Tips and Tricks

Asterix and Friends is a resource management game and can be very hard to find balance. Here are some tips and tricks to make your game play easier.

## Patience

DO be patient with all things relating to this game. This includes finding drops, making trades, receiving awards, earning sesterce/helmets/RP, etc. They will come to you eventually.

DON'T beg for new content. New content will be released eventually. It should be announced on the forum and the official Facebook page shortly before its release date.

XP
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DO understand that gaining XP in this game is a slow, painful process for everyone. There is no fast way to level up. You get XP by completing quests, harvesting resources, hunting, fishing, and fighting.

DO understand that the daily quests provide only a small amount of XP and other rewards.

DON'T forget that those daily quests do not change from day to day until you bite the bullet and do the less enjoyable/profitable ones already presented. All XP adds up over time.

DO remember that collecting water from the well in Gaul yields **no** XP. If you are using food in order to grind XP specifically, DO NOT COLLECT WATER in Gaul. Instead, harvest the raw resources of wood, stone, and straw.

DO remember that collecting water from the well in Egypt yields 2 XP. That is double the amount gained by harvesting trees, stone, or straw.

DO remember that fishing and boar hunting earns XP. With the boars, sometimes 2-4 XP, but always at least 1 XP.

DON'T forget that you earn XP defeating Roman patrols, camps, and legions and from offensive brawling.

## Food

DON'T waste your food on feeding troops as a new or low level player. Let them recover their strength on their own and save your food for more important things. If you are absolutely full with food and full resource storages but have food, fish, or boar waiting to be collected, gather water from the village well. You'll always need water.

DO play with your sound on. You will be able to hear when fishing holes and boar tracks spawn. The fish make a splashing noise and the boar make a kind of rustling sound. It makes it a lot easier to know when to go looking for them rather than randomly panning around your map every 30 seconds hoping to find more food.

DO save the food that is mailed to you from legion defeats and any food attachments from Asterix and Friends for when you really need them. A good place to use them is once you reach Egypt as you will not have enough food there to suit your needs until after your palace has finished building for the first time. By then, you will have a better grip on the food situation in Egypt but it takes time. BE AWARE: You can only hold 100 legion defeat mails in your inbox. If you get a 101st mail, your oldest mail will delete and you will lose the food.

## Inventory

DON'T waste helmets on speeding up crafting or buying items in the market. Save them for expanding your inventory!

DON'T make things in the sesterce generating buildings that require parsley or dates until you are higher levels. You need so much parsley to level up villagers and many upgrades in Egypt requires dates. At higher levels, these items can be found much easier as you'll have more food at a time to hunt for them. But early in the game, save them!

DON'T be tempted to sell items for sesterce, especially early in the game. It is without a doubt a logical conclusion that anything you sell, you'll likely need 5 minutes later. As you get to higher levels, you will become accustomed to what is useful and more difficult to find vs what is used less often and very easy to find. Until you are sure of this information, don't sell things.

Do make a friend in chat and do regular mail swaps with them to offload your extra inventory instead of selling it off.

DON'T unnecessarily horde resources in the mail. Turn dropped items into often used crafted items when you have free buildings and store those instead. Having extra iron bars and steel bars is a lot better than having extra iron ore and coal laying around.

Do sell entrails, boar skins, iron ore, fish and crabs once you reach higher levels as these are very easy to get loads of them a day. Many players craft and sell gold bars and empty barrels as there is not a lot of call for them. But, empty barrels are needed in a few quests as well as required for many of the outposts. Many low and mid-level players will sell off any pearls or feathers they find as they have no use for them. But offer them for trade before you sell them. Pearls are needed to craft Egyptian Swords and Quality Shields. Feathers are used to make 1 potion and Winged Helmets.

DON'T sell any rock oil or red gem stones that you find in Egypt. Both are highly valuable to the right players. Rock oil is useful in making the best brawling potion in the game and red gem stones are needed to make Egyptian Swords and Balanced Swords.

DON'T sell cervisia and wine barrels for sesterce. As a low level player, you will get cervisia and wine barrels from Soldiers but can't do much with them until you build your tavern at level 30. Save these barrels as they make a lot more sesterce selling them as merchandise. They are needed in many upgrades too so they have a good trade value.

DO offer items you're likely to sell for trade in the chats before you sell them. Every item in the game is used for *something*. Before you sell it for sesterce, offer it in trade to see if someone wants to trade you something for it first.

## Trading

DON'T expect people will accept every trade offer you make. Some people want to haggle.

DO understand that you can say "NO" to a trade offer or to someone that is trying to haggle. There is no need to be rude. Just say "No thanks" and move along.

DO realize that trade values are dependent on supply and demand, who is playing currently (lots of low level players vs. high level players), and what is on sale in the market. In February 2015, with a steep rise in new players, the trade value of a menhir was very high. As of June 2015, the value has dropped drastically because those players are high enough level to keep themselves supplied with menhirs of their own crafting.

DON'T try to make some insane profit from your trades. The nature of a trade is a balance; it is not a for-profit venture.

DON'T go out of your way to screw over new players. Often times, more experienced players will call you out on bad trades. Some will go as far as to report you.

DO *help* other players (meaning give these items free without an expectation of a trade) with items that are plentiful like iron ore, fish, entrails, and crabs. These are fairly easily found. If you have extra wooden planks and stone blocks, share with people in need. It is a lot easier to make tons of wooden planks at higher levels because they take 1/2 the time to craft as they did for a starting player.

DON'T demand free stuff. You might get something from time to time because most of the community is helpful like that, but you will quickly become annoying to most players.

## The Romans

DO attack the Romans whenever your villagers have the strength to do so. They give much needed sesterce, RP, guild XP, and XP. They can also drop many different useful items. In your village, focus on patrols and camps that block your fishing holes and boar paths first each day so you have access to more food straight away.

DON'T be discouraged if a legion reaches your village and your patrols respawn. The patrols would have respawned in time anyways. And now you get another chance at collecting the awards for reaching the higher RLs again.

## Other Tips

DO upgrade your buildings regularly. Don't put them off because the upgrade requirements only get harder. Look at the bonuses for the crafting and sesterce generating buildings to determine what building will give you the most benefit from upgrading. Make a plan for your upgrades rather than upgrading at random. It will help you progress much faster in the game.

DO upgrade your sesterce generating buildings to open merch spots whenever possible and keep those spots full. Just make sure what you put into the merch spots doesn't exceed the max capacity of your building or you'll lose the excess sesterce. Collect your sesterce from sesterce generating buildings before they reach max capacity or you'll lose your next round of merch sales and the building will stop generating more sesterce until it is emptied.

* In the butcher, make and sell Gaul Soup if you have extra bones, otherwise sell entrails. Don't sell your rabbits or chickens in the butcher merch.
* In the fish market, any of the fishing drops are good to sell here. Oysters are very useful in potions though so save them for later if you can. Make Fish on a Spear or Fish Soup as often as possible and sell those as merch.
* In the tavern, everything that is sold in there is highly valuable and used often. If you have barrels and don't need them for upgrades, sell those as merch. Save your dates, beets, parsley, and strawberries for more important things.

## Remember

This is a game and the entire purpose is to have fun. If you are not having fun or find yourself mad about something even after you've left the game, you might want to think about playing something else.