Check out here THIS LINK which takes you to the Wiki... It's the "getting started" section, and it has easy access links to other relevant pages.Originally Posted by psychotibirdy88
My favorites are:
The Race Comparisons
The Personality Comparisons
The Mystics Page / List of Available Spells - (Important!)
The Growth Page / List of Available Buildings - (Important!!)
...As far as I remember: best thing to do is be "decent" coming out of protection - the phase where no one else can attack you or target you for ops (thievery and mystic ops)... Decent as in: a good enough army (or shortly on the way there), enough thieves to give a decent TPA (thieves per acre), enough guilds and towers to cast the self-spells you'll want to be using, and a good build (building allocation - i.e. an effective use of your buildings to boost your province in the ways you're looking for)...
Past that, so much is different for me now... I can only give a general overlay of some things to think about coming out of protection. :-\