Tales of Tamar ... how many?

[Balti]

Aye my young lord, you speack bodly and true for the lands
of Tamar are far and wide open to any new settlers who want
to bring back civilzation to these ruined land that was once so bright under the old
emperor.

But let an old man (~70 years) give you some advices, or you
might fall into the traps that so many eager adepts have found
before.

Do not speak up against Lords you do not know, for he might
be quite a bit bigger than you, and may even cultivate a short temper.

Respect nobles, cos most of them do cultivate a short temper.

Contact your neighbours, they are the ones you have to live with.

If your neighbours are even smaller than you, you should still
treat them with respect, cos those will be your best allies.

Don't claim more than you can take, or you might get nothing
in the end.

[Balti]

@lempkee

10 years, and you still don't know Tamars biggest merchant ?

Shame on you !!  ;-)

May I ask you who the Lord is that sails under the synonym
lempkee in this odd club ?

[Balti]

Lady Leigh ?

Something just dropped from my eyes ....

I allways wondered how Matador could know Lady Leah,
who  just settled on Nyx ( a very small island far
east from you ....

But as in real life, the more ladies the better

[Balti]

@KennyR

AFAIR there were some rounds (50 ?) included with ToT-SE
(bundled with Phoenix-Peg).

Best is, drop in at #tales on irc.euirc.net port 6667.

[Balti]

@KennyR

75 turns are 2.5 months or allmost 19 ToT-years, more than enough to into the game.

This is what you should do:
Install from CD.
Download the Public-CD-Update from here.
Unpack that and simply copy it over the ToT-dir (files will
be replaced.
Start game(*).
Click on "register".
Fill in your data.
Send it.

Further question should be easily cleared in the Forum or on irc.

The game is a bit slow in the first years, but you should
use these to make contacts, and learn who might be a friend,
and who not.

(*) When playing on a Pegasos you might get some deadlocks
when ToT tries to open a shellwindow for output, but this
can be avoided by starting "tot-client-debug" from shell.

[Balti]

To be precise there is no "must" in sending turns.

All you really need to do is to set the green arrows in the
granary to make sure your people will be feed.

Missing even several turns won't get you killed that way
I had "cousin" (I also test the PC-Version), who when I trashed
my Win install was on "autopilot" for over 10 years.

Was still alive and kickeing after that (but killed in a war shortly afterwards).

In the first turn you should:
a) supply corn.
Make sure you could enough including the next spring turn
plus seed.

b) move your scout.
c) order research (technic is good for starters)

Optional:
Post a hello-world in the ingame tavern (mail-editor) or
the ToT-forum.
Build 2 more mills and 1 granary (in your 1st winter).