• Signing up for a guild means literally signing a contract, with penalties for leaving/being kicked early
  
• Guilds can declare war, meaning pvp between the two guilds results in no penalty for your karma
  
• You get payed every day for being in the guild, and the more you "contribute" (helping guild missions and being active), the more you can be payed.
  
• Guilds can fight over nodes or towns during set siege times. These take place on the 1st server of a bundle (Balenos 1, Calpheon 1, etc).
  
• Ballistas and Cannons and Trebuchets and Traps and Palisades

• Mobs and players higher than you get a bonus to “evasion” (as well as AP and DP), which means you deal 0 damage with your attacks
  
• Armor isn't specific to classes. They are not soulbound (unless you intentionally use a "Brand" item on it) nor do they have level requirements, meaning you can equip them on alts.
  
• Enchantments can't fail below +5 for armor, and +7 for weapons. They can fail above that but it won't really penalize you until +18 (Tri), where the item will go back down to +16 (Pri).
  
• Lifeskill costumes (Silver Embroidered Stuff) and all accessories require another of the same item to enchant. If it fails, both items explode.
  
• You can "Failstack" where you intentionally fail to enchant cheap items so you can enchant your more expensive items with a higher % success rate. It increases your rate of success by piddly amounts (2.5% - 0.5%) meaning it is not worth it unless you are enchanting an incredibly expensive piece of gear (Liverto and/or PRI+).
  
• The best way failstack is to make an alt and have him kill horses until his karma gets to -1,000,000
  
• If you succeed at enchanting, your failstack goes back down to 0. Don't rule out just outright buying enchanted gear on the AH.

• Activating to a node gives you higher drop rates and better loot if you kill/gather in it. You can only activate nodes that are connected to a node you already own, or connected to a major town.
  
• You have to create a path of nodes from one point to another in order to sell TRADE ITEMS for its actual value (crafted, bought, looted, OR gathered).
  
• Not having the origin node of the item and the node you are selling the TRADE ITEM in will result in the item only being worth 30% of its actual value
  
• Owning a node takes “Contribution Points”, which you mostly get from doing quests.
  
• If you want your workers to harvest materials from a node, you have to activate the subnode. Not all nodes have subnodes.
  
• You must visit the node manager to activate that node, unless you've got a VALUE PACK. You can deactivate the node from anywhere on the map, as long as you remove contribution from the subnodes and don't have it connecting two other nodes together
  
• You can INVEST in a node after you own it. Investing takes energy, not contribution. This will increase the drop rates further but its benefit is debated. Only invest as a last resort of energy spending
  
• In the desert and deep ocean, you can't see your position on the map without a 1 million gold compass that decays in a few days. Pick a general direction and run that way till you see landmarks

• Property take contribution points and money to buy, but just money to upgrade.
  
• You can sell the property if you no longer need it to return your contribution points, but it won't return your money
  
• Somewhat similar to the node system, houses have to be bought along a path. You can't buy house 4-5 if you haven't bought 4-1, 4-2, 4-3, and 4-4
  
• You can activate ANY house as a residence (home) without owning the prior houses.
  
• You won't need to actually visit any real estate except your residence. Workshops can be used from anywhere on the map, and storage/lodging are passive increases
  
• Having the 1st rank house on the server (NA/EU) will give you access to a "monopoly" node which is a unique trading item resource workers can produce at. You will not get this without throwing oodles of cash at pearls and production and they're not worth it

• You have to restore workers stamina after they work too long. Cooking is the only current method off doing this, and the most efficient way is to feed your workers nothing but beer all day
  
• Workers can level up and receive traits and stat bonuses. Don't worry about this too much until you get artisan (can get a trait for 4x production). Naive workers (White/Grey) CANNOT level up; don't buy them.
  
• You can buy and sell slaves on the slave market, accessible by talking to the work manager.
  
• There are three races of workers. Giants can work for a long time (work longer without beer), goblins run and work really fast (workers must physically travel to the nodes), and humans are lucky (and get you more/rarer resources). Humans are probably the best overall

• Gathering itself is a single skill that applies to all gather/related tasks like mining and lumbering
  
• Resource respawn speed is based on the number of people in the area
  
• Costumes make you feel more confident and you learn stuff faster

• Stuff is usually usable right off the tree, but processing it is usually required for more complicated recipes. You'll have to boil or air out dirty river water to make clean water for alchemy/cooking/sunstroke/hypothermia. Fish will go bad unless you dry it out.
  
• You can't dry stuff if the 0s and 1s align on the server and it starts raining
  
• Processing burns your energy in the same way gathering does. Higher processing levels allows you to make more complicated items, gives you higher returns each time you process something (+% Processing Success stat), and reduces the chance of costing energy
  
• You can process some stuff like ingots via workshops in town to save your energy, but they take a while and usually yield less than doing it yourself

• There is a levelable stat based on how much food you've eaten called “Health”, granting a bonus to your maximum HP
  
• Cooking is the only way to regenerate your workers stamina. If they keep slaving too long over your coal/mushroom/wheat stores or building your lovely boats and swords, they will stop working until you throw calories at them
  
• You will probably spend a lot of your time making or buying beer, because it's the cheapest way to refill your worker's stamina
  
• Almost as tedious as alchemy

• Makes reagents for crafting different reagants
  
• Makes drugs that do weird poo poo like make you jump higher
  
• Makes drugs that do weirder poo poo like making you fish harder
  
• Makes "Alchemy Stones" that give you buffs, but have to be enchanted (or "Polished") with high end materials to be worth a crap
  
