====Getting Started====

If you want to be alpha tester, look here [[http://www.badge-r-s.de/goTester.php|GoTester Instructions]].

After you installed the app, next steps are:
  * Start the app.
  * Choose your Google Account for playing.
  * Choose your in game nick and two colors. These colors are your avatar/logo. Choose to please.

Now you are **[[rules:ranks#guest|guest]]**. You can browse the map, but you cannot play yet. 
Now:
  * Shortly after registering your account in the App: <color #ed1c24>**Check GMail for a passcode!**</color>
  * If you do not use GMail, [[:appstart#questions_suggestions|ask us]] for your code!
  * Enter passcode in app. (The mail actually provides a link, which forwards the code into the app for you)

Now your **account is fully activated**. You can play. 
  * First and primary goal is to collect as many **different** badge types ([[rules:kinds_of_badges]])
  * To move on the game map, **move in the real world**. This is a GPS based game.
  * **(Very) basic strategy I:** Take all badges on the map, **that you didn't put there yourself**. 
    * When a badge is within the black circle on the map, you can **take it, by touching it**. 
  * **(Very) basic strategy II:** Drop any duplicate badges you find in your inventory, i.e. **keep one of every type**.
    * To drop a badge, go to your inventory, chose a badge, find the button to **drop the badge to the map** yourself.
  * Note, **your [[inventory#capacity|badge_capacity]] is practically unlimited**, only duplicates, i.e. several badges of the same type, take capacity.

So much for now, we'll try to add more on [[strategy:start]].