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First day

Before we start with the usuall "do this - do that", i want to give you some informations about what ice-apple is, and how does it stands out from the other games of same genre.

Ice-apple is a game from the virtual social simulator category, which allows you to create a character, customize it to some extent, and participate in several areas of the game, or modules:

social
economic
political
military

     What ice-apple offers you, is, before all, a cost-free experience. Yes, we do offer some items for sale, as the server and game development needs money, and no one will pay out of his pocket to offer other a product or an experience, but these items do not offer any major advantages. You can play the game and be competitive without ever spending 1 cent.


     If you played this type of games before, then probably this tutorial is not for you. If you are new to online simulators, you will find in this article some guidelines to help you start you experience in iceapple world.

First day

1.1

Home page

1.2

Setting up profile

     Your profile page offers all the posible information about your account, and gives you the opportunity to stand out from the rest by your avatar and your profile cover.

     There are 2 ways to acces your profile page:

click on your name in the left stats panel
MY PLACES - Profile

You will see something similar to this:

   1 - your avatar
   2 - your cover photo
   3 - this show your location - country and region.
   4 - this show your citizenship.
   5 - this shows your rank globally
   6 - this shows your rank nationally
   7 - citizen description
   8 - date you joined the game
   9 - your game status. Green for when you are online, red for when you are offline.
10 - this is your EDIT PROFILE button. It will open a page with multiple configuration options:

change name - here you can change the name of your account, for the price of 10 gold. Type the name you want and press Edit
citizen description - you can add a description, a text that will appear on your profile page. You can also change the description or erase it completly.
citizen avatar - here you can upload an image to be your avatar in the game. Click on the button to browse your computer and choose an image, then press Upload. Only JPEG file format is accepted.
citizen cover - here you can upload an image to serve as your profile cover. Click on the button to browse the computer and choose an image then press Upload. Only JPEG fie format is accepted. Be carefull about recommended image dimensions - 820X150, and try to abide the scale between height and weight, otherwise you will end up with a stretched cover.
game skin - here you can choose several skin - themes for your account from the drop menu, and press Edit to apply it. This option is available only for players who have active buddy. If your buddy expires, you remain with the selected theme, without possibility to change it, until you regain buddy.
not showing medals in feed - this option is available only if you have active buddy, and it turns on/off the shouts about medals in friends feed. Red mean you will se those shouts, green meens you wont see them. To choose one option, click on the button then press Edit to save the setting.
change residence - this is a fast travel option. Read more about it in the change residence tutorial.
profile optimization - here you have few more hidden account settings that will be unlocked if conditions are met:

                    - upgrade buddy - this is a hidden setting, which will be unlocked only after you aquire an trophy, and by doing that, ugrade your buddy to level 2. Once you have done that, this setting will appear.
                    - show donation status for others - another hidden setting that is unlocked after your first coins purchase. You can select here if you want to show your donor status and donor rank to others, or not.
                    - change title - this option is available ONLY for scroll users and lets you choose from a list of titles one that will apear on your profile page.

You can also acces your edit profile option by clicking on the image indicated below:

     After you finished setting up your profile, lets see what else can you find on your profile page. There are several distinct panels here.

     Achievements

     This section contains all the medals that are available throughout the game, and how many of each one you have gained:

     You can read more about medals in tutorial here.

     Trophy

     This section is reserved for trophies. You can win trophies from tournament events, which are held periodically, or you can buy them from people who won them at these events.
     Trophies have 3 usages:

upgrade your buddy to level 2 - For this, you need to own 1 trophy. Once you have 1 trophy, your buddy will upgrade automatically to level 2.
upgrade your buddy to level 3. You can do that on edit - profile page, as shown before in this article.
you can sell them for a good amount of gold or trade them for special items.

You can not sell/donate your only trophy. You need at least 2 in order to be able to give one away. More simply put, if you have just one trophy, you are stuck with it.

     Account info panel

     This panel shows various informations about your account progress and assets:

1 - General info tab - here you can see your current level of XP (5), energy (6), strength (7), military rank (8) and bars that show progress till next level.
2 - Companies tab - contains informations about all your companies and links to each one.
3 - Donations - here is a list of donations made and received by your account. To view them click on this tab, then click on Show donations.
4 - Friends - a list of all your friends.
9 - this is a bar for your True Patriot medal. It shows your progress till your next medal. If you change your citizenship, this bar will reset to zero but the level in damage required for your next medal will not. This is a measure against gold farming.

Example: In the image above, the player has done 242.43 mil damage for USA and the next TP level is set at 242.55 mil damage. But, since he changed citizenship to current Morocco, you can see that damage bar reseted, but next level is still at 242.55 milion.

However, if you return to a country where you previously did a lot of damage, your TP progress will resume from the point where you were before you left that country.

Example: as shown in the image above, the player did 242.43 mil. damage for USA. If at any point he takes back USA citizenship, his TP level will resume from that point.

10 - top 4 damage done for your previous countries

     Activity panel

     Then, we have the Activity panel. Here, depending on your degree of involvement in game mechanics, you have direct links to several activity areas :
- your employee company
- your political party
- your newspaper
- your military unit
- your alliance - if you hold a position in alliance HQ
- your corporation - if you hold a position in corporation HQ


     Accounts panel

     It holds informations about total count of gold in your account, and it also shows top 3 currency you posses, by amount. If you want to see all currencies you posses, just click on Show more




     Now you are done with setting up your profile.

Setting up profile

1.3

Gold and currency

Like in real life, in ice world also you need currency to develop your character. One of these currencies and also the most important one, is the gold. You can buy anything in the game with gold, and also you need it for performing different activities.

Gold is useful for following things:

creating a company
buying a company
upgrading a company
creating a corporation
building an uranium mine
upgrading your storage, your training ground
creating a newspaper
founding a party
founding a military unit
buying various items
starting wars
starting resistance wars

and some others. Basically, gold is needed in every aspect of the game, and also it can buy you anything that is for sale in the game.

You will gain gold by following ways:

raise your experience level
win a medal
exchange your currency into gold at monetary market
sell products from your companies
degrade your companies
from corporations
sell special items you can buy with coins
donations from other players
from your referalls
quests

Currency also means your home country's national currency. You can get currency from:

working daily at your job
selling items on market
donations from other players
grants from your neswpaper
exchange gold into currency at monetary market

TIP - this is a war oriented game, and the most important atributte is your strength, so save your gold for upgrading training ground first. That is of course, unless you wanna choose an career in economic module.

In your stats panel, situated on the left side of the page, you can see how many gold you have in your account and how much currency from the country you are residing in, NOT your home country:

To see all currencies you possess and in what amount, go to profile page. There you can see in this order:

amount of gold in your account
amount of currency from your citizenship country
2 more currencies starting with the highest amount
rest of your available currencies, if any, you can view by clicking on Show more

Gold and currency

1.4

Energy

Energy is one of the most important elements in the game. It will always be a number between 0 and 100. It is important to remember that energy is not unlimited, you can recover it daily up to some limits

You will lose energy by performing these tasks:

work - it will consume 10 energy, regardless of your level or the quality and the company you work for
fight - each time you press the fight button, it consumes 10 energy
train - when you train, depending on the level of your training ground, you will lose an amount of energy, highest beeing 10 energy for level 1 training ground, and lowest beeing 2 energy for level 5 training ground. For more details on training and energy loss read training tutorial
using gloves - when you use gloves, you will lose 1 point of energy for each glove
moving - you will lose energy each time you want to move to another region of you country, or to a diferent country. For more details on energy loss due to moving read moving residance tutorial

You can recover energy :

by eating food
by consuming gifts
by consuming apples
by using hospital
by using a house
by promoting on next rank or level - for scroll users only.

Food - depending on its quality, it will restore an amount of energy. Quality is represented by the number of orange-filled stars that accompany each item. Also, you can see that by placing your mouse cursor on it.

  - quality 1 food - restores 2 energy points every time you used it. This type of food can be consumed every 5 minutes, all day long, without any limit restrictions.
  - quality 2 food - restores 4 energy points every time you use it. This type of food can be consumed every 15 minutes all day long, without any limit restrictions.
     Consuming both q1 and q2 food is subject to random captcha challenge. From time to time, randomly, you will be asked to solve a captcha to avoid use of automated scripts.
  - quality 3 food - restores 6 energy points every time you use it. This type of food can be consumed only in your daily limits.
  - quality 4 food - restores 8 energy points every time you use it. This type of food can be consumed only in your daily limits.
  - quality 5 food - restores 10 energy points every time you use it. This type of food can be consumed only in your daily limits.

Food daily limits are : 15 food daily for regular users and 20 food daily for scroll users.



     2.

Gifts - depending on its quality, it will restore an amount of energy. Quality is represented by the number of orange-filled stars that accompany each item. Also, you can see that by placing your mouse cursor on it.

  - quality 1 gifts - restores 2 energy points
  - quality 2 gifts - restores 4 energy points
  - quality 3 gifts - restores 6 energy points
  - quality 4 gifts - restores 8 energy points
- quality 5 gifts - restores 10 energy points.

All levels of gifts can be consumed only in your daily limits: 15 gifts daily for regular users and 20 gifts daily for scroll users.

   3.

Apples - are special items that once consumed will restore your energy to 100 instantly. Be very carefull when you use apples, cause they will consume themselves and restore your energy to 100 regardless of your current energy level. That is why, each time you want to use one, you will need to confirm it by choosing yes or no in a small prompt window thats is generated by the server.

Daily limit for apples is 2 for regular users and 4 for scroll users.

4.

Hospital - can be used once a day to recover an amount of energy. This amount of energy depends on level of the hospital:

  - quality 1 hospital - recovers 10 energy
  - quality 2 hospital - recovers 20 energy
  - quality 3 hospital - recovers 30 energy
  - quality 4 hospital - recovers 40 energy
  - quality 5 hospital - recovers 50 energy

Hospital traits:

can be used only by players who are located in the same region as the hospital.
can be used only by players who have the citizenship of the country where hospital is located
It has a limited number of usages - 1000. after that, it will disappear, and you need to implement new one
can be implemented in any region of a country, by anyone, regardless of citizenship or quality level
only one hospital can be implemented in one region
there can be a hospital in every region of a country
if a region with a hospital is lost to an atacker, the hospital is destroyed.

House - can also be used once a day, and, same as for hospitals, it will recover an amount of energy, depending on its level:

- quality 1 house - recovers 20 energy
- quality 2 house - recovers 40 energy
- quality 3 house - recovers 60 energy
- quality 4 house - recovers 80 energy
- quality 5 house - recovers 100 energy

House traits:

it has a limit number of usages - 30. After that, it will disappear and you will need another one
after you buy it, you need to activate it from your inventory in order to use it. You can activate one house only
make sure you have consumed your energy before using the house. It will consume its daily turn when you press use even regardless of your energy level and house level. For example, if you have 99 energy and a q5 house, if you press use, it will take you to 100 energy, and be done for the day.

To be able to recover your energy, you need to acces the consume page, by clicking on the energy bar

where

1 indicates your curent level of energy
2 indicates maximum energy level.

You will be redirected to page that can look like this:

shows your daily consum limits for food, gifts and apples
recovery button for energy using q5 food
recovery button for energy using q5 gifts
use House
use Hospital
use apples

To use your chosen mean of replenishing energy, just press the button next to it. There are few thing to mention about using quality 5 food and gifts. As seen in the image above, Use button is replaced by Recovery button, which will refill automatically your energy up to 90, and consume the needed amount of food/gifts in the process. The Recovery button is visible only if your energy is bellow 90. When your energy is 90+, Recovery will be replaced by normal Use button, to avoid consumption of an q5 item for recovering less then 10 energy.

Energy

1.5

Training

     Training is the process of increasing your strenght which is one of the most important stats in the game. The higher your strength is, the bigger your damage per hit is, and the higher your total amount of damage done in a battle.

     In order to train, you need to go to your training grounds. You can do that in three different ways:

click on strength bar in the left stats panel
click on Train in the Missions panel, Daily Task section
go to main menu to MY PLACES - Train

Whatever option you choose, it will redirect you to training ground page. For a new player, it looks like this :

As you can see there are 2 separated places for you to train. We will explain both.

