This is because the game uses an (old) modded map, which reworks the entire town so it contains every NPC house in the game. It has added interiors to each house you would normally enter and be unable to move, to make room for everyone. This means that, if you know where everyone is, the story quests that require a lot of movement between cities (Colhen - Rocheste, Colhen - Malina, and so on) are finished much, much faster, and without needing to walk between cities, wait, or pay 2000 gold per trip. The locations are placed in the closest relative they have for each other in every town.

The town also has a couple other features, but unless they are relevant to NPC locations, these will be left for another guide. The only notable feature that assists in colhen's use as a (somewhat) global hub is that there is a second mission board, which allows you to start every mission in the game, just to the left of the normal Season 1 mission board. Mind that Season 2 missions do not play nice with this system, and difficulty settings are very buggy, so it is still recommended that you go to Malina for Season 2 content, and that while the host may create the dungeon from Colhen, everyone else needs to join from the dungeon's normal entry point(Rocheste for Fomorian Base, Sewers, Catacombs, Ortel Castle, Malina for Season 2 content, Season 3 entry point in Colhen for Season 3 content).

Enter the Mercenary Outpost, go to the back room and up the stairs, then go to the back of the building, inside of the cell. You will find the Piper on the right.

Enter the Mercenary Outpost, go to the back room and up the stairs, then go to the back of the building, inside of the cell. You will find the Beggar on the left.

Malina - Coffer Chasers Guild
Enter the Mercenary Outpost, then go to the right before entering the back room.

Enter the Mercenary Outpost, go to the back room and up the stairs, then go to the back of the building, outside of the cell.

Going inside the Travelers Shop, you will immediately be talking to the NPCs from the Travelers Shop.

Go inside the Travelers Shop, then go the back of the building, just before the candles and maps.

Go inside the Travelers Shop, then go to the right, just behind the bow.

Go inside the Magic Laboratory, then go to the left and sit in front of the counter.

Go inside the Magic Laboratory, go to the left, then go to the right corner between the counter and table.

Go inside the Magic Laboratory, go to the left, then to the left again and behind the counter. If the NPCs do not appear, you need to go to the right and back in range again.

Go inside the Magic Laboratory, go to the left, to the left again and behind the counter, then go towards the chair.

Go inside the General store, go to the back of the building, and sit in front of the counter.

Go inside the General Store, go to the back of the building, and sit in front of the two empty chairs in the bar, in front of the 3D model of Krunk.

Go inside the General Store, move towards the bar, and sit in front of the three drinking men.

Go inside the General store, go to the back of the building, then go behind the counter.

Look for the cat sitting on top of some barrels, near the entrance to the Docks.

To the right of the Travelers Shop is a sheep pen. Going near it, past the bucket, will show Hereta.

Go between The Forge and the General Store locations, into the blue light.

When entering the docks, go immediately to the left.

After entering the docks, go to the right and look behind, Pramin sits in the corner to the side of the archway.

Near the Ferryman that leads you to Malina, to the left. You can use his service to get transported to Rocheste's docks immediately.

The first command you will probably use is the command the bot itself mentions to you, that being !Help. Upon using it, Tieve will send you a message containing all the possible commands you can use.

Bear in mind, these will all need to be written with an exclamation mark(!) behind them.

First things first, as with any online game, I should remind you that your account data is your own and should be kept private, so make sure you don't share it with anyone. If you feel like this disclaimer was pointless, then congratulations, it wasn't aimed at you.

The !Register command, when written as-is, will prompt the bot to explain its purpose, as well as showing the syntax it expects.

The given syntax is important, as the bot might either not accept your request at all, or understand the wrong data in account creation, so mind that you need to write each thing separately, with no spaces within them, and with one space between each.

Please, also, mind the format in which you're required to write your birthday: it is month/day/year, which means, for a date such as 15th of october 2002, you'll need to write 08/15/2002.

If you wrote everything successfully(and had a password between 8 and 24 characters), Tieve will congratulate you on a job well done.

If you are a returning player, from back before this bot existed, first of all, welcome back. Second of all, you will see that your account is no longer accessible, on account of you now needing an actual password.

Using the !Link command as-is, will give you this response:

!Reset2ndPass:

The only notable difference is that in the syntax of changing your password, you are required to give a replacement password before asking for the birthday and email, while with the secondary password you are only asked for your birthday and email, needing to set your secondary password in-game, after logging in again.

Now that you have set up your account, you're ready to download the game and begin playing. If you need a hand, you can check this guide, which will help you download the game and get everything working.

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To put it simply, this is the settings menu you are met with the moment you go to the "Video" option: 

I will go through every setting/mention in this screen, from top to bottom:

Frame/Sec(FPS):

This is not a setting, this is a basic statistic, showing you the game's current performance, measured in frames per second. This is the main thing that will be affected by changing settings, so pay close attention to it.

We should make one thing clear before anything else: the description it provides is only right up until its second line, after that it is completely wrong. Having a higher framerate will not result in better graphics, it will only make the graphics that are already shown have a smoother motion. You should also not aim for a number around the green bar, but do your best to get as close to the limit as possible, maybe even comfortably above it. Framerate is not always consistent, and when fiddling with settings you are definitely not in the most demanding position the game will potentially present to you. In such cases, if the graph is not all the way filled up, it is advisable to make sure it does so.

Resolution Setting:

This is your way of changing the game's resolution, which is one of the biggest factors in what kind of performance you will get out of it.

Full Screen Res. is the default option that is selected for you at the start. This option provides what most games would label a "Borderless Windowed" mode to the game, