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Aromatomato: Removed ARCHWAR per Hypello, updated minutes per turn for Arch

2021-06-04T04:02:13Z

Removed ARCHWAR per Hypello, updated minutes per turn for Arch

Groentje: /* Creating a Portal Account */

2009-12-01T18:02:29Z

‎Creating a Portal Account

Groentje: /* Your mage is created! */

2009-12-01T18:02:16Z

‎Your mage is created!

Groentje: /* Choosing a name */

2009-12-01T18:02:03Z

‎Choosing a name

Groentje: /* CHAPTER 1 Reincarnating your mage */

2009-12-01T18:01:43Z

‎CHAPTER 1 Reincarnating your mage

Groentje: /* Creating a Portal Account */

2009-12-01T18:00:45Z

‎Creating a Portal Account

Groentje: /* Creating a Portal Account */

2009-12-01T18:00:32Z

‎Creating a Portal Account

Groentje: /* Choosing a mage speciality (colour) */

2009-12-01T17:55:24Z

‎Choosing a mage speciality (colour)

Groentje: /* Choosing a mage speciality (colour) */

2009-12-01T17:55:10Z

‎Choosing a mage speciality (colour)

Groentje: /* Choosing a mage speciality (colour) */

2009-12-01T17:50:12Z

‎Choosing a mage speciality (colour)

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-You have created a mage on one of the servers on the portal-page ‘http://www.the-reincarnation.com’.
+==== Choosing a server ====
-Depending on the server, some restrictions and differences exist.
+You have created a mage on one of the servers on the portal-page ‘[http://www.the-reincarnation.com’ http://www.the-reincarnation.com’]. Remember which server you choose!
 * A main difference is the rate at which turns generate (normal server, 1 turn /7 minutes; ‘Blitz’ server, 1 turn / 5 minutes) and how many you can store.
-* ‘Guilds allowed’ means that players are allowed to form groups and play cooperatively. ‘Solo’ obviously means that this is not allowed: you are anonymous on this server and so are your opponents.
+Depending on the server, some restrictions and differences exist.
-* 'ArchWar' is a server with old-school rules regarding counters and army summoning, that make guild-fights very different from the main servers (at least some players think so).
-* The ‘Arch’ server runs a version of the game where turns generate slow (1 turn / 12 minutes), and where the most powerful (‘ultimate’) spells are not in use (making guildwars last long and play very different from the normal servers). Many veterans have ended up playing game rounds on this server for years and years.
+*A main difference is the rate at which turns generate (normal server, 1 turn /7 minutes; ‘Blitz’ server, 1 turn / 5 minutes) and how many you can store.
 ====Choosing a name====

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 * You will use this link to login to the game and post on the forum,
 * The name of the MAGE that you create can be different from your portal-nick.
 Follow the link on the top row of the portal page http://www.the-reincarnation.com
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 * Follow the verification procedures
 ** An email is send, with a link that you have to click to activate your account.
 ===Creating a mage===

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 Phantasm mages are beyond the physical earth: they rely on magic and psychic attacks to gradually beat their enemies down, and rarely use physical assault to defeat their enemies. Some phantasm mages believe that all other specialities are merely corrupted forms of their higher, purer magic. They despise the primitive nature of their opposites Verdancy (green) and Eradication (red).</TD></TR></TABLE>
 ===Your mage is created!===
 After the above choices are made, your mage will be created immediately.

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 ====Choosing a name====
-That is totally up to your imagination! Don’t use foul or insulting (e.g. racist, sexist) names. Many players use a different name for their mage than they use as their portal-and-forum name and in chats (mIRC, Messengers).
+This is totally up to your imagination! Don’t use foul or insulting (e.g. racist, sexist) names. Many players use a different name for their mage than they use as their portal-and-forum name and in chats (mIRC, Messengers).
 ====Choosing a mage speciality (colour)====
 Perhaps the hardest choice – this is a good time to introduce the 5 schools of magic (colours) in the game. Choosing the speciality, determines to what units (specifically more advanced units) and to what spells you will have access to (the [[Groentje Players Manual|Game Manual]] explains this in detail).