1. TRAINING GROUNDS aka TG

is your default training area.
you can use it each day to train with the same amount of strength points
you can use it only once a day
number of strength points available depends on the level of your TG.
energy amount consumed in the training process depends on the level of your TG

For a new player, training ground looks like this and it provides some informations:

level of your training grounds - every green star means a level
number of experience you will receive for using grounds
amount of energy you will lose using grounds
number of strength points you will receive
train button
upgrade button
cost of upgrade to next level

As you can see on the image above, you have an upgrade button, and the cost of that upgrade. There are 5  levels of TG and 4 upgrade steps:

  - TG level 1 - this is default for all new accounts. It gives you 1 strength point, 1 XP point and consumes 10 energy
  - TG level 2 - upgrade to this costs  20golds. It gives you 2 strength points, 1 XP point and consumes 8 energy
  - TG level 3 - upgrade to this costs 30 golds. It gives you 3 strength points, 1 XP point and consumes 6 energy
  - TG level 4 - upgrade to this costs 40 golds. It gives you 4 strength points, 1 XP point and consumes 4 energy
  - TG level 5 - upgrade to this costs 50 golds. it gives you 5 strength points, 1 XP point and consumes 2 energy.

TIP: There is no downgrade option and there is no confirmation message for upgrade. If you push the upgrade button, it will automatically subtract gold from your account. So, make sure this is want you want to do.

Just so you understand better this differences, here is how a default and a maximum level training grounds look like:

2. BOXING RING

here you can improve your strength points by using gloves
in order to use gloves and transform them into strenght, push the Sparring button
you can use boxing ring to train everytime you acquire gloves
for each glove you consume in sparring process you also receive 1 XP point
for each glove you consume in sparring process you lose 1 energy point
you cant use sparring button if you have less energy the the amount of gloves, you need equal or more energy
you can store as many gloves as you want
however, if you have more then 100 gloves stored, you need to be at 100 energy to use the sparring button, and it will automatically use all energy and consume 100 gloves

To better understand this concepts, lets take a practical example and assume we have 9 gloves in inventory, and take a look at boxing ring panel and the information it provides:

number of experience points you will receive for sparring
number of strength points you will receive
amount of energy you will lose
number of gloves you will use
sparring button.

Both panels - for Training grounds and Boxing ring, give you these informations in advance. After you press the train/sparring button, you will be shown again all these info inf the form of some small panells.

     2.1. How can you acquire gloves:

  - collect reward from completing Daily Order.
  - collect rewards from all levels of the Iceberg Drift
  - from quests.
  - from Buddy - Buddy tutorial here.
  - from helms.

     Helms is a concept introduced to help young players develop faster and for that reason  helms can only be donated to players with strength 3500 max, and can be used only by them. When you donate them, they will transform in gloves for the receiving player, and then he can use them to improve strength by sparring.
     Helms can be obtained from:

buddy level q3
colecting reward for levels A, B and D on Iceberg Drift
quests.

2.2. How can you transform helms into gloves:

use our helms exchange bot: I A Robot - simply donate the amount of helms you want to this account, and gloves will be added to your boxing ring automatically.
look in market feed for players that are selling/buying/trading helms
trade works like this: you have an amount of helms, and you find another player with same amount in inventory. Then you both donate helms to each other and at the end, you both have now gloves you can use.
beware that these kind of direct transactions between players are not guaranteed or safe guarded by game administration, and you proceed with them on your own risk.

You can store as many gloves as you like. But beware that if you have 100 gloves stored, you can not receive anymore helms donations.

Training

1.6

Working

Working is a big part of your life in ice world, because without work it is imposible to gain currency and supplies.

     This tutorial has 2 sections - how to get a job and how to actually work.

     So, how can you get a job? There are several ways to do that:

     1. Go to Market - Job market and there you can see a list of available jobs offers from your country:

Here you can view all job offers from your country, ordered by the value of given salary, from highest to lowest. If you want, you have the option to add some filters like :

select level - usually, all jobs in ice world are offered for all levels, so tempering with this filter will not give you any different results
select quality - this refferes to the level of the company that offers the job.
select country - if you wish to view the offers posted in other countries

Keep in mind some guidelines:

you can apply for any offer posted by a company in any country, regardless of your citizenship, BUT you have to be located in that country in order to be able to do it
you can not resign from a company in the same day you applied for it. In this case, same day means an server day, not 24 hours.
you have to be located in your employer's home country when you want to work
you need 10 energy to be able to work, for all levels of companies
level of your energy doesnt affect your productivity
after you press work, your salary will be automatically added to your account

     2. You can work in your own companies - this is an option i do not recommand to new players, because you need to grasp all the knowledge about game mechanics and economy trends before you can start an succesful bussiness.

     3. You can negociate directly with company owners - for that you can use the Market Feed from the shouts panel, to either let people know you are looking for a job, or see who offers a job and contact that individual.

     4. You can work in your Military Unit companies - this is a widely practice in ice world. You join an military unit, get a job on their companies for a minimum wage, and you receive an amount of diferent supplies on daily/weekly bases, depending on your agreement.

     How to work

     Now that you have a job, you can work, only once a day. Your production result depends on two factors:

your experience level
production bonuses.

There are 3 production bonuses that can be activated:

National productivity bonus - can be activated by Country President or Minister of Economy (if the Country President empoweres him to do it) - costs 20 uranium units.
Daily manager bonus - there are 3 bonuses that can be activated by the company manager (owner). During a day, you can choose only one to activate, and only once per day.
Corporation bonus - can be activated by a corporation Human Resources Manager, if the company is a part of a corporation. There are 2 bonuses and HR can activate only one of them and only once a day, each one with its cost in gold.

In order to maximize your production, it is best to work when all posible bonuses are active.

One can see if and what bonuses are active for the company he/she works for, by going to the employer's page. Any active bonuses will be shown on the company's logo, like in the example below:

National productivity bonus
Daily manager bonus
Corporation bonus

HINT: These are bonuses that CAN be activated, it doesnt mean they ARE MANDATORY.

     Scroll users can activate alerts for each bonus activation, making it easier to track the optimal work period.
     Non scroll users will have to reach an agreement with the managers on how to be notified about it.
     All bonuses can be activated only once during an ice apple day.

     To actually work, you need to go to your employer's page. For that you can:

click on Work from your Daily Task panel

go to your profile page, and click on the company logo from your Activity panel

Either way, you will be redirected to your empoyer's page, where you can press Work to complete the job.

After you press work button, you will be given some informations about the task you just performed:

experience gained
salary received
number of days you worked since you start playing the game
energy you lost in process
number of items produced
amount of raw material consumed in the work process

Productivity

If you wish you check your productivity level during past days, go to employer page and click on the button indicated by the arrow in the image bellow:

A new page with company employees will open. To check your productivity click on the button indicated in the image bellow:

Working

1.7

Donations

In Ice Apple, you can donate money and objects to your friends or another player.

If you want to donate to another player, go on his profile and click on the icon indicated by the arrow above. Then you can choose what you want to donate: items, special items, money, gold, even trophies. You can donate any item that exists in your inventory except Coins, no matter if its final products, raw materials or special items. All you need to do is choose the item, then the amount and click donate

If you want to donate money or gold, its the same. Select the currency you want, or gold, type in the amount and press donate.

There are 2 category of items that have special donations rules:

gold - there is a limit for daily gold donations: 30 gold for regular players and 80 golds for player that have scrolls activated. After you reached this limit you have to wait 24 hours to be able to donate again. Day change doesnt reset it.
scrolls - if you want to donate a scroll, you need to buy the 3x pack. Single scrolls cant be donated.

You can also donate trophies you won or bought, in similar way. Just type the number of trophies you want to give away and press donate

There is a catch here also. You can not donate your last trophy. So, if you have only one trophy, you can donate it.

Donations

1.8

Moving residence

Sometimes it will be necessary to move to either another region of your country, or to a different country. The two processes are quite similar, and there are 2 ways of completing them:

the old fashioned way - requires a few more clicks, but it has the advantage of giving you detailed info's about the regions you want to move into;
fast travel option.

Moving residence to another region of your country

To do that go to Country page, and make sure you have the Society tab checked, as indicated by the arrow in the image below. It is the default tab when you open the Country page, but remember that.

Further down this page you have a list with all the regions your country owns. Select the one you wish to move to, and press Details button

Following that, you will be redirected to another page, where a series of informations about that particular region are displayed:

number of players in the region
number of companies located in the region
level of the hospital installed in the region, if any - no yellow star means there is no hospital installed
level of the defense shield installed in the region if any - no yellow star means there is no defense shield installed
each yellow star means a level for hospital or shield. Informations about installed items can be seen also by placing your mouse cursor on the stars.

In this example, you can see there is no hospital installed in this region, but there is an Q5 defense shield installed:

In order to move, select a ticket, then press Move. Moving process will consume some energy, depending on the ticket you use:

ticket quality 1 will consume 10 energy
ticket quality 2 will consume 5 energy

To move to another region belonging to your country you reside in, you can use only q1 and q2 tickets. You dont need to check in inventory if you have them. The drop menu shows you the number of tickets that will be used in the process and, in brackets, the amount of tickets of each quality existing in your inventory. Also, only the usable tickets will be shown. So, in the case above, if you want to move into another region on your current country, this menu will display only Q1 and Q2 tickets, even if you have other quality levels tickets in storage.

HINT: By default, the game will prompt you to use the best ticket available in your storage for your chosen action, from the point of view of energy consumption. In this case, you will be prompt to use an Q2 ticket, as it will consume only 5 energy.

Moving residence to another country

Like i said is quite similar process. Again go to Country page. Then, press on the flag

This will open a list of all countries from Ice Apple world

Choose the country you want to move to, click on it, and you will be redirected to its country page. Then repeat all the steps listed in first section of this tutorial.
There is a difference thou. In order to move to another country, you need to use q3, q4 or q5 tickets:

ticket quality 3 will consume 10 of your energy
ticket quality 4 will consume 5 of your energy
ticket quality 5 will move you without any energy consumption.

     Fast travel moving

     As i said in the begining of this tutorial, you have also the fast travel option. To use this feature, go to your profile page, where you can see this panel:

drop menu with list of countries. First in this list is your current residence country, then all the rest in alphabetical order.
drop menu with list of all regions belonging to the country you selected. These are ordered alphabeticaly. If you select the region you are already located in, when you try to move, the server will block the action and display an error message.
drop menu with tickets that can be used to complete the moving process. Few things to remember here:

               - this menu will show you only the tickets from your inventory that can be used. If you try to move to another region of your current country, it will display only the Q1 and Q2 tickets from your inventory, even if you have other quality level tickets in storage. If you try to move to another country, it will display only tickets level Q3, Q4 and Q5 from your inventory.
              - the game will promt you to use the best ticket available in your storage for the selected action, from the point of view of energy consumption. So, if you want to move to another region of your current country, it will prompt you to use a Q2 ticket, provided you have it in inventory. If you want to move to another country, it will prompt you to use a Q5 ticket, even if you have also Q3 and Q4 in inventory. Of course, you can click on the menu, and choose another option, if it suits you.
               - also, you can see in this menu the number of tickets that will be consumed in the process, and, in brackets, the amount of tickets in your storage.

Moving residence

1.9

Applying for citizenship

To apply for a different citizenship, you need to go to Country page:

Option 1 - acces it from main game : COUNTRY - Country
Option 2 - click on the flag icon next to you name in the left stats panel

You will be redirected to your citizenship country page where you need to click on the icon flag indicated below:

This will open a list of all the countries from IceApple

Choose the country who's citizen you want to become, then move to one of its region. If you dont know how to move, read moving tutorial.
For example, lets say i want to move to Romania. After i moved to Romania, i go to Country page again, click on Society tab, then pres on View requests

You will be redirected to another page where you can apply for citizenship:

After you applied for citizenship, you do not have to remain in the region, nor even the country. You can move anywhere you want, and you will receive an alert if your citizenship is accepted or rejected.
If you want to cancel your application, you go back to same page and click the Cancel button

YOU CAN NOT cancel your application to another country if you are located in a region of your CURRENT CITIZENSHIP country. In order to be able to see the Cancel button, you need to move to any region of any country besides your current citizenship.

