Archive for März, 2009

Hints & First Steps in BeBees

Here you will find useful tips and tricks on how best to start the game and get the ball rolling quickly. There are several alternatives – some are are effective, others less successful, but all reach the same goal sooner or later.

At the start of the game you and your beehive get

* 50 free worker bees and
* 2000 honey.

It is recommended to build a gatherer‘ chamber with the free honey. This will cost you 500 honey and will need 20 minutes. For the remaining 1500 honey you should first build a residential chamber with room for 20 new free bees, so that your Queen may fill the new residential places with births. A residential chamber costs 300 honey and to build it will need 10 minutes.

Now you have 1200 honey left (2000 honey – 500 honey gatherers‘ chamber – 300 honey residential chamber = 1200), for which you can train 30 gatherer bees out of your workforce of 50 free workers.

A gatherer bee will cost you 30 honey, and the training time is 1 minute. Since a gatherers‘ chamber offers space for 30 gatherer bees only you can only train this maximum number of 30 gatherer bees. That will cost you another 900 honey (30 gatherer bees * 30 honey = 900 honey).

Now you have:

– a residential chamber with additional space for 20 bees besides the 50 bees you already have;
– a gatherers‘ chamber with room for 30 gatherer bees and
– 30 trained gatherer bees, gathering honey for you on the meadows.

It is now up to you how long your gatherer bees will collect honey on the meadows. You may send out your bees to the meadows for a minimum of 1 hour and up to the maximum of 8 hours. A gatherer bee brings back 8 honey to your beehive in the first hour, but only 41.6 honey in 8 hours. To make this a bit clearer, here is the list of why in 8 hours less honey is collected than 8 times what is collected during the first hour:

1 hour = 8,0 honey (1 * 8.0)

2 hours = 15.2 honey (2 * 7.6)

3 hours = 21.6 honey (3 * 7.2)

4 hours = 27.2 honey (4 * 6.8)

5 hours = 32.0 honey (5 * 6.4)

6 hours = 36.0 honey (6 * 6.0)

7 hours = 39.2 honey (7 * 5.6)

8 hours = 41.6 honey (8 * 5.2)

Tip: If possible try to send your gatherer bees to gather honey for 1 hour only and then again 1 hour later. The shorter the flight times are, the lower are your losses concerning your gatherer bees. Because not always will all of them find their way back to your hive!

If you cannot send out your gatherer bees hourly you will have to take losses. From the honey collected you should build a new gatherers‘ chamber. Since you already have 300 honey left (2000 – 500 – 300 – 900 = 300 honey), it should be sufficient to let your gatherer bees collect honey for 1 hour, since then all will come back healthy and you get 240 honey (30 gatherers * 8 honey per hour = 240 honey).

Then you should send out your honey gatherers again to gather honey and train the remaining worker bees to be gatherer bees as well. Be careful, however, that you have enough space in your larder for all this honey. If you need more space, you should built another larder. A larder will cost you 300 honey and it takes only 10 minutes.

To play at the top of the game you will need 6 residential chambers and 6 larders sooner or later. The number of gatherers‘ chambers may vary. 2 – 3 gatherers‘ chambers should be enough actually.

As soon as you have built 6 residential chambers and 6 larders plus you gatherers‘ chambers, you have reached the point where the Chamber of the Queen needs expanding. It would be useful if you had the royal chamber expanded to level 2 and then follow suit with all the other buildings. After this, expand the Chamber of the Queen to level 3 and again follow suit with all the other buildings. This aim you should pursue up to level 4 of the Chamber of the Queen. From the 5th level upwards you’re no longer protected against attacks and may be attacked by other beehives. But from the 5th level upwards, on the other hand, you can build attackers‘ or defenders‘ chambers and can defend yourself and/or attack others as well.

To prevent false starts, an hourly production of 100 honey is guaranteed. This will protect you from coming to a point where you can’t expand anymore.

From this point on you should devise your own strategy and should also know how to do and handle everything./td>

Throbber link

Throbber link oder "Home" Button

Throbber link oder "Home" Button

Premium members may define the „home“ button themselves in their profile under „settings“. This means that with a simple click on the home button you will reach the desired destination immediately.

Edit Throbber link

Edit Throbber link

The following configurations are possible for the „home“ button:

Hive
Map
Your profile
Stats
Queen chamber
Hero
Destroyer
Guard
Agent
Saboteur
Messaging: Inbox
Messaging: Outbox
Messaging: Combat reports
Messaging: Hero fights reports
Write a message
Colony news
Colony settings
Colony members
Colony stats

Colony

To join a people your Chamber of the Queen must at least be expanded to level 5. From level 5 upwards you can apply for other nations or accept an invitation to join a people.

To found a bee nation yourself your royal chamber must be at level 10 or higher. From then on you can found a people yourself. You do this by clicking on the menu item „people“ and coming up with a name for your people. As soon as you confirm with „founding“ your people will be created and you can now invitate other players to join your nation.

Create & Join Colony

Create & Join Colony

A nation offers you several advantages. You can plan and exercise attacks together. Furthermore, members of your people can support you with their defender bees if you should be attacked. Likewise, you can support other members of your people with your defender bees.

Colony Menu

Colony Menu

The following things you can do as a member of your people:

News: You can write and read the nation’s news by clicking on „news“.
Settings: HHere you can leave the colony.
Members: Via „members“ you can see all the players of your people, their last activity and whether those players do or don’t have admin rights.
Statistics: The statistics, just like the standard statistics, are sub-divided into the features expansion, experience, honey, kills, deff-kills and kills and deff-kills you have won. Only here you can only see the members of your people so that you can see how you rank among them.

