Help us to compile the FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)

Question: Do units spawn automatically once my first unit dies, like in TT1 and TTG?
Answer: No. That is because we have resources now and the computer should not decide how to spend them for you. Therefore you will have to order units when you need them (and when there is enough empty space in the proper building).
Question: Do upgrades get applied automatically?
Answer: No, they will have to be applied manually. But we will make sure doing so won't be cumbersome babysitting. The way we see it, unit upgrades are when you have all your buildings loaded with units, but you still want to invest resources into making your army stronger, and that's when you start building upgrades for units and applying them. I know it might sound complicated, but by the time you face the need for those upgrades, it will be clear to you.
Question: What languages will the game be available in?
Question: The walls move whenever I rebuild - do my towers move too?
Question: Who are Bulat the War Advisor, and Zweistein the Peace advisor?
Answer: They are advisors. They will help you during the game. They will be giving you optional quests on what you should do to improve your current state in your country. When you feel the need for advice - you ask them and they will tell you about your current weaknesses and what you should do to fix them. Bulat will be giving advice about the military side of things - how to defend, which units to build, when to attack, etc. Zweistein on the other hand will give hints on what to build and research to improve your economy, culture, tech, etc.
Question: How many endings are there?
Answer: There are 6 different ways to win. Adventure Victory is basically like you end the game in Totem Tribe 1 - you follow the story until the end, beat the final boss in the end and you are done. Culture Victory involves a focus on creating buildings that increase the culture of your country and when it's high enough, your country will start luring persons of figure and quests associated with them. Once you will have the whole pantheon, you win! Science Victory requires you to research every single unlockable thing in the Technology Tree (and that tree is quite big). You will have to focus on having buildings that increase your research. Wealth Victory needs you to accumulate huge amounts of resources and spend them building a Wonder of the World to show whole world the wealth and glory of your country. To do so, you will need a lot of production facilities, as well as marketplaces and a lot of time spent in trade. Expansion Victory involves expanding the borders of your country and promoting your title from Noble to Duke to Emperor. And finally War Victory requires you to fill the Hall of Fame with war trophies.
You can get halfway towards several types of victories, but it requires 100% devotion to actually achieve one. For example in order to achieve the Cultural Victory you have to create buildings that increase your cultural level and they are usually peaceful (temples, obelisks, etc.) while in order to achieve War Victory you have to build as many barracks as possible, and barracks decrease your cultural level. Thus if you are moving towards War Victory, you are moving away from Cultural Victory and vice versa. The War Victory is the hardest among those six and aimed at hardcore or veteran players, those who seek a serious challenge.
You can restart the game again and some things will remain. For example you will be allowed to keep a limited number of items found on your play-through, your hero stats maximum limit will be increased, and your achievements will stay (in fact some of them require you to beat the game several times in order to get them).
These goals mean that puzzle fans will enjoy the more peaceful approach to a victory, whilst those who enjoy warfare or trade can enjoy other aspects of the game. You don't have to choose - you just play and have fun and eventually you will reach the type of Victory you like the most. Those 6 different types are meant to offer something cool to different kinds of players, and we're not expecting that players will be trying to reach all types (although some power players might want to do it).

