Galava FAQ by John The Mighty, shield your eyes:
1. Q: Galava? Whats Galava?
A: Galava is browser based empire simulator multiplayer game, currently being developed by a team leaded by Sandro Bassi, the same person who created Lunar Wars.
2. Q: Whats Galava theme? I know Lunar Wars happens on the moon, but what about Galava?
A: Galava is a fictional medieval world, where each player rules an empire.
3. Q: How will Galava be any different from Lunar Wars in terms of quality?
A: Sandro took 1 month to release Lunar Wars open beta, to release Galava open beta he is taking more than half a year, so I am pretty sure Galava will be MUCH better.
4. Q: When is Galava open beta going to be released?
A: February.
5. Q: That means I can be one of the first to join?
A: Yes, just stay tuned and do the right moves in your empire so you are able to not only be one of the best agecomm players, but one of the best players on the entire game! However, if you join late, dont worry! One of the main things Sandro wants is that you are able to reach the top even if you dont play from day one.
6. Q: Because I have a busy life, I prefer games that don't require you to be online all day, but I also want them to offer me a wide variety of choices, will Galava offer me this?
A: Yes, Sandro wants Galava to keep the same gameplay of Lunar Wars, a gameplay that allows you to be online few times a day or even just check in every 2 or 3 days, but will give you many more things to do and new features that Lunar Wars doesn't have.
7. Q: How will each player empire work? What's new basicly?
A: Empires will be composed by provinces(desert, canyon, coastal, mountain, badlands, ...), there will be a province limit of around 4 or 5. Each province offers different bonuses, ranging from defense, economic, resource and population bonuses. You begin the game with one province, as soon as you reach a certain amount of population(or something like that, its still in the works) you are able to get a new province. You will also be able to buy different buildings like armory, university, it doesnt work like in LW anymore, where you have everything handed to you. In Galava you will begin with a limited interface, having to buy/unlock new buildings in order to buy new units, upgrades, resources...
8. Q: Lunar Wars doesn't have a proper financial aid system, I want to be able to aid money not buy overpriced AI or housing for my targeted player, what will Galava have?
A: Sandro is working on a proper financial aid system for Galava, after Galava's open beta release, he will incorporate the same financial aid system on Lunar Wars aswell.
9. Q: What will be Galava's currency? Are there minerals like in Lunar Wars?
A: No, in Galava you will have resources, being gold the most important probably. Gold will be necessary to buy resources from other players, yes thats right, you will be able to offer a quantity of a certain resource for a certain amount of gold per unity of that resource. There's 2 types of resources: normal resources and special resources. Examples of normal resources are lumber, stone, gold... Special resources are mithril for example. Special resources differ because they are much more expensive and have great bonuses. Its still in the works, so wait to see.
10. Q: How will war work?
A: When atacking a player, you will begin by atacking what your opponent set as his "border" province, usually its a province with a high defence such as a desert, mountain... After beating the army stationed at that province you proceed to the next province and so on. There will be loot and other things that Sandro has revealed vaguely yet, because its still being worked on and Sandro cant reveal every detail.
11. Q: Will there be a peace mode and war mode like in Lunar Wars?
A: There will be four modes: Protected mode for new players, it expires after a certain amount of time and theres no going back; Normal mode; Defenseless mode: it will be a very severe peace mode, with high economic penalties; Vacation mode.
12. Q: John, how do you know all this? Are you Sandro or God?
A: Unfortunatly no. Heres my source: http://z7.invisionfree.com/LunarWars_Forum/index.php?showforum=31
13. Q: Whats the game link? And why does your FAQ suck?
A: http://galava.net/maintenance.php and STFU.
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Anyway, now you know what Galava can do for you, so heres what you can do for agecommunity:
In LW and CN there are many alliances that hail from different sites. For instance Fark comes from Fark.com, GOONS come from something awful.
So we need to make agecommunity have an impact aswell. How? Well its simple we all need to united in one single alliance.
Like MDC merged with Genesis to create Guardian and Galava is a medieval based game, The Order would be the best name for our alliance.
If agecommunity performs its rush, our alliance will have lots of members with a high strengh average. That way our alliance will be important in the Galava inter-alliance politics.
We also need to get us some forums.
And on a final note, dont quit Lunarwars, it will be updated alot.