Introduction to Celeste Project

Just started Age of Empires Online or returning after its unfortunate shut down? This guide will help you enjoy the AoEO PvE experience! New players continue reading, and experienced or returning players can skip to part 2.
== Part 1 - Suggestion ==
* It is highly suggested to play as the Greek, Egyptian, Celtic or Roman civilizations. As these four are the only ones with built-in Tutorial.
== Part 2 - Complete Beginner ==
* You can navigate between different areas by going to the Quest Map
* Greek, Egypt, Celtic and Roman - follow the quests that start from your capital city - which should bring you to lvl 20, the other civs start at 20. Argos (20-30) and Cyprus (30-40, beginning with Defense of Arsinoe in your Capital) have legendary quests which you have to complete a chain of quests so you might want to complete them as you level up. Of course, explore the other zones as well!
* Legendary Quests appear at Level 40.
* You can share one Milestone from each civ to a civ (thus a maximum of 5 extra milestone bonuses), and change them at your leisure (so the Greek level 5 milestone for the Greek level 10 milestone). You can reset milestones, but the player are going to pay 1000 Empire Points to doing so.
* Kill guardians (marked by "?" on the minimap) and right click the camp to earn extra chests. Timers stop after quest completion, so you can wait till then.
* Caravans and Merchant Transports give more gold the more distance they travel, capping at 150/300 per trip, receptively. In addition, they trade for 50% more when sent to an ally Town Center/Dock (gather the same gold, in a shorter trip).
* You can check a unit's statistics using the tech tree or in game by hovering your mouse over its portrait. For villagers, huntables (like deer) have a higher gathering rate than berries, fishing and farms!
* Alt click to put units inside something (eg villagers into town center, units onto a transport or babylonian siege tower)
* If you experience problems connecting with other players, try opening your ports. There is a guide on Celeste's reddit about how to do so.
* Start workshops for materials (8 normal, 2 rare). You can sell them to other players for coin, or trade for some Empire Points. You can shift click to split into smaller stacks.
* The only unique crafting school is Metalworking (Celtic).
* Is possible to buy and craft gear and consumables while you level up. You can reach 40 without buying any gear if you play quick and well.
* You can have 4 additional storage buildings (you start with one that you can't remove) and a maximum of 240 Empire Vault slots.
* Delphi Limestone is a Greek material earned in Mycenae, Giza Limestone is an egyptian material earned in Nubian Expedition, Celtic Charcoal is a Celtic material earned Massalia. Also, Roman Marble is a Roman material earned in Capua.
* You can move your Capital City buildings, or pack them back into blueprints (icons under the Empire Points).
* General chat can be accessed by /general or /1. Trade is /trade or /10. You can link your item into Trade or Whisper chat by shift clicking. To join a channel, right click on the tab -> Options -> tick Trade -> Apply. You'll now be able to see and contribute to the Trade channel.
* There are also some channels reserved for other languages.
* You can sell items to a vendor by opening the shop then right clicking your item. A max of one item will be stored in the Undo Sell box.
* At 40, you will unlock all tech in your tree
* Alliance quests (Delos, Carthage or Farafra Oasis) are good for starters (New Pharaoh's Challenge gives lots of EP for how quickly you can complete it). Elite: Lots of Rogues from Argos is also quick to farm coins. Spearmen/Skirmish Rushes are also a good way to get lots of chests (more for Advisors than gear).
** Once you have a couple of items, you can tag along with a more experienced player for Legendary Soloi/Paphos/Marion for higher quality chests.
* Repeatable Quests are tied to the civilization, so you could do seven sets of Lots of Rogues, one for each civ.
* Crete Rankings takes your highest score. You get extra points for clearing waves quicker.
== Part 3 - Experienced Player ==
* Empire Points are obtained by completing repeatable quests. Some non-repeatable quests offer few EP in campaign progression.
* Sparta and Crete are the remaining cities with City Points redeemable. You can buy Vanity Gear with Sparta Points and exclusive cretean advisors and gear with Crete Points.
* The Empire Store will offer two random Legendary Items on weekends. You'll especially want the Divine High Vizier's Robes (indispensable for deathballing archers) and the Divine Hammer of Construction or the Hammer of Kaveh (arguably better).
* Visiting Moe's Mystorium is a good idea if you are hoarding a lot of coins, there are exclusive legendary gears tied to chest levels. Also, Bahram's Lottery in Tarsos has some of the most valuable and gamechanging gears for 10 million coins.
* There is a marketplace for trading items. When your item is sold, click on it to cash out. Remember that your item will be lost forever if not taken in 30 days.
* Trade channel often offers better deals, if you're patient.
* Once a year, the Project Celest team release a new quest pack. There is also seasonal events through the year like Summer Event, Halloween and Winter Event, rewarding players with unique piece of gear, blueprints and decorations.
* Currently the only way to add friends is through the launcher.
*Now you can once again visit other player's empires, one of the features it brings is the possibility of playing the archived legendary quests (without owning the structure that storage such kind of quests).
* If you complete a quest without having it in your quest log, it might not register as completed. Relogging usually fixes this issue.
==Installation Guide (Steam)==
Full text guide for both steam and non steam installations on the Project Celeste forums
*1: Have Steam installed
*2: Press Ctrl+R in Windows
* 3: Type "steam://install/105430" into the Run menu
* 4: Download Celeste_Launcher_Gui.zip
*5: Extract contents of Celeste_Launcher_GUI.zip to Age Of Empires Online steam folder
*6: Run "Celeste_Launcher_Gui.exe"
*7: Click "register" in the launcher, make an account
*8: Click "PLAY" and enjoy the game
Video guide (steam) by Ardeshir
== References ==
* Original smileyguyx Forum Post in Project Celeste Forums
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