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For those of you used to The Kingdom of Loathing, this is a little different, but similar enough to be familiar. The main difference is that you have to use your turns to move around the map, which enables you to get between towns, find new areas to explore, and fight progressively harder monsters. Of course, you can also use them to start combat or take a non-combat adventure, both of which may gain you XP, silver and items. XP enables you to gain stats (more on that later) and silver is the currency of the game. But let's start with the basics: the main menu.
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The Main Menu
Map
Go to the map screen, where you can move and adventure. If you ever get lost on the map, see these player-made ones.
Inventory
Go to your inventory, where you can equip, eat, drink, or otherwise use items. It's pretty self explanatory. For more, see Your Inventory.
Messages [x]
You have a simple mail inbox, which you can always use to communicate with other players. So far there is no notification that you have received a message, but the new message counter is always there. Sending a mail is simple, once you're in your inbox click "Send a message" on the right, and type in the message and who you want it to go to. You must be on a mailbox to send silver or items. You don't have to be on a mailbox to receive the stuff, just to send it. This means it's sometimes best to sit on a mailbox and send a few mails, along with managing your catalog, before moving
Account
The account menu manages your email, password, chosen gender, Epic War Preference, Fight-to-the-Death Auto-combat choice, Ignore List and shows the current time and times of rollover.
View Profile
Here you can view other people's profiles. Just enter their name or ID number into the box to see them (try typing "lex" into the box to see me). Here you can view their equipment, gender, wealth, and other miscellaneous details.
Player Notes
If you've forgotten just what quests you have to do, visiting this page is the best course of action. It will tell you which quests you have that are incomplete, and which you have completed. It will also tell you some basic account details and your skills and recipes you know.
This page currently contains seven tables as outlined below:
The first table on this page details your;
- Generia name and player #,
- chosen Gender,
- Registration date,
- Turns Spent,
- Win/Loss/Draw statistics,
- PvP Rating {Win/Loss},
- Epic Wars {Win/Loss},
- current Epic War Side,
- Power contributed to current war,
- Lifetime Power contributed,
- Wealth,
- Clout and
- Citizenship.
The second table keeps track of your Incomplete {unfinished} Quests as well as what you need to do to complete them.
The third table contains the skills you've purchased and their descriptions.
The fourth table contains all the Kitchen Recipes you've discovered and used.
The fifth table contains all the Workshop Combinations you've discovered and used.
The sixth table is where your character notes the Visited Signs from your travels. This includes the signs in each city and the notes you take in each Library or Hall of Records.
The seventh and final table keeps tracks of your completed Quests and their descriptions.
Leaderboards
There are five sets of leaderboards, Stats, Misc., Classes, Pvp, and Warfare.
Stats
Misc
- Wealth
- Most Skilled
- Most Monster Losses
Classes
- Most Skilled Barbarians
- Most Skilled Bards
- Most Skilled Clerics
- Most Skilled Dark Priests
- Most Skilled Druids
- Most Skilled Knights
- Most Skilled Mages
- Most Skilled Monks
- Most Skilled Necromancers
- Most Skilled Ninja Assassins
- Most Skilled Rangers
- Most Skilled Scalawags
PvP
Warfare
- Lifetime Power
- Most Wins {wins/losses}
And memorial to those involved in the first Grudge Match.
Who's Online
See which players are currently playing the game, with links to their profiles.
Forums
Get to the forums. The five sections are General Discussion, Help, Trading, Contests and Generia Spoilers. They're pretty self-explanatory, perhaps with the exception of Generia Spoilers. The Spoiler forum is there so that a no-spoiler policy can be enforced on the rest of the forums.
Guide & F.A.Q.
Get to the help thread in the forums
Mini-Games
At this point, there are two mini games, called Grift and Slider. There is also a quasi-game that you can use to roll dice. Grift is a challenging game in which you have to get the entire board the same color, following the current mask that is selected in the grey taskbar above the actual board. You click the different squares to change the color of those squares. Slider is a 9x9 board filled with tiles numbered from 1 to 80. The object of this game is to get all of the tiles in order in each row. In the dice game, you type in what to roll, and the game will roll it for you. These games will soon be worked into the rest of Generia but for now, they're simply challenging and fun!
Enter Chat
Goes to the chat IRC Channel
Logout
Exit the game; return to the login screen.
The Map
When you log in (apart from the first time, when you set your stats and get the back story of the game) you'll see the map screen. This is how it looks when you first start:
Before we start on the map itself, we'll go through the screen. At the very top, you'll see your co-ordinates: (479, 70). These have no real importance in the game itself, unless you want to tell someone else where you are. Sometimes you'll want to tell someone where a store is, for example, so they have their use. Around the edges of the map, there are the grey bars and squares. I'll get onto these later, in ways to move.
There's a few interesting things on the map itself; road, town territory, farmland, river, sea, the sign, the shop, the guild, the inn, the mailbox and the teleporter. Let's go through these one by one.
