Join the new world

This is an adaptation with permission of this guide from Buck Roger originally published in Greece.

This article two of a four part article, meant to serve as a reference for new players.
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4

At the end of 45 days, if you play your cards right, you can achieve all of the following:
** Level 16, with access to all the features of the game
** 20 Gold (Rewards from reaching Level 6, Level 16, Strength 5, and Working for 30 days)
** Wages in currency valued at about 5 Gold or more
** Skill 4 in your job
** Strength 5
** Rank 4 (Lieutenant) with a 180% damage multiplier (1.5 times a Private)
** (Optional) The respect and admiration of your peers

This guide will show you how to do all that and a little bit more.


Child Stage: Day 7 to Day 16 (Levels 5 to 13)

This is an exciting time for many players; for others, it is when they burn out because they never win at the wellness game. This is when you can start fighting and will see your first award of Gold. You'll also get slightly better wages at skill 2 than the pittances offered to skill 0 and 1 players.

Immediately upon reaching level 5, you should do the following (before working or training if possible):


(1) Learn how to fight: Guide to Civilian Fighting. The remained of these steps are detailed in that guide.
(2) Make sure you are living in a region with a Q5 Hospital. Currently the only state with a Q5 Hospital is Florida. If you are not in Florida (or a different region with a Q5 Hospital), you must move before you fight. Message the Flying Unicorn Squadron and they will send you a moving ticket. Then you can move to Florida. There is NO reason to live in any other state. You can work in all the eUSA regions while living in Florida.
(3) You need 40 wellness to fight. If you are below 40, send a message to the Welcoming Committee and ask for a gift. If you're in the high 30s, a day or two without training will also help you get up to 40. Keep working however, as you want to get that 30 day hardworker gold.
(4) Find out where to fight. As an American, your orders come from the Department of Defense. Click on one of the battle links in the orders.
(5) Click the fight button to fight one time in the battle. Do not fight again. This will cost 10 wellness but will allow you to use the Hospital (once only) to gain 50 wellness that day. Only fight once!
(6) Immediately go to your region's page, which is accessible by clicking "Back to the Battlefield" and then "Hospital," or by finding it on your profile page or on the country page.
(7) Press the heal button. This will give you 50 wellness, bringing you up to around 80. Do NOT fight again today, as you can only heal once per day.


Now you can finish your day off with training and work (if you haven't yet). There is a new feature that lets you see your production (and lets your manager see it too). You may notice that your production jumps up by a factor when you work at high wellness. There is indeed a factor at work here, such that a worker at 100 Wellness does 1.5 times the work of someone at 50 Wellness and 3 times the work of someone at 0 Wellness (while the 50 Wellness person does 2 times the work of someone at 0 Wellness). The only thing you really have to know is that you should be as close to 100 as possible and always over 90. Anything less, and your manager should be (and usually is) looking to replace you.

Assuming Day 7 is your first day of fighting, per the ideal schedule, your Day 8 will bring you level 6 and your first 5 Gold award for achieving level 6. It will also bring 5 Gold to whomever referred you to the game, if anyone did. Also, around Day 8, you should have caught up with wellness and be doing either 4 or 5 fights every day, with only 4 fights only if you are very close to 50 wellness after 4 fights and you are looking to raise it back up to 100.

As a rule of thumb, assuming you are starting at 90+ wellness, you should work first, then train, and then fight until your wellness is in the 40s (typically 5 fights) and heal back to 90+. Remembering not to fight after healing.

Resources:
Flying Unicorn Squadron - They can get you a free moving ticket to Florida.
Welcoming Committee - They can help you if you are below 40 wellness.
Guide to Civilian Fighting
Department of Defense - These are your ORDERS, subscribe to this paper and vote it up every day.
Global Defense Report - This will keep you informed about the war
eRepublik in Maps - This newspaper documents all the battles.