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HOW TO START

To play ‘The Reincarnation’, you need to be connected to the internet and have a web-browser open (e.g. Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Opera, Safari, Firefox).

Creating a The Reincarnation account

• First surf to http://www.the-reincarnation.com
• Then click the 'Register an account' link, to get access to our forum and our game servers
  • You will need a working email-address and click a link in an email to activate your account
  • The account gives you access to your mages, but also our forum 'the UBB'. The account name is also known as the UBB account.
  • Choose a name that is not insulting, sexist, racist or otherwise offensive.
  • Chapter 10 has a section explaining on our forum.

Creating a New Mage

• After you got access to the forum, go to the main page and create a mage on your server(s) of choice.
  • You may want to bookmark our main page as one of your favourites, because you’ll need to login at this page each time you decide to play your mage in the future.
• A new mage is created by selecting "Create New Mage" on a server's entrance screen.
  • You can only create a new mage, when you don't have a mage already existing on that server.
  • One confirms mage-reincarnation by clicking on the symbol at the bottom of the page.

Magename and Magenumber

• Because your mage is connected to your general account, you only need to choose a mage name and a mage speciality.
  • You will not be able to change your mage name in the game, so choose carefully (and note Decalogue statement on foul language).
  • You can decide to have mage name the same as your UBB account (very proud) or a different mage name (more anonymous).

• You’ll also receive your mage number, unique to you, that is an additional identifier in the game.
  • You cannot change that number.

Account Creation Trouble

If you remain unable to receive your validation code, contact the game admins by email. Use the same email that you used for your Account creation. Admins only answer to known email-adresses. Also, do not forget to mention the approximate time that you created your account.

Only One Mage per Player per Server!

Important: Players are supposed to play only one mage on a server (see the Decalogue). Creating a second account to reincarnate extra mages while you still have an old one is considered cheating (‘multi-maging’) and will result in deletion of both mages and all but one accounts (if not all accounts). Players are allowed to play mages on each server, but one per server only.

Sharing a computer

Important: If you share a computer with another player or other players - in most circumstances each of you can play the game, BUT you will have to inform the developers/admin team about your shared connection situation. Hereto, there is a 'Multi-account registration' link on each server's entrance screen (an alternative link is found in the Council of the Emperor screen in the game). If you do not inform the developers, your accounts will be considered to violate gaming rules ('multi-maging'). You can read this 'FAQ' on when to register. It deals with most situations regarding sharing computers. If you share a computer in your house with another player, both of you need to be in the same guild (guilded server) or be each others allies (non-guild server).

Login to Play a Mage

Quick login is possible through The Reincarnation's portal page. You can glance at some information on your mage even without logging in.

• If you allow to save the password on your computer, you just surf to http://www.the-reincarnation.com and click and play.
• If you play from a new computer or a public computer, you have to login to www.the-reincarnation.com to be able to play your mage:
  • Enter your mage name and password exactly as you originally specified (check CapsLock if login fails; passwords and account names are case sensitive).

• In the rare case that www.the-reincarnation.com is down, you can try to login through
  • Guild Server directly - use your UBB name, not your mage name
  • Apprentice server directly - use your UBB name, not your mage name
  • Blitz server directly - use your UBB name, not your mage name

Note that players are supposed to play only their own mage (see the Decalogue). Checking, playing, maintaining or inheriting someone else his mage, even on the owners request, is considered cheating and will result in account deletion.

Web navigation in ‘The Reincarnation’

The Reincarnation is a web-based game, that you play using your web browser. Take notice that once retrieved, game pages do not update themselves. Not having up-to-date information has proven disastrous for many mages, so be aware of this when using browsers buttons like ‘back’ and ‘forward’. You can use the ‘Refresh’/‘Reload’ button to retrieve an updated game page (e.g. your ‘main menu’ or your ‘status report’). Again, be aware, because in some cases this may make you repeat a previous action by accident. If you want to pop-up a game page in a separate window, you can try pressing the ‘shift’-key while you click on a link (e.g. your status report or a rank screen). Navigating from page to page is most straightforward just using the links on The Reincarnations web pages itself, avoiding your browser's features.

The First 120 Turns

A new mage is protected from hostility for the first 120 turns. This gives newly reincarnated characters a chance to develop their initial land and fortify their kingdom. During these first 120 turns there are some restrictions to in-game activities: the mage can start summoning troops and after turn 60 also start recruiting troops, but is unable to attack other kingdoms and may not buy on the Black Market. Neither can a mage offer/accept an alliance or join a guild and be attacked by other mages in any way.

To set new players on the right track when starting to play the game, The Reincarnation provides dedicated WIKI pages, a Guide for New Mages (Startup Guide/Quick Start guide [1]) and three tutorials [2]). They give suggestions on how to spend the first 120 turns, and help you familiarise with the game controls, while preparing you somewhat for the unprotected game play after turn 120.

Trouble Logging In

If you have trouble logging in to The Reincarnation, while other web pages can be accessed like always, a likely cause is that The Reincarnations server is very busy and unable to support more players at the moment. You should continue attempting to log in until you succeed or you wait for a while and try again after some time. This is an imperfect world, and from time to time our servers will be down. The volunteer developers/admin team is generally alerted to this almost as soon as it happens, and will work to have the servers up and running as soon as possible if trouble occurs.

1. Your entry has expired

You may receive a message reading ‘Your entry has expired’ every now and then when you are playing the game. This indicates that your 'cookie' information has expired, which effectively means you are logged out. You can simply log in again and thereby refresh the 'cookie'. Generally, this message will only appear once in while, when you are online for a long time. Occasionally you will receive this message several times, indicating that the server is too busy for you to be able to re-enter. In this case you should try to log in at a later time.

2. Logging Out

You do not need to log out of your mage account when you are done playing, as your information will be secure once you exit our sites. On shared computers, you should close your browser after playing, so no one else can use the browser button to click back to your mage.

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