Your first day

You don’t need to master every system on day one. This is the short path from a fresh account to being a useful citizen of your nation.

What you start with

Resource	Amount	Notes
Gold	30	The premium, cross-border currency. It pays for new companies, crafting and shifts at your own Bakery and other processing plants.
Local currency	1,000	Your country’s money, for wages, the item market and the licence on your raw material companies. Credited when you pick your country.
Companies	3	A Grain Farm, an Iron Mine and a Bakery in your country’s capital, or in another region it holds if the capital is occupied.
Bread	20	Food. Each loaf restores 10 Combat Energy.
Electronics	2	A component used to craft equipment.
Storage	400,000	How many items you can hold. When it’s full, your companies can’t produce.
Combat Energy	100	Powers fighting. Regenerates +1 every 3 minutes.
Stamina	100	Powers working. Regenerates +1 every 6 minutes.
Food rights	10	Charges that let you eat, one per item (shown as Rations). +1 every hour.

The briefing

New accounts are offered a short briefing: five steps through working, fighting and taking a job. Each step pays as you finish it: 100 local currency, 20 rounds of 9mm ammo, 5 gold, 3 Electronics and a final 50 local currency. That leaves you with 5 Electronics, exactly enough (plus 5 gold) to craft a Common weapon. You can skip it at any point, keep what you’ve collected, and resume it later from Profile, Settings.

A first-session checklist

1. Pick your country. Your citizenship decides which economy you’re part of and which taxes you pay. Your starting currency and companies arrive the moment you choose. It doesn’t lock your rifle: you can fight on either side of any battle.
2. Work your companies. Each of your companies can be worked once a day (the day resets at 00:00 UTC) for 10 Stamina and an operating licence (30 of the local currency for your Grain Farm and other raw material companies, 0.5 gold for the rest), and the goods land in your storage. Your Bakery bakes Bread from Grain (2 Grain per loaf), so it needs a stock of Grain before it can run. See Companies and production.
3. Take a job and work a shift. A job pays a wage set by the employer. A job shift costs 10 Stamina and has a 3-hour cooldown, so you get up to ~8 a day. You can hold one job at a time. Every shift, at a job or at your own company, gives +1 experience. See Working.
4. Join a battle. Find an active front and spend Combat Energy. One fight action is a 10-hit volley costing 10 energy. The 10 hits land or miss together, and each landed hit is 1 experience and progress toward your first medal. When energy runs low, eat: each Bread uses one food right. See Battles.
5. Do your daily missions. You get five a day: the auto-completing Report for Duty check-in, one more easy mission, 2 medium and 1 hard. They pay gold, experience and (if you’re in a unit) Service Records. See Leveling and missions.
6. Reach level 2, then build. Level 2 takes just 190 experience. From there you can found more companies for as little as 10 gold, a raw extractor like a Grain Farm, Iron Mine or Silicon Quarry. See Companies and production.
7. Check your nation’s politics. Look at who your president is and what the tax rates are. Income tax (to your country) and work tax (to the country the company operates in) come straight out of your wage. See Elections and law.

The daily rhythm

A typical day: work each of your companies once, take a job shift whenever the cooldown is up, spend Combat Energy on the active front, eat to keep fighting, claim your missions, and check the market. The world is persistent, so small daily actions compound.

The one habit that matters

Never let an energy pool sit full. Combat Energy regenerates +1 every 3 minutes up to 100, roughly a full bar every 5 hours; Stamina takes +1 every 6 minutes, about 10 hours for a full bar. A capped pool is regeneration you threw away. Food rights work the same way: at 10 they stop recharging. Spend, then let it refill.