The following things you can do as a member of your people with admin rights:

News: Besides reading and writing news of your people you can delete them as well.
Settings: Here you can, like all the other members of your people, resign from the nation. But you can also invite other players with admin rights – and for 25 Gelee Royal you may change the name. You can also modify and edit the profile page for your people.
Members: If other players are to get admin rights you can here give them and take them away again. Only from players with a grey check mark behind their name their admin rights can’t be taken away.
Statistics: Here it’s just the same for you as it is for a normal member of the people without any admin rights. Nothing can be modified or edited.

Living Chamber

Living Chamber

Living Chamber

Living Chamber

Living Chamber

The Residential Chamber (Living Chamber / Habbitat Cell) are important for your hive because they provide space for your free worker bees.

The free worker bees will be born depending on the expansion stage of your royal chamber and they will need space. If the full number of your bee population is reached there won’t be any more offspring.

It is important to make sure that you have more space for newborn bees in your hive than you need because you can train your free worker bees to become gatherer, defender, attacker, spy, saboteur and guard bees.

Maximally, though, you can built a total of 6 residential chambers in your hive. This means for you that once the maximum number is reached, you will need to expand your residential chambers. Each new stage of expansion provides space for a further 20 bees.

Tip: Sooner or later you will need the full 6 residential chambers, to ensure a sufficient population in the beehive. Free workers you can train to become attacker, defender, gatherer, saboteur, destroyer, guard or spy bees. Since you will need many free bees for this, you should build and later expand all 6 residential chambers. If your residential chambers are full, the births of the queen are lost and you have a loss of free worker bees, which perhaps you might need.

Guards‘ Chamber

Guards´ Chamber

Guards´ Chamber

From the 5th level of your „Chamber of the Queen“ you can train your free worker bees to become guard bees. A guard bee will cost you 1,000 honey and must be trained in your guards‘ chamber. Even if you have many guard bees there will always be only one guard bee on patrol. The duration of the training is 20 minutes.

The guards serve you to fend off espionage by other hives. If another player tries to spy on your hive you have an even chance to fend off this spy.

Your guard dies when the spy succeeds in infiltrating your hive. If your guard bee catches the spy, the enemy spy dies without sending a message to its hive.

Enemy saboteurs must first overcome your guard as well. Here you have the same even chances to fend off the enemy saboteurs to protect your hive.

Tip: Because your guard tries to protect you from enemy sabotage and espionage attacks you should always have some trained guards available. If there are no guards in your hive you will never know whether there has been a spy in your hive or whether you have been sabotaged because none other than your guard bees can give you this information.

Storage Chamber

Storage Chamber

Storage Chamber

Storage Chamber

Storage Chamber

By expanding your storage cells your storage capacity increases by 300 honey. Likewise, you have, until the 24th level of your Chamber of the Queen, a certain percentage protection of your honey, which can not be taken away in case of a raid by another beehive.

Level of queen chamber Honey Protection Non-Premium Honey Protection Premium
01 bis 04 full attack protection full attack protection
05 bis 09 20% protection of your total capacity 20% protection of your total capacity + 5%
10 bis 14 15% protection of your total capacity 15% protection of your total capacity + 5%
15 bis 19 10% protection of your total capacity 10 % protection of your total capacity + 5%
20 bis 24 5% protection of your total capacity 5% protection of your total capacity + 5%
25 bis XX 0% protection of your total capacity 0% protection of your total capacity + 5%

You’ll need the maximum number of 6 storage chambers after a while because the Chamber of the Queen, which has to be expanded, will consume a lot of honey.

Tip:

Sooner or later you will need all your 6 storage cells, because there will be a point at which you will need all the storage cells for your next expansion of the Chamber of the Queen.

Likewise, you will need your 6 storage cells for all the items possessing a special attribute because otherwise you can not afford them.

Premium

With a premium account you can benefit from many different advantages and conveniences. In addition, there are a variety of packages of premium offers.

Benefits of a Premium Account:

Actions

Non-Premium

Non-Premium

Premium

Premium

Max. length of the collector expedition 8 hours 12 hours
Honey-Protection from attacks in percentages
Queen’s Chamber Not-Premium
01 – 04 100 %
05 – 09 20 %
10 – 14 15%
15 – 19 10%
20 – 24 5%
25 – XX 0%
Queen’s Chamber Premium
01 – 04 100 %
05 – 09 20% + 5%
10 – 14 15% + 5%
15 – 19 10 % + 5%
20 – 24 5% + 5%
25 – XX 0% + 5%
Time until the next move of the beehive – every 30 days
– inside the ring
– every 10 days

– inside the ring and in the direction of the middle of the map

Avatar no avatar is possible
Building loops max. 3 building loops max. 5 building loops
Reimbursement when aborting building assignment in honey 0% 50%
Refunding when selling items in honey and Gelee Royal 25% 50%
Define throbber link No Yes
How much Gelee-Royal get do you per day free of charge? 0 2
Hof much I can free of charge „Update dealer (free)“ with the hero? 0 1

Gelee Royal Benefits

  • Since Gelee Royal is very popular with your bee population and is seen as a delicacy, your worker bees work much quicker after eating the delicious goods and the work applied to them makes more rapid progress. You can bribe your bees at any time with the tasty Gelee Royal to get the assignments done faster. Even the training of the bees gets done much easier and faster when you feed the trainees a little Gelee Royal.
  • For equipping your heroes with the so-called „super-items“, you also need Gelee Royal, because luxury and quality with special features has its price.
  • If you should have too much of the Gelee Royal and do not know what to do with it, you can always dilute it to honey of course.

Destroyers‘ Chamber

Detroyer

Destroyer

In the destroyers‘ chamber you can train your free worker bees to become destroyers. These offer you the opportunity to dismantle stages of chambers already built. Per stage you want to dismantle one destroyer bee is needed. Once it has been trained, you can go into any chamber and dismantle it by clicking on the „remove chamber“ button at the bottom.

An example: You do have a gatherers‘ chamber level 5 and want to completely demolish it, then you will need 5 destroyer bees to do this. They will all be needed in the gatherers‘ chamber for the dismantling.

The destroyer bee can only be used once and dies after having finished its work. The destroyers‘ chamber is available to you immediately.

Gatherers‘ Chamber

Gatherer

Gatherer

Gatherers' Chamber

Gatherers

In the gatherers‘ chamber you can train your free worker bees to become gatherers. These you can send to the meadows to collect honey for a minimum of 1 hour and a maximum of 8 hours. Premium members may even send out their gatherer bees to the meadows for 12 hours. Please remember that you can always send out your gatherer bees for full hours only.

The more gatherers bees you have bees, the more honey the collectors can collect. Note, however, that shorter flying times mean more honey, because every hour longer your gatherer bees spend in the meadows gets you 0.4 honey less.

This means that a gatherer bee may collect in:

Duration Honey Calculation Status
1 hour 08,0 honey 1 * 8,0 Non-Premium
2 hours 15,2 honey 2 * 7,6 Non-Premium
3 hours 21,6 honey 3 * 7,2 Non-Premium
4 hours 27,2 honey 4 * 6,8 Non-Premium
5 hours 32,0 honey 5 * 6,4 Non-Premium
6 hours 36,0 honey 6 * 6,0 Non-Premium
7 hours 39,2 honey 7 * 5,6 Non-Premium
8 hours 41,6 honey 8 * 5,2 Non-Premium
9 hours 43,2 honey 9 * 4,8 Premium
10 hours 44,0 honey 10 * 4,4 Premium
11 hours 44,0 honey 11 * 4,0 Premium
12 hours 43,2 honey 12 * 3,6 Premium

Sometimes get you Gelee Royal too from the gatherer bees, if they coming home.

Tip: If you need more honey, you need to send out your collector bees for a longer time. But you have to take into account that the rate of loss during a longer flight is higher than if you let your bees collect honey several times for 1 hour every time. You must therefore decide whether you want them to be gone longer and accept the risk of losses or whether you can make it possible to send out your gatherer bees again every hour or every other hour.

Chat

Chat

Chat

To communicate quickly with other players in the game you can use the chat. In this chat everyone can write something, greet, ask, and just have fun.

To address an individual player, there is the red arrow. Click it and the text: @username will be transferred to the chat line. Please do not confuse this with the „whispering“ in other chats, this text can be read by any other user.

In order to write something in the chat, you just need to enter the text below and then click the send button. To reload the chat faster, you can also click the „update“ button, then the chat will reload immediately.

If you joined a people your people of course will have their own chat. To get there you just have to click the „people chat“ button in the chat. Once the chat is shown as bold you can be sure that only other members of your people can read what you write. Likewise you get back to the „main chat“ when you click on this button again.

In addition, there are moderators and of course a separate area for admins where only they can read and write.

Smilies

Here are the codes for the possible Smilies

:) :-) =)
:-/ =( :( :-(
:lol: :D :-D :/
8) 8-)
:-O :o :-o :O
;-) ;)
:-* :*
:p :-p :-P :P
:^)
]:) |-) |)
:x :X :-x :-X
:S :s :-S :-s
Tip:
In the chat you can compare notes with other players, chat, joke around and of course get help when you are encountering problems where the general help or the forum have been of no assistance. To not annoy people or misbehave, though, you should read the „chatiquette“ before which you will find above the main chat on the right side – and of course to adhere to it. Now, we just wish you to have fun chatting.

Building Loop

The building loop shows you how many of your buildings are currently under construction. The time tells you when a honeycomb will be finished getting built or being developed. With the abort button you can cancel building assignments and get refunded 25% of the cost.

You can have a maximum of 3 building assingments running simultaneously. It is important to note that those assignments are executed not simultaneously but sequentially. This means that the first order is executed first and the second can start only when the first assignment is finished.

In case of an aborted assignment premium users get back not only 25 % but 50% of their invested honey. Furthermore, premium users may run up to 5 building loops simultaneously. For more about premium users please read below under Gelee Royal, or the premium category.

For a building assignment to start you need to go into a chamber or click on an empty honeycomb and give the building assignment. There you’ll see the text „Expand XY chamber to stage XY“. Below you can see the price and duration of the assignment.

If you want to expand an empty honeycomb, 5 chambers are available for selection, but only 3 up to level 5 of your royal chamber.

Building Loop

Building Loop

Tip: In order to rise in the ranking, you should try to have as few empty building loops as possible and always have at least one assignment under construction. This will be difficult at the beginning, but with increasing duration of the expansions you should be able to succeed in this. Thus there is always something built in your hive and you can collect or steal new honey for the next expansion unhurriedly.

Hero Chamber

In the chamber of the hero you can equip your hero with items and strengthen him. Similarly, you can train your hero with honey which increases his vitality and energy. The higher the level of the hero, the higher is his vitality. The cost of the items also rises with the level of the hero, i.e. the higher your hero is trained, the more expensive the items are.

Wasp

Wasp

Wasp
Wasp: Are you a player who focusses on both attack and defence in equal measures. Then you should choose the wasp, because it strengthens your attacker and defender bees by around 15% each.

