Lithia wrote:Then i maxed out my Peacefull and Change, Personal Traits of my character which then gave me a 360% boost to all my research
This should be the very first thing you start doing. Push Peaceful until maxed for the LP bonus. You have to be logged in to get the timer to go down, and changing anything changes the Tradition/Change to Change by a position, too.
http://ringofbrodgar.com/wiki/Personal_BeliefsSevenless's guide is pretty much spot on with what you should be getting in your first couple of hours playing. After you can settle down a bit and make a home, the game options of what to do start opening up and it quits being that whole walking grind.
I'm not sure if the guide got updated to mention the "survival cap" change or not, but if it hasn't, anything you forage will be capped by your survival, so once you get Exploration up a few points, you'll want to work on getting survival to 10 just to bring things to a "normal" value. Pushing up more than that afterwards will be up to you and how you earn LP, what you want to do in the game, etc, but you will want to push it more just so you can get the best returns from foraging.
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