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Wasteland Empires FAQ
Marie Fenton
posted this on October 21, 2011 12:40
Hi, and welcome to the FAQ for Wasteland Empires! This will go through a few of the more common requests or questions we experience, and hopefully save someone a bit of time somewhere 
What is the Well?
The Well is the life source of your colony. Without it, your people won't be able to survive. It is the most important part of your colony and you need to protect it from others. Build your colony around the Well and attract more people to help you defend it. The well also increases your Water Provisions which is 1 of the 3 requirements for attracting people to your colony and increasing your max population. The more water you can produce, the more people you can support. Discover ways to upgrade your well in order to produce water more efficiently and increase the maximum population your colony can support.
How do you increase population?
Increase your provisions in order to increase the maximum population your colony can support. The3 provisions in Wasteland Empires are Food, Water, and Shelter.
Farms provide food for the colony and can be built from the store.
Houses provide shelter from the rough weather the Wasteland brings.
Water is provided by your well and in the most important of the 3 provisions. Build and upgrade these buildings in order to increase your Max Population.
What are idle colonists?
The Grey Icon on the right of the screen shows the number of idle colonists you currently have. You can use your population to help protect and expand your colony. Colonists can scavenge the rubble around the colony to find resources and parts, construct or upgrade buildings, and they can be trained into army units to attack other colonies in the wasteland. The number of colonists you can use is dependent on your max population. The number of idle colonists you have is dependent on how many colonists you are currently not using. Maximize your efficiency by minimizing downtime for colonists! And don’t forget they will continue to work while you’re battling or away, so make sure to always have them doing something!
How do you gain resources?
There are multiple ways to gain resources in Wasteland Empires.
The easiest way is to assign your colonists to scavenge the different pieces of rubble surrounding your colony. Scavenging rubble not only gives you resources but also has a chance of uncovering valuable parts and of course it clears space for you to expand your colony!
Research the Refineries tech in order to construct these buildings within your colony. Refineries harvest resources over time but are limited to the number of resources it can hold. Check your Colony periodically to maximize the amount of resources you harvest.
What is the Well?
The Well is the life source of your colony. Without it, your people won't be able to survive. It is the most important part of your colony and you need to protect it from others. Build your colony around the Well and attract more people to help you defend it. The well also increases your Water Provisions which is 1 of the 3 requirements for attracting people to your colony and increasing your max population. The more water you can produce, the more people you can support. Discover ways to upgrade your well in order to produce water more efficiently and increase the maximum population your colony can support.
How do you increase population?
Increase your provisions in order to increase the maximum population your colony can support. The3 provisions in Wasteland Empires are Food, Water, and Shelter.
Farms provide food for the colony and can be built from the store.
Houses provide shelter from the rough weather the Wasteland brings.
Water is provided by your well and in the most important of the 3 provisions. Build and upgrade these buildings in order to increase your Max Population.
What are idle colonists?
The Grey Icon on the right of the screen shows the number of idle colonists you currently have. You can use your population to help protect and expand your colony. Colonists can scavenge the rubble around the colony to find resources and parts, construct or upgrade buildings, and they can be trained into army units to attack other colonies in the wasteland. The number of colonists you can use is dependent on your max population. The number of idle colonists you have is dependent on how many colonists you are currently not using. Maximize your efficiency by minimizing downtime for colonists! And don’t forget they will continue to work while you’re battling or away, so make sure to always have them doing something!
How do you gain resources?
There are multiple ways to gain resources in Wasteland Empires.
The easiest way is to assign your colonists to scavenge the different pieces of rubble surrounding your colony. Scavenging rubble not only gives you resources but also has a chance of uncovering valuable parts and of course it clears space for you to expand your colony!
Research the Refineries tech in order to construct these buildings within your colony. Refineries harvest resources over time but are limited to the number of resources it can hold. Check your Colony periodically to maximize the amount of resources you harvest.
The fastest way to gain resources is to attack other colonies. When you attack another colony you obtain resources from their refineries, warehouses, and other structures. Train units and find the best strategies to attack other colonies and gain as much resources from them as you can!
How do you train units?
1. Go to the Barracks/Garrison. Click it, and select 'Train'.
2. Check which Tier level you are currently training in. Lower tiered units have lower statistics, but are cheaper.Higher tiered units have higher statistics but cost more.
3. Add the amount of units you want to have of each type. They will queue in a section at the bottom. You can add as many as you like (or can afford!) to this queue, of up to 4 types.
4. You must select 'Train' to train them. From here, you can also speed it up for a little bit of gold so you have your units straight away.
5. They will then train, and be part of your army!
How do you attack?
1. First you have to click on the map button in the lower right hand corner of your screen.
2. Click on the raider/player icon you want to attack and click 'Attack'.
3. Once the enemy camp loads, click the '+' button at the top left corner of your screen. This will add army units to your squads. Depending on what level your Barracks is, you can have multiple squads. Each squad consists of 10 units, and they can be of different types and classes. TIP: You can add 10 at once by using the 'Max' button.
