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How to Play Oasis
Build
Roads
Once you’ve found a few cities, it is a good idea to connect them together with
roads. To start building a road, click on an explored square next to a city.
Continue the road by clicking on adjacent squares. Each road segment cost 5
followers to build.
When cities are connected by roads, they will trade with each other, and grow in
population every 5 turns. Cities connected by roads can also supply each other
with troops to help repel the barbarian hordes.
Mines and Technology
In addition to building roads, you can improve your cities' chances of defeating the barbarians by developing technology.
Technology is developed by placing followers in the Mines that appear
in the mountain range. Click on a mine to deposit 10 followers in it. (If you
don’t have 10 followers, you can still click to deposit as many as you have.)
Deposited followers become miners, and work in the mines every turn until the
end of the level.
When you place miners in a mine, the Technology Bar at the bottom of the screen
shows your miners digging towards the next available technology. They will dig
over the course of many turns. Whenever they reach the end of the tunnel,
you earn the next technology, and your miners start working on another one. See
Mining and the Technology Bar below for more details.
Treasures
Some cities contain magical treasures. To search a city for treasures, click on it. Some treasures are weapons useful in fighting the barbarians, others have special powers. Some cities will have more than one treasure. The treasure display at the top of the screen shows what treasures are available to be found.
The Secrets of the Obelisk
If you have extra turns, you can click on the obelisk to explore its
secrets. Spending a turn in this way will give you a random gift from the
Gods. These gifts are usually small, but can sometimes be quite
potent. They can come in the form of Technology, Scarab Power,
extra turns, or even an O-A-S-I-S letter!
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