To begin playing Pockets, you will need to create a character. To do this, you will need to own one of the following NFTs:
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When you select your NFT, this will create a character with the option of randomising their name. Once you have selected the name of the character. You will be given the option of creating or joining a faction. Why this is crucial, will be explained below.
Once you have joined, you will be given a starting welcome pack that contains resources and a small amount of units to allow you to battle other players.
Each character has combat and non combat skills that can be levelled up. To do this, the player will need to spend resources relating to the skill to gain XP.
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To gather these resources, you will need to have resource fields that you will see in the faction tab. This is where it is crucial and a must that the player joins a faction.
Faction activities - harvesting + buildings + proposals
You’ve joined a faction, great! Now it's time to take over Pockets. What can a faction do?
There are three main tabs that a player needs to know about; Resources, Services, and Politics.
Resources
The Resources tab is home to the resource fields that can be discovered and prospected by players. To do this, players will need to press on Discover on the right hand side of the tab and pay $BONK to discover a resource field. Once this has been done, players must prospect the field by submitting transactions. This can be done in different amounts from 1 to 5 to 10 to 25.
Once prospected, the faction who submitted the successful transaction will gain a resource field which can be harvested.
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Harvesting these fields will put these resources into your inventory tab with a % of those going to the faction inventory depending on the tax rate.
Services
This is where the buildings of your faction reside. The main one being the Townhall that can be upgraded by paying 500k $BONK. With each upgrade, an additional building spot opens up that can be used.