4. Once you have added your fighters, a circle will appear. This is your Deployment circle. When the circle turns white, you can place your fighters onto the enemy map. If it appears red, you will not be able to place them down.
5. Once you placed your units, select the building(s) that you wish for them to attack and the battle will take place!
6. You can control your units. They can retreat if you want, go to locations, and target specific buildings.
What is the Tech Tree?
The Tech Tree is a graphical interpretation of what you have researched, and what you have not researched so far in your Town Hall. It shows the requirements for each new upgrade as well.
How come it says that I do not have the right tech when i want to start researching something in my tech tree?
You will need to either make a specific building, or make a specific research in order to continue here.
How do I get Car Batteries?
By asking friends to join the game, or by buying the batteries with in game gold.
What tier can I research to?
Currently you can build your Town Hall and buildings to level 10.
How do you train units?
1. Go to the Barracks/Garrison. Click it, and select 'Train'.
2. Check which Tier level you are currently training in. Lower tiered units have lower statistics, but are cheaper.Higher tiered units have higher statistics but cost more.
3. Add the amount of units you want to have of each type. They will queue in a section at the bottom. You can add as many as you like (or can afford!) to this queue, of up to 4 types.
4. You must select 'Train' to train them. From here, you can also speed it up for a little bit of gold so you have your units straight away.
5. They will then train, and be part of your army!
How do you attack?
1. First you have to click on the map button in the lower right hand corner of your screen.
2. Click on the raider/player icon you want to attack and click 'Attack'.
3. Once the enemy camp loads, click the '+' button at the top left corner of your screen. This will add army units to your squads. Depending on what level your Barracks is, you can have multiple squads. Each squad consists of 10 units, and they can be of different types and classes. TIP: You can add 10 at once by using the 'Max' button.
4. Once you have added your fighters, a circle will appear. This is your Deployment circle. When the circle turns white, you can place your fighters onto the enemy map. If it appears red, you will not be able to place them down.
5. Once you placed your units, select the building(s) that you wish for them to attack and the battle will take place!
6. You can control your units. They can retreat if you want, go to locations, and target specific buildings.
What is the Tech Tree?
The Tech Tree is a graphical interpretation of what you have researched, and what you have not researched so far in your Town Hall. It shows the requirements for each new upgrade as well.
How come it says that I do not have the right tech when i want to start researching something in my tech tree?
You will need to either make a specific building, or make a specific research in order to continue here.
How do I get Car Batteries?
By asking friends to join the game, or by buying the batteries with in game gold.
What tier can I research to?
Currently you can build your Town Hall and buildings to level 10.
How do I upgrade my Town Hall to a Civic Centre, so and on?
Research the technology first by getting all the requirements, and then you can upgrade the building itself after the research finishes!
What chapter does the story run till?
It currently runs till Chapter 15 at the moment, but with much more to come!
Why is there nobody to attack?
Raiders respawn every 72 hours or so, and the higher you go in levels, the more people you will be able to attack.
It should I have 3/3 (or variant of) Refineries, yet I only have one of each type. What is wrong?
You are seeing this correctly. You can only build 3 refinery buildings total, not 3 of each type. So if you have one of each building, then you have built all you can build for now.
I am having an issue Loading the game. What can I do?
This issue usually can be fixed by refreshing your browser's and flash player's cached files. Here's how it's done:
CLEAR BROWSER CACHE
Internet Explorer
- Tools.
- Internet Options.
- Delete Browsing History.
- Restart Internet Explorer.
Firefox
- Tools.
- Clear Recent History.
- Restart Firefox.
Google Chrome
- Click on the wrench in the upper right hand corner.
- Choose options.
- Choose Clear browsing data.
- Restart Chrome.
CLEAR FLASH PLAYER CACHE
- Go to http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html
- Select cdn.empiresofthewasteland.com from the list
- Click 'Delete Website'
I bought Gold with Facebook Credits, but did not receive them. What do I do?
Facebook is handling the support for purchases made with Facebook credits. To contact Facebook:
1) Go to http://apps.facebook.com/wasteland-empires
2) click the link that says "Report/Contact this application"
3) A pop up will open. Select the radio button:
"Dispute an item purchased while playing Wasteland Empires"
4) Pick the order related to the problem in order to send a Dispute.
5) Write a description of your issue in the section provided.
6) Send it and wait patiently for the answer
Can I reset my account?
We will not just reset accounts. We only want to reset users that are having major issues in game, and this will be a very rare occurrence.
Some players have cool buildings I don’t! Where do those come from?
Some buildings are rewards for completing in-game actions. There are also others (such as the Plague Tower or Small Auxiliary Well) that anyone can get by claiming rewards from Wasteland emails!
Some buildings are rewards for completing in-game actions. There are also others (such as the Plague Tower or Small Auxiliary Well) that anyone can get by claiming rewards from Wasteland emails!
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