Bumblebee

Bumblebee

Bumblebee
Bumblebee: If you are a player who prefers complete defence the bumble-bee is just the right hero for you, because the bumble-bee strengthens your defence by 30% and so ensures the security of your beehive.

Hornet

Hornet

Hornet
Hornet: The hornet will strengthen your attackers by 30% and so is the perfect choice for all players who focus primarily on attacking.
Tip: Since your hero reflects your way of playing, you should think long and hard about how you want to play your game. There is something to choose from for every type of player, aggressive or passive. So think carefully before you choose your hero.




With the attitude you can design and devise your hero more individually. You can for example take an attacker hero and improve him with strong defensive values, so that, in case of an enemy attack, he may defend a lot better than he would if he was simply attuned to attacking.

There are a total of 11 levels for the attitude of your hero from lout (aggressive) to „in love“.

Aggressive is consistent with the hornet, which means 100% attack. In love is the bumble-bee – and this strengthens your defence by 100%.

Importance of the Hero

Hero Meaning
Hornets can choose between the attitude stages 11 and 6 (100% – 50% attack, 50% -75% defence) (aggressive – neutral)
Wasps can choose between the attitude stages 9 and 3 (90% -60% attack, 60% -90% defence) (fighter – sweetie)
Bumble-bees can choose between the attitude stages 6 and 1 (75% -50% attack, 50% -100% defence) (neutral – in love)

The attitude at a glance:

Attitude Attack Defence
Lout 100% attack 50% defence
Rowdie 95% attack 55% defence
She-goat / he-goat 90% attack 60% defence
Prankster 85% attack 65% defence
Rascal 80% attack 70% defence
Normalo 75% attack 75% defence
Cutie 70% attack 80% defence
Softie 65% attack 85% defence
Sweetie 60% attack 90% defence
Cuddly pet 55% attack 95% defence
In love 50% attack 100% defence

Buy Items

At midnight you always get 4 new items to choose from, which don’t get updated during the day unless you buy new products for 1 Gelee Royal.

To see which functions an item has, just click on it and then in the box „item information“ you can read what the various items strengthen, and by how many per cent.

In order to purchase items, you just have to pull them in the brown box, your so-called backpack, and then the honey will be deducted from your stockpile. From this moment on the items are yours already. But in order to let them really help in your hero’s fight you have to drag them to your hero. If you do not have enough honey in stock for an item, you can not buy it.

You can buy a maximum of 13 items. 5 items van be positioned on your hero and 8 items you can store or keep in your brown box, your backpack, exchanging them with an item already on your hero according to the situation.

Remember, however, if your backpack is filled with 8 items, there is no place to store an item your hero casts off to exchange it for another. You should take care that there is always at least one free space in your backpack.

Sell Items

You can sell items as easily as you can buy them. You just have to drag the items with your mouse from the brown box to the dealer. Note, though, that only 50% of the purchase value will be refunded for premium players.
Change Hero

Often players made mistakes with their choice of heroes and later had to act with a hero not to their liking with a game tactic that didn’t match their own. But now you can finally still change your hero later. For 10 Gelee Royal you can simply change your hero by clicking on one of the hero pictures highlighted in grey (shown in red in the illustration).

Change Hero

Change Hero

Afterwards you have to confirm once again that you really want to change your hero. When changing heroes the values achieved don’t get set back – they persist.

Statistics

statistic menu

statistic menu

The statistic gives you an overview of your ranking in the entire game. You can fight to get to the very top in the point statistics, in the prey statistics, and in the kills as well as in the def-kills statistics. In order to get to the statistics you have to click on „statistics“ in the menu which you will find below the chat and then you will see the point statistics of the players.

Statistic

Statistic

Statistic Explanations
Point statistics: Here all your points and expansions are added together, which will give you an overview of where you stand compared to other players in the overall statistics. Moreover, the best players, the top players in the point statistics, can take part in a final battle where the heroes will fight against each other.
Prey statistics: Here all the players are listed who have succeeded in capturing honey from others. It is important in that you can see from this statistics whether a player is aggressive and belligerent or not.
Kills statistics: In the kills statistics you will see whether a player has a strong offensive or a not so strong offensive. Here every bee is counted you or another player has destroyed during an attack.
Def-kills statistics: The def-kills statistics shows whether a player prefers a strong defensive. Who’s on top in this statistics will probably have a strong defence. If your defender bees fend off an enemy attack successfully, those kills go into your „def-kills statistics“. Even with lost defences those kills you have caused for your attacker go straight into the def-kills statistics. This also includes your defender kills when you have sent out your defenders to support another member of your people.
Experience points The experience points are established by all the actions in the game. The way each action effects those points will stay a secret. We will only reveal that nearly every click in the game will make your experience points grow and rise.

You can also change from the player statistics to the people statistics. In the people statistics you can see all bee people. Here all the points of each member of the people will be added so that there will be a score for each people consisting of the points of its members.

Likewise it will be done for the prey statistics. Each member of a people contributes to the score in the prey statistics. The kills and def-kills statistics will be handled in the same manner, as well as the experience statistics. Every offensive and defensive kill of a member of a people will be added to those of the other members of the people and so results in the final result and the score of each people.

