With the influx of new players, it seems that no one has read the manual, not that anyone can find the manual. How hard will it be to add a link to the top of the start screen to a manual/guide Order for start screen: Manual(s) - link or something, working idea for a guide: http://forums.empiresmod.com/showthread.php?p=362195#post362195 Tutorial Find server ... .. .
I think there should be something like pirates vikings and knights II, where tips and tricks are displayed in the bottom left corner
Add in another popup at the start that makes it compulsory to join squads to spawn, unless you opted in on the CV vote. That'd be the dream.