if you want to join the game you have 20 points to create a country you have to pick a province with your capital city (you dont get to choose name of the city , if you dont know in which province a city you want as your capital is i will just select it for you) you have to make a religion (made up or real doesnt matter), pick a culture (the cultures available are the ones i sent you so you might not even have to pick and it will be slected for you instantly)
you can also join in as one of the 3 nations that have "free nation to claim" over who owns them stat
colonizing planis (lime) forest (dark green) hills (gray) taiga (light green) steppes (creamy) cost 1 point
colonizing tundra (white) semidesert (orange) mountains (dark gray) drylands (sligtly different yellow but in iberia) cost 2 points
colonizing deserts (yellow) costs 3 points
you have 8 points that can be used on many things
expanding is explained above and still applies to you
making alliances/ joining alliance cost 4 points
trying to tech up cost 2 points (the chances of tech up are 1/10)
making 1 army costs 1 point and creating soliders for that army cost 1 point (1 point=20% of your manpower created to the soliders) when you spawn an army it will get random amount of army strenght amry defense army speed (from 1 to a number that you have in maximum) army speed decides how many provinces your army can move per tile if army strenght is bigger than enemy army defense than that army would be instantly destroyed. you can upgrade maximum army strenght speed defense by spending 100 coins and using 2 points and upgrading armies stats will cost 60 coins and 1 point
the black provinces are where the armies are
you can make weapons (1 stack of weapons covers 100 of your soliders)
wooden weapons cost 4 wood 20 coins
stone weapons cost 2 wood 2 stone 40 coins
bronze weapons cost 2 wood 2 bronze 60 coins
silver weapons cost 2 wood 2 silver 80 coins
iron weapons cost 3 wood 3 iron 100 coins
there will be buildings (buildings can only be build in cites) that each do different things for example (the costs of each building in each terrain types are showed in the 3rd picture
farm gives you +5 food
library gives you +1 chances to tech up (note that the tech up chanes would go to 2/11 not 2/10)
logging camp gives you +1 wood
stone mine gives you +1 stone
metal mine 50% to gain bronze 20% to gain silver 5% to gain gold (only if you have it unlocked)
golden statue gives +1 points
land survey allows you to know how many proinvces you borders have resources (only tells you the unlocked resources) and tells you how much locked resources you have
religious building increase the chances for a city to change religion every turn from 1/5 to 2/5
culture building increase the chances for a city to change cultures every turn from 1/5 to 2/5
gambling altar allows you to sacrifice random things for a chance to get other random things
there will be more buildings in the game
to build cities you spend 6 points 5 wood 3 stone and 100 coins
for every 5 dev your city will gain +1 building slot
cities will give you 10 coins per 1 dev but drain your food by 1 for every dev (it can get higer when a city has different culture and religion than the culture and religion of your country or there is an event)
to upgrade dev you have to spend 20 coins x times of current dev
boats cost 3 wood however if you want to use the boats for war you would have to spend additional 5 wood and 3 stone. you can only build boats if you have coastal cities. you can only expand overseas if you have coastal cities and trade boats if you turned your only boat into a war boat you cant use it to colonize other overseas provinces
declaring war costs 2 points (if you are in alliance it will cost 1 point)
you can only trade with countries that are 40 provinces away from you if one of you have coastal cities (and a boat) this includes sea tiles if none of you have coastal cities this doesnt inlcude sea tiles for you
creating medicine costs 5 marble and 20 food
there will be events happening that will have either positive or negative effects on you
if you wanna do your turn in private you have to post that you do it in private
if you want to join the game but are banned from reddit or just want to chat with other people you can join discord server: https://discord.gg/jfHerwHDb