A Guide to forums success The first step to success in KaW is the basics if the game. Here is a quick tutorial of understanding the game. If you know how the game works, you can skip this part. Index: Home Clan Top Bar Troops Battle Quests Profile Leaders Feedback Help Kingdom News Allies Marketplace Chats PM ********************************* Home Home. Home is an easy way to access and view almost anything you need to see. Your money, your clan, your troops, your number of allies, your nobility, your number of buildings, help section, PM, forums, your war or eb, the game leaders, send feedback to devs, and view you profile. This screen does not do much in it's self, but it is a portal to go almost anywhere in the game. Clan Clans are an important part of the KaW community. Forming a clan, forms friends, makes enemies, and gives you a purpose in KaW. As a member in a clan you can do the following things: -Post in clan chat -Participate in war -Participate in epic battles -View clan info -Leave As a admin in a clan you can do the following things: -Post in clan chat -Participate in war -Participate in epic battles -View clan info -Leave -Change the title of members -Kick members -Change clan announcement -Declare wars -Start Epic battles -Vote to accept wars declared on you As a admin in a clan you can do the following things: -Post in clan chat -Participate in war -Participate in epic battles -View clan info -Leave -Change the title of members and admins -Kick members and admin -Change clan announcement -Declare wars -Start Epic battles -Vote to accept wars declared on you -Disband Clan -Change roles from member to admin -Change roles from admin to member Part of a clan is epic battles. Epic battles: A certain Epic battle has an objective that to win and get part of the awards must be completed. When choosing an epic battle to play, you decide a monster to face, choose an unlocked battle and go! Warbeasts Cover of Night Kingdom assault To the chamber The depraved The Awakening The Despair The Forgotten Ones The Reckoning Abandon Kingdom Foreign Territories Battle Royal Origins The Evanescence No Mans Land The Haunting No Quarter Each battle is unique with unique objectives, and stories behind them. When doing a new epic battle, you have NO idea what's coming. How to get your worth out of the epic battles: Epic battles give you money at the end compared to how well you do in the battle, if you win. And the monsters give you ally bonus when hit. Although if you assassinate you get a much bigger prize at the end, if you defeat the objectives. ____________________________________ The other team effort that is not epic battles is war. System Wars. There are three kinds of system wars that I have seen used: Friendly war. One of the most common among small clans that want a war in there history and they want to win it. Friendly wars the rules are no mercs, no stripping. Locked roster is not necessary. Strip wars. These can be common when to clans HATE each other. Often larger clans challenge each other to these. No rules. Flexible wars. I say that for lack of a better name. No rules but kindness is recommended. Often small to medium clans participate in such wars. They basically follow the System to the letter. No agreements or prior talk to the war, even wars that no word is spoken from one clan to the other, throughout the war. How to fight in a war. Allies will be still be useful in anything but a strip war. Plunder bonus is a great role when winning a war. But the second (after taking money from them) is stopping the enemies from taking money from you. That's where self-DTW comes in. There are twos ways to self-DTW Have no money Have less than 20% troops When they can't take money from you, you can't lose the war. That is your clan Top Bar The top bar on your home page tells you information. This is the information people may ask you during a war. "What are your troops at?", "How long until next regain?", "How many allies do you have?", "Got any money? How much?". Expect it and look here. It will tell you everything. Troops You number of troops tell you weather: -You can Battle -You can win a battle -People can hit you Look at it periodically (pay attention). It will help. Battle Tap this button to go to the battle-list. The battle list should look something like this: It is made up of players around your size that were recently active. To stay off other peoples battle-list the only real way is to not play the game. Why to battle people outside a war. While not helping you win a war, battling people can still be a useful thing. It can: -Make you money, as there is no tax per hit -Let you help a friend -Start a personal war. All of those show the purpose and game of KaW. A personal war, there is no system no rules, only exchanging hits to make the other player "Forfiet". When that happens you win. Helping a friend, is the foundation if our community, let it happen. Money is what makes the world go round. Quests Quests, they can get you money, health crystals and nobility. All free of charge. Those come slow, but they do come. Hit your quest: You will be rewarded. Profile Your profile let's you view yourself. Your: -Wins/losses in battle -All the pots you have -What clan you are in -Your title in the clan -Your permanent items And also it gives you the ability to reset. (scroll all the way to the bottom) Leaders View the great leaders in KaW!! Feedback Need to tell something to the developers? A quick glitch, or a break in ToU? Well use this button and the devs will hear you. (If you want to contact the devs with something longer than 90 characters, Email them: Support@athinkingape.com. They are helpful people, be nice and explain you problems.) Help Need to know the quick basics of KaW? This place is very informative. Kingdom Want to create edit and upgrade your kingdom? This place is how. Tap you building, empty land, or unexplored land to manage it. News News, your kingdom is telling you something that happened. It's: -Been attacked -Been spied -Been accepted into a clan -Got a new member in it's clan -Lost a member in it's clan -Gotten Hired -Got an ally hired away -Been dropped from a clan OR -Got an achievement This will tell you. Allies You can view, manage and hire allies from here. Viewing. Just tap the "Allies" section and you can view your allies. Manage. Well drop them. You can get rid of your ally for a refund, and to get them off your list, also dropping their price. To hire more by price or name Tap: Hire more allies. Then press search. Marketplace This is you marketplace. You can buy items, also known as pots, to increase your attack or defense stats. Each one only last fir one attack, or one defense. So buy lots!! You can also visit the oracle from this section in the toolbar. At the oracle everything costs real money, nobility, or crystals. For real money: -Propacks (All the packs