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@Eidu some specific answers, but do take Yinuish up on their offer. As I mention further down there can be practically invisible sources of miscommunication, talking out specifics (and using that to build a strat for tackling general). Talking with someone directly can really help.


1) Different types of help file are written by different people and changed in different ways. Anything in the base HELP system (no prefix) is admin written or vetted, and can get very technical for some of the more complicated technical topics.

There is a mechanism for players to suggest and write new help files though, if there are some in particular that are causing issues, some folks might try to tackle them!

Anything in GHELP/CHELP/CGHELP and so on are written from scratch and edited by players and therefore vary DRAMATICALLY in quality. However, it should be easier to get fixed. If something is wrong or out of date HELP <ORGANIZATION> will list who can fix them: professors, ministers, and secretaries.

So, if there is a GHELP you believe should be there, your guild can put it there! Likewise, the guild tasks system is relatively new and is used differently and to varying degrees in each guild based on how players have fiddled with it or not at all if none have put in the effort to configure it (and it's a beast to fiddle with).



2) If you're using Nexus (the web client) and there isn't an option to change the background color of the entire output away from black, might consider a third party client with more display options.

There are also some options that can pare down the description spam that someone can walk you through when you're on. Turning off constant weather display and so on.

3) See 2, a client like mudlet lets you repick colors entirely if need be, so that for instance it will display a brighter red any time it would recieve dark red.

4) See 1.



5) Wiki is also thoretically player run, but there is sparse and sporadic interest in updating it. However there aren't quest walkthroughs by direction of game admins. The feeling was that player enjoyment overall would be reduced without the (sometimes loooong) process of discovery. That may have changed with new admin leadership!

That said: the newton quests are pretty difficult, id say more so than average quests. Theyre some of the oldest quests, have some really mysterious verbs as a result, and have punishing reset timers so that multiple people can do them. Theyre a bad intro to quests, try some of the village quests, or your org's power quests for a better intro!

Also: questing is NOT mandatory, which is why there aren't loads of guides to help smash through them. I personally mostly avoid it as I've done most of the more straightforwards ones and get very frustrated with moon logic puzzles or guide dang its.


6) Hard to address this without some examples to help figure out where the breakdown in communication is. I've had a few episodes of *very* confused novices until we figured out that they were using a screen reader that didn't interpret ALL CAPS differently so they didn't catch on that people were telling them about commands!

It could be that there are some terms people assume can only mean one thing and aren't obvious.


7) You can pretty much reject grace at level one if you want. There basically isn't random PK outside of very specific dangerous areas, some of which you just can't get to yet anyways. The avenger system prevents anyone from killing you more than once a RL month on Prime (most of the game) as long as you aren't in enemy territory, and it opens them to being free killed so 99% of pkers won't even do it that once - even if they were of a mind to attack novices which invites universal scorn.

8)Guilds have *nothing* to do with profession/class anymore. So no guild will really fit your class! Also like 85% of guild content is player driven so feel free to jump to a guild that's more popular and populated: it will (probably) have more content to make it newbie friendly! More empty guilds are a great opportunity to spread your wings later, as you can usually kick off your own lore projects and build something cool yourself.

9) City power and personal power are the same resource. You use it in small chunks for power skills mostly.

As you noticed, most ways of getting power deposit it directly in the city stockpile. You LINK to the nexus to slowly draw it into your reserves for use. Cities use it in batches of millions to do big projects and therefore have an interest in managing the flow in and out.

Functionally this system of a basically limitless (usually several million) org reserve that has to be slowly drawn out to personal reserves puts a time limit on fights. At some point the combatants run out of reserves for power moves and need to go slowly replenish or spend time gathering power to avoid depleting the city stockpile over time.

10) Covered, but there are no permanent death effects in Lusternia. As a non-demigod player you go through a short death animation that serves as a timeout period of a minute or two and lose a little xp. As a demigod you lose more xp equivalent and have a different timeout mechanic.

11) I believe there is an environment skill that helps with this, but you can also CONSIDER a specific denizen to get an idea of its strength. Different orgs have different rules on protected areas you can't bash so look to org helps for hunting guides!

12) Covered already, but robes or tattoo armor for acrobats, plate for everyone else. Player shops or player artisans do all that, best to ask on MARKET.

13) Use path tracking to the city shop directory or the aetherplex for shopping. If you can't find something, try asking a few times on market.

14) There aren't any sleeping rooms. You're largely safe outside of specific (well marked or difficult to reach) dangerous areas. People sleep wherever.

After level 8 you no longer need it at all, many players forget the mechanic exists these days and it's largely been depreciated.

15) Begging gives you money and experience as part of the influencing system. No one considers this in the same way as "begging for handouts" or anything, so don't worry about that. It's just a nonlethal alternative to killing the denizen and looting their body.

The other types of influence have different effects on a denizen on top of xp gain: weakening temporarily lowers their level, empowering raises it, paranoia stops them from participating in quests, and… seduction makes them attack your enemies (if you could attack those enemies).

16) The answer is Aliases: you can have a short command stand in for a longer one. For instance, typing CUD could replace "point cudgel" or what have you. There is a barebones system for this in game, a stronger one in the nexus client itself, and a potentially very very powerful array of choices with third party
clients.