Getting Started

MAKE SURE TO READ TERMS OF SERVICE AT LEAST BRIEFLY. THE SITE IS 16+ AND IF YOU'RE UNCOMFORTABLE WITH CONTENT YOU CAN CHOOSE NOT TO SIGN UP. First you should Sign up! Remember to check your spam folder for activation e-mail if it didn't arrive during first 5 minutes! :o remember you're allowed to have another side account, and only those two!

New Lion is born! (Creating your lion)

You must be created! You get a chance to roll your lion, like in oldschool RPG games! You have only 5 rolls, though, and if you roll a new one, the previous one is deleted and you can't go back! so it's a tough decision - if you're on the 5th roll, you MUST choose it.

Don't worry though, later in the game you can always buy a Re-Roll or Customize your lion however you like!

Keep an eye on stats, they're pretty average for lion on 1st level, but they can vary a little! The looks are common too, but you're lucky if you hit more than one extra marking!

You must name your lion - you can't change that later unless you pay extra. Think it through well - and remember other players might have taken your favourite name already ;_;

Your Lion is up and ready? Let's take a look around! (Layout help)

First thing you should notice is the banner which will always take you to main page. Below that is a small menu with links to Den, Explore, Chatter, Inbox, Hoard, Oasis and News.

Below is a small strip with some basic user interface links - Messages inbox (which will notify you if you get a new message!). Your current Silver Beetles amount - this is Lioden's currency. You find them, you can win them in battles, you buy general stuff with them. Next are Gold Beetles - this is a special currency that you get if you donate to the site with Paypal. Also on far right, you get Lioden's server current date and time.

On the right is a menu vertical UI bar. Your lions name is on top and below that are the current progress bars.

Energy - it goes from 0% to 100% - every action in Explore or PvP drains your lions energy. It will replenish every 15 minutes with 10%, but only if you're not hungry!

Hunger - yes, your lion gets hungry daily! When you start, it should be pretty hungry! Hunger 70% means you're almost starving! Better to eat something as your energy will only replenish if your hunger is below 40%. Anything above meaning your stomach is rumbling and you really should eat something!

EXP - experience bar. It will go up a little when you battle other lions or NPC's. When it reaches 100%, you should visit your lion page and level it up!

Impression - unfortunately as you begin your journey your impression is just awful. Your lion is barely noticable around, ladies aren't just impressed and are most likely to smack your male's face as he tries to make a sexy move. Lucky for you, the Impression level progresses with your actions on site - claiming lionesses, battling, doing quests. When it reaches 100% you can level it up, just like a normal level! Don't worry if it's says you're still not impressive - there are quite a few impression levels and when you reach the highest one, you will receive extra stats and the Impression bar will dissappear, as you'll be the Dreamboat of all the ladies.

Below it tells you your lion's level - kinda useful when you forget and are about to pounce on some low level lion!

Lioden stats are next. They're handy little thing that tell you how many people are online (and it's usually insane lots!), how many players signed up so far, how many lionesses have been snatched to their prides and how many little cubs were bred.

Below that is a Side Chat. Side chat is fun but for now it won't refresh on its own. If you wish to have autorefreshing chat, remember to visit Main Chatroom that is connected to the Sides Chat!

Side chat has rooms! You can switch between Main Room, Roleplay Room and Sales Room. Remember to keep your sales and trade offers in Sales or mods will poke you to death with pokesticks!

On bottom of that menu is a FACEBOOK LINK! Yay! Make sure to visit and Like for small and big updates! We also do giveaways and contests there sometimes!

Next is option to Log Out - useful if you chose to be always logged in and somebody wants to use your computer!

On the very bottom of the page you have a small strip with few useful links.

Modbox - it's where you report important things, such as lost account problem, user problems, reports, etc. This isn't really a place to report bugs unless they're VERY urgent.

Staff Team & Contact - list of all staff on Lioden + links with Message each person option.

Terms of Service - remember to read it very carefully when you have time (before you go around chatting with everyone), it contains all rules and you should remember to respect the rules, as they keep the community together.