Question: How do all the different activities work at the same time?
Answer: Totem Tribe 2 will have mixed game play - some parts of it will be asynchronous (resource mining, production, research, movement between towns, etc), and other parts will be synchronous (quests, puzzles).
Question: Are items randomly generated too?
Answer: Some items will have a pre-defined name and effect, but there will also be items with random properties, therefore finding an item with cool properties might be a good reward you would like to keep for your next play.
Question: How do I know what victories I achieved?
Answer: The types of victories you achieved will be prominently visible in a player's profile.
Question: (probably listed somewhere in my previous posts) What items can I buy? How does it affect my gameplay?
Answer: It all depends on how you play - how much time you spend, how competitive do you feel yourself, how much do you want to be involved in interaction with other players, etc. There will be a Cash Shop which will sell helpful consumable items that will simplify things a bit - like temporary increasing your income, speeding up construction, etc.All those items from the Cash Shop can be obtained in the game without paying anything, but of course in limited amounts. Basically the Cash Shop is a legalized cheat system, but not too powerful - you cannot buy your way to victory, but you can simplify things a lot.
On the other hand, if you are mainly interested in puzzles and quests, maybe you won't need it at all since you are not competing with anyone. All you might want to buy is some items which will guarantee protection for your country from other players in later stages of the game, but it will be possible without spending money too.
Question: Are there other achievements I can win?
Answer: Yes! Totem Tribe 2 will feature an achievement system which will allow you to compete with other players without engaging with them directly. There will be thousands of different achievements in each of the above 6 categories. When you get an achievement you are awarded with prestige points and when you have enough prestige points in some category, you will receive a medal. There are 60 medals to win!
Question: What kind of puzzles will there be?
Answer: Story-related and story-unrelated. Story-related puzzles are exactly like they were in TT1, while story-unrelated puzzles have two important changes: 1. Each puzzle has 6 difficulty levels. The higher difficulty - the greater reward. This means that you can find 2 similar puzzles at different places, but they will have different difficulty levels. You won't be able to choose the difficulty level, but puzzles are entirely optional - so you can skip them if you get stuck! 2. Story-unrelated puzzles are randomized - you will never know which one of those puzzles you will find next, where it will be, and the rewards from them are randomized too!
Question: Will there be hints for these puzzles?
Answer: Yes!

Question: Will we have to read story-related text or interact with characters in order to further progress in the game?
Question: Will we be able to skip these conversations?
Question: Will these conversations affect the game?
Answer: Yes. You can choose different questions to ask, which will lead you to different quests. They may also affect your overall gameplay by affecting which victory you are working towards.
Question: Can I pause the game when I want to stop playing?
Answer: No, you won't be able to pause the game, the game will be running 24/7 even when you sleep - the building will go on, resources will be mined, etc. You can order up construction of several buildings and then go to sleep, and when you wake up - everything is finished + you have plenty of resources accumulated overnight.
Unfortunately that is the drawback of making an online game - when a lot of people play it, it is unacceptable to allow one player to pause it and make everyone else wait. Also the ability of the game to continue the construction, research, and training while you are offline makes it fairer, so those people who don't have time to sit in the game 24/7 won't be at disadvantaged to those people who can. Furthermore this only concerns the boring stuff (building delays). Puzzles, hidden objects, and other story-related things won't happen without you.
Also if your friend wants to help you in battle, he or she can send reinforcements to your village and go offline. Those reinforcement units will help you defend your village. This way no need to be online at the same time.
Question: How long will the game take to complete?
Answer: The story of the game is planned to have: Prologue, Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Epilogue. One of the four chapters is planned roughly the size of the original Totem Tribe so you can imagine how big the game will be. We plan to release the closed alpha with the Prologue only. The Prologue is basically an extensive tutorial that teaches you all the new stuff while you are being introduced to this  world and the story behind it. This includes one building location and a couple of small quest locations.
Question: How long does it take to transfer units from one area to another?
Question: Will resources re-spawn?
Question: Will quest items re-spawn?
Question: Will there be a way to track what I've done or what progress I've made?
Answer: A lot of people criticized TT1 that its objectives were often not clear enough, so this time there will be a quest log that writes down your progress briefly. It contains information about things you already figured out. For example if you talked to some character and that character needs some item, the log will contain that information. It will not tell you where to find it, just things you already know.
Question: Who is Annah? Who is Jack of Swords?
Question: Will there be bosses to fight? Villians?
Answer: Yes. These are separate from other players, whom you can also fight.
Question: Technology research was fairly straightforward in TT1 and TTG. Will it be the same this time?
Answer: No. The technology tree is far more advanced in TT2. Once you research something, you don't need to do it again. However, there are lots more things to research this time around. As for the process of researching, each of the technologies has a cost in 'science points'. You can transfer some percentage of your resource income into science. This way you will have a lower resource income, but research going on. You can change the amount of resources turned into science points at any time. You can even set them to 0 if you need all your resources at that moment, but research will stop until you re-initiate financing your science. Even if you accumulated a lot of resources - you can only spend them on buildings and units, they cannot be transferred to research technologies. Only your resource income can be used on science points.
Researching technology only means you have unlocked the ability to use that technology - you still have to expend resources if you want to build or upgrade whatever you've unlocked.
Question: Do we have to create an avatar? I don't want to.
Answer: You can use our generator to create something automatically, or you can manually select features. There are millions of possible combinations!
Question: Can we choose our starting location on the world map?
Answer: Yes. You will be able to pick Moderate Grasslands, Tropical Jungle, Equatorial Desert, or Snowy Tundra.
Question: Will the location I pick affect what happens in my game?
Answer: It won't affect your character or main storyline, but it will affect your country and quests. For instance, if you start the game in Tundra, your village will be among the snowy mountains and fir trees, and different climatic zones will have variations in strategic resources too. Also the starting place will impact on your physical location. For example if you and your friend both start in the same zone - you will have greater chances of being neighbours in the game.
Question: What controls do we use to play?
Answer: Controls will be pretty much the same as in the original game, but there will more new windows and buttons due to more features. We will try to explain them in detail though. There will be comprehensive tutorial which will help you to learn all the new stuff.
Question: I have a friend who wants to play the game with me. How do I ensure that we are in the same zone?
Answer: To increase your chances of being neighbours you will have to start the game in the same zone at the same time. The longer the delay between your starts, the further between each other you will be. If you don't like your neighbour, you will have all the multi-player options at your disposal.
Question: Can I put a new village in a different zone than where I started?
Answer: Yes, if you can reach them!