Statistics Calculation:

((Sum of all levels including meadows, without the queen chamber squared) * 10) * ((Level of the queen chamber) * 20) / (number of chambers, including queen chamber without meadows)

Example:

6 residential chambers (levels: 11, 13, 14, 14, 15, 15) = 82

6 larders (levels: 10, 11, 11, 11, 12, 16) = 71

2 defenders‘ chambers (levels: 21, 21) = 42

1 attackers‘ chamber (level: 5) = 5

1 collectors‘ chamber (level: 11) = 11

4 meadows (levels: 2, 7, 7, 7) = 23

1 royal chamber (level: 21) = 21

= ((82 +71 +42 +5 +11 +23) ²) * 10) * ((21) * 20) / 17 = 13,527,952 points

Meadows

Meadow

Meadow

The meadows provide your hive an hourly honey supply. How much this is depends on how many free bees you have available in your hive. Free bees are the bees which have not been trained as gatherer, attacker, defender, spy, saboteur or guard bee. These free bees go to the meadows every minute for your hive and thus provide the basic supply for your beehive.

The more free bees you have, the higher is your hourly meadow production.

Also, the expansion stage of your meadows determines the amount of the basic supply. The higher the meadows are expanded, the higher the honey production is.

Therefore, you have to find the balance which will provide the best honey production.

Similarly, each hive has a guaranteed honey production of 100 honey per hour from its meadows, so you can never sink to the value 0. That way you can still secure the survival of your hive, even when some building and expanding has gone wrong.

There is an exception, however. If you have not logged in for a longer time your meadow production will be reduced by 10 percent every day, even down to zero, so your hive can not be farmed any longer.

Meadow formula:

(0.12 factor * free worker bees * (sum of all stages of expansion of the meadows / 4)) + 100 = hourly meadow

Example Calculation:

(0.12 factor * 250 free worker bees * (level 4 + level 3 + level 7 + level 6) / 4) + 100 = 250 honey

Tip: Try to keep your meadow production low if your are not online often enough to spend the honey or don’t have defenders in your hive. Because once attackers observe that there is a lot of honey to steal it will be difficult to get rid of them again.

On the other hand, it makes sense for you to expand your meadows if you come online frequently and therefore can squander your honey quickly.

Defenders‘ Chamber

Defender

Defender

Defenders'

Defenders´ Chamber

Like the attackers‘ chamber you can expand your defenders‘ chamber only from level 5 of your „Chamber of the Queen„.

In the defenders‘ chamber you can train your free worker bees to become defenders which will protect your beehive from enemy attacks.

Also for your defenders‘ chamber applies the same rule – the higher the chamber, the more defenders you can train. But you also have to expand each defenders‘ chamber individually , so that your defender bees can gain their full strength.

If your defender bees fend off an enemy attack successfully, the kills go into your „def-kills statistics“. Even when you lose and the attack is successful the kills you caused for the attacker will go into the def-kills statistics.

You can also send your defender bees to other players to protect the beehive of another member of your people. For this you just have to go into your Chamber of the Queen, enter the name of the player you want to support and the number of defenders from the individual defenders‘ chamber you want to send out and then your bees are already on the way.

How long your defender bees will need to get to the other hive you will see by the time shown in the defenders‘ chamber.

The kills you cause while supporting other hives will go into your def-kills statistics, too.

Tip: Try to always expand your defenders‘ chamber as high as possible and match your fighting strength to the expansion stage. That way even numerically fewer defenders may be able to fend off a much greater army of attackers.

Spy Chamber

Agent

Agent

The spy chamber with the spy bees is available to you from the 5th level of your royal chamber.

In this chamber, you can train any free worker bee to become a spy bee for 1,000 honey. The training lasts 20 minutes per bee.

Your spy bees can spy on other beehives and will give you useful information. But not every intelligence flight is successful. If the player you want to spy out has a guard in his hive, you have, as well as he, an equal percentage chance to succeed.

If the guard bee of your opponent doesn’t detect your spy bee you get the useful information. If you are discovered, your spy bee won’t come back alive.

In order to get to the spy chamber you must first click on the Chamber of the Queen to get to the spy chamber from there.

You can enter the name of the player you want to spy out and then send out your spy bee.

By the time you’ll see how long it will need to get to the other beehive.

Tip: Before you attack an opposing player you should always spy him/her out before to get as many information about him/her beehive as possible to protect yourself against losses.

If you are out for attacker kills, you can of course look out for defenders. How you use your spy is left to you, but you should send the spy out as often as possible before the attacks, so that there are no unpleasant surprises.

Saboteur’s Chamber

Saboteur

Saboteur

The saboteur bee is responsible for manipulating the hive of an enemy, so that it is no longer properly working in the chamber or meadow hit by the sabotage.

To manipulate a chamber or meadow, the saboteur bee has to defeat the guards of the hive you aim to sabotage. There the sabotage bee has an even percentage chance to succeed.

After successful penetration of the opponent’s hive via a random value one of the chambers or meadows gets selected. It does not matter whether this is empty or expanded. However, it should be noted that the Chamber of the Queen cannot be attacked by sabotage.

After one of the targets has been selected a new random value now decides between three different actions. It may be that the alteration, i.e. the dismantling or expansion of the cell/chamber will be be prevented. The second alternative is that the training of certain bees, such as collector, attacker or defender bees, may be disrupted. The third possibility is that the sending of bees from this chamber will be prevented, which means that no defenders can be sent as supporters, no collector bees can be sent to collect honey and the function of the attack is blocked as well.

In an attack on a chamber or meadow which does not offer the possibility of training bees, the expansion and dismantling is chosen as the kind of sabotage taking place automatically. Similarly, the expansion of an empty honeycomb is prevented automatically, should it be hit via the random value.

All successful manipulations will last 6 hours. If you get hit by a saboteur attack yourself, the chamber concerned is defective for 6 hours. If by chance a second saboteur attack hits the same chamber or meadow again the time of the second attack is decisive; the times are not added. In this case the chamber is fully functional again 6 hours after the second attack.