Privacy Policy - read it too, it's one short paragraph!

Game Guide - This is the best place to look when you begin and look for some help or answers even if you're an advanced member and still aren't sure about some things.

Help - welp still not certain about things! You're new, you're lost? Check this link - it leads you to "I'm Lost" boards, where you can ask a questions and hoards of our helpful users will immediately help you with EXACTLY what you need help with!

Den

Well, click it! It takes you to your profile. Here you can access your lion's page - it's that lovely name you picked! It also shows how much territory you have - should be 2 for now! Also shows how many cubs and lioness the territory has. I think you should have 0/0 for now.

Under this, it should show YOU. You have not chosen avatar yet - but it will appear here too. Then, your playername, join date and last online log. What's under? Refer a friend! It gets you to Referal page, where you can promote Lioden to others and gain some points for referring from your account.

Your Allies - you can add friends and have quick links there!

Lionesses and Cubs - should be a list of all your lionesses and cubs; shows their level, names, age and gender. You can click their names later to access their own pages!

Attack History - it shows who attacked you recently, for what, and if they won or lost. For now don't panic - you don't lose a thing when you're attacked.

Den items - unavaible for now.

Edit your Details - Very useful profile editing place. You can use html to edit your profile to your fancy and show it off when people view it. I'm sure you can find some nice tips for this in boards!

Player Name - That's different from username, username is just your login. Playername is how you're displayed all over Lioden and it can be changed whenever you want! Your ID (account number) never changes and that's how you're identified by system.

Avatar URL - you can enter the URL of what image you want for your avatar to be - keep it small and civil! Remeber to use a hosting site that allows direct linking!

Your e-mail - self explanatory. you can change it, just remember to confirm.

Territory tile - it's how your territory will look like among all other player's territories. For now it's just a fancy image thing, doesn't mean anything, unless you feel like your lion simply MUST live in Savannah or Dry Lake!

Below is your Security Question! Make sure to fill that!

Explore

Whew! that's a huge section! How about check it out here http://lioden.wikia.com/wiki/Explore

Chatter

It's a forum! Check out every subforum, take a look around, there's search option even! If you're looking to buy something (or sell) Stockpile is the place to go!

WHAT IS THIS?! A CHATROOM!!

yes on top of Chatter section there's a Chatroom link - it will take you to the Main Chatroom with autorefresh - many people hang out there to chatter - and what you write here will appear in Side chat too!

Chatroom will refresh every 15 seconds or when you send a message. If you're impatient and don't want to wait 15 seconds and don't want to talk either - just click Send with empty field.

Inbox

Send and receive messages here! Click Compose message to contact your friends or staff, remember to enter their ID number.

Hoard

It's your inventory. Here you can access everything you hunt, gather and buy. You can sort it out by categories on top if it's too cluttered. From here you use particular items, and in their drop down menu pick lionesses to use them on - yourself being on top.

Oasis

Oasis wiki page

This is a magical place where you can offer some lovely donations to keep Lioden going. In return, you get Golden Beetles, and Oasis is a shop where you can spend them on fancy things!

As the game develops, the more items will appear here, but for now, you get some extra luxury stuff like customizing your Lion and Lioness, change your name, speed up some processes etc. Or buy Silver Beetles!

News

Well DUH! It's where we post news and updates with lists of new features and bugfixes, or just some silly announcements you should read. If a new post arrives, you get a red notification in your layout anyway - but if you miss it somehow, just make sure to check out News and see how game delevelops!

Here is a list of all News Updates if you're curious! Category: News Updates

Your Lion

So let's click on our name in the den - access the Lion page.

You get stats - every stat is useful for something - the more game develops the more options you'll see to test them out! Skill is most important one for now - it means how buff you are in PvP battles. Remember that defending lions get Skill boost!

Lion Currents - very important to peek at!

Age - yes, every lion on Lioden Ages, and eventually dies. At age 15 your lion will pass, so make sure to make best out of your youth years! The age progresses 1 month in real life day.

Hunger - this should drop 20% a day - remember to eat!