that when you scroll down give you a stat bonus, more nobility, and speakers. They all cost $2.99 ) -More nobility -More Health crystals For nobility: -More gold -A name change -Instantly regain troops For health crystals: -Instantly regain troops You can also visit the alchemist from the oracle. But to go there you must first: -Explore all the lowlands -Upgrade you castle for 4 billion Once you are there you can buy spells that increase stats, for a time period, change the color of your name, or hide you allies. These spells can be used by spending mithril (Gained by winning system em war). Mithril is hard to come by, use it wisely. Chats Chat. Want to chat with your clan, your allies, and the entire world? Tap the chat bubble (seen above). This should come up: Decide who you want to talk to by tapping "World" "Clan" or "Alliance". Then start posting. Note: Posting on world chat costs speakers, and you can get silenced fir spamming it. PM Private Messaging. Make friends by two players following each other, and start chatting. If you skipped beginning read this. Ok now you understand how KaW works. Now you can work the forums with knowledge of your own. If you need more in depth information on how KaW works you can view the stickied threads in the forums. A good way to spend your time learning about KaW, is to go through CoS-Dillybar's Question feedback thread. It shows you the questions people really ask. And shows you the answers. Now, to the forums and gaining popularity. A few basic tips. Make yourself stand out Make yourself better Make others better Prove your ability. How to: Make yourself stand out You should stand out in KaW, if you can't stand out you won't be seen. A good player that can't be seen isn't a useful part of the community. Or really any part of the community. How to stand out: Post often, post right. If you don't post often you need to do more than post right. You need to post outstanding and you need to stand out. I will explain more about standing out first, I will assume you post often and tell you how to post right. You need to post in a way that makes others see good in you while you put good in others. Every time you post there should be a meaning, a purpose in your post is the first step in finding purpose in yourself. Believe in yourself, others will begin to believe in you. On another note: Do not defend what you believe in at the cost of your forming career. Work is precious, you are precious. But to continue your good fortune you must not destroy yourself. Play the forums right and they will accept you. The right post, the right kind of post is key. Who do you support? Why? What do you believe in? Why? What is your purpose of doing what you do? How are you doing the right thing? Are you a good player and a good person? What makes you a good player and person. Almost every day you should answer those questions silently in your posts. You will be thought better of. Until you are thought highly of you should not go and take a big step. The forums are a slow process, with time will come respect. Now you have made yourself a fair former with good posts. Does no one read or notice your posts? That's a problem we can fix. In KaW have something that you do. Something that makes you special, something that makes you seen. What? Well the simple answer is bbcodes. Post in a certain color, end with a signature, have some funny quote at the end of your posts, always add a random funny gif to your post, or anything that will make you unique and seen. This is really a last resort, don't depend on it. Players who depend on there color or signature really aren't doing there objective. This is a way to start, a way to gain a bit of respect. But it really shouldn't be your method of keeping it. Make yourself better Now the forums recognizes you, but they don't care. You just another name the see and recognize as a good player. They don't see you yet. Nothing you have done really sticks out in their mind. What you need is some improvement, you need to go beyond a post. You need to go beyond a seen post. You need to go beyond a recognized player. You need to be the guy who did the right thing. This will be more difficult than becoming remembered. Now we start splitting into sections. Do you want to be a: Troll Or a Helper Previous to this it hasn't mattered, now it does. Earlier we talked about how to be thought of. Now, we need to decide what we want to be thought of. Both will get hate, both in different ways. But what type of player are you? If you want to be a "troll". A player who goes into threads and turns them inside out and backwards destroying the "op" or a poster in the thread. Or just highjacking it for fun. A good way to get a little bonus is an "Anti-Guide" in KaW that is the terminology of when you post something in the form of a guide that everything that seems like it could be true is a complete and utter lie. The better and realer it looks, the more respect you will gain from it if you are already a respected former. Otherwise you even a good "anti-guide" will seem like a desperate plea for glory. Otherwise, if you wish to be a helper, make a real guide or help questions question in the forums. It is good to be seen helping forumers before making a guide. But a guide will often be a good step. Make your guide look good readable. And make sure it is true, and make sure it is not already a thread. A remade guide doesn't help and only adds to spam. [*]Make others better Even as a troll, you must make the forums or a player better. A good troll has something he/she does right. A troll will complain about spam because it is spam. A troll stopping an idea, if a good troll, will be doing a favor. While rejecting an idea, KaW is still improved. If a troll doesn't do this it will be fail trolling and your respect in the forums, and KaW will go down. The point of being a helper is to make others better, if you do that you will seem real. [*]Prove your ability If you don't show players that what you do is good and right. And if you don't show them you do things well. Won't be seen as a good forumer. Your seen. You improve. You're popular(ish). But you can not be the best. And in a community that is the goal. Do the right thing, and do it well. You will be rewarded by the forming community. If there is anything you disagree with or would like clarified, please ask.
I had to start with the basics. A forumer without knowledge is no forumer at all. And I had to assume that the reader didn't already have a forum record otherwise no body can begin. So this is to start out with KaW and with the forums.
Don't min them, Meryl. Overall, I didn't read all of it, but the parts that I read had: Good grammar, didn't tell you to write in color to stand out on forums, good punctuation. Other than a few failed BB Codes, it overall looked like you put in many hours into it. So, good job.