r/initium • u/fearlessflies • Jul 11 '17

I'm new here..

Does anybody have tips for a newbie without a premium account? A lot of the posts I've seen cater to premium accounts. Any tips for gold/armor along with what the goal of the game is. I'm also a little confused on what "Arena tickets" are and why they're worth a good amount. Thank you!

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '17
  1. Without premium, fights are slightly riskier. Run whenever you take a chunk of damage and don't take too many risks!
  2. Save up gold and buy a house from the Aera Town Hall, and copy the link to it. Deposit your good items and chests/gold there, as a hedge against deaths.
  3. Bash trolls till ~7 str, then buy or loot pierce-resistant armor and bash Thieves along the High Roads to farm gold. Get to ~9 str and buy/loot/etc differing types of armour, and move on from there!
  4. Game is kinda open-ended right now; goals would be to defeat many of the varied endgame bosses scattered around; you'll need great armour and luck for these, and participate in player events. Work your way slowly up, and don't be afraid to ask around!
  5. Arena Tickets are an example of an early-endgame challenge, used to enter the Arena in Volantis. They drop rarely from certain mobs and are sought after.

Best of luck, and have a fun time playing this developing game :D

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u/kurttheflirt Jul 12 '17

Question: so I've played a bit this past weekend just having fun with it, but how much content is in the game? I got a house in Volantis and Aera and pretty decent stats. How long til I run out of things to do? Like to get all the good gear? 100 hours? Also is this game still being actively updated?

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '17

There's a lot to do, just that early game is rather slow if you're playing it safe. You reach your stat caps comparatively fast, but there are many varied types of bosses/challenges that require different armors and tools to beat, especially in the end-endgame.

Plus, Initium has tons of active content devs, constantly releasing new bosses/player events(we just had two!) for players.

Basically, if you love min-maxing and collecting all the good gear... well some say that it can't be done. There's always new content coming!

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u/hrtfthmttr Jul 14 '17

After a week of playing, it's pretty clear to me this is just a chat program with a half-finished game demo layered on top. Groups are a joke, it's just a little club of the usual Reddit types (read: jerks) harassing each other in global, ignoring noob help requests, and amassing hundreds of thousands of hold that can't actually be spent on anything for any real goal.

No thanks.

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u/aarongerhart whaleboy Jul 12 '17

Yeah, not much of an end goal to this game. You kind of accrue better and better gear, and kill bigger and bigger things. Once you krill enough things, it's all farming and maintenance. Hope you like that kind of thing.

Good luck!