Map

Map

Bee-Map

On the map you will find all registered players with their beehives. Once you click on the icon „map“ in the menu, the map opens.

Map

Map

When the map appears, you will see your own beehive in the middle with all the other hives in your direct neighbourhood. By simply clicking on your own hive or other hives a new menu will open on the right side, where you can see the coordinates of the player’s hive, his player name and if applicable to what people he belongs to.

In addition, you can attack him/her and spy on him/her. You can also have a look at his/her profile or send him/her a message.

To have a look at beehives outside your neighbourhood, you can click yourself through the meadows using the navigation arrows next to the map. If a hive is outside of your ring, it is presented somewhat fainter.

Beehives presented as broken-down have been abandoned for at least seven days. Which does not mean that these hives are empty of honey or defender bees. Should the player decide to login again his hive will again be shown as a „whole“ hive.

You can also move your hive. You must note, though, that since the users are placed circularly, i.e. ring-shaped, positions can only be changed within such a ring or you can move nearer to the ring center, where the – possibly – stronger users are placed because they have been playing for a longer time. Also you can not move every day, but must wait a while, sometimes shorter, sometimes longer, depending on your status (premium or non-premium). When you will next be able to move your hive, is shown on the right side of the bee map.

Tip:

Try to find potential targets for attacks on the map, but consider that those attacked will certainly fly a counter attack. Therefore, it would be tactically unwise to choose the strongest opponents. With the map, you can check where your opponents are, the duration of your flight time for an attack and the expansion stages of your potential targets for attack.

Over night, it would certainly make sense to fly longer distances so that after a possible successfill robbery of honey you will not expose the honey unprotected in your own hive before you come online again. During the day attacks over shorter distances do make more sense, because then you can send out your attackers several times to different targets.

Beehive

Beehive

Beehive

Your beehive serves you for the expansion of your chambers. Overall, you can choose between 22 free honeycombs, plus the Chamber of the Queen and the four meadows made available to each player from the beginning for expansion.

In the free honeycombs you can immediately build collector, storage and residential chambers. From level 5 of your „Chamber of the Queen“ in the free honeycombs attacker and defender chambers may be built additionally to protect your own hive and to attack other hives.

To expand a chamber you just have to click on a free honeycomb and then choose between the default chambers made available. Maximally 6 chambers can be built of each different kind.

Pictures of the Chambers
Chambers

Chamber of the Queen

Chamber of the Queen

Chamber of the Queen

In the Chamber of the Queen your new free workers will be born. The higher the stage of expansion, the more new bees you get per hour. In addition, no other chamber can be expanded higher than that of the queen bee. From the royal chamber, you can send attacker and defender bees. You also get to the guard, spy, destroyer and saboteur bees via the Chamber of the Queen.

Attackers´Chamber

Attackers´ Chamber

Attackers´ Chamber

This is for training the free worker bees to become attackers. A new attackers‘ chamber provides space for 30 new attacker bees, as well as each expansion stage.

Gatherers´Chamber

Gatherers´ Chamber

Gatherers´ Chamber

This is the chamber to train gatherers-bees which will bring you honey. Each new chamber and each new expansion stage gets you space for 30 new gatherers-bees.

Defenders´Chamber

Defenders´ Chamber

Defenders´ Chamber

Here you can train free worker bees to become defenders. Per each expansion stage the defenders‘ chamber offers space for 30 new defenders.

Storage Chamber

Storage Chamber

Storage Chamber

Provides space for your honey. The higher the chamber, the more honey can be stored. Per expansion stage or per new larder you have space for 300 more honey in your storage.

Habbitat Cell

Habbitat Cell

Habbitat Cell

This offers space for your bees. The more residential chambers you’ve built and the higher the residential chambers are expanded, the larger your population can grow. If there is no more space for other bees, your queen can no longer give birth to more bees. A residential chamber has space for 20 free worker bees.

Tip: You can get the better overview for your beehive if you try to expand symmetrically from the beginning, i.e. set chambers belonging together near each other. This will save you a lot of time and wrong clicks into the „wrong“ chamber sooner or later.

Scout

Scout

Scout

The scout offers you the possibility to train one or more special bees which are able to anticipate imminent attacks and report to you and your beehive when the attack will take place. That way even as a non-premium member you have the chance to better prepare for imminent attacks. Premium users will receive this attack warnings automatically.

Your scout also acts as a guard bee and can, like your „normal“ guard bees, defeat espionage and sabotage attacks. The scout, however, is used only when no more other guard bees are available.

The scouts, because of their special features, will cost you 1,000 honey in addition to 5 Gelee Royal. The training lasts, like with the other bees, 20 minutes. Since you can be attacked only from the 5th level of your Chamber of the Queen you can train a scout only from this level on.

Profile edit & design

Profil Edit

Profile Edit

Profile / Edit

Profile / Edit

In order to get to your profile, you need to click the „profile“ button in the lower menu. Here you can adjust several features. For one, you can change your password and your birth date. Then, you can choose your gender and enter your location.

Most important is probably the function to edit the profile. In the large central window, you can use the codes you like to create your own page as you desire. Your imagination has no limits. To view your profile, you can then click the „preview profile“ button. There you will then see the profile you designed.

In addition there is the option to delete your account, so be very careful with your password so that you don’t find your account deleted one day by someone else.

Premium users have an additional button „Avatar“. Here you can upload your own avatar. Images must be in one of the following formats: .jpg. .gif or .png. The image file size must not exceed 1000 KB.