IF you want to change citizenship, follow all the steps, but there is no Apply buton, its because you do not meet all the requirements for it:

you cant have any position in your current country goverment
you cant be a congressman in your current country
you cant be the president of your current country
you cant be member of a party

Applying for citizenship

Medals

     Medals are a reward given to you for accomplishing several tasks. Some of them are easy, other are quite hard to get.

     Hard worker medal

     Not the hardest medal to get. You just need to work 30 days to have it. You can change who you work for, and you can work in your own companies. The working days doesnt have to be consecutive to gain the medal.
     Reward - 5 gold

     Level up medal

     Name says it all. You get this medal when you jump to your next XP level.
     Reward - 1 gold

     Super soldier medal

     Quite simple medal. You get it everytime you advance 100 strength points. Same as the hard worker medal, its not mandatory to train every day to get this medal.
     Reward - 5 gold

     Part President medal

     If you win the elections for party president, this is the medal you get.
     Reward - 5 gold

     Congress Member Medal

     You are interested by political life? This medal is for you. You receive it when you are elected in your country congress.
     Reward - 5 gold

     Country President Medal

     This one is quite harder than the 2 previous ones. You receive it when you win Presidential election. No other thing to say that you need to be a good politician or a good leader to be able to win it. This medal is awarded only to those that win the elections, you dont receive it thru impeach law.
     Reward - 5 gold

     Media Mogul Medal

     You like to write articles in your newspaper ? Maybe you will have a chance to receive a media mogul medal. When you will have 200 citizens who follow your newspaper : this medal is for you.
     Reward - 5 gold

     Battle Hero Medal

     This medal can be very difficult to get, especially for young players. You receive it when you have the highest amount of damage in a battle. Most of the time you will need some extra damage from apples or q1 q2 food fights to get it. New players have the biggest chance to get it in the Youth Hero battles.
     Reward - 5 gold

     Youth Hero

     Given the dinamic of these genre of games, its very hard to almost imposible for a new player to win Battle Hero medal, when there are players much older and stronger. That is why the Youth Hero concept was introduced in the game. In every battle there will be a chance for young players to win a Battle Hero medal, if they will fit the criteria under which the Young Hero division is ongoing for that battle. There are four criteria types:

- your in-game birthday is earlier then 120 days ago
- level is less then 20
- military rank is less then Colonel
- strength is less then 2500

     If you open the Wars page, you will see one of these 4 shields beside every battle, indicating which Young Hero criteria is in place for that specific battle.
     Keep in mind that if you step out of the criteria during the battle, you will not receive Battle Hero medal.

     Resistance Hero Medal

     You receive this medal if you start a resistance war in an occupied region, and the battle is won by the resistance. Can be a bit tricky to get.
     Reward - 5 gold

     Society Builder Medal

     If you have friends who are interested of playing Ice Apple, invite them into the game using your referal link, and you receive a medal everytime of of them reaches level 10.
     Reward - 2 gold

     True Patriot Medal

Not the hardest to win at first, but it gets harder. Like its name said : You need to fight for your country to receive it. You will receive your first one when you will inflict 100K of damages for the country of your citizenship and next medals will be received when you reach a given amount of damage.
You can follow the progress of of your true patriot damage in the profile page:

- indicates the total damage done for your current home country and progress untill your next medal
- indicates damage done for previous home conutries, if any.

Damage made for True Patriot does not reset to zero if you change citizenship. If you return to one of your previous countries, counter will resume form the amount of damage you already made for that country.
However, if you take citizenship of a country for the first time, your next True Patriot damage level will start not from zero, but from the level you currently are on.

Example: as shown in the image above, that player had made 205,82 milions damage for Hungary before taking USA citizenship. In order to receive his first True Patriot medal for USA, he needs to deal 209,3 milions damage.

Reward - 5 gold

IceApple Marine Medal

This is a rare medal and can be obtained only by participating in specific events that are organized by the game administration. The specific rules for obtaining it are announced before that event.

Medals

Market

3.1

Taxes

Taxes. Everyone hates them, and yet you cant escape them even in ice world. But, they are vital for the economy, as they give countries funds.

Taxes can be proposed/modified by country congress and country president, for each economy branch, as a law and it needs to pass the voting procedure.

To see taxes level for a specific country, you need to go to that country's page and press the Economy tab. For the porpouse of this tutorial, lets taxe as example the taxes level from USA:

You will be redirected to a new page where you can see all taxes level:

On the left you can see all products subject to taxes, then tax level for each one. Each product type can be taxed at a different level, by proposing a law.

   Work Tax - this tax is payed when you work.
   Example: you took a job at a weapon company and your employer gives you a sallary of 100 cc. As we see in the table above, work tax in USA for weapons companies is 1%. When you work, your employer will see 100 cc removed from his company account. From those 100 cc, 99 will go into your account and 1 cc wil go into country account

   VAT - Value Added Tax - You pay it each time that you want to trade something on the market. VAT is also payed by company managers that want to take out products from their companies to their storage by direct deal.
     Example: VAT for weapons in US is 1%. If i want to sell weapons on this market for the price of 10 cc per weapon, when someone buys one weapon, 9 cc will go to my company account and 1 cc to country account.

This example is given for selling on your domestic market. If you wish to sell on foreign markets, remember to take in consideration the import tax.
When you set up the price for your products, keep in the mind the server adds the VAT tax after you place the offer on the market. So, in the example above and for US tax level, if you set up a price of 10 cc per weapon, on the market your offer will be 10.10 cc. If you want to have your products on market at 10 cc, then you set a price for 9.9 cc.

Import Tax - tax you pay if you want to sell products on foreign markets.
Example: a foreign company want to sell weapons on US market for the price of 20 cc. US import tax for weapons is 1%. Every time he sells a weapon he will receive 19.8 cc and 0.2 cc will go into US account.

Corporation Tax - this is a tax payed for every operation you want to undertake in an corporation. Its set between 1 to 30 %, by congress law. As this is a complex topic, you can read more about it in the corporation tutorial.

Taxes

3.2

Agent Shop

Agent Shop is a special market branch defined by some special characteristics:

you can sell high valued items here
you can sell special items you aquiered with coins here
you can set the price in gold only
you can place only items from your personal storage, you cant add items directly from companies
maximum number of items you can have for sale at one given time is 10 - 20 for scroll users
it has a tax apllied to goods placed on it

This tax needs some explaining and these are important guidelines to remember:

for every product placed for sale on Agent Shop there is a fix tax applied, of 5% of your asking price.

this tax is not added to the asking price, it is SUBTRACTED FROM YOUR ACCOUNT in the moment you click to add item on sale.
when/if you remove the item from agent shop, you WILL NOT GET THAT TAX BACK.
this tax will be payed EACH time you add an item, even if you took it back from the market then place it again

Example: if i want to sell a scroll for 100 gold, the moment i click add, server will take 5 gold from my account. Next day, if i remove it from agent shop, i will not get 5 gold back. If i place it again on agent shop, again the server will take another 5 gold from my account.

Then why should you use agent shop? Safe transactions. Considering we are talking about high valued items, and the fact that game administration will not get involved in deals made between players by direct donations, its a safe way to sell those items.

To go to Agent Shop, click on Market - Agent Shop:

and you will be redirected to shop's page:

which offers you 3 options:

select the product you want to buy
select the quality of that product, where is the case
place/manage your products on the shop

Select product - click on it to see this:

It is a list of all products types that can be sold on agent shop. Click on the item you want to purchase to open list of offers, ordered by price, starting with the lowest. If you want to refine your search, use the next filter - quality.

Select quality - click on it to see this:

Select the desired level of quality to filter the offers.

Apples and scrolls dont have different quality levels.

My offers - here you can place your own products for sale in the shop. Click on it to open this panel:

Then click on the indicated arrow to open a drop-down menu. This menu will contain all the items from your storage that can be placed in agent shop. Select the one you want to sell.

You can only place one item for sale at the time. So if you have 5 houses and you want to place them all for sale, you will need to place 5 offers.

Then type in the price for your item and press Add:

Do not forget the 5% tax. For the example above, 1 house - 200 gold, tax was 10 gold, which were removed from my account automatically the moment i pressed add

If you want to remove your item from the agent shop, or add another one, go to shop page again:

To remove your item from the shop, just click on the Remove button, and the item will be back in your storage. If you wish to place another offer, repeat the steps.

Agent Shop

3.3

Storage

      Your storage is the place where you will keep all the products from your possesion, from food to raw materials or special items.
     Each 1 item you can store will ocupy just 1 space, regardless of its type.

     To acces current storage you can proceed in two ways:

access it from main game menu
click on the experience bar from your stats panel on the left of the page.

You will redirected to your storage page that look like this:

storage level - each filled star indicates one upgrade level
amount of items in storage
free storage space
upgrade cost to next level
upgrade button
inventory button - press it to acces the storage room

Acces your storage room

- click on Inventory button as indicated above, and you will see your storage room:

Storage window is divided into several categories, for better management:

Storage 0/200 - indicates total storage capacity and how much space is occupied
Final products - food, gifts, tickets, weapons, houses, hospitals
Raw materials - oil, iron, grain, wood
Special items - scrolls, apples, golden apples, helms.
Management - a small panel that will hold items who need to be activated: house and scroll:

House - traits:

to be able to use it, you need to load it - press Load button from management panel
If you have in inventory houses of different levels, all will appear in the management panel, as long as you dont have any house active
House has a validity of 30 usages, not days!
You can load only one house at the time, regardles of its level.
As long as you have a house active, it will appear like this in management panel:

If you purchase a higher level house and want to get rid of the old one, press Destroy button, then a list of all houses will appear in your management panel again. Choose the one you want, and press Load.

Scrolls - you can activate as many scrolls as you like, their validity period adds to existing scroll validity. As long as you have them in inventory, the Activate button will appear in your management panel

Storage Upgrade

You start the game with an default storage of 200 and starting from there, you have 4 upgrade levels available:

level one upgrade - costs 10 gold and adds 200 space
level two upgrade - costs 20 gold and adds 200 space
level three upgrade - costs 30 gold and adds 200 space
level four upgrade - costs 40 gold and adds 200 space

Scroll users have an adittional 4000 storage space available to them.

Maximum storage space you can get, with all levels upgraded and all available items activated is 5000.

Storage

Companies

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Companies

4.1

Creating a company

4.2

Buying a company

4.3

Upgrading a company

4.5

Company Management

Managing a company might look tricky at first look, but you just need a bit of time and attention to succesfully do it.

Company Management

4.6

Workers Management

Corporations

     Corporation concept was introduced in the game to give more productivity tools for those of you who want to make a career in economical module, and its also the first step in future expansions of the economical module.

     To create a corporation, there are few simple steps to follow.

     STEP 1

     - go to MY PLACES - Corporations and click on Create corporation

     STEP 2

     - choose a name
     - choose a founder company - you have to own at least one company to be able to create a corporation. If you own more then one, use the drop menu to choose a company as a founder
     - chose a region - this will be where your headquartes are located. Click on the drop menu to open a list of all regions in the game in alphabetical order. You dont have to be located in the region you want to choose as headquarters, or even the country.
     - click on create.

IMPORTANT: the cost of founding a corporation is 350 gold! Gold will be subtracted from your account the moment you push create, so make sure this is what you want. There is no disolve button, and no refund option.

     You are now the owner of a corporation, and you will automatically be appointed as CEO. To help start managing it, you start with 99 gold in the corporation account.

     There are 3 official positions in any Corporation, who can operate in diferent aspects of its activity:

     CEO - Chief Executing Officer

     He is the owner and head of the corporation. He has following abilities:

can name and/or change the other 2 corporation oficials
can invite company to corporation by selling shares from the stock HE CONTROLS
can sell shares to other members inside the corporation
can build an uranium mine
can initiate law to change CEO
can propose premium fees to corporation oficials
can propose dividends to be shared among all corporation members
can force vote ending for an inside corporation proposal, when all members have voted
can sell uranium to an country or an alliance

HR - Human Resource Director

He is in charge of controlling production by activating bonuses for collection of uranium and work of employees in all companies member of the corporation. There are 2 different bonuses:

Productivity +40% - costs 5 gold and gives +40% productivity for all companies in the corporation for 2 hours
Bonuses x2 - costs 10 gold and doubles your normal productivity for all companies in corporation for 5 hours

HR has also acces to the following options:

can invite company to corporation by selling shares from the stock HE CONTROLS
can sell shares to other members inside the corporations
can build uranium mine
can initiate law to change CEO
can propose premium fees to corporation officials
can propose dividends to be shared among all corporation members
can resign from the position

     COO - Chief Operating Officer

     He is in charge of colecting uranium from the mine. He can do that not more then 8 times during a day, and with a minim interval of one hour between. He has also the option to resign his position within the corporation at any given moment.

