Manual, guide, anything?

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I preordered the game ages ago, and have the beta installed, but until this Christmas weekend have not had much time to fool around with the system.  I've created towns, built some roads, harvested food and explored a bit, but not much else.  What I am really looking for are shortcuts, suggestions and answers to some questions.

Q:  If I have three towns built, is there any handy way to cycle between them so I can see what they are all doing?

Q:  Map scrolling, via click and drag only?

Q:  How do I get more essence?

Q:  Why do houses take so long to build?  Huts are fast, houses seem to take forever.

Q:  My starting town, with a farm and a hut, has a max pop of 25.  A secondary town with an identical farm and a hut has a much higher max pop.  Why?

Q:  Is there a good place where I can read the answers to some of these (and more) questions?

- Manii Names

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

I. Not that I know of.

2. As far as I can tell, though side-scrolling should work eventually.

3. Not sure if you can.

4. Build times are more like placeholders, they're likely to change with feedback.

5. There is some weird research mechanisim that grants bonuses recieved from research for population, food, and prestige to only cities that were built after the research was completed. It will be changed, just dont know when.

6. There is the beta wiki, found in the elemental beta section. However, since the betas have changed over time, the wiki probably wont be completely accurate or very detailed, but should give you a general overview. Once the game gets closer to release(probably fall 2010) a 'real' guide will be released.

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

Q:  How do I get more essence?
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You can get more essence by leveling up your sovereign.

Q:  Map scrolling, via click and drag only?
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You can also choose what part of the map to zoom in to by hovering the mouse over it while zooming.

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

The Wiki is here.

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

You can sorta jump beween units and towns with the TAB key, but it makes no distinction between towns and units on the map and it seems to get wonky after a game is around 100 turns old and/or you pass some threshhold of too many units & towns. The TAB key isn't mentioned on the Keyboard page at the wiki, maybe because it is 'buggy.'

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

[Stealth double-posts? This thing appeared a long while after I thought I made just the one post...]

Reply #6 from Elemental Forums Top

Q:  If I have three towns built, is there any handy way to cycle between them so I can see what they are all doing?

Not yet but there should be. If there isn't by beta 3, yell and yell loudly. :)

 

Q:  Map scrolling, via click and drag only?

Edge scroll should be in soon.

 

Q:  How do I get more essence?

Level up.

 

Q:  Why do houses take so long to build?  Huts are fast, houses seem to take forever.

Needs to be balanced.

 

Q:  My starting town, with a farm and a hut, has a max pop of 25.  A secondary town with an identical farm and a hut has a much higher max pop.  Why?

I'd have to look and see on that one.

 

Q:  Is there a good place where I can read the answers to some of these (and more) questions?

The Wiki posted in this thread.

Reply #7 from Elemental Forums Top

Thank you all for your suggestions.  Back to testing go I!

 

- Manii Names