financing

3. ITEMS AND TREASURE
(There's gold in them there hills)

Let's face it: everyone wants more money and better items.  Problem is that some
people aren't willing to earn it, and a lot don't know how.  So how do you get
money?  By killing enemies and selling items.  And how about items?  By buying
them or killing enemies.  There really is no other way about this unless you
want to cough up some real-world currency and use the item shop as provided on
the website.  In the beginning, you ~won't~ make a lot of money and you ~won't~
find spectacular items, but that's basically the same deal for any RPG - MMO or
otherwise.  Think back to the 28th crappy sword you found in Diablo, or yet
another pile of sticky mucus in RO, and it's hardly surprising that a low-level
character won't be taking in a huge haul.  All I can suggest here is that you be
patient and stick with it - all those level 30+ characters with full suits of
spiffy armour and that neat'o creature ability started as level 1 characters
with pockets full of moths, just like you did.

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4. MY ADVICE
(So who do you like in the 5th?)

- Choose your targets wisely.  You've probably noticed that some enemies' names
are written in different colours.  Well, there's a reason for this, and it's
something like the following:

Red: Unless you're attacking as part of a team or loaded up with healing items,
I wouldn't touch this one.
Orange: Defeatable solo, provided you've got the right stats, decent weapons and
plenty of health.
Yellow: A good challenge, but you should manage just fine.
Green: Safe bet you'll win this without any real dramas.
Blue: No contest - you'll win for sure.
Pale blue: Not worth bothering with - you'll win, but you won't get anything for
it (no items or experience).

Note that as your level goes up the colours will change, so that red-labelled
big-handed inhabitant will eventually become pale, just like all the rest.

- Right-clicking is used to activate your current "active" skill, such as
beheading.  If it's a recursive skill, like the lightning strike, you need only
click once and it will repeat, just like a physical attack, until the enemy dies
or you run out of energy.

- Don't fear getting killed.  Run if you can, but if you get killed it really
isn't that much of a deal for a fresh character.  Sure you lose a bit of
experience, but it's not so bad with how little time it takes to get back early
on.

- Once you get a few small potions, assign them to a hotkey.  This will make
healing in a panic a lot easier, and taking on some of the stronger enemies
more possible.

- You can't drop items until you reach level 11.  I don't know why, but you
just can't, so stop trying.

- All those yellow lines of text you see are private shops.  These might have
their use, but mostly I just find them annoying as they make it very hard to
find quest-related NPCs.

- Your character can't negotiate corners on their own, so you'll have to show
them the way.  This means no clicking behind a building and expecting to wind
up anywhere but running against said building.

- If you can help it, look away from those huge groups of people by the
waterfront.  Near as I can figure they're all fishing.  Fishing is an alternate
method of income as you can sell the fish.  No doubt some of the people there
have been at it for days, if not weeks, and probably make a tidy profit for
their troubles.  The main reason I suggest you look away is because the
performance takes a ~huge~ nosedive as you get closer to them, even with a high-
speed connection and a computer that will score 10K in 3DMark 05.

- If someone promises cheats, hacks, bots, or the like, it's probably too good
to be true.  The fun is in actually playing the game, and most times these kinds
of things wind up as links to virii and such.  Sometimes they're legit, but if
you wanted to sit back and watch someone else play you might as well sit back
and watch a real human playing instead - at least that way you might get some
conversation while you're at it.  And if you're not even watching you might as
well leave your computer folding or doing something else that's actually useful,
or, heaven forbid, actually turning the thing off.

- If you don't want to keep starting at the same town, find the statue in the
middle of another town.  Just clicking on it is enough to change your respawn
location from then on.  As you get stronger, this will save you a lot of running
time trying to get to decent targets again.  Make sure you've done all your
quests, though, as it can also add a lot of time to backtracking.

And, lastly...

- Kal Online is, essentially, ~free~.  This means that if something goes wrong,
or something's not working right, or if a server goes down, you should learn to
hold your tongue - and your fingers.  Unless you want to start paying someone
to debug a problem you've encountered, or financing a new server, you should
just learn to accept that things can and do go wrong at times.  If something
happens, be constructive about it - "I was headed East at _____ when I fell
through the ground over by the Northern edge of the canyon," is a lot more
helpful than "You stupid *$#!)%s - Your %@#$*# game just %#@#$ed up!."

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