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 =PART I – QUICK INTRODUCTION=
 ==CHAPTER 1 Reincarnating your mage==
 ===Creating a Portal Account===
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 ** An email is send, with a link that you have to click to activate your account.
-===Choosing a server===
+===Creating a mage===
 You have created a mage on one of the servers on the portal-page ‘http://www.the-reincarnation.com’.
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 * The ‘Arch’ server runs a version of the game where turns generate slow (1 turn / 12 minutes), and where the most powerful (‘ultimate’) spells are not in use (making guildwars last long and play very different from the normal servers). Many veterans have ended up playing game rounds on this server for years and years.
-===Choosing a name===
+====Choosing a name====
 That is totally up to your imagination! Don’t use foul or insulting (e.g. racist, sexist) names. Many players use a different name for their mage than they use as their portal-and-forum name and in chats (mIRC, Messengers).
 {{pentegram}}
-===Choosing a mage speciality (colour)===
+====Choosing a mage speciality (colour)====
 Perhaps the hardest choice – this is a good time to introduce the 5 schools of magic (colours) in the game. Choosing the speciality, determines to what units (specifically more advanced units) and to what spells you will have access to (the [[Groentje Players Manual|Game Manual]] explains this in detail).
 Each speciality has its own magic spells and units, mages have access to all units and spells of their own speciality, to most units and spells of adjacent specialities and to the more basic units and spells of their opposite specialities. There are also units in the game, that are of no speciality at all (‘plain’), to which all specialities have equal access.

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-* Follow the link on the top row of the portal page http://www.the-reincarnation.com
+Follow the link on the top row of the portal page http://www.the-reincarnation.com
 * Choose a nice name that is not already in use (use your imagination, not your swear words)
 * Follow the verification procedures

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	===Creating a Portal Account===		===Creating a Portal Account===

		+	To play on any server of The Reincarnation, you need to create your Portal Account.
		+	* You will use this link to login to the game and post on the forum,
		+	* The name of the MAGE that you create can be different from your portal-nick.
		+
		+
		+	* Follow the link on the top row of the portal page http://www.the-reincarnation.com
		+	* Choose a nice name that is not already in use (use your imagination, not your swear words)
		+	* Follow the verification procedures
		+	** An email is send, with a link that you have to click to activate your account.

	===Choosing a server===		===Choosing a server===

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 The game is well balanced, any colour is equally strong. Read the information below, see what you like and if you can’t make up your mind: choose random!
+<Table>
-'''The Ascendant Order {{white}}'''
+<TR valign="top"><TD width=25%>'''The Ascendant Order {{white}}'''</TD><TD>
+Ascendant magic is based on piety and holiness. Ascendant mages prefer magic that heals rather than harms. Nevertheless they are fearsome in battle as they call down a host of divine beings from the heavens to fight together with their more basic human units. They are particularly strong in defence. They despise the destructive nature of their opposing specialities Eradication (red) and Nether (black).</TD></TR>
-Ascendant magic is based on piety and holiness. Ascendant mages prefer magic that heals rather than harms. Nevertheless they are fearsome in battle as they call down a host of divine beings from the heavens to fight together with their more basic human units. They are particularly strong in defence. They despise the destructive nature of their opposing specialities Eradication (red) and Nether (black).
+<TR valign="top"><TD>'''The Verdancy Tribe {{green}}'''</TD><TD>
+Verdant mages channel the powers of the wild. They harness the forces of nature to enhance their countries and armies, which include plant folk, forest animals and elves. Some would consider their reliance on woodland creatures a weakness, but those who have experienced the full power of nature have learned otherwise. Verdancy’s opposing specialities are Nether (black) and Phantasm (blue).</TD></TR>
+<TR valign="top"><TD>'''The Eradication League {{red}}'''</TD><TD>
-'''The Verdancy Tribe {{green}}'''
+Eradication mages believe in creation by destruction, leaving paths of scorched earth everywhere in its wake. Only Eradication mages can control the mighty red dragons, the most feared and destructive single units in the game, whose offence is awesome. Masters of fire and chaos, their brutal nature is opposite to Ascendancy (white) and Phantasm (blue).</TD></TR>
+<TR valign="top"><TD>'''The Nether Convent {{black}}'''</TD><TD>
-Verdant mages channel the powers of the wild. They harness the forces of nature to enhance their countries and armies, which include plant folk, forest animals and elves. Some would consider their reliance on woodland creatures a weakness, but those who have experienced the full power of nature have learned otherwise. Verdancy’s opposing specialities are Nether (black) and Phantasm (blue).
+Practicing their dark arcane arts, the Nether school spills hordes of foul demons and undead over the lands of Terra. Nether mages often are despised mages: not only does their magic draw upon their kingdom’s population violently, these mage also sell their souls to unleash the full fury of hell upon their mortal enemies. Their opposites are the Ascendancy (white) and Verdant (green) schools.</TD></TR>
+<TR valign="top"><TD>'''The Phantasm School {{blue}}'''</TD><TD>
+Phantasm mages are beyond the physical earth: they rely on magic and psychic attacks to gradually beat their enemies down, and rarely use physical assault to defeat their enemies. Some phantasm mages believe that all other specialities are merely corrupted forms of their higher, purer magic. They despise the primitive nature of their opposites Verdancy (green) and Eradication (red).</TD></TR>
-'''The Eradication League {{red}}'''
+</TBODY></TABLE>
 ===Your mage is created!===