• It will require a lot of memorizing or googling on a second monitor, but offer potent short term buffs
  
• The recipes have so many steps and specific reagent ratios (that also vary based on your skill level) that you will probably spend more time alt-tabbed than actually doing stuff onscreen in order to optimize your supplies
  
• You can make bundles of potions and turn them into trade items at the Imperial Crafting

• If you press spacebar when you've got a bite, you get a short quicktime event you have to perform. This is much faster than autofishing, and offers much more XP
  
• If you don't interact with the game, you'll autofish something every 3 or so minutes
  
• Fishes start going bad (and lose trade value) a couple hours after caught and are ruined after 24 hours. You can DRY them (processing) so they last forever and are still usable in in cooking, but they almost all of their value
  
• Can get a crossbow-harpoon to fish the biggest fish. You can physically see these bigger fishies in the ocean.
  
• If too many people fish in an area, the resources start dwindling and it'll take longer and longer to catch anything.
  
• There are “Hotspots” which give much better fish drops. They move around, but can be seen by seagulls; golden stationary fishing hotspots are gone.
  
• There's leaderboards for the biggest fishies caught serverwide for pro-tier fishermens, though it doesn't give you anything except a reason to wave your dick around

• You have to rent a fence from an npc and place it almost anywhere in the open world before you're allowed to just spread your plant embryos all over the ground. You can use alts to rent more fences
  
• You can either harvest the seeds from the plant or harvest the grown version; not both. Harvested seeds can higher quality, giving a higher quality ingredient when grown. Plants will go up to 200% growth will reach old age and give you less harvests; Harvest/Breed before that
  
• Where you place it matters. You have to make sure there's enough water, the correct heat/cold, and correct humidity (get them in the solid blue/red bars)
  
• Water and fertilize it to grow it faster, or don't
  
• You need to check in on your farm/plants every now and then to kill pests or give it more water, or else it will grow slower.
  
• Scarecrows are ok and stop (rare) bird attacks. Waterways suck, don't use em
  
• You can also send a worker to go deal with it instead, but you won't level your farming skill as fast
  
• Plants only grow while you are online
  
• Use a farming alt character so you don't have to run back to your farm every single time a caterpillar bites a leaf

• You need to have invested contribution points the node, as well as have it connected to the node/town in which you are selling the trade item/pack in order to make any money off it. If you don't own it, it will magically turn into a worthless item and you'll only get 30% of its value
  
• Donkeys are terrible, and carrying it on your back is even worse (but useful for leveling "Strength" stat, which increases weight capacity by piddly amounts). Get a Merchant Wagon or Noble Wagon if you want to trade regularly.
  
• The farther away you trade an item from its source, the more money you get. Trent>Sandgrain Bazaar is a good route. Glish>Olvia is also good if don't have a lot of contribution to spend connecting nodes
  
• Higher trading skill allows you to purchase more items from trade market NPCs, as well as increases your profits
  
• "Bargaining" with a trade merchant allows you to have a chance at selling your goods at a higher price to the trade merchant. One option moves the scales a lot, and one moves it a little. Try to keep the scales level (it's mostly RNG)
  
• Every hour, some random place gets a 200% trade bonus

• Shoot Bears
  
• Shoot Boars
  
• Shoot Sea Monsters
  
• Shoot Whales (they don't shoot back but you'll need a sailorman to ferry alongside it)
  
• Butcher knife animals afterwards and mysteriously gain the ability to shoot bullets harder.
  
• Level up your matchlock using black weaponstones for more dumbage (Can delevel after +7)
  
• Run around and shoot poo poo on your horse like some napoleonic Carabinier
  
• Put your horse on a boat and hop on your horse to be a mounted boatman
  
• Hunting targets barely take damage from anything but muskets and have oversized scary icons on the map

• Find horse. rope horse in horse-roping minigame, get close to horse and ride it back to stables to enslave it.
  
• Force horses to gently caress and make a potentially better horse. List your horse as a horse prostitute on the market for other horse-owners to have their horse gently caress and produce new horse.
  
• The higher the horse's Tier level, the better the horse. Horses can't improve their own tier, but can gently caress another horse and produce new horse with possibly a better tier.
  
• Horses can have skills like kicking, strafing, and stopping fast. Sprint, Drift, and Instant Accel are good skills for a horse to have, and makes it a big money horse.
  
• The higher your skill in horsing, the faster your horse will become skilled. Horseowners have to make their horse practice their skills so the skill won't fail. A horse who fails a skill usually knocks you off or unskillfully hurts itself. The higher your horses level, the more skills your horse may learn.
  
• Level up your horse by having your horse do most horse-related things.
  
• Level up your horse skill by doing most horse-related things on a horse.
  
• Dead horses get worse at horsing and become exponentially more expensive to turn into a living horse again, so a pro horseowner tip is to not kill your horse.

• You probably want an Epheria Sailboat
  
• Level it up by horsing around in the DEEP sea (where you can't see your position on map) or by shooting rude fish/mans/fishmans/boats with mounted cannons
  
• Lets you use horse abilities on boats like turning faster and moving forward faster and moving backwards faster and other boring crap
  
• Takes forever to level
  
• Don't do it unless you really like doing something else while having the game actively running
  
• If you're gonna level it anyway, just get it up to skilled 1 for the extra speed boost

lewtt fucked around with this message at 06:45 on Jul 23, 2018

lewtt fucked around with this message at 01:38 on Feb 22, 2016