     There are some rules regarding these positions:

you can be CEO in multiple corporations
CEO can not appoint himself as HR or COO
one player can hold only one HR position and only one COO position, but not in the same corporation
you can not appoint 2 persons for HR or COO within 24 hours period - meaning, if you appoint someone as HR, and for some reason, he resignes after just 3 hours, you can not appoint someone else for HR position until 24 hours have passed since the last similar action.
if CEO is changed, automatically, all the other officials are sacked.

IMPORTANT things to consider and remember before you decide to found a corporation:

You can found as many corporations as you wish, as long as you have the funds.
You must own at least 1 company to create the corporation
Only private companies can be used to found a corporation. State-owned companies do not qualifiy.
Companies that are already members in a corporation can not be used to found another one.
You do not have to move in a region/country to found the corporation, just choose it from the list
Corporation must have a minimum of 3 members in order to function - meaning you can found it, but it order to be able to complete its functions, you need 2 more members at least.
Maximum numbers of members a corporation can have is 7.
One company can hold shares only in one corporation
YOU CAN NOT disolve a company that hold shares in a corporation. You need to transfer/sell those shares first.
Company owners can vote in corporations decisions - number of votes a owner have depends on the shares his company holds. A corporation has 10 packs of shares, each pack containing 10%. For each pack you own, you get one vote.
For ALL activities in your corporation, there is a tax. In most cases, the tax level from the country in which your corporation HQ is situated applies. The exception is the tax for your (if any) uranium mine - level of tax applied here is the one set from the country that holds the region where your mine is located.
if you sell one of your companies, and it has shares in a corporation, the buyer will also take over the shares, and thus, become member of that corporation. SO make sure and double check when you sell a company. To avoid this, just sell company shares to other members, or transfer them to another company from your portofolio (provided that it is also a corporation member)
KEEP IN MIND that allmost all laws in an corporation can be adopted only by voting sessions. And the player who controls the majority of shares, controls the corporation. So be very carefull whom do you invite in your corporation, and who you give shares to, as you might lose control of your own corporation if a CEO change is proposed and you dont have the majority of votes to counter it.

Most of these rules are explained in detail in the Corporation Management tutorial.

Corporations

5.1

Corporation Management

   Once you have created a corporation, you will be automatically appointed as its CEO, and you have acces to all features, options and tools to manage it and create an economical empire.

     To acces your management tools, you need to go to corporation page. There are 2 ways to do that:

go to your profile page and click on corporation avatar from your activity panel
go to MY PLACES - Corporations and click on Corporation Info

Then, you will be redirected to the corporation page which gives you several informations and tools:

corporation avatar - can be set and changed from management panel
general informations about the corporation : name, HQ location, CEO name and link, ammount of gold in corporation account, ammount of uranium in corporation account, foundation date, number of member companies, location of uranium mine (if any is build)
buttons to acces the cosmetic management panel and to acces the corporation office

number of members in your corporations - here you can see the companies that hold shares in your corporation and direct link to these companies pages (click on company avatar), ammount of shares, and companies CEO name, and direct link to their profiles. As shown in the example bellow, at first, you are the only member, therefore you hold 100% of shares.

short description panel of your corporation - can be edited from the management panel, and its costs 10 gold, which will be subtracted from your account, not corp account.
a view of your corporation managing team - names, avatars and direct links to profiles of corporation CEO, HR and COO

1. MANAGEMENT PANEL

Here you have 2 options:

set or change the avatar of the corporation - is free, can be done unlimited times, just mind the format of the image and recommended dimensions.
set or change the description of the corporation - here you can add a text to stand as a description of your corporation, your business manifesto if you like. Be aware that is costs 10 golds to do it, gold that will be taken from your account. Also, any time you want to modify your description, you will have to pay the 10 gold fee.

     2.CORPORATION OFFICE

      2.1. CORPORATION SHOUTS panel

      Here you can chat with all members of your corporation by using shouts.

      2.2. ACTIVITY PANEL

     This panel holds several options and tools for corporations officials, different ones for each corporation position: CEO, HR and COO.

DON NOT FORGET that your corporation need a minimum of 3 member to be operational. You cant not propose any laws,and you can not appoint an HR or an COO until you have at least 3 companies in your corporation

2.2.1. CEO Activity panel

It looks like this:

and offers 4 tools, available only to CEO:

HR change
COO change
Force voting end
Sell uranium

              2.2.1.1. HR change

     Here, CEO can appoint an HR, or replace the current HR. It costs 3 gold, subtracted from corporation account.

     Procedure: click on the link and type in the small box the ID of the player you want to appoint as HR, then press change, and he will be automatically appointed as HR in your corporation. This player doesnt have to own a company to be appointed as HR, and he doesnt have to be a member of the corporation to be appointed as HR. You can appoint anyone you want.

              2.2.1.2. COO change

     Here, CEO can appoint or replace the COO of the corporation. It costs 3 gold, subtracted from corporation account.

     Procedure: click on the link and type in the small box the ID of the player you want to appoint as COO, then press change, and he will be automatically appointed. This player doesnt have to own a company to be appointed as COO, and he doesnt have to be a member of the corporation to be appointed as COO. You can appoint anyone you want.

TIP: If a player was appointed in a corporation position - HR or COO - and he resigned, he can not be appointed to another or same position for a window of 24 hours starting the moment he resigned

              2.2.1.3. Force voting end

     For every law and proposal that requieres members voting inside a corporation, there is a 24 hours time window in which they can express their votes. If all members have voted, the CEO can end the 24 window alocated to that proposal for the price of 1 gold, payed from corporation account. Advantages of using this feature come from the fact that you can have only 1 voting procedure active simultaneously, and closing it will allow you to pass a new law right away, or from the fact that you want to benefit from the proposed law right away.
     Procedure: just click on the link from the menu, then click on activate.

              2.2.1.4 Sell uranium

     CEO can sell the uranium from corporation mine to a country or an alliance. To select an option, click on the link from the menu and that reveal the 2 option right bellow.

Selling uranium to an alliance:

click on Sell uranium to alliance
select an alliance from the drop menu
type quantity and price - minimum amount of uranium you can sell to alliance is 100 and minimum price you can ask for it is 10 gold.
click sell

     The Alliance Financial Controller will receive an alert about the transaction, and he has the option to accept or refuse the purchase. The gold for purchasing must be available in alliance account.
     For every transaction, there is a tax applied - corporation tax. In this case, the corporation tax of the country where corporation HQ is located.


     Selling uranium to a country:

click on Sell uranium to country
select a country from the drop menu
type quantity and price - minimum ammount you can sell to a country is 50 and minimum price you can ask is 5 gold
click sell

     The Country President will receive an alert about the transaction and has the option to accept or refuse the purchase. The gold for purchasing must be available in country treasury.
     Each transaction will be the subject of the corporation tax of the country where corporation HQ is situated.

         2.2.2. HR Activity panel

     It looks like this:

and hold 3 options for HR:

Productivity +40 bonus
Bonuses x2 bonus
Resign

              2.2.2.1. Productivity +40%

     When activated, for the price of 2 gold, all companies that are members in the corporation will receive an productivity bonus of 40% for 2 hours.
     Procedure: click on the link then click activate

              2.2.2.2. Bonuses x2

     When activated, for the price of 10 golds, all companies that are members in the corporation will receive a double productivity bonus for their employees for 5 hours.
     Procedure: click on the link the click activate

Only one of the bonuses can be activated during one day, and only once during one day.

              2.2.2.3. Resign

     HR can use this feature to resign his position within the corporation, for the price of 1 gold which will be subtracted from HR account.
     Procedure: click on the link then click Activate.

         2.2.3. COO Activity panel

     It looks like this:

and hold 2 options for COO:

Uranium gathering
Resign

              2.2.3.1. Uranium gathering

     This is where your COO will collect the uranium from the corporation mine, provided it was build. Uranium can be gathered only once per hour, and no more then 8 times during a day.
     Procedure: click on the link in the menu, check the captcha box then click on Gather button.

              2.2.3.2 Resign

     COO can use this feature to resign his position within the corporation, for the price of 1 gold subtracted from COO account.
     Procedure: click on the link in the menu then click Activate.

      2.3. Corporation Members panel

     This is an very important panel, as here new companies can be invited into corporation, shares can be traded, corporation profits shared between members and many other.
     First, this panel shows you the vital informations about share-holders within the corporation:

all companies that are members in the corporation and direct link to company page - click on the avatar to acces them
region where each company is located - place your mouse cursor on the flag to see it
CEO of each company and direct link to CEO profile page - click on the name to acces it
number of shares each company holds.

     Then, you have the Voting panel where all members of the corporation can issue laws regarding its activity.
     All the laws that can be proposed here, have to undertake a voting procedure.
     All the laws that can be proposed here are the subject of corporation tax.

     The main rule here is that only 1 voting procedure care be proposed at the time. In order to pass another one, you either wait 24 hours for the current one to close, or have CEO force voting end, if conditions are met.
     If a voting ends up beeing a tie, the law will fail to pass.

     And finally, you have another panel where you can see active voting sessions, past voting proposals and how they turned out, and acts history in the corporation. Just click on each tab, to check them out.

Corporation Management

5.2

Inviting a company into corporation

     To start the procedure of inviting a company into your corporation, you need to go to corporation Office panel. I will assume that if you are here, you already know how to get there, so i will not bore you by explaining it. If you dont know, read about it in the Corporation Management tutorial.
     Once you openned the Office panel, you can initiate the procedure of inviting a company from the Voting menu, as shown in the image bellow:

To start, just click on Invite company.
Here, corporation members can propose a law to invite an company outside the corporation to join it by selling some shares to that company. The member who makes the invitation, can sell only shares from his portofolio.

Example: I have 2 companies A and B as members in X corporation. X corporation has another member, Y, who controls 3 companies in the corporation. If i want to invite another company, i can sell shares only from my companies, A and B, i cant offer Y's shares. And the same goes for Y.

STEP 1 - make the proposal

Procedure:

type company ID
choose amount of shares that will be sold to that company - you can choose multiple of 10 % share packs, with 10% beeing minimum and 90% maximum amount. Make sure the % shares you propose to sell doesnt exceed your stack of shares, otherwise you will receive an error and have to start the process again
chose the company from who's portofolio shares will be sold - you can sell only shares belonging to your companies, which will be available for selection in the drop menu
type the asking price for the transaction - minimum price that can be set is 100 gold. When you set the price keep in mind that 50% of this sum, when payed, will be taken by the server, then, the other 50% will be the subject of the corporation tax, and the rest will be directed into corporation account. The corporation tax that is applied is the one from the country where HQ of the corporation is located

Example: I want to sell 10% of my corporation, with HQ in Moscow to X company, located in Bucharest. Russia has a corporation tax of 10%. Romania has a corporation tax of 5%. My asking price is 100 gold. If the company owner accepts the transactions, 50 gold will be retain by game server, which leaves me with 50 gold. To these 50 gold, the corporation tax from Russia will be applied: 10% from 50 gold is 5 gold. Which leaves me with the final ammount of 45 golds that will end up in corporation account.

press Start to launch the voting procedure.

     STEP 2 - voting the proposal.
     After the invitation is made, there is a 24 hour voting window, in which all members of the corporation can vote pro or against the proposal.
     Number of votes each member has depends on the amount of shares he holds. For every 10% of corporation shares owned, you receive 1 vote. So, if you hold for example 70% of shares, you have 7 votes.
     When you choose to vote pro or against the law, all your votes will be taken into consideration. You cant split your votes.