Some of the 'option A, option B' stuff from this (see below) would be useful too.
http://www.totemtribe.com/news/season-s-greetings/

And the biggest question of them all: WHEN, WHEN, WHEN can we play? ;)

That question is big for me too, I wish I knew the answer :)

:) Haha, I saw it asked so many times in the comments that I thought it would be a must to include it. Now the site is here I am even more impatient - especially since I have little to do right now and need a new game to play.

Donations. Will credit card information be deleted after the transaction clears?

I personally would prefer that my information not be kept on file. What happens if someone hacks your system? I have found the internet is not  a safe place for storing credit card information.

Question: If I buy Totem Tribe or Totem Tribe Gold, can I play it on multiple computers?

Question: If I buy Totem Tribe or Totem Tribe Gold, can I play it on multiple computers?

Isn't this question irrelevant on this site? I mean, this is for TT2 and TT2 won't be available to 'buy' since we'll be playing for free. The question is more useful for the old site no?

Although it does lead me to another question:

Can we install the TT2 downloader on multiple computers and still play the same game?

Ops, I missed that this is the FAQ thread and answered those questions right away :)

hehe ;)

Question: If I buy Totem Tribe or Totem Tribe Gold, can I play it on multiple computers?

Isn't this question irrelevant on this site? I mean, this is for TT2 and TT2 won't be available to 'buy' since we'll be playing for free. The question is more useful for the old site no?

Considering that there is a sub-forum on this website for Totem Tribe, Totem Tribe Gold, and Totem Tribe 2, I think it's relevant. Besides, the website is totemtribe.com, not totemtribe2jotun.com.

Those are legacy forums. The FAQ we are making is regarding TT2 only.

Alright, I stand corrected. :)

Question: If I buy Totem Tribe or Totem Tribe Gold, can I play it on multiple computers?

Isn't this question irrelevant on this site? I mean, this is for TT2 and TT2 won't be available to 'buy' since we'll be playing for free. The question is more useful for the old site no?

Considering that there is a sub-forum on this website for Totem Tribe, Totem Tribe Gold, and Totem Tribe 2, I think it's relevant. Besides, the website is totemtribe.com, not totemtribe2jotun.com.

Yeah, I totally forgot about the subforums, apologies for that - but Berserker is right, we're adding stuff for the FAQ for TT2...

My reply was posted twice - I got error messages both times I tried to post, so I didn't know that it had worked...