Some Advice for New Players

Sidalicia is not an 'easy' mud to start playing. It can be discouraging at first, because the factors involved in leveling and killing are not exactly the same as those in other muds. Expect to die a lot in your first few levels. Realize that you are not being penalized for this dying, and this learning.

When you first log on you will be standing in the Reception Room of the Raging Lion. If you go north from there, and down, you will find yourself in the Training Basement, where the room descriptions are set up to teach you a little about the Mud. Go east and visit Silas, the Weaponsmaster. Read the help files on the weapons skills and decide which you would like to learn. He can teach it to you.

Learning on Sidalicia is set up much like that in the 'real' world. You have to have prerequisites to learn almost anything (remember, Bio101 comes before Bio102? Well it's the same here). See the spells and skills webpage for more information on this.

After visiting Silas, get a weapon. There are a bunch of them loaded in the newbie zone, one of each type at least, in the weaponsroom. Then venture through the Training Basement.

Tips:

• Read 'help newbie' right away.
• Evaluate every mob you might fight with the 'consider ' command. This is crucial. Believe what is says.
• Turn on 'autoloot', 'autosplit' and 'autosac'.
• Set your wimpy level to about 1/2 of your hitpoints. At levels 1-9 you are not penalized for fleeing, use this to learn!
• Do not expect huge amounts of experience points from each kill. The exp scale at Sidalicia is different, it runs from 0 to 1000. 1000 would be a max kill, and you can rarely kill something this hard without fleeing several times and perhaps dying. 500 is an average kill': what you are expected to get when you are a fighting a mob which you will probably kill, but from which you could be forced to flee.
• Level 1 is HARD: This unfortunate fact is because there is nothing lower than you at level 1... nothing. The 'help newbie' file says to concentrate on killing skitterskatters and meece in the Training Basement. It means it. If you try something else, even a 'cockroach', you will likely die.
• If you are a race that suffers during heat (ie Jotun, Faea...) don't travel outside during a heatwave in the summer. You can tell this by typing 'weather' and 'date'. At such a young and tender age, as a newbie, the heatwave could likely kill you.
• You will find food in the shops in the Shambles, which are generally south of the Inn where you are training.
• If you type 'map' you will be shown an ascii map of the whole city of New Draconia.
• check the donation rooms often.
• Read all the room descriptions in the Training Basement carefully.
• Don't be afraid to ask questions.

The first 9 levels on Sidalicia are expected to be learning levels. You will receive practices each time you level, something that won't happen after level 9. You aren't penalized greatly for dying, and not at all for fleeing. Most, but not all, mobs will be nice to you. Viviana will spare you if her husband Mortu is in the mood for a bit of fun. Eq is sized for everyone, so you don't have to search everywhere to be clothed. Use these levels to explore the mud, and ENJOY yourself.

Return to 'Playing Sidalicia'