This guide is no longer being updated, instead we are moving over to Orkpedia, found here.
Welcome to Orkfia! Let us introduce you to some of the unique concepts of this game.
More information about the Orkfia Classic to come.
1 Earth hour = 1 Orkfian month
12 Earth hours = 1 Orkfian year
1 Earth day = 2 Orkfian years
1 Earth week = 14 Orkfian years
1 Earth month = 62 Orkfian years
1. Make friends
ORKFiA, although primarily a game, has so much more to offer you; our close knit community of friendly players makes it easy to get to know people. First you should say hello to your alliance. This will open up lines of communication and generally make your ORKFiAN experience all the more enjoyable. At the bottom of your browser you can find the button labelled alliance forum, which can also be found under the Alliance drop down menu. Look for a thread saying welcome or create your own topic where you introduce yourself. The alliance forum is a central discussion board where alliance members can discuss strategies, ask for help, or merely chill out. It helps create bonds between alliance members that are essential if your alliance is to be successful.
2. Getting down to business
Time is valuable in ORKFiA, probably more so than in any other browser based strategy game you might have played earlier. Time is moved forward each time a new hour passes, so if your clock is 10 minutes to hour change, you are in a real hurry not to fall one hour behind everybody else. So, we'll try to make some quick adjustments to the starting set-up.
Best way if you are new to the game visit the strategy section on the Orkfia-Portal here, if a strat for your race is missing then just post about it. Big hint though, if you are starting mid-age do not go for any kind of strat bigger then 500 acres.
Protection period (or the "Summoning Ritual") is something each Orkfian has to deal with. It actually is the silence before the war starts. During this period you get limited time to prepare your tribe for all actions you will face after the war started. In ORKFiA the protection period takes 48 hours. And with the speed of the game this means you have to get your tribe in a good shape in a short time.
During the protection period nobody is able to do any aggressive things against your tribe. It also is impossible to do this yourself. So this is the ideal time to build up your tribe and get ready for war.
Before your 48 hours have run out you will have had to do a few things:
Recast all your self-spells.
Train Defence 4 hours before you come out of protection.
Make another post in the forums :-)
As in about every online game it is very important to have a good communication with each other. This will make the community grow and it gives you the ability to tell others about your ideas. Those ideas can also be used by the staff to improve the game. But most of all it's real important to communicate with your alliance mates. The better the communication within an alliance, the better the alliance itself will work.
Alliance forum
This is the most important way to communicate with your alliance mates. Everyone in ORKFiA has access to an alliance forum. To get to your alliance forum just click the link on the bottom of your screen called "Alliance Forum". The alliance forum link will sometimes have a different color and this means that there is a new post in your forum.
The best way to communicate with the Orkfian Community is on irc (#orkfia). We can be found on irc.netgamers.org #orkfia.
It is possible to pm users ingame, we also got a community site for Orkfia found here: Orkfia Portal. The portal is also where our world forum exists.
If you want to report something to staff, all you need to do is: go to their alliance (#1 - #4) click one of their tribes and follow the options.
Here you'll find publicly available tools to help you in playing ORKFiA. These tools are not supported by the ORKFiA staff, so please contact the creator of the program if you have any questions or comments.
Orkfia Toolbarby Acwder & Max
The Toolbar is a tool supported by the Orkfia Portal, it's a toolbar for ie and ff users and gathers everything that's about Orkfia to one place. It also got exclusive tools to increase your Orkfian experience.
There has over the years been quite a few tools for Orkfia but the only one currently up to date is the one mentioned above. If you have developed a tool for Orkfia then contact us so we can add it here.
Designed by Acwder
Content written by experienced Orkfian players
Copyright 2008 Orkfia Classic