     Procedure:

the active proposal/law can be viewed by any member in the Active Voting panel - you can see type of the law, number of votes pro/against and the date and time when voting window closes. Remember that number of votes depends on amount of shares, so, if you see for example 3 votes pro, it doesnt mean that 3 people have voted, it can mean that only one member with 30% shares has voted.

click on the green raw to expend the window and express your vote - here you have some detailed informations about the law: who proposed it, time left until it voting closes, link to the invited company page (click on the avatar to acces it), amount of shares that will be sold, the price of the transaction, and the vote buttons.

you have to wait untill all members of the corporation have voted, or untill 24 hour window closes - at any given time during these 24 hours, you can check the progress of the law. In the example bellow, all share holders have voted, and you can see their avatars and stack of shares. If not all the members have voted in the 24 hour window, the server will take in consideration only the expressed votes to either pass or deny the law.

if all corporation members voted, the CEO can force end voting to put the law in effect immediatly. Otherwise, you still have to wait 24 hours for the law to enter in effect.

STEP 3 - completing transaction
If the law is accepted within the corporation, the owner of the invitated company will receive an alert which contains the informations about the transaction:

which company form his portofolio was invited
what corporation launched the invitation and link to it
the amount of shares offered
the asking price

and he has 24 hours to either accept or decline in.

If he accepts, transaction is finalised, and he becomes new member of the corporation.
If he declines, or fails to make a decision choice in 24 hours, transaction fails.

IMPORTANT TIP: when you invite new companies, and new players into your corporation, keep in mind that most of the decisions in a corporation are based on votes. Including changing the CEO. Who controls majority of votes, controlls the corporation.So be carefull whom you deal with, and how many shares you give to others, to avoid the situation where your corporation is taken over by someone else and you end up a simple member with no function and no power.
GAME ADMINISTRATION WILL NOT INTERFERE IN THESE SITUATIONS.

Inviting a company into corporation

5.3

Selling a part of the corporation

     The diference between inviting a company and selling part of a corporation is that you can invite an outside company into corporation, and you can sell a part only to a company that is already a corporation member.

     To start the procedure of selling a part of your shares you need to go to corporation Office panel. I will assume that if you are here, you already know how to get there, so i will not bore you by explaining it. If you dont know, read about it in the Corporation Management tutorial.
     Once you openned the Office panel, you can initiate the procedure selling a part from the Voting menu, as shown in the image bellow:

     To start the procedure, click on Sell part link from the menu.
     Here, any member of the corporation can propose a law to sell a part or all of his shares to another member of the corporation, or to transfer shares from one of his companies to another, provided they are both corporation members.

When a company sells all of its shares, it will leave the corporation!!!!!

STEP 1 - make the proposal

Procedure:

from the drop menu select one of the companies you wish to sell a part to - in the menu will appear all corporation member companies. Make sure not to select as buyer the same company as the seller, this will generate an error when you start the voting procedure and you will have to begin all over again. You can select another player company, if you wish to sell the stack, or another company from your portofolio (if the case) to just transfer your shares.
select amount of share you wish to sell - the amount must be a multiple of 10% packs of shares. Minimum is 10% and maximum is 90%. Again, make sure you dont exceed the amount of shares your company holds, or you will be repeating the process.
from the drop menu select the company which you will be selling the shares from
type the price of the transaction - minimum price that can be set is 100 gold. When setting the price keep in mind that from the sum you ask, 50% will be retained by the server. From the rest of 50%, 25% minus corporation tax is going to the seller account, and 25% minus the corporation tax to the corporation account. The corporation tax that is applied is the one from the country where corporation HQ is located.

Example: My corporation is located in Argentina. Argentina has a corporation tax level of 10%. I wanna sell 10% of my X company shares to Y company within the corporation. My asking price is 100 gold. If Y owner accepts the transaction, 50 gold will be retain by game server. From the remaining 50 gold, 25 gold - 2,5 gold (corporation tax) will go to my account, and 25 - 2,5 gold will go to corporation account.

press Start to launch the law

     STEP 2 - voting the proposal
     After the invitation is made, there is a 24 hour voting window, in which all members of the corporation can vote pro or against the proposal.
     Number of votes each member has depends on the amount of shares he holds. For every 10% of corporation shares owned, you receive 1 vote. So, if you hold for example 70% of shares, you have 7 votes.
     When you choose to vote pro or against the law, all your votes will be taken into consideration. You cant split your votes.

     Procedure:

the active proposal/law can be viewed by any member in the Active Voting panel - you can see type of the law, number of votes pro/against and the date and time when voting window closes. Remember that number of votes depends on ammount of shares, so, if you see as in the example bellow 6 votes pro, it doesnt mean that 6 people have voted, it can mean that only one member with 60% shares has voted

click on the green row to expend the window and express your vote - here you have some detailed informations about the law: who proposed it, time left until it voting closes, link to seller company page (click on the avatar to acces it), ammount of shares that will be sold link to the the buyer company, the price of the transaction, and the vote buttons.

you have to wait untill all members of the corporation have voted, or untill 24 hour window closes - at any given time during these 24 hours, you can check the progress of the law, by coming here and expanding the voting window as shown above. In the example bellow, all share holders have voted, and you can see their avatars and stack of shares. If not all the members have voted in the 24 hour window, the server will take in consideration only the expressed votes to either pass or deny the law.

if all corporation members voted, the CEO can force end voting to put the law in effect immediatly. Otherwise, you still have to wait 24 hours for the law to enter in effect.

STEP 3 - completing transaction
If the law is accepted within the corporation, the owner of the invitated company will receive an alert which contains the informations about the transaction:

which company form his portofolio was invited
the company who offered to sell the part and the ammount of shares offered
the asking price

Selling a part of the corporation

5.4

Building an Uranium mine

     To start the procedure of building an uranium mine for your corporation, you need to go to corporation Office panel. I will assume that if you are here, you already know how to get there, so i will not bore you by explaining it. If you dont know, read about it in the Corporation Management tutorial.
     Once you openned the Office panel, you can initiate the procedure of building an uranium mine from the Voting menu, as shown in the image bellow:

     Building an Uranium mine costs 2000 gold from your corporation account. From this ammount, the sum of 500 gold will be subject to the corporation tax. In this case, the corporation tax that is applied is the one from the country that holds the region where you decide to build your mine, and the tax will go to that country budget. So, a bit of scouting before you choose a region might worth your time.


      Uranium regions:

Saskatchewan
Banat
Northern-Territory
Xinjiang-Uyghur
Baikal
Zaporizhia

STEP 1 - starting the law
Procedure:

click on Build mine from menu
choose a region from the drop menu - there are no restrictions in choosing a region. You dont have to be located in it, it doesnt has to be in same country as corporation, absolutly no restrictions. Just pick one.
press Start

     STEP 2 - voting the law
     After the invitation is made, there is a 24 hour voting window, in which all members of the corporation can vote pro or against the proposal.
     Number of votes each member has depends on the amount of shares he holds. For every 10% of corporation shares owned, you receive 1 vote. So, if you hold for example 70% of shares, you have 7 votes.
     When you choose to vote pro or against the law, all your votes will be taken into consideration. You cant split your votes.

     Procedure:

the active proposal/law can be viewed by any member in the Active Voting panel - you can see type of the law, number of votes pro/against and the date and time when voting window closes.

click on the green row to expend the window and express your vote - here you have some detailed informations about the law: who proposed it, time left until voting closes, region where mine will be build and link to it (click on the flag to see) and the price.

you have to wait untill all members of the corporation have voted, or untill 24 hour window closes - at any given time during these 24 hours, you can check the progress of the law by expanding the voting window as show above. In the example bellow, all share holders have voted, and you can see their avatars and stack of shares. If not all the members have voted in the 24 hour window, the server will take in consideration only the expressed votes to either pass or deny the law.

if all corporation members voted, the CEO can force end voting to put the law in effect immediatly. Otherwise, you still have to wait 24 hours for the law to enter in effect.

     If the law passes, you will have yourself an uranium mine. Now that you have a mine you need to colect uranium.

     STEP 3 - gathering uranium
     The only official that can do that, is the COO - Chief Operating Officer. He has the posibility to collect uranium every hour, 8 times a day.

     Procedure:

go to the corporation Office
on the Activity panel, click on Uranium gathering

that will open a new panel for you - click to complete the captcha, then press Gather. Each time, you will collect 10 uranium units

the uranium will appear in your corporation account and a counter will trigger, indicating time left until you can gather again

You can see the amount of uranium you have in corporation and how many times you have collected uranium during the current day in the corporation info panel

Uranium has following uses in game:

it is needed to activate National productivity bonus
it is needed to launch a nuclear strike

Uranium can be sold out of a corporation to a country or to an alliance, only by its CEO.

Building an Uranium mine

5.5

Changing Corporation CEO

     Every time a corporation is founded by a player, that player automatically becomes its CEO, as he is in total control of the corporation. However, CEO's can be changed, willingly or not.
     Usually, there are 2 types of situations in which this law is proposed within a corporation:

current CEO wants to resign - in this case, the acting CEO wants to pass control of corporation to another player, and the law is likely to succeed
one of the corporation members is trying a take-over - in this case, the acting CEO needs to control the majority of votes, to prevent the attempt.

HINT: be carefull who you take you be as partner in your corporation. If you lose control of the votes majority, you can lose control over your corporation.

To start the procedure of changing CEO you need to go to corporation Office panel. I will assume that if you are here, you already know how to get there, so i will not bore you by explaining it. If you dont know, read about it in the Corporation Management tutorial.
Once you openned the Office panel, you can initiate the procedure selling a part from the Voting menu, as shown in the image bellow:

     To start the procedure, click on Change CEO link from the menu.
     Here, any member of the corporation can propose a law to replace the acting CEO with another member of the corporation.

     STEP 1 - propose the law

click on Change CEO
select an corporation official from the drop menu
click Start

     STEP 2 - voting the law

     After the invitation is made, there is a 24 hour voting window, in which all members of the corporation can vote pro or against the proposal.
     Number of votes each member has depends on the amount of shares he holds. For every 10% of corporation shares owned, you receive 1 vote. So, if you hold for example 70% of shares, you have 7 votes.
     When you choose to vote pro or against the law, all your votes will be taken into consideration. You cant split your votes.

     Procedure:

the active proposal/law can be viewed by any member in the Active Voting panel - you can see type of the law, number of votes pro/against and the date and time when voting window closes. Remember that number of votes depends on ammount of shares, so, if you see as in the example bellow 6 votes pro, it doesnt mean that 6 people have voted, it can mean that only one member with 60% shares has voted

click on the green row to expend the window and express your vote - here you have some detailed informations about the law: who proposed it, time left until it voting closes, link to the official that is proposed to be CEO, the law 's price and voting buttons

you have to wait untill all members of the corporation have voted, or untill 24 hour window closes - at any given time during these 24 hours, you can check the progress of the law, by coming here and expanding the voting window as shown above. In the example bellow, for the share holders that have voted, you can see their avatars and stack of shares. If not all the members have voted in the 24 hour window, the server will take in consideration only the expressed votes to either pass or deny the law.

if all corporation members voted, the CEO can force end voting to put the law in effect immediatly. Otherwise, you still have to wait 24 hours for the law to enter in effect.

If the law passes, the corporation will have a new CEO. Keep in mind that when this happens, the other 2 officials will be automatically removed from their positions.

Changing Corporation CEO

5.6

Corporation Officials gold bonuses and Dividends

     If your corporation is succesful in mining uranium and selling it, CEO or HR can decide to use the profits raised to either give one of the corporations officials a gold bonus, or to distribute dividends equally to all share holders.
     To start either procedure you need to go to corporation Office panel. I will assume that if you are here, you already know how to get there, so i will not bore you by explaining it. If you dont know, read about it in the Corporation Management tutorial.
     Once you openned the Office panel, you can launch either procedure from the Voting menu, as shown in the image bellow:

     OFFICIAL PREMIUM

     CEO or HR can use this option to award one corporation official a gold bonus. Its a simple procedure:

     STEP 1 - propose the law

click on Official premium link from menu
select a corporation official from the drop menu
type in the ammount of gold - when you choose to use this feature, keep in mind that putting gold in corporation is an dificult and expensive process, so weigh the options very carefull. The gold bonus awarded will be subject of the corporation tax. The tax applied is one from the country where corporation HQ is located.

