5 Keys to the Kingdom

Today's online video games (MMORPG's) areplayers in many games are almost always either guild
extraordinarily complex worlds that take a lot of timeleaders or in a leadership position. You can even
to master. Whether you play a couple of hours aassign other people to gather information and keep
week or a couple of hours every day there are somenotes for you and for your guild. This is a great
fundamental rules you should follow to maximize whatsavings of your time.Kingdom Key 3: Keeping track of
you achieve within these online worlds.Kingdom Key 1:the enormous amount of information. You are playing
Tracking and managing your time spent This is thea game that is enormously complex. It is probably
most important key. Regardless of how much timemore complex than the city you live in. There are more
you play you have to make the maximum of yourpeople, more tasks, more quests, more locations and
time. This means keeping track of what is going onmore opportunities. Do you know every location and
and what you learn in the game then applying a simpleevery street in your city? Probably not, and when you
rule: Do what makes the most use of your limited time.need to find something where do you look? In the
Let me give you an example of what I mean. OftenYellow pages or on map quest! You need to create
times you will embark on a quest or harvest and mineyour own yellow pages for the game you play. Get a
raw materials. Let's say you do a specific task thatbrand new empty notebook and take extensive notes.
takes you 1 hour to complete and your reward is 1,000Where are the interesting things? Run into something
gold. This is great. You now understand that for thisunusual and don't know what it is all about? Write a
particular task one hour is worth 1,000 gold. But this isn'tnote about it in your book. I guarantee you that at
the end of your learning. There are many other taskssome point in the future you will need that note! Draw
that you can do. Maybe there is a simple harvestingsmall sketches and take down all sorts of information
task that reaps you 100 gold every five minutes. Well ifyou discover. Did you find an interesting mine or a nice
you do the math on this task you will see that in oneplant that you can harvest? Did you find a den of
hour you can actually earn 1,200 gold. This is a 20%goblins and can't fight them yet? Having all this down in
improvement of your time. By doing this you willa notebook will make you so much better as you
actually be squeezing in an extra hour of game timeprogress through the game. This step is hard for some
every five hours. See how this can be significant? Thispeople to do because it means actually taking your
careful tracking of your time also works in the otherhand off the mouse and not playing the game for a
direction. There may be a complex task that takesminute but it is well worth the effort. It is also a very
you a five full hours to complete. But this task rewardsgood idea to make notes about other players in the
you with 10,000 gold. If you were to do the originalgame. Did you meet somebody that is an expert on a
one-hour task for five hours you would have earnedcertain topic or quest? Write that person's character
5,000 gold. This more complex task has earned youname down and a quick note about them. You will be
twice as much gold.The simple rule here is to keepable to look them up in the future when you need that
notes on the various tasks you do and to record howtype of information.Kingdom Key 4: Do your Out of
much of a reward these tasks earn you. You willGame ResearchBut Don't Cheat! Every popular online
quickly see which tasks earn you more money for thegame has lots of websites, forums, and chat rooms
time you spend. I will often do a very specific task foraffiliated with it. People are very passionate about
one full hour and include all the ancillary necessities inthese games and many people give lots of tips, hints,
the task, which might mean trips to the shop, repair ofand ideas about the games. Spend the time out of the
equipment, buying, selling or anything else that the taskgame surfing the Internet for good information that will
entails. At the end of one hour I have an exact counthelp you solve quests, find resources, and make more
of what I earned. This gives me accurate data that Imoney faster. But, never do anything unethical, don't
can compare to other tasks.Kingdom Key 2:use cheat programs, automated programs, or any
Harnessing the Power of other People This key is alsoother type of software or information that the
very important whether you are new to an onlinedevelopers of the game would consider a violation.
game or a seasoned player. There are people in theAnd always avoid any website that offers these kinds
game that know things about it that you don't know.of cheats. If a website will help you cheat the game
This is plain and simple, and you have to get them tocompany they will have no problem cheating you too.
help you to get better faster. There are three thingsSome of these websites lure you to them then
that you can do to maximize your benefit from othersecretly load programs, viruses and worms on your
people. The first thing you should do is join a guild orcomputer so they can steal your game password and
clan as soon as possible. It should be a medium tologin information. Trying to cheat is just not worth this
large clan because this will give you access to a widerrisk. At the minimum you will get caught by the game
variety of people, and it should be a clan that is incompany and banned and at the worst your account
alignment with your goals for the game. If you reallycould be hijacked by an unscrupulous webmaster and
like PK (Player-killer) action then you should join thisyou could log in to your character one day to find all
type of guild. If you really like magic or a certain typeyour stuff missing and your account emptied
of character you should join a guild that focuses onout.Kingdom Key 5: Remember to have fun!It is after
that. The second thing you should do is join onlineall just a game and that's the whole point. If keeping
forums that are devoted to the game. Forums havetrack of all this stuff becomes a chore to you then
an absolute wealth of knowledge about games andscale it back a bit and spend time just enjoying the
they give you a quick understanding of the people thatgame and chatting with other characters. Acquiring the
are knowledgeable. You can quickly form a friendshipskills I have outlined here takes time. They are habits
with an experienced player after just a few friendlyyou will get into over time. Just don't give up on them.
forum comments and posts. The third thing you canDo them a little at a time and before you know it you
do, and this is the most difficult, is to start your ownwill have a great compilation of information about the
guild or clan. If you have the people skills and leadershipgame and you will gain a reputation as one of the best
ability this can be the absolute best thing you can doplayers in the game.Will Kalif has been a guild leader in
because you can guide groups of people towardthree different online games and has attained a
tasks that benefit your guild and you can achieve yourrespectable rank in several others.
personal goals at the same time. The wealthiest