Energy - just shows the same what the progress bar on the right on the layout!

Impression - it shows your current impression level - this is where you click "level up" when you reach 100%!

Experience - self explanatory, shows all exact informations.

Heritage shows your lion's legacy, children, grandchildren, fathers, grandfathers.

Appearance - you get all info about your markings and colours in here.

Decoration - this is where you can remove or update order of your lion's decorations.

Biography - feel like your lion has a history? Write it all here for others to check out.

Your lions ID number is the one in URL. It's true for every Lion, Lioness and Cub and it's their unique ID. Copy it from browser adress or from numbers next to the name if you need it.

Your Lioness

Lioness page is exactly the same as the male's with few exceptions. On the top you get the info about her heat status - usually a countdown to her next heat season, when you can mate and make tiny cubs. If it's gone, it means she's ready to do the jungle rumble! If she's pregnant, you'll get a notification when she's due. It will also be empty if she's caring for cubs.

Previous and Next buttons let your cycle through your pride's females.

Skill is different though - it shows how much skill the lioness has in hunting.

It also has a special Male to Female charts - interaction buttons.

You can Play, Tussle or Groom your lady, it raises her mood. Our Lionesses tend to be moody, so when you want to click the right button "Breed", make sure she's in the mood! (And, well, in heat!)

What's that? A Chase Away button! yes. When you're fed up with her attitude, you can do what every lion in the wild can - Chase your female away from the pride. Make space for new ones, for cubs, anything you want.

In Biography section you can also change her NAME. This, luckily, doesnt matter - Females names can be repetetive around the site so you can pick whatever you want!

REMEMBER: you can't trade a hunting or pregnant lioness!

Your Cubs

Cubs are cute and adorable - as soon as they are born, they will also appear as a symbolic decor on their mothers image.

Cubs are feeding on moms milk up till 4th month, so no need to feed them or take care of them. Their mom will keep them happy! Then, they switch to meat so you need to remember to get more food and feed them daily! You can't trade such young cubs - but you can trade the mother, she will take them along with her.

Cubs reach teenage stage at 1 year of age. Only then they are independant from mother, yet still very young. You can trade them now! They don't take territory space yet, but they will soon!.

When cubs reach age 2, it's time for changes. Females will mature and get ready for breeding and hunts - males for now will either become your heir when you die (unavaible atm) or get chased away (perhaps as new rolls for new members ? ;D)

Daily simple actions (what to do to progress)

Now, we understand more or less what is what.

Let's say we log in first time that day, it's after 2 am server time and new day has begun.

Energy should be high if we didnt log for couple hours, lion should be a bit hungry. Time to attack somebody for skill or experience and spend first 20% of energy! [ Attacking other lions ] It's wise to do it first - as it's a one hour cooldown between your next attack chance. Then, remember to send your lionesses hunting! They should provide you with food - that's also something you can do every hour, so pretty important to do next in line!

Interact with them too, they're pretty angry that you're telling them to go hunt and you'll gonna just wander around patrolling territory - play with them from their pages or use toys!

Now, time to Sharpen your claws. Oh yeah out of two, +1 smarts? yay! (well, at least for me). Why not check new Quest? Oh gosh, defeat 5 hippos, better get to exploring! Spending rest of energy in explore is fun, you can encounter your future brides or fulfill the quests! Good. Looks like you spent all energy, what next?

Well, why not check out boards and chatroom while waiting for lionesses to return?

If you have some stashed food in hoard, it's good to feed now, or wait for ladies' return. Click USE on the carcass and from dropdown pick lion you want to feed. Better eat everything before it rots!

Welp, looks like we did the most important things for this morning. We can check in every hour to get our newly regained energy spent on more PvP attacks or exploring, take care of hunting ladies.

There's lots to do besides that, though. Check out all sections around site, chat around with users, Roleplay on RP boards or just chatter in waterhole or other forums.

Still bored? You have more ideas? :D awesome! There's Game Development Board, we're always open for suggestions. Please, keep in mind that Lioden is currently in Beta, we opened to public on March 15th, 2013 and we're still developing like crazy!