Example: I choose to award my corporation CEO with 200 gold. The country where my corporation is located has a corporation tax of 1%. If the law passes, CEO will receive 200 gold minus the corporation tax, which in this case will be 2 gold, so he will receive 198 gold.

click Start

     STEP 2 - voting the law

     After the invitation is made, there is a 24 hour voting window, in which all members of the corporation can vote pro or against the proposal.
     Number of votes each member has depends on the amount of shares he holds. For every 10% of corporation shares owned, you receive 1 vote. So, if you hold for example 70% of shares, you have 7 votes.
     When you choose to vote pro or against the law, all your votes will be taken into consideration. You cant split your votes.

     Procedure:

the active proposal/law can be viewed by any member in the Active Voting panel - you can see type of the law, number of votes pro/against and the date and time when voting window closes.

click on the green raw to expend the window and express your vote - here you have some detailed informations about the law: who proposed it, time left until it voting closes, the ammount of gold proposed as bonus, and the name, avatar and link of the corporation official who will benefit from the bonus and the vote buttons

you have to wait untill all members of the corporation have voted, or untill 24 hour window closes - at any given time during these 24 hours, you can check the progress of the law by clicking and expanding the window, as shown above. If not all the members have voted in the 24 hour window, the server will take in consideration only the expressed votes to either pass or deny the law.
if all corporation members voted, the CEO can force end voting to put the law in effect immediatly. Otherwise, you still have to wait 24 hours for the law to enter in effect.

If the law passes, the gold will be subtracted from corporation account and the selected official will receive the gold bonus, minus the corporation tax, and an alert regarding that.

     DIVIDENDS

     A similar procedure can be used if CEO or HR decide to share some of the corporation profits with all share holders.
     To start the procedure, just click on Dividends link from the menu, then type in the ammount of gold you want to share as dividends and press start.

Then follow same steps for the voting procedure. The thing you need to take into consideration is the way the corporation tax applies in this situation:

a corporation has 10 stacks of 10% distributed among the companies owners.
the ammount of gold set as dividends divides equally between these 10 stacks, and for each stack corporation tax applies - the tax that applies is the one from the country where corporation HQ is located.
each share holder will receive an ammount of gold depending on how many stacks he owns

Example: I have decided to award my share holders with the total sum of 100 gold, as dividens. The corporation tax in my country is 1%. So the amount of dividens per 10% pack of shares will be 10 gold minus corporation tax of 0.1 gold, so 9.9 gold. A player that owns 30% of my corporation will receive 3 x 9,9 gold.

Corporation Officials gold bonuses and Dividends

Media Module general presentation

     Media module is one of the most, if not the most unregarded part of this game. Allthou it can provide a lot of fun, it doesnt offer vast material rewards, and that's probably one of the reason most players choose to ignore it, sadly. This is a general overview of this module.

     First contact you have with this module is the news panel you can see on your home page, that looks similar to this:

This panel has four different sections:

Top news - here you can see most voted articles from the past 4 days in the entire game, regardless of country it was published in. If an article is older then 4 days, it will be removed from this section.
Latest news - contains latest released articles, again, regardless of the country it was published in.
State - here you can see latest articles published in the country you are currently located in.
See all - click on this button to open a list of all articles ever published in ice-apple, in reverse chronological order, starting with the latest release.

      If you want to look at articles published in a specific country, click on See all, as indicated above, then use the added filter as shown bellow:

STEP 1:
     Click on the indicated image to open a list of all countries in the game

STEP 2:
Choose a country from the list and click on its flag

STEP 3:
See the articles from that country

If you want to read an article, simply click on its title to open it. You will be redirected to a page, which offers you some additional info's beside the actual article:

     1. - newspaper's name - click on it to open a list of all articles published
     2. - player's name
     3. - where was the article published
     4. - date when it was published - game day and in brackets, real date.
     5. - hour when it was published
     6. - subscribe button
     7. - grant button
     8. - vote button

     At the end of the article, you have the option to post coments, reply to coments made by others and vote coments. These options are very intuitive, and do not require too much explanations:

to post a comment to the article, scroll down, where you will find and empty text box. Type your comment there and press the submit button.
to reply to another coment, simply press the reply button, type the text, and press submit
to vote a coment, just press the thumbs-up symbol next to it

HINT: you can note delete a coment, a reply or un-vote a comment. So, make sure you want to take these actions.

If you like how a fellow player writes in his newspaper, you can follow his progress by subscribing to that newspaper. All your subscriptions can be viewed and and managed in the main game menu, MY PLACES section. You can even choose to reward his work, by giving him a grant. To read more about the subscriptions and grants, see appropiate sections in the tutorials.

Media Module general presentation

6.1

Create a newspaper

STEP 1: Go to MY PLACES - Newspaper and press Create new

STEP 2: Type a name for you future newspaper, then press Create. Creating a newspaper costs 2 gold and you can not drop it or disbanded to be refunded, so make sure this is what you want

     Once the paper is created it will appear in your profile page

   STEP 3: - OPTIONAL - you are now the owner of a newspaper, and can edit some of its features. To do that go to MY PLACES - Newspaper, or go to your profile page and click on the icon of your paper there, and click on Edit button

This will give you acces to some options:

change the name of the paper - just type in the new name and press edit
load an avatar for your paper - make sure you use only jpeg files and maximum dimension of 128x128 pixels
load an cover for you paper - make sure you use only jpeg files and be carefull to use the dimensions scale recomanded, otherwise you will end up with a streched image. Recomended dimensions are 820X150 pixels, but you can use lower values as long as you keep the proportions scale.
posibility to change the location of your newspaper - this will cost you 10 q4 tickets, and is a bit useless at this point. Keep in mind that when you publish an article, it will be released in the country you are located in at the time of the publishing.

Create a newspaper

6.2

Writing editing and deleting an article

You created an newspaper, now its time to write an article and begin your journalist career. Click on newspaper icon on your profile page or acces it thru MY PLACES - Newspaper, and you will see this header

If you push Create new, you will be redirected to article editor page that looks like this:

This is an very intuitive and easy to use editor. It offers a wide selections of tools for you to use and create unique articles:

bold, underline, italic options for your text and buton to remove all formating from a selected text
usage of bullets and numbering
align to the left/right/justify
increase/decrease indent
text size options - you can choose from Normal, Big and Very Big size. When you are in edit mode, selecting one of these will not have a visible effect on text, BUT it will be visible once article is created.
block quote feature - this provides the feature of block-level quotation in contents. In other words, a block quote is a quotation in a written document, that is set off from the main text as a paragraph, or block of text, and typically distinguished visually using indentation and a different typeface or smaller size font.
panel of different colors to use for your text
cut, copy, paste, undo, redo options
add/remove a link option
possibility to insert a YouTube, Dailymotion or Vimeo video in your articles. Although in editing mode it will be shown as a tag line, in normal view mode it will be shows as a full video people will be able to watch in your article, not redirected to external servers.
smiley panel
add image option - you can add images to personalize your article.

HINT - i recomand you use an web site for creating url's for your images, for example Postimage, which also offers you a variety of resizing options. After it creates you the links, use the second one - direct link, to copy it in editor's url

posibility to work in full size window - press . To exit full window press it again.
integrated spell checker - to access this option press, then press Check Spelling at the bottom of the drop-menu. This will open a window, where you can see the words you spelled wrong, and also, the right version to use. Poke around, as there are many options there to be set.
Also there is a tab for checking your grammar. From our testing, suggestions made by the checker in the grammar tab were not always accurate, so don't rely on it 100%.
SCAYT feature - SCAYT means Spell Check As You Type, and this feat will warn you when you make mistakes by underlining the word with a red line, while you are typing. You can enable/disable this feat from the same menu as spell checker.
auto save feature -, automatically saves the content, temporary, at every 15 seconds (for example when a login session times out). And after the content is saved it can be restored when the editor is reloaded., So if you accidentaly click on another page, on your session expires when you open create/edit again, a window will pop up with the posibility to load last saved content. BEWARE - this will work only the first time you click on create/edit., If you choose cancel on load window, then your work will be lost.
NOTE: auto save kick in only if modifications were made in last 15 seconds to the article

The title of your article must be AT LEAST 5 characters long, otherwise when you push Create button, it will generate an error, and autosave feature will kick in promting you to load last save. Do that, if you encounter this specific situation, or you will lose your work.

   Once you are done, push Create button to save and publish your article.

     2. EDITING ARTICLES

     If you are unhappy with the way your article turned out, you can always come back and edit it. To do this go to article page and press Edit button and you are good to go:

After you finished making changes, press Edit button at the bottom to save it:

IMPORTANT: after you press Edit to save it, an autosave window will pop up prompting you to load an previous save. DO NOT ACCEPT this, or you will lose the work you just saved.

3. DELETING AN ARTICLE

If you want to delete your article, go to edit mode and press Delete button at the bottom of the window.

There are 2 more buttons as you can see:

Article - if you press this, it will leave the edit page and open the view mode of the article you work on, presenting last saved version. It DOES NOT saves automatically your current progress
Newspaper - leave edit mode and opens the list of all articles you published on the newspaper

Writing editing and deleting an article

6.3

Subscriptions and grants

     If you like articles writen by a fellow player, you can subscribe to his newspaper, keeping track of his future work and progress, and, also, you can reward his work by giving him a grant - an amount of currency.

     In order to subscribe a specific newspaper, click on the the article published by that newspaper. If you cant find it anymore, or dont remember it, go and open the owner's profile page, and you can find it there. Click on the article you want, to be redirected to the article page, where you have the options of voting the article, subscribing to the newspaper, and giving a grant to the author, as shown in the example below:

While voting and subscribing are self-explanatory by the image, there are a few things to remember about grants:

grants represent a reward given by players to the author of an article
grants are not mandatory, you can choose if you want to give it ot not
subscribing to a paper doesnt mean you automatically give him a grant
you can grant any article you like, regardless of the country where is published
when you grant an article, you give currency from the country you are located in, in the moment you make the grant, provided of course you have the requiered ammount of that currency. So, you can choose what currency you offer as grant, by moving to a specific country.
the overall sum of the grants is unlimited, but it depends of this formula: 5+X*5, where X is the number of media mogul medals the author of the article has.

Example: if i have 2 media mogul medals, i can receive maximum 5+ 2*5 = 15 currency

the moment you push the grant button, the ammount of currency you chosed id automatically subtracted from your account, so be sure its what you want to do
the minimum sum for a grant is 1 cc, then you can raise this sum up to the maximum posibil, by the count of 1 cc, by clicking on the circle indicated in the image above by the arrow 4 clockwise to raise the grant sum and counter clockwise to lower the grant sum. Once you are sure just press Grant button.

The game also offer you the option to view and manage all your subscribed newspapers. Go to main menu, in MY PLACES - Subscription to open subs menu. It will look similar to this:

This page shows you the latest article published by every newspaper you are subscribed to, and provides several informations:

name of the paper
name of player owning it
name of the article
day when it was published and where
number of votes the article has received

You can also manage your subscriptions on same page, by choosing to unsubscribe one or several newspapers.

HINT: if you choose to unsub an newspaper from this page, as long as you dont leave or refresh the page, that newspaper will still remain in the list, with the option to subscribe back. If you refresh or leave the page, it will disappear from the list for good.

Subscriptions and grants

6.4

Media Polls

     Ice Apple modul media has an internal polls system that allows you to collect feedback on a subject or on an ideea.

     There are 2 conditions that have to be met in order to use this feature:

the writer must have at least 1 media mogul medal
the poll can be added in the article only in the first hour after publishing.

     STEP 1

     Write an article

     STEP 2

     Go to that article and enter in Edit mode. At the bottom of the edit window you will see Add Poll button.

This will open a new window, where you can configure your poll:

type the question you need answered
type the answer options
press the Add/Edit button
you will see a message saying you poll was successfully added
leave edit mode and go open your article again - you will see you poll.

When you open your article, you will see, at the bottom, the poll area, that will look similar like in this example:

Hints:

you can vote only one time from an account
you can not delete your poll from the article, you have to delete all article

Media Polls

Join an Military Unit

Why to join an military unit? For several reasons: to be able to deliver you damage where your country needs it most, to get a fair deal of supplies, to be able to collect the reward from completing the Daily Order or to be part of one group in which you can get help in various aspects of the game.
To join an military unit, go to MY PLACES - Military Unit

Click on the tab indicated and you will be redirected to another page where you can see all the units available in your country

If you want to look or browse thru unit from other countries click on Select country

Then select a country from the list that will open, and you can view the units from that country.