The image size should be 100 x 100 pixels, although there is a function that cuts larger pictures, but you can never be sure whether the image section selected is the one you want to be presented.

edit profile

edit profile

Tutorial – Edit Profile

To explain the upload of pictures to the profile to all we will show you in this tutorial how it is done.

1. Selection of the image

For the selection of the image you should take care that the image is not protected by copyright and that it contains no forbidden characters, symbols, etc. If this is not the case, you must first store it on your own hard disk.

2. Upload

To upload the image, you have to save it on a webserver. This can be done on your own server or a public one, such as for example www.imageshack.us.

Note: At imageshack.us you have to click on the plus at the bottom and take the local link.

3. Embed

If the image has been uploaded, you can embed it in your profile with the correct URL address. Simply copy and paste the URL and embed it between the codes.

For checking the image you can simply open a new window in your browser and then enter the URL. If only your image displayed, you have the correct URL link.

Now you can embed the picture between the different codes.

4. Save

Then first save your profile before you have a look at the preview.

Profile Codes for editing your profile

Name Code
Font bold [b]Text[/b]
Italic font: [i]Text[/i]
Font underlined [u]Text[/u]
Text alignment center [center]Text[/center]
Text alignment right [right]Text[/right]
Text lists
[list]
Text 1
Text 2
[/list]
Images [img]https://www.bebees.com/ownpictures.jpg[/img]
Links as a direct link [url]https://www.bebees.com[/url]
Links with text [url=https://www.bebees.com]Text from the link[/url]
Links with picture [url=https://www.bebees.de][img]https://www.bebees.com/ownpictures.jpg[/img][/url]
Text color highlighting for a short text [color=#FF0000]Red Text[/color]
Text size [size=20]big Text[/size]
Background image [bgimage]https://www.bebees.com/ownpictures.jpg[/bgimage]
Background color [bgcolor]#FF0000[/bgcolor]
Global text color [txtcolor]#FF0000[/txtcolor]
Global link color [linkcolor]#FF0000[/linkcolor]
Text color for limited text [color=FF0000]red Text[/color]
Text size [size=24]big text[/size]
Link to player [player]name[/player]
Link to colony [colony]colony[/colony]

Some examples for colors:

Colour Code
Yellow #ffff00
Red #ff0000
Blue #0000ff
Black #000000
White #ffffff
Purple #800080
Green #008000
Orange #ffa500
Silver #c0c0c0
Gold #ffd700

In order to get more colors, you can change the individual numbers from 0-9 and the characters a – f arbitrarily or check the internet for „color codes“.

Tip: Optimum width for a background image, which appears without repetition, should be 1000 pixels. Moreover, it should not contain too many different colors, because if you want to write something over it it will be difficult to find an optimum text color so that you can easily read everything.

Similarly, you should make sure that your picture and your profile are not sexist, pornographic or otherwise of a nature unsuitable for minors or contain a link to an adult website or breaking otherwise the law.


Chamber of the Queen

Queen

Queen

Chamber of the Queen

Chamber of the Queen

In the Chamber of the Queen all new bees are born. The higher your Chamber of the Queen is, the more bees are born.

In addition, you must remember that none of your chambers can be higher than that of your queen bee. That means for you that if you want to expand a chamber you first have to expand that of your queen.

Therefore you must also make sure that your larders always hold enough honey.

Furthermore, the rank of the expansion of your Chamber of the Queen has influence on the beginner’s protection, because until the 5th level noone can attack you and you can not attack others.

As soon as you have reached the Chamber of the Queen level 5 you can join a people. Then you can also build an attackers‘ chamber or a defenders‘ chamber. Note, however, that once you have got to level 5 you can be attacked by others. Therefore, it is advisable to expand every other chambers to the level of the Chamber of the Queen before you cross the threshold of the beginner’s protection.

From level 10 of the royal chamber onwards you can create your own nation. From the 10th level onward you also have a spy bee available to you to spy on the other hives, without being caught. Similarly, you can train saboteur or guard bees from the 5th level of your Chamber of the Queen. The destroyer bee is available to you from the start.

In the Chamber of the Queen you will also find the chamber of your hero and your „special forces“ bees.

Chamber of the Queen

Chamber of the Queen

Tip:

The Chamber of the Queen is the one chamber everything in your beehive rotates around. I.e. there can be no chambers higher expanded than that of your queen. The Chamber of the Queen and its expansion stage defines when your attack protection ends (from level 5) and when you can build attackers‘ and defenders‘ chambers (also from level 5). The protection of your complete honey store also depends on it. Likewise, the training of your special bees depends on your royal chamber.

This means you should carefully consider whether you will quickly expand the Chamber of the Queen or wait until you have similarly expanded all the other chambers. We recommend the latter, to first get everything expanded to the same level and only then expand the royal chamber further.

Messages

messaging

In order to receive or write messages, you have to click on „messages“ in the top menu. If you’ve done this, a small menu opens with the items „inbox“, „outbox“, „battle reports“, „hero fights“ and „new messages“.

messages-menu

Unread:

Here you find all unread to messages.

Inbox:

Here you’ll find all your new messages and notes from other players. Then the system messages will arrive here as well, such as „collector reports“ or messages if there was an „intruder detected“ or a „guard is missing“. Similarly, you can check up on the „sabotage of player XYZ“ messages here.

Outbox:

In the messages outbox, all outgoing mail messages are stored which you have written to other players.

Battle Reports:

If you have been attacked or have attacked other players, a battle report will appear in this folder. You can tell the messages apart by their subject.