Road
The territory you'll be sticking to most of the time. It takes one turn to move each square on the road, and the battles are usually with humans or domestic animals. You can "Kick Rocks" here, for minimal XP.
Town territory
The type of road that towns are always on. You'll sometimes see it dotted along the road with a mailbox on, too. It takes no turns to move along this territory, so you can move around the town without cost. You can also fight human-types and access things like shops and mailboxes here.
Farmland
Most of the territory around Generia City is farmland. It takes 2 turns to move a square along this territory. You can fight various farmland animals here, or "Harvest Crops" for varying amounts of XP, silver or even an item.
River
There are quite a few rivers in Generia, usually around towns but sometimes just lying in the wild. It takes 5 turns to move onto a river. You can "Go fishing" here for XP, Silver, items, or sometimes nothing.
Sea
You cannot move onto the sea, surprisingly. This is usually around the edge of the map, to stop you from reaching the true edge.
The Sign
You can move onto and read the sign, if you like. Signs usually tell you a town's name and the directions to the nearest towns.
The Shop
You can buy and sell things here. Anything you sell is stocked straight into the shop, so it's usually full of other players' stuff.
The Guild
You can exchange your XP for stat points and skills here. You can also take on various quests given to you by either the local city Council or the leaders of various classes.
The Inn
You can stay here and recover HP and MP. The amount you recover depends on how much you're willing to pay for a room.
The Mailbox
At a mailbox, you can send items and silver to other people with the messaging system. You can also set up a Catalog here for free, which lets you trade things with other players directly. Mailboxes also let you search other players' catalogs, for things you might need even though you're not near a town.
The Teleporter
If you're lucky enough to have a teleporter token, using it at a teleporter will take you top a specific place. Snazzy!
Certificate Shop
Certificates can be traded for extra-cool stuff here. Certificates are very hard to come by though, since they're only given out for doing certain cool things. That I'm not going to tell you, since I don't know.
The Kitchen
Here you can cook foods with the ingredients you've managed to get. The easiest to make is a Sammich, which the guild will ask you to make as part of your tutorial.
The Workshop
Here you can make equipment or sometimes other items, provided you have the right things to make them with. The guild will ask you to make a large hide as part of your tutorial.
The rest of the map is up to you to explore! It would be a good idea to go visit the guild for your tutorial missions first, as they'll reward you quite generously for completing them. Remember to keep to the roads, or you might get lost... but that's about all the advice you'll need. Good luck finding the other towns, or fighting stronger monsters.
Getting Around
So, there's all this interesting stuff... but how to get there? There are 3 ways to move around the map:
Point and Click
Click on any square you can see on the map. This will move your character onto the square you click, if possible. It works like this:
Diagonal first, up-down-sideways last.
One-by-one
Click the grey bars or squares around the outside. The corner squares will move you diagonally, the side bars will move you in the appropriate direction. Useful for moving along a winding road.
Key commands
Use the keyboard shortcuts:
North: alt-i
Northeast: alt-o
East: alt-l
Southeast: alt-.
South: alt-,
Southwest: alt-m
West: alt-j
Northwest: alt-u
Basically a square around the letter K. Useful if you're too lazy to reach for the mouse... and was implemented before the point and click system, so it isn't as helpful anymore.
Your Inventory
The inventory is split into three sections; consumables, equipment, and misc.
Consumables
Your food and drink go here. You can only eat and drink so much per day, up to 20 Food and Drink points. These points are shown under your current stats on the left. The only way to find out how many points a food or drink is going to give you is by using it, so try all your food and drink out.
Equipment
Your weapons, armor and other equipment go here. The amount of damage a weapon will do, or that a piece of armor will protect, is decided by dice rolls. There are also accessories, mounts and spellbooks to find and keep equipped. Good luck keeping yourself fully equipped!
Usable
These items, are... well, usable. You can click "Use" under them and their intended effects will happen.
Misc
Everything else goes here. Some items are usable, while some go into kitchen or workshop combinations. Some even have no use at all apart from selling to stores, but they're pretty uncommon. Any item that has a use is usually beneficial, so give it a go.
Messages
You have a simple mail inbox, which you can always use to communicate with other players. So far there is no notification that you have received a message, but the new message counter is always there. Sending a mail is simple, once you're in your inbox click "Send a message" on the right, and type in the message and who you want it to go to.
If you're on a mailbox, you can also send your items or Silver in a message. You don't have to be on a mailbox to receive the stuff, just to send it. This means it's sometimes best to sit on a mailbox and send a few mails, along with managing your catalog, before moving on.
Catalog
Catalogs are Player-Created Stores. When one acquires an item, one has the option of putting it in their catalog for purchase by other players. You can only access your catalog or search others when you are on a mailbox square, which is a square surrounded by the Town Territory with a depiction of a mailbox, illustrated above. Mailboxes are found both in towns and on the road, which is very useful for when you need an item but aren't near to a town.
Enjoy, good luck, and have fun!
