Newbie Guide

Welcome to Visual Utopia!

This quick guide will teach you the basics of the game and how to get a good start.
Some words are clickable. Click on them to get more information. If you have any questions feel free to post them in the forum.

The Tutorial

After you have created an account, you will land in the tutorial. You are alone and to get into the real game you need to fight and kill the Native People.

News Page

Clicking on the news scroll in the ingame meny will take you to your news page.
On the news page you have a wizard that will help you through the tutorial.

The Chat

You have the chat at the bottom of the page, it can be used to talk with other players that are currently online. Hide the chat by hitting the chat icon in the top center of the screen: You can also disable the ingame chat in account settings.

Moving the army

Moving an army works just like in the browser test you did when signing up. You click on the army (mouse down and mouse up), then you set the path by moving the mouse and finally double click when you are done.

The army will move one dot per day, so click on the bonus turn button to make the time run.

The Time

Each hour there is a new turn/update (mentioned in the game as days). Even if you are not online, the time will run and stuff will happen in the game. Build buildings and train troops and they will be ready the next time you login.

This might seem slow, but this is not the type of game you finish in an evening. One era/round take over a month! To do well in the game you should login at least once a day to give new orders to your people and make sure your cities aren't taken over by enemies.

To make the time speed up a bit there's bonus turns. In the tutorial you have lots of them. So use your bonus turns unless you want to be stuck in the tutorial for weeks.
You get bonus turns by helping the game. Check out the help vu link for more info.

Building

Before you can build any buildings, you need to start up an colony. Go to the army page and hit "settle colony here".

There are ten types of buildings in the game. The main buildings are homes, farms, mines and lumbermills. It's recommended to only build those in the start. They will produce the major resources in the game, gold, stone and tree.
Homes will make peasants move into the city. Each working peasants pays tax.

It will take some days to build the buildings, so hit the "bonus turn" button to make the time move.

You should continue to build these buildings until you have an income of around 8,000-10,000 gold a day. Then you have enough income to make an army.

Raising an army

Go to the army page and hit "Create a new army". But you also need troops to put into the army. So go to the train page and train some of the cheapest troops. The more expansive troops are better, but also cost a lot more. However, you can build armouries to make them cheaper.

It will take some days to train the troops, so hit the "bonus turn" button to make the time move.

To place the troops in the army, you have to select the army on the army page and click on the arrows.

Attacking

To attack a city, move your army close to it. Once the army reaches the city you click on the "city name" to get up the city info screen. If the army is close enough there will be a link that say something like "Lifeguards army awaits your commands, mr". Click on that link to bring up the "army command center". There you will see the attack options. Take a look on the odds and if they are good, hit the "Take over the city" button.

Finishing the tutorial

Once you have taken all the cities from the native people and killed all of their armies, click on the scroll icon (News and History) and you will be redirected to a page congratulation you for passing the new players world.

If you have not found all the cities, the native people have two cities. One in the north and one in the south-west called "Farmers Heaven". They only got one army and it is most likely located in the north city.

A new world

When you have finished the tutorial, you will start in a new world with other players.
The game has 1-4 worlds where Fantasia is for the hardcore players and the other worlds are for less active and new players.

When you start in the "real" world you will be competing with other players and it's adviced that you start making friends and allies or it will not take long until you are dead.

You should message the rulers around you and ask for NAP:s. If they have a open spot in their group/kingom you should ask if you can join and if they don't belong to any kingdom/group you should create one with them!