To find detailed informations about each military unit, simply click on their name to see its home page:

where you can see:

number of members
unit location
unit type - national or international
who is the comander officer
who are the captains, if any
list of members
battle orders

After you decide which unit you want to join, click on its name , then press JOIN

If you want to join a unit located in other country then your citizenship one, you can do it ONLY if that unit is set up to be international. I the unit is intenational, you can join it even if you are not located in same country as that unit. Otherwise, you have to move to that country, and ask for citizenship before beeing able to join.
Keep in mind also that you can not a military unit, if you are already member of one. You have to resign your current MU if you wish to join another.

Join an Military Unit

7.1

Create a Military Unit

This is not a recomanded option for new players, due to complexity on managing a unit and costs involved. To create a military unit, click on MY PLACES - Military Unit then push Create.

You will be redirected to a page where you can choose a name for your future unit. The name must contain only latin letters and no special characters or symbols.

Press Create to finish the process. You are now the comander of your own military unit.

Beware - creating an MU costs 50 gold. There is no confirmation mesage. Once you push the create button, the gold is subtracted from your account.

You can not leave an unit if you are its commander. You have to appoint a member as commander if you wish to leave it, or you have the option to disband it.

Create a Military Unit

7.2

Disband a Military Unit

To disband a military unit, first:

you need to be it's commander
you have to kick all members out of the unit

Then, go to the unit's Edit page:

Click on Edit button as show by the arrow to acces the editing options. In the Commander field type digit 5, and press Change. As a result, the unit will be disbanded and you will be refunded 15 golds

Disband a Military Unit

7.3

Manage a Military Unit

     In this tutorial you will learn how to manage a military unit, from customizing it to setting batte orders. The options presented bellow are available to unit comanders and captains, but, there are some reserved only for commanders.
   First, you need to get to your unit's main page:

Option 1 :

click on you name or your avatar on the left stats panel to go to your profile page
click on your unit's name or avatar you can see in the Activity panel

Option 2:

click on MY PLACES
click on Military unit

On unit's page there are four main panels or areas of interest:

1. MU info and managing panel

   1 - MU avatar
   2 - MU name
   3 - MU members number
   4 - MU commander's name
   5 - MU Nationality
   6 - MU type
   7 - Edit button
   8 - MU storage access
   9 - Donate to MU

     Most info's you can see here are clear and need no explanations, except those 3 buttons. Lets see what happens when you press each one.

   1.1. Edit your military unit options

   When you acces this tab, you will be redirected to a page where you can use some options to customize your military unit.

change unit's name - type the desired name in the field then press Edit
change/add a description to your unit - add your description, in limit of 200 characters, then press Edit to save it.
change/add an avatar to your unit - browse your computer to choose an image, then press Edit to upload it. Only JPEG file format is accepted.
change the unit commander - procedure is simple:

- in the field indicated by the arrow type the digit that coressponds to the order number the member you want to appoint as commander has in your unit
- press change

Ignore the Hint presented there, as it refers to the process of disbanding your unit, and its valid only when your UM has no members.

change unit type - an military unit is by default, when you found it, national by type. This means that only players that have the same nationality as the unit can join it. Here you have the option to set it as international - players can join it regardless of their citizenship. This option costs either 100 gold or 200 coins BUT if both currencies are available in your account, the server will subtract coins over gold, so pay attention.
add elite members to your unit - this option allows you to add elite slots to your unit elite squads. In order to do that, you need to click on Add button, and each time you do that, 5 more slots will be added. However, there is a price for each 5 slots aquired, so make sure you pay attention to how much gold you need to spend. More informations on this subject, you can find in the Elite Squads tutorial.

        1.2. Military Unit storage

     When you acces the Storage tab, a new window will open, containing a panel which provides you some informations about your military unit storage space:

Inventory tab - by clicking on it you acces the unit storage space
Upgrade tab - allows you to increase your unit storage space
Upgrade cost
Free space - your current unit total storage space
Stock - indicates how much of your storage is occupied
Level of your unit's storage - each star indicates one level

There are 6 upgrade levels available for unit storage:

level 1 - this is the default starting storage for new units, with capacity of 400 space.
level 2 - costs 30 gold and adds 400 extra space
level 3 - costs 30 gold and adds 400 extra space
level 4 - costs 30 gold and adds 400 extra space
level 5 - costs 30 gold and adds 400 extra space
level 6 - costs 300 gold and adds 2500 extra space

If you acces the actuall unit storage - by clicking on Inventory tab - you can see few management panels:

Military Unit Members Daily order Support - here you can set an extra reward for completing Daily Order by the regular, non-elite unit members. There are 2 items that can be set - helms and weapons.
Elite Members Daily order Support - here you can set extra rewards for completing Daily Order by the elite members of your unit. There are 4 items that can be set: tickets, weapons, gifts and food.
storage space panels - here you can see the total ocuppied space of your storage, and the actuall items in your unit's inventory, organized in 3 categories: final products, raw materials and special items.
members management panel - a panel with all unit members that allows you to manually donate them items from unit inventory. The procedure is very simple:

                       - select one or more members to whom you want to donate items, buy checking the boxes on the right of their names. If you want to select all mebers, you have a Select all check box.
                    - select the item you want to donate from the drop menu - this drop menu will contain only the available items in unit's inventory
                    - type the amount of items you want to donate per user
                    - press Donate

1.3. Donate to unit's storage

You can also donate items to unit inventory by clicking on the Donate tab. This will open a panel containing all the items available in your personal storage from where you transfer items to your unit storage.

IMPORTANT: If you donate helms to military unit storage, you can not donate them FROM your unit storage. They will be available only as reward for completing DO

     2. Military Unit Order

     Here the commander and the captains can set a battle as an order for the unit. To read more about procedure of setting battle order, acces this tutorial.

     3. Military Unit PM

     It gives you the option of sending a mass message to all of your unit's members. Click on the tab to open a text window, where you can write your message, then press send to deliver that message to all unit.

HINT: You can also send a private message to a particular member of your unit by clicking on the envelope image next to his/her name

4. Military Unit member's panels

There are 3 panels that divide members of a military unit:

Management members - commander and captains
Elite members - these are the members of the elite squads
Members - these are the regular, non-elite members.

These are the options available for those that assume the task of managing a military unit. Like i said in the begining of this tutorial, most of these options are available for both commander and captains. However, few of them are available only to the commander of the unit :

edit option tab
promoting/demoting members to elite squads
changing squads of the elite members
promoting demoting captains

Manage a Military Unit

7.4

Military Unit Setting Daily Order

     Daily order is the battle which a military unit management considers to be important, and it is set so that all members of that unit focus their damage there.
     Fighting for this specific battle brings to advantages:

a 10% damage bonus
a reward that can be collected once the daily order is completed

TIP: The 10% damage bonus will remain active after you complete the daily order and collect reward. It is active as long as you hit in the indicated battle.

     Setting a battle as Daily Order is a task and a option available for a unit's management only. In this tutorial, we will explain how to succesfully complete this task.

     STEP 1

     Go to military unit page. You will see a panel that indicates the current battle set for daily order, if any, and bellow a tab named Military Unit Order:

panel indicating the battle set as daily order, if any
tab for accesing unit order menu

STEP 2

Click on the Military Unit Order tab to open the order menu:

drop menu's containing list of all current battles
click on this button to set the selected battle as daily order
click on this button to set the selected battle as next order

     Go to first Add order tab, and click on the arrow to open a drop menu with all battles. Select one, then click on Order button to set that battle as daily order.
     You have also the option to set a second order, that will act as a backup in case the battle you set as daily order ends and there is no management member to set another one. In this case, the server will set automatically this second battle as your unit's order. Procedure is the same: go to the Next order tab, open the drop menu, select a battle and press Order.

     There are a few things to remember here:

you can not set both order in the same time - meaning you can not set both orders with just one Order click. You have to set one battle, then repete the procedure for second one.
be very carefull when you set a battle, as you might focus all your unit's damage for the enemy side - the drop list with active battles contains links for both sides of a battle, one for the atacker and one for the defender. The active side is shown in the brackets at the end of each link.
even if you set a battle as daily order, pay attention to your location! - if you are located on your enemy territory, on one of its allies, you will deliver damage for them.
when you set the Next order, be sure to take in consideration the priorities and time frame - this battle can end 5 minutes after the main order, and your unit will remain without an active order until someone from management steps in

Bellow is an example of how daily order panel can look like:

     At any time, if you want to change the battles set for orders, you can go and repeat the procedure. If you do not want your unit to have an active order, go and select No order from the drop list.

     By default, the number of fights requiered to complete the daily order and collect the reward, is 10. This number can be changed by those units that have elite slots unblocked. To see how, please read Elite Squads tutorial.

Military Unit Setting Daily Order

7.5

Military Unit Elite Squads

     Before we go in details, let me present you the idea of this concept: within a military unit, its commander has the option to found 2 elite squads. He can then assign members of the unit to one of this squads, or demote them back to regular members. For each squad, its posible to set a different number of fights as a requirement for completing DO, and also, for each squad, its posible to set 4 items to be colected by elite members after completing DO, so basically unit managers can use this to automatically supply their elite members with daily ratio.

     SETTING UP ELITE SQUADS

     In order to set up the squads, the commander of the military unit needs to purchase 5 elite slots, from the unit edit option menu. Once he did that, elite members feature is unlocked, and the commander can promote and assign unit members to elite squads.
     Commander and first captain will be assigned automatically to squad 1 and the second captain to squad 2. Then, the commander has the option to assign unit members to fill those 5 elite slots. When you assign one member to a slot, it will automatically go to squad 1, but you can switch them between squads, or you can demote them back to regular members.
     If you want more slots, you will need to purchase them from unit's edit options menu. You can add 5 slots each time you expand your elite squads, and each time you need to pay an amount of gold:

first 5 slots and founding elite squads - 15 gold
level 2 - add another 5 slots - costs 30 gold
level 3 - add another 5 slots - costs 50 gold
level 4 - add another 5 slots - costs 75 gold
level 5 - add another 5 slots - costs 105 gold
level 6 - add another 5 slots - costs 150 gold

     From level 6 on, each time you want to add 5 more slots, it will cost you 150 gold.

     PROCEDURE

     Step 1:
     Go to military unit edit menu, and you will see there the option to add elite slots to your unit. Press the Add button to purchase first 5 slots and set up the squads:

number of already purchased elite slots
cost of next 5 elite slots
add button

Step 2:
Now your elite squads are unlocked. The commander and first captain are assigned to squad 1 and second captain to squad 2, as shown in the example below:

     The commander and captains are assigned to elite squads for free, they do not occupy any slot. If you don not have any appointed captains, they will go automatically to elite squads the moment you assign them.

     Step 3:
     Commander has the option to assign any unit member to elite squads, by pressing the Elite button next to each member, indicated by the arrows in the example below

TIP: place mouse cursor on buttons to see what each one does

When you promote someone to elite members, by default they are assigned to squad 1. If you want, you can move them to squad 2, or get them back to squad 1 afterwards, or demote them back to regular members

Remove elite button - demotes the player back to regular member
Change Squad button - moves the player to the other squad

You can appoint to elite squads at one time as many members as free slots you have. Each time you appoint one, the server will generate a message showing you the occupied/total elite slots ratio:

Military Unit Elite Squads

7.8

Military Unit Support Systems

     Military units management members have at their disposal tools that allows items to be transfered automatically from unit storage to member's inventory, as a reward for completing daily order.
     There are two options available:

support system for regular members
support system for elite members

Regular members DO support

For regular unit members, the support system has two major rules:

you can set as DO rewards helms and weapons
there is fix standard number of 10 figths required to complete it.

TIP: Only players that fit usage criteria will receive helms. If you arent in those criterias, you WILL NOT receive helms, even they are set as reward.

     PROCEDURE:

     Step 1:
     Go to unit's inventory, where you will see the panel shown bellow:

Step 2:

type in the quantity of helms
select weapon quality
type in quantity of weapons

Step 3:
Press apply to set the reward for completing DO.

IMPORTANT: Helms and weapons WILL NOT be generated by the server. They have to exist in unit inventory, in order for people to receive them, and unit members have to have space available in storage when they claim the reward.
Example: if you set 10 helms and 10 q5 weapons as support, and you have only 17 helms and 14 q5 weapons in unit inventory, first eligible member that claims reward will receive 10 helms and 10 weapons, if he has 20 space available in storage. Second player that claims reward will receice only 7 helms and 4 weapons.