Hero Fights:

After every hero fight you can look up the results in this messages folder.

Archive:

In archives you can store important messages for you. These are not deleted.

New Message:

To write a message, you must enter the recipient and a subject. The subject stands for a headline. All three fields must be filled, otherwise the transmission is not possible.

Write Messages

Write Messages

Attention:

read private messages deleted in 120 hrs
read non-private messages deleted in 72 hrs
unread private messages deleted in 240 hrs
unread non-private messages deleted in 240 hrs

Gelee Royal

What is Gelee Royal?

Gelee Royal belongs to the rarest forms of the so popular sweetener at Bebee. This extremely rare nectar can only be produced by the queen of a beehive and can only be found accidentally by your collectors on the vast meadows. It is also worth noting that the Gelee Royal of your own queen can not be used – because she gobbles it all up herself immediately.

If your collectors come back to your beehive with Gelee Royal, they are likely to have found an abandoned beehive, where the luxury honey has been left behind. But remember that the finding of Gelee Royal is always a matter of pure luck. It may therefore be a while before you have collected larger quantities of this coveted honey. But of course you can simply buy Gelee Royal as well.

How do use Gelee Royal

With Gelee Royal various actions can be accomplished in the game, sometimes actions can be accelerated and sometimes they can only be accomülished with Gelee Royal at all. There are several ways for using Gelee Royal. For example, you can use this rare nectar to accelerate building/expansion assignments or the training of bees and can reduce waiting times, like at the dealer, who has new products for you only once a day.

1. Reduction of time for building/expansion assignments

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Reduction of time for building/expansion assignments

Step Action Implementation
1 Press the button „speed up expansion time“ After having begun with an expansion or the training of one of your bees to become a collector, attacker, defender, sabotage, guard, spy or destroyer bee you can use your existing honey to speed up the construction/training time. For this you only need to click on the „hourglass“ in front of the building for which building time should be speeded up.
2 Open the „exchange“ window After the first step has been done, you can „bribe“ your workers in the exchange window opening up with Gelee Royal, so that they speed up their works or their training. Per 1 Gelee Royal your bees work 6 minutes faster.
3 Input in the exchange window You can now enter your amount of Gelee Royal and see immediately how much time you will win by it. If you want to accept, just order the speeding-up by clicking „enter“ or „exchange“. The amount of Gelee Royal entered will immediately be subtracted from your account.

2. Exchange Gelee Royal for honey

"exchange" button

"exchange" button

Step Action Implementation
1 Press the „exchange“ button You can exchange your complete stock of Gelee Royal for honey. The amount of Gelee Royal you have bought can likewise be diluted with honey to fill your honey store. Just click on the Gelee Royal button for this.
2 Open the exchange window After the first step has been done in the exchange window which has opened up you can dilute your Gelee Royal, so that your store fills up with honey. Per 1 Gelee Royal diluted you will receive 100 honey.
3 Input in the exchange window You can now enter your amount of Gelee Royal and see immediately how much honey will be credited to you for it. If you agree you can dilute your Gelee Royal by pressing „enter“ or „exchange“. The amount of Gelee Royal entered will immediately be subtracted from your account and, converted to honey, credited to it.

3. Buy items and „bribe“ the dealer

Hero-Items

Hero-Items

Step Action Implementation
1 Click on the hero’s item To dress your hero with items in most cases you have to pay with Gelee Royal. To see how much honey one item costs and how much Gelee Royal is demanded for it you only have to click on one of the four items shown to you. Now you can see the prices in the „item information“ box.
2 Buy hero items Now you can pull the item you have chosen on your „own items“ field. The honey and Gelee Royal you have to pay for it will immediately be subtracted from your account. If you should not have enough of one of those payments there will be an error messages and you can’t buy this item.
3 „Bribe“ the dealer If once there is no item you would like to buy you can bribe your dealer with 1 Gelee Royal and then he will show you four new items. But the items shown before are then gone for ever! Now all the steps begin again – click on an item, see the price in honey and Gelee Royal and then buy it or don’t buy it and then bribe the dealer or wait 24 hours, and then he will show you new items voluntarily
Tip: You should always treat your Gelee Royal as something rare and precious, because it is a rare nectar. Therefore you should always consider carefully where to apply it and think about it beforehand three times. Most well spent it is for the items and speeding up building/expansion assignments.

Attackers‘ Chamber

Attacker

Attacker

Attackers' Chamber

Attackers' Chamber

From the 5th level of your „Chamber of the Queen“ building upwards you can build your attackers‘ chamber.

In the attackers‘ chamber you can train your free staff to become warriors which render uncertain and destabilize the meadows and other beehives.

You can capture and steal honey by leading attacks on other beehives. A single attacker can capture and carry as much as 15 honey.

Each kill you make in foreign hives when you get to meet defenders goes into your kill statistics. Whether you’ve won or lost the fight is unimportant.

The higher your attackers‘ chamber, the more attackers you can train. Remember, though, that you have to upgrade all your attackers‘ chambers individually in order to get their full strength. To send your attacker bees on a raid you have to be in the Chamber of the Queen and then send out the attacker bees from from each individual attackers‘ chamber from there.

Tip: Try to always build and expand your attackers‘ chamber highly and to match your fighting strength to your expansion level. That way even a lesser number of attackers sometimes may defeat a much greater number of defenders.

Flower Symbol

If you have no attackers in your hive and also none of them flying over the meadows for attacking someone or returning, you get the so-called „little flower symbol“ in the statistics which earns you 15% more honey on your gatherer honey and meadow production in your hive. So you get a compensation as a defensive player to offensive players who can get honey by attacks.