Manual
This short guide will teach you the very basics on how to set up your OGRESWAMP!
Use the command /new to create a new swamp. Once you've created a swamp you can use /stats at anytime to check up on your swamp!
You'll need to train ogres in order to get resources you need to survive. Try using /Employ to train the following ogres for a job.
with the starting 100 ogres, this should be sufficient for your swamp to sustain itself and grow larger.
As your swamp grows with time you'll want to make sure to employ more ogres to maintain this 20% farmers 10% miners ratio.
Once you have farmers and miners employed you will start to get onions and ore every half hour. Make sure to use /harvest often to collect these rewards!
Once you start to employ ogres you'll have to start paying them too! Try using /policy set to change the following policies:
In the future you can try experimenting with other taxrates to prioritise population growth or income. But in general, setting your taxrate to anything above 20% will hurt your happiness.
Once you have a stable swamp which can be self-sufficient you'll notice that your swamp will begin to grow. Happiness is a key element to swamp growth. The higher your happiness the faster your population will grow.
Keep in mind that working ogres don't have enough time for babies and only unemployed ogres will reproduce.
After growing your population enough you will find that you will have enough resources left over to allow for the creation of a small army. Doing so is an essential part of both defending your swamp from raiders and raiding from other people's swamps with /battle attack for resources and money! Just try to not to create too large of an army as warriors are both hungry and expensive to keep!
After getting a stable swamp you may decide to improve the workings of your swamp through player to player interactions. For example, depending on the current market conditions it may be cheaper to buy resources from bigger swamps with more upgrades with /market buy then it is to produce them yourself. If you don't know who to buy from you can always check the local listings in a server with /market listings.
This basic introduction to the ogreswamp should be satisfactory for getting you onto your feet. Once you are prepared to tackle more advanced issues and pursue the coveted Swamp Elite check out the Advanced help!