Beginner's Guide Part 1

About The Game

Dragons of Atlantis is a massively multiplayer online role playing game (mmorpg) on facebook, yahoo, google plus and several other platforms including kabam.com.

The aim of the game is to build a mighty empire and train an army to protect your city and raise powerful dragons to aid you in your quests.

To build a city requires resources and workers. You can build lumbermills, mines, quarry's and farms in your Fields to produce resources or you can send your army to attack camps, wilds or cities to obtain resources. You will need workers to work in the fields and to train your army. Your idle population is the amount of people you have available to work or to train an army. You can get idle population by building houses in your city or outposts.

Research plays an important part of the game. Each research level enhances your empires abilities as well as your armies units. To research you first need to build a Science Centre in your city.

The quest tutorial is available to you once you start a new game.

Game Screen Information

The following screenshot image shows a description of each section in the game (marked by numbers)

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Acronyms/Meanings

First, some basic words and their meanings you will see regularly within World Chat and around the game used by other players:

LBM - Longbowmen
AT - Armored Transport
SSD - Swift Strike Dragon
BD - Battle Dragon
OP - Outpost
FT - Fangtooth
GO - Granite Ogre
LJ - Lava Jaw
Ban - Banshee
SR - Soul Reaper
FG - Frost Giant
VD - Venom Dweller
FM - Fire Mirror
WC - Weapons Calibration/ World Chat
AC - Aerial Combat/ Alliance Chat
Med - Medicine
Met- Metalurgy
SC- Science Center

Power

Power is a measurement of how much strength your empire has. You gain power by building and upgrading buildings, starting Outposts, and training Troops. It is possible to have a high Power, but have virtually no military strength. This is sometimes called "Fake Power".

Regardless of what some people might say, POWER is not everything, if you know how to defend, or can calculate the battle through mathmatics using the troop statistics of each unit.

Fortuna Games

Every day that you log into Dragons of Atlantis, you are awarded a ticket to play Fortuna's Chance, a lottery game where you will win one of a variety of prizes. You can close the screen by clicking the "X" and reopening Fortuna's Chance to refresh. This will change the prizes and give you a better chance to win something you want, just keep doing this until good odds are displayed. It is a good idea to refresh until a Completion Grant appears on the page. If you have logged on five out of the last seven days, you are instead awarded a Medallion which allows you to play Fortuna's Vault, a game of the same type, but with better prizes.

The First 24 Hours Playing The Game

The first thing you need to get a handle on in Dragons of Atlantis is resource management. You need your resources to build anything and everything, from a humble farm, to a new Outpost once you find your Dragon Eggs. Your first 24 hours in Atlantis should be dedicated to maximizing your resource production as fast as possible. I advise you to upgrade your Fortress to level 2 and then build 1 farm and 3 each of the other fields to level 9 as soon as resources become available. More fieldsis not advised because this will hinder your ability to produce troops later. Your food being negative is NOT a bad thing, this means you have troops. There is absolutely no reason to try to stay in the positive because food is easy to get from Anthropus Camps.

In order to produce resources, you also have to have enough population to work the fields. You should build between 4-6 houses, but NO MORE than that. I suggest upgrading these as resources become available until they are all level 6. This will give you enough population to produce resources and some extra to train troops.

4-6 houses are recommended but not more because you have to build other buildings. The most important ones are garrisons. These allow you to train troops and decrease your training time. You should build a total of 13 garrisons, however, don't forget to build all the other essential buildings, which are listed in the "What to build next?" list. It is recommended NOT to build a Theater as they just waste space, even though it is one of your initial quests.

Building An Army

Once your resource production is underway, it's time to start building your army. Armies require a few things. First, they require Garrison, next, they require idle population, and finally, your army will consume food at an hourly rate, detracting from your production. The first thing you want to train are Longbowmen, who excel at taking out level 1-5 Wildernesses and Anthropus Camps with few to no losses. Once you are able to conquer these camps, you now have a quick and easy way to procure large amounts of food for training your troops. Longbowmen require a Garrison of L4, and Weapons Calibration researched to L1. You'll want to get on this ASAP.

Great Dragon

So, as you've no doubt noticed, there is a rather prominent building in the middle of your city! This is your Dragon's Keep, where your great dragon will be born and raised. To "raise" your dragon, you must upgrade the keep. Your Great Dragon is the focus of the first week or two of your stay in Atlantis, namely, getting your Great Dragon Armor, and teaching him Aerial Combat. Getting there isn't hard, but it does take some patience! In order to get your Great Dragon armored up and ready for combat, you'll need a few things...

• Research Dragonry and Aerial Combat
• Great Dragon Armor

Building Your First Outpost

So, you've attacked dozens of Anthropus Camps, researched for days, and finally, your Great Dragon is ready for battle! He wouldn't be of much use if all he did was stand around looking tough, so let's make him earn his keep! In order to start your firstOutpost, you need now is your Water Dragon Egg, which is easy enough to find! But before you start your search, there are some things you need to know...

Dragon Healing

Your Great Dragon is tough, but not invulnerable. Every time you send your Great Dragon on an attack, he will take damage, even if there are no Anthropus in the wilderness to hurt him, although the damage will be significantly less than if he were overwhelmed and defeated. He must heal after every fight. In order to minimize healing time, you should send two waves of troops before your dragon, to catch any stragglers. The number of attacks your dragon can make depends on how much damage he takes, the level of your Keep, and your level of Aerial Combat.

Starting Your Outpost

Now you have your egg, visit this link to start your Outpost and find advice about how it should be built. I advise not building fields in any of your OPs because this lowers your idle population and doesn't provide much benefit.

DO NOT PLACE YOUR OPS NEXT TO YOUR CITY! Always space OPs out so they are more difficult to find!