Land Grab ^TM
Copyright 2001-2003 By 7^th Peak ^L.L.C.
Scottsdale, Arizona
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Tips For Starting a New Colony:

When first starting out, your colony has no land, no resources, no gold, and only 1 settler!  Your first objective should be to attract settlers to join your colony.  Here are several approaches:

1) Take a loan from the bank and then go to the fort in town and pay colonists to join you.  Take your large expedition of settlers and go out and invade some land.  Try to take land that produces food and water for your colony first (such as an apple tree or river).

2) Take a loan from the bank and then go out and buy some land.  Only certain parcels are for sale so take your time to explore as you are looking for the right parcels to buy.  The first parcels you buy should be ones that produce food or water (such as some apple trees or rivers).

3) Go to a Saloon and buy lots of drinks.  Don't be shy about buying drinks...this is the wild west!  In addition, you will likely meet colonists that will want to join you as well as pick up valuable tips from the local patrons (write them down!).  A few of the things you may discover are:

-Where to find land that produces valuable resources
-Where to find groups of colonists to join your colony
-Insider tips on making money at the stock market in town
-Hundreds of other valuable game tips

Important: If a tip refers to a parcel number, it refers to land in the same territory as the Saloon (such as Northern Terrace or First Plains).   If you want tips on other territories, you need to find a Saloon in that territory!

4) Look for other players to form alliances with you.  They may help you get started and protect you from outlaws while you are building your colony.

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES FOR A NEW COLONY:

1) Attract settlers to join your colony

2) Choose a location to start building your colony

3) Capture some land that produces food, water and furs.  The food and water are needed by your settlers and the furs you can sell for gold.

4) Build a Fort at the center of your new colony.  A fort requires 125 lumber and 500 gold to build.  You also must own a minimum amount of land near the fort location.  You can obtain lumber by capturing land with trees and make money by selling furs.  You will also need to build a lumber depot to increase your lumber storage capacity from 25 to 125.

BEGINNER STATUS:

Until your colony has acquired 50 parcels of land, it is given a special "Beginner" status that prevents other colonies from attacking you and provides other benefits and protections.  You will be notified when you are no longer considered a Beginner.  A colony does not regain Beginner status if they later drop below 50 parcels again except if ALL land is lost.  If other colonies click on any expedition or parcel owned by a Beginner, they will see the words "Beginner" at the top of the window that pops up.  If a Beginner attacks another colony for any reason, they immediately lose Beginner status.