UK Tutorial Day1 Task3
The eRepublik Tutorial
Now that we now some basics, it's time for us to follow the in game tutorial. This will take us through some of the main parts of the game, and ensure that we are familiar with the basics of working, training and fighting. The tutorial is located in the top left corner of the homepage.
Training
Clicking the “train” button on the tutorial takes you to the training grounds. This can also be accessed by selecting “my places” and “training grounds” from the main menu bar across the top of the screen. Training is a key element, as the damage that a citizen can cause when fighting relies on a soldier's strength and military rank. Rank is gained through fighting, and strength is gained through training. Everyone is limited in the strength they can gain as training grounds can only be used once per day. However, training doesn't just increase your strength, it can also increase your gold.
When you first start playing your training ground will look like this. You will see that the cost of training is “free”, that you will gain “5 strength” and that your current strength is “0/250”.
When you click train, your character will gain 5 strength. When you reach 250 strength you get a medal called a Super Soldier Medal and will receive 5 gold as a reward. You will get a lot of these medals, but for now as we have completed the first part of the tutorial, it's time for us to go and complete the next part, which is fighting.
Fighting
When you click the next option on the tutorial, “fight” you will be taken to a page listing the active wars your country is involved in, and it will look similar to the image on the left. If there is a highlighted war at the top of the page, this is the campaign of the day. This is a war that the President has determined as being an important war. For now though, as a new player we are unable to really make a big difference on the battlefield, just remember 'CoTD' (Campaign of The Day) will highlight important wars.
This can also be reached simply by clicking “Wars” on the blue bar at the top of the screen. The most important war is identified by the government and will be at the top of your list, the “Campaign of the Day”. You can also see by hovering your mouse over the different buttons on the screen that Serbia is in this case allied to our test character’s country (United Kingdom), that it has 71 campaign points (the enemy country, Hungary, has 0) and that there are “combat orders” active for the battle. Combat orders allow your citizen to gain money for fighting. This will be discussed in more detail in a separate article, but for now click “fight” to go to the battle screen.
Note: If there is a small ticket next to the country this means you need to move their to fight for them. Moving costs money, so as a new player you do not want to do that. Simply choose a battle without the ticket symbol next to it and fight there.
The Battlefield
This is what the battle screen looks like. The fight button will allow you to add your damage to the battle. To the right of it you will notice an icon, which signifies the weapon currently being used. For the time being, you should fight without weapons to avoid bankrupting yourself. Weapons increase the amount of damage that you do, but as you are a new player, even the strongest weapon will still lead to you doing small amounts of damage, as damage is calculated based on your strength: of which you only have 5!
Clicking fight will kill one soldier on the enemy side. Different kills will require different amounts of energy, based on the difference in strength between you and your enemy: sometimes it is 1, sometimes it can be as many as 4. For each ‘hit’ that a kill requires to be completed, you will use up 10 energy. As well as adding damage to the battlefield for your side, you will also receive prestige points. Every Tuesday a new ‘weekly challenge’ starts, which will offer various rewards at certain milestones, based on the number of prestige points you earn.
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