08-01-2020, 01:11 PM
I'm a new player (most certainly so in comparison to the contingent of decades-long players) to this game, and I am loving every minute. It is a very rich pre-medieval civilisation building game. New tribes are started up well away from the old guys with their massive populations and arsenals to ensure we get time to settle, grow and be in a position to hold our own when they eventually come looking for our resources.
Your clan can either remain nomadic and wander the massive world across land and sea (the world even has climate bands, with weather affecting crop growth and movement), or put down roots and build villages, towns, ports and cities from which you can produce goods and arms and trade with others, or stockpile them for war.
The skill trees in the game are also extremely rich and assist your progress in the game. Once you have attained Level 10 in a skill, you may embark on some of the hundreds of additional advanced-level activities (known as Research in that skill, and are mostly player-suggested and developed in collaboration with the GM) to ensure that things never get stale.
Player to player interaction in the game appears to be on the low side and seems mostly restricted to combat, close networks of trading partners, and other alliances, but there is a lively (and very helpful) community on the game's discord chat server. The anticipation of the turn report every 2 weeks is huge, and when it finally arrives, players pore over the results of their movements, scoutings, manufacturings, trading and combat to see what they should be planning to do next. The world is hex based and almost everyone appears to enjoy using hexographer or worldographer to map the results of their turns. There's not a lot of scope for roleplaying in the game, but there is a newsletter produced every turn which includes player-supplied fiction for those wishing to contribute in that way.
Your clan can either remain nomadic and wander the massive world across land and sea (the world even has climate bands, with weather affecting crop growth and movement), or put down roots and build villages, towns, ports and cities from which you can produce goods and arms and trade with others, or stockpile them for war.
The skill trees in the game are also extremely rich and assist your progress in the game. Once you have attained Level 10 in a skill, you may embark on some of the hundreds of additional advanced-level activities (known as Research in that skill, and are mostly player-suggested and developed in collaboration with the GM) to ensure that things never get stale.
Player to player interaction in the game appears to be on the low side and seems mostly restricted to combat, close networks of trading partners, and other alliances, but there is a lively (and very helpful) community on the game's discord chat server. The anticipation of the turn report every 2 weeks is huge, and when it finally arrives, players pore over the results of their movements, scoutings, manufacturings, trading and combat to see what they should be planning to do next. The world is hex based and almost everyone appears to enjoy using hexographer or worldographer to map the results of their turns. There's not a lot of scope for roleplaying in the game, but there is a newsletter produced every turn which includes player-supplied fiction for those wishing to contribute in that way.