up and running at the beginning of the game. There is a University Tech that will need donations so we citizens can repair them. They are the transportation network in the game, instantly transporting you to different regions.

Consider that papyrus planting (pappy) must be done along the Nile. This makes living by or near the Nile a good choice for compound (cp) building.

Good components for you home sweet home. Good wood-giving Trees (Bottle Trees give 5 wood each for example), water, mud/sand (for bricks), silt (for firebricks) nearby. Put up your F3 map (you can stretch it out way out on the bottom right corner). Look for the green grass areas.

If you speak a language other than english there are communities that set up that speak mainly one language like French or German that might be handy to live in or join their guild for ease of play.

What's the best way to set up camp?

• Time saving building ideas* Build your compound right up against water. Why? You will be building many machines inside your compound. You can place kettles and other machines needing water so you can stand and use them without running back and forth to a water source. Stand where the fish or water icon appears in the top left, overload yourself and cook away in your kettles. No running back and forth filling jugs up.

Build your compound so it is over mud and sand where you can stand and see both those icons at once. Then build your camel pen up against that side of your compound. Camel pens are straw storage. You will be building brick racks to make tons and tons of bricks and firebricks (fb). Permanent brick racks are best built where you can stand in one spot, grab mud and sand and also straw from your camel pen. Overloading yourself is a time saving feature.

When building beehives (apiaries) and serpentariums (cobra pits) try using /crowd to check to see the crowding percentage. The less the better for a queen bee to settle in or cobras to slither in.