Atlantis New Origin

Like many other PBEMs, Eressea is cloned from the original Atlantis PBEM ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantis_PbeM ), in this case via the German Atlantis clone. Every Atlantis clone is a little bit different, and so is Eressea. Here is a collection of some differences between Eressea and the "more original" Atlantis games, as for example Atlantis New Origin:

- neverending; there is no defined ending to Eressea. You set your own goals. If you achieve these, find others. Some players play the game for 20+ years.

- no leaders in Eressea; everybody can teach, but the teacher needs to be better TWO levels

- no different races in one faction; you recruit from the peasantry, which seem to be of a "neutral" race until the moment you recruit them; then they belong to your race. Exception: Humans. Human factions may have a small amount of "migrants" from other races

- there is no resource "income" for every region every turn that can be harvested; instead there is a limited amount of iron, stone, wood, silver, peasants etc. in a region; if you harvest it, it will be gone (but since wood and peasants regenerate VERY slowly, NOT harvesting usually ends up in your neighbours conquering you, then harvesting your stuff)

- no skill cap; there are players here who have units with skill levels >50; but they are playing a LONG time...

- main money income will come from ENTERTAIN or sometimes TAX (if you have a positive skill modifier; otherwise TAX is worse); since both draw on the same regional silver hoard, using both in the beginning is not efficient; for ENTERTAINing you only need the skill, while for TAXing you need a weapon, the weapon skill, the TAX skill, somebody to forge the weapons and somebody to harvest the resources (lumberjacks or miners)

- if you have good trading skills, you can generate secondary money by trading luxuries; this is quite complex, so I leave this to others to explain in detail; every region has luxuries, every region will buy the luxuries it does not have; regions with more peasants will buy and sell more each turn

- there is only one magic skill, with which you get spells and cast them; what kind of spells you get depends on the school of magic you follow, but this is not a skill, just a definition you have to make when you learn magic the first time; all of your mages will follow that school, so no fine-tuning of different magic skills etc. every school of magic has a "get 50 silver per skill point" spell, so if you don't have a negative skill modifier in magic, it is worth to start learning magic immediately even though it costs silver to learn Magic