Elite member DO support

The elite members support system is a bit more developed, and it allows you to supply your elite members automatically with items from unit storage, by adding these items to the reward available for completing daily order. There are 4 items that can be set as reward for completing DO:

Tickets
Weapons
Gifts
Food.

Rules:

the available items and amount of each one can be set differenty for each squad.
remember this order, as it is important - when server calculates what items a player will receive, it sticks to this order, so it will calculate the amount of tickets first, then weapons, and so on.
When you set these items as DO rewards, keep in mind that THEY WILL NOT BE GENERATED BY THE SERVER, they HAVE TO EXIST IN MU STORAGE. If a particular item is not available in unit inventory, it will not be received by a member that claims reward for completing daily order, even if it is set as reward.

Also, when a player colects DO rewards, the server will calculate his free storage space, search for existing items in mu storage, calculate the amount of each items and then it will provide the reward accordingly to:

items order, as presented above
player's free storage space
number of items in mu storage

Example: lets say that my MU has set 10 pieces of each four items as DO reward. But, i have only 37 free storage space. So, when i press collect DO, i will receive 10 tickets, 10 weapons, 10 gifts and ONLY 7 food.
If i would have only 29 free storage space, i would get 10 tickets, 10 weapons and 9 gifts. No food, cause there is no space for it.

Example 2: again, lets say my MU has set 10 pieces of each four items as DO reward. I have plenty of free storage space, but, in MU inventory there are only 4 weapons and 3 tickets left in the moment that i press collect DO. That means that i will collect 3 tickets, 4 weapons, 10 gifts and 10 food.

For each of the two elite squads, the management members can set a different number of fights requiered to complete the DO. You can set:

10 fights
15 fights
20 fights

YOU CAN NOT set different battles for each squad, the DO battle is the same for all unit members.

     PROCEDURE:

     Step 1:
     Go to unit's inventory and you will see the panel shown bellow:

Step2:

select number of fights requiered to complete daily order - the green tab indicates active number of fights
select quality for each item and type in the quantity for each item in the box bellow each one - if you want to skip one item, selected 0 amount
press Apply

REMEMBER: These items HAVE TO EXIST IN UNIT STORAGE IN ORDER FOR PLAYERS TO RECEIVE THEM. There is no use in setting items as rewards, if you dont have the necessary amount in unit storage, because they will not be delivered.

Here is an example of how reward for an elite member can look like:

After you collect DO reward, you will also receive alerts about these items that were transfered from military unit and also, they will be visible in donations logs, as shown in examples bellow:

Military Unit Support Systems

Wars and military

8.1

Nuclear Strike

8.2

Starting a Resistance War

8.3

Fighting

Political Party

     Since ice-apple is a social simulator, a political module has to be present. Political parties are usefull because they give a country congress and president, elected by the will of majority of players.

     At start, you have 2 options, which are presented when you go to MY PLACES - Party:

join a party
create a party

JOINING A PARTY

Click on Join a party tab to open a list of available parties in your country, then click on the name of the party you want to join to acces its page:

On the party page, you have a Join tab. Press it, and you are now the member of that party.

To resign, follow same steps, and instead of Join tab you will have a Resign tab you need to press.

     CREATING A PARTY

     Click on Create new then fill in the information needed in the form that opens:

Party name - type the name for your party
choose an economical orientaton - for now this has no real effect, its just a cosmetic title.
choose a social orientation - this will give your party its political system. You can edit it later form party edit options.
Cost of creating the party - this is non-refundable gold, so make sure you want to create one.

After filling all the informations, press Create to become the first president of your political party.

TIP: if you are a new player, this might not be the best option for you, as there are other things to do with 40 gold.

Political Party

9.1

Party page

9.2

Political systems

9.3

Elections

9.4

Government

9.5

Duties of elected people

Buddy

     Buddy is an unique and innovative Ice Apple concept designed to help players improve faster by providing means to raise your strength attribute or weapons to help you do a higher damage in battles, and a lottery in same time.

     How can buddy be acquired?

     You can obtain buddy in several ways:

completing quests that have as reward this figure that indicates also time period for which buddy will be active upon completion

Example:

from National Holiday wonder, when activated. More details on this subject here
completing challenges in Iceberg Drift for level A and level B, and collecting rewards

Buddy is cumulative. That means that you can complete all quests with buddy rewards and the time will add giving you months of buddy.

How does buddy work?

Buddy is activated automatically when

you collect quest reward
you collect Iceberg Drift rewards for level A and B
National Holiday is activated.

Then, you will receive an alert - "Buddy arrived" - and this icon will appear in your profile page which indicates that you have buddy active, and also provides informations about:

buddy level - that is given by the number of green stars on the bottom
time remaining until you can collect your next reward - the timer at the bottom of the page
time remaining until buddy expires - place your mouse cursor on top of the buddy icon and you can see that.

Once the timer reaches zero, a button will pop up on the bottom of your buddy icon, accompanied by a captcha challenge:

Check the box, complete the challenge then press the button to collect the reward:

After you push the button to collect, the reward you get will be visible on same profile page under Wold rank.

Example:

BEWARE that it will stay visible for as long as you dont refresh or leave the profile page. Once you do that, you can no longer see what the reward was, but you can find out by checking your gloves/weapons count.

What rewards can you collect from buddy?

Weapons and gloves. Things to remember:

each time you collect buddy gifts, you have a chance to get either weapons or gloves - 2 or 5.
buddy gifts can be collected every 8 hours.
the quality and number of weapon depends on the level of your buddy.
Here are the chances to get each item:

                           - 10% - 5 gloves
                           - 30% - weapons
                     - 60% - 2 gloves.
     These chances are not influenced by the level of your buddy, they are the same for all levels.

     How many types of buddy are there and how can i upgrade my buddy?

     1. Buddy Q1 or level 1 -

is default buddy you get.

Rewards :

2 gloves or
5 gloves or
3 weapons q4

2. Buddy Q2 or level 2 -

Upgrade requirements:

1 trophy - once you are in possession of 1 trophy, buddy will upgrade automatically.

If you upgrade to level 2, you can not downgrade it to level 1 again.

Rewards:

2 gloves or
5 gloves or
6 weapons q4

3. Buddy Q3 or level 3 -

Upgrade requirements:

5 trophies - if you upgrade from level 2
6 trophies - if you upgrade from level 1

Remember: 5 trophies will be consumed in the process of upgrading to level, without the option of getting them back, or downgrading. So, you need to have 6 trophies, because last trophy you can not lose.

Upgrade procedure:

go to edit profile options
if you have 6 trophies in your account, press Upgrade. This will automatically consume 5 trophies, and upgrade your buddy

Rewards:

2 gloves or
5 gloves or
9 weapons q4
helms - same amount as the gloves. You receive helms only if you draw gloves

Helms can be used to help players with maximum 3500 strength to improve their strength attribute faster. Read here more about how helms can be used.

Buddy

National Wonders

Iceberg Challenge

Premium Account

Special items

Coins. With these coins you can buy some special items, that will offer you one or several bonuses in several areas of the game.

     Where can i donate money?

     Click on COMMUNITY menu - Special items. Here you will find three areas of interest:

   1. a tab to access the donations menu
   2. a list of items you can buy with coins
   3. your current donor status and progress till next donor class.

     We will explain each one:

     1. Donations meniu

     To acces it, from the page you are already on - for those that forgot: click COMMUNITY - Special items - simply press

     2. Items

     These items contain a detailed description if you hover your mouse over them:

     3. Donor status and classes

     While euro/coins exchange rate is fixed for donations via Allopass, for reasons that involve their policy, for donations via PayPall, there are 3 donor classes, with different rates for each class.
     By default, if you never donated before, your exchange rate is 7 coins for 1 euro. After your first 3 euros donated, you get a donor class:

     -

- Silver friend of the Game - 7 coins for 1 euro. You reach this after you donate 3 euros.
-

- Gold friend of the Game - 10 coins for 1 euro. You reach this after you donate 100 euros.
-

- Brilliant friend of the Game - 15 coins for 1 euro. You reach this after you donated 300 euros.

Your total donations and progress thru next class is shown also on this page :

   - 1 - indicates total sum of your donations
   - 2 - this shows your current donor class and the euro/coins exchange rate
   - 3 - this shows at what level of donations you get promoted to next class
   - 4 - this shows the badge and exchange rate for next available class.

     This badges are shown in your profile page, and by default they are visible for all other players. If you want to hide this badge, and thus, your donor status, you can do so in the EDIT PROFILE menu, Profile optimization section, as explained here.

     Once you have made a payment, coins are automatically and instantly delivered to your account. You can see how many coins you have in the left stats panel, under the bar with your gold:

. Whenever you decide to purchase one special items, coins will be subtracted also automatically from your account after pressing the buy button.

So, if you want to help game administration to build a better game, this is the place to do it.

Special items

Coins

     Ice Apple is an indie project, a free-to-play, non-commercial project, with no selling of gold or in-game currency for real money. However, this project generates some costs. In order to help with these costs, and help the game improve, players can donate money and in return they will receive Coins. With these coins you can buy some special items, that will offer you one or several extra options and features in several areas of the game, but mainly these extras are cosmetic, and do noy offer an competitive advantage, so you can play the game without spending any money and still be competitive.

     To buy coins, go to COMMUNITY - Special Items then click on See more tab, as indicated in the next image:

A new page will open, with some informations and 2 payment options:

via paypall
via sms

     Buying coins via Paypall

     To use this method of payment, you need an paypall account and a credit card. The exchange rate is 7 coins for one euro, but this will change, once you work your way up the donor classes.
     There are 3 donor classes:

Silver friend of the game - exchange rate is 7 coins for 1 euro. You get this class after donating 3 euros
Gold friend of the game - exchange rate is 10 coins for 1 euro. You get this class after donating 100 euros
Briliant friend of the game - exchange rate is 13 coins for 1 euro. You get this class after donating 300 euros

The donor class is indicated by a badge shown on your profile. By default the badge is visible to other players, but you can hide it if you want from the edit profile options, as explained here.
Your donations amount and progress until next class is visible on Special items page:

total amount of you donations
your current donor class and the coins/euro ratio
the amount of donations needed to reach next donor class
badge and coins/euro ratio for next donor class

TIP: This donor classes system is available ONLY for payments via Paypall

     PROCEDURE
     STEP 1:

     Select the currency and amount of currency you want to donate, then click on Donate tab:

TIP: For all countries except Russia. you have to make payments in Euro's. This is not a big issue, as Paypall automaticallt converts your local currency into euro's using your credit card emitting bank exchange rate.

STEP 2:

You will be redirected to paypall page, where you will be presented with:

a summary of your order

a login window to acces your paypall account and complete the transaction, or to create an account if you dont have one.

IMPORTANT: if you have doubts about the validity of the page, check in the browser adress bar for the Secure conection indicator

     STEP 3:

     Complete the payment from your paypall account, and will receive automatically coins in game.

     Buying coins via sms

     Unlike paypall payments, when you use this method, we can not guarantee an coins/euro exchange rate, as each service operator has its taxes and financial policy for each country, which affects our fixed rate. So, before using this method, we advice you to look carefully at how many coins you can get for your money.

     PROCEDURE:
     STEP 1:

     Click on available tab:

STEP 2:

You will be presented a pop-up window that contains several important informations:

click on this to open a list of countries for whom this operator offers services - you can select different countries to compare the coins/euro rates for each one
click on this to switch between you native language - determined based on your choice of country - and english
list of different offers
available mobile operators that you can pay from in your country
close the window
help and support section - read the informations here!
advance to the next step

STEP 3:

Click on Pay By Mobile to advance to next window, where you will be asked to select your mobile operator and enter your phone number, then press OK.

STEP 4:

Follow the instructions given. Usually, you will be asked to send an SMS with a key-word to an given number to complete the transaction.

The money will be added to your phone bill, or deducted from pre-paid account.

IMPORTANT: All the images presented in this tutorial are given as an example. The taxes and prices you see in them are given from an romanian mobile operator, at the time this tutorial was written, and are not the official taxes for all payments done thru this method.

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Логин

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