Maps

## New Game

When the player selects "Start new game" in the main menu, they get one of the following fourteen maps to choose from:

Every map consists of at least one city with several districts and at least one village, the player(s) can build in. In addition, there are the surroundings, which may offer additional features, but no opportunity to build in. As a rule of thumb: the smaller the maximum allowed number of dynasties, the smaller the map.

Two maps consist of more than one city. Therfore, they have multiple public buildings, such as schools, city halls, arsenals etc., one for each city.

Most districts, both rural and urban, have a market place, at least one church or cathedral, and a well.

## Game Options

To customize the game, the player may define the game options below. Note, that for the tutorial world Humble beginnings, these options are disabled and can **not** be changed.

 Difficulty level | The difficulty level affects your starting conditions (money, influence, first raw materials in storage, max number of family members, number of xp received until you reach the title  Citizen) as well as how fast the AI opponents will progress. For details check the tables on the respective pages. The options are:
* Tutorial (Humble beginnings only)
* Easy
* Normal (default)
* Hard
 Year(s) per round | With this option you choose how many years will pass when a round is over.This will mainly affect how fast the characters age in the game - and how fast your children reach a playable age. The options are:
 Game mode | With the game mode you can choose with how much progress your dynasty is supposed to start. The options are:
* **Poor fellow** (default) - As a poor fellow you start with just a few coins and bearing the lowest title  Serf in a village. You have to work hard to earn money and may one day earn the title of a citizen, which will entitle you to move into the city.
 Family campaign | Here you can pick a family campaign. The options are:
* **Become Sovereign** (default) - Become Sovereign with one of your dynasty members and hold the position for one full round to win.
* **Free game** - A free game enables you to play with no kind of objective. You are free to decide what to do and can play the game in any way you like.
* **Found a powerful dynasty** - You are a child of poor farmers. You have come to the city to take your destiny into your own hands and to found a wealthy and influential dynasty! Once your family is rich and powerful enough, you win the game.
	+ Become a  Lord.
	+ Be elected to Mayor, City legate **or** Treasurer.
	+ Earn 20 000 gold.
	+ Have an heir (own or adopted).
* **The city smells of freedom** - You come into the city and you literally smell the air of freedom - which can also smell rather unpleasant, but you really feel that this is the place where freedom and wealth are within your grasp. Now select a profession and work hard in your chosen sector to show everyone what you're capable of. When business is blooming and you have proven that you are the greatest economic mind of the century, you win the game!
	+ Build ten workshops.
	+ Earn 18 000 gold at the market place.
	+ Construct a manison.
* **Become the ruler of the city!** - You are the offspring of a poor and forgotten family, who lost your home after a stupid decision of the city council. You swore you would rule the city one day and take revenge on these idiots! Become powerful enough to acquire and hold important offices to win the game.
	+ Become a  Squire.
	+ Hold Mayor, City legate and Treasurer for two rounds each (can be one after the other).
* **Long-distance trader** - As a child, you always looked at the ships sailing away and coming home, but not because you desperately wanted to go to sea, but because you were always curious about what goods the merchants had brought from distant lands, and how much profit they made. Become a successful long-distance trader to win the game.
	+ Earn 12 000 gold from a long distance trade route.
	+ Construct five warehouses.
	+ Make three successful long-distance journes.
* **Warmonger** - People respect one thing only - strength. As with wolves and lions, the strongest always leads the pack. And that will be you! Crush your opponents and you'll win the game!
	+ Enter three feuds.
	+ Eliminate ten characters.
	+ Destroy two dynasties.
	+ Sabotage ten buildings.
	+ Poison ten competitors (five with black widow, five with paralysis poison).

To check the resulting tasks later on in the game, open the  **Quest book** or press `F7`.

After selecting a map and the game options, the player needs to press the "Continue" button, in order to proceed to the Character creation page, to create the first character, their Avatar. From there, hit the "Play" button to start the game.

## Area Map

To access the  **Area map** ingame, click on the compass card in the lower right corner of the screen, or hit `M` (for map).

Maps was last edited for version 1.0.4.

Maps was last edited for version 1.0.4.