Tabs and Screens
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You are starting the game from the home tab, this page is also called your Lordview. You'll see 8 tabs at the top of your game screen: Home, Capital, Realm, Attack, Market, Recruit, Settings, Help, and Discuss.
The Home tab takes you to your Lordview. If you hover your mouse over this tab, a drop down list shows Fealty requests, Kingdom wall, and My liege's wall. If you join an alliance, an Alliance option is also added. If someone wants to swear fealty to you, you will get a message and you can accept them from the Fealty requests option. Kingdom wall is your own, private wall that you and your vassals can write on, anything written there is visible only to your vassals (in their "My liege's wall" view) and yourself. My liege's wall takes you to your liege's Kingdom wall. If you join an alliance, the Alliance option will take you to your alliance's page.
The Capital tab takes you to an overview of your realm within the game. The drop down list you see when your mouse hovers over the tab is a list of the buildings you have in your capital; if you click on a specific building you will then be taken to the page with that building's details. The overview is extremely useful. On the right side you will find each building you have (right now, just your court and your castle) along with information about that building (such as how many vassals are there, how many it will hold, it's upgrade level, if any, and its strength or production). The left side contains a quick reference of what your realm looks like.
Realm shows you the rankings of Knighthood. Only players in War Mode (WM) are listed in the realm rankings. The drop down under the realm tab shows Alliances, this shows the alliance rankings.
In the market tab drop down, you have five options: "buy credits", "earn credits", "hire mercenaries", "hire freemen", and "buy vassals". If you click on the market tab, you will be taken to a page when you can donate money (a Benefactor subscription) or buy gold with credits which you can either buy in the "buy credits" tab for real life money, or get by filling out offers in the "earn credits" tab. You will need credits to use the "hire freemen" option. Don't worry if you don't want to buy credits, there are other ways to raise gold and you can hire freemen that other players have sold in the vassal market - the "buy vassals tab". You won't be able to hire mercs or buy vassals at the beginning because you need lots of gold do to those. Also, you can only buy one vassal per day.
Note: You don't need to buy credits to play the game, many successful players don't, but there are advantages and, well, Developers gotta eat too.
The recruit tab is where you want to start. Invite 5 friends to the game. Five and only five. Do not invite or capture more vassals than you can 'use' at any given time. Right now, the only thing you can do is move two vassals from the Court (where they are standing around yapping instead of working) into the Castle, and put them to work. The more power the vassal has, the faster it will build. Your friends that you invite are power 10s (referred to as squirrels on the discussion board) until they install the game. These power 10s are handmaidens and squires and disappear after 2 weeks, then they can be reinvited. If your friends install the game, they become power 20s (knights and ladies) and will remain permanently in the game, even if they immediately uninstall. The serfs are power 5s. So, put 2 power 10s in the castle. If you can't figure out how to do that without explicit instructions then this may not be a good game for you....
In the drop down menu of the settings tab you see a "notifications" link. If you fill in your email address and select which actions you want to receive an email notification for, and then press "save changes", you will receive an email. Check that email to verify your email address. As an incentive for doing this you will receiving a Steward power 15, another NPC.
Under the help tab you'll find links to this page, the Knighthood Reference, a FAQ page, the latest release notes, and a page about how to recover from a bad start.
If you click on the discuss tab, you will be taken to the Knighthood Forum, which was developed by the same people who developed the game (usually referred to as the "DEVs").
