Guides
How the systems behave, and what to do about them.
Written by us, grounded in the numbers on this site. Every value quoted in a guide is pulled from the dataset when the page is built, so a game patch updates the guide rather than leaving it quietly wrong.
Why your tribesmen stopped working
Six reasons, in the order they are worth checking. All of them are states the game tracks and never shows you.
How to raise your tribe limit
There are four separate ceilings and people usually mean a different one than the setting they are told to change.
Which difficulty should you pick?
What each of the six presets actually changes, with the developer's own numbers.
How to write a server config that actually applies
The advice everybody repeats about the three blocks is not what the developer does.
Which proficiency should you level?
There are 31, they fall into 8 groups, and the group decides what you get.
Why you cannot level past a certain point
On PvP servers there is a second cap nobody mentions, and it depends on how old the server is.
How invasions actually work
Heat, scouting, assault, cooldown — and the twenty settings behind them.