gee so i see this a year and a half later... best to email me.
1) you play the game by doing the quests they give you. used to go free at 17 but now it gives us quests to level 59
2) you are typing..??
3) building a garrison is one of the quests they give you, right after your buy your general.
4) you claim a sector by killing all the bandits, if there are some, and then building a storage.
note to claim sector 4 you need only build storage.
also note your new licenses show up in your mail box
5) you can meet the zero production by either following gios link or by using my tutorial..
which url i'll have to look up.
6) the population tool tip is the tiny settler head top left on the screen, often hidden by
text ballons sys sends you.
7) the shortcut menu is in the gear menu under your avatar
8) you can not yet change your avatar picture but apparently you can change you name
ONCE by talking to support. its not a bad way to leave a bad past behind you but
be serious because you cant do it again. some people have been quickly identified
because they have the same bad text patterns.
9) you can do waves with one general if you want to wait out the 2-4 hour recovery
time
10) well we had one guy come into help and insist we all kowtow because he was
level 72. we just kept joking about it and he got madder and madder and we laughed
harder and harder because the highest level is 50.
11) you cant sell them back but you can always use a second geologist or explorer later.
Lots of geologists will get your mines up hours earlier, by the time you conquer the
entire island there are a LOT of mines and explorers can be set to bring back loot.
12) gems used to be only given out when you have seven consequtive days logged in
but now they are sprinkled about as rewards here and there. used to be you had
to get them with credit card and there was no way to gift them. now you can
give them to people with some game cards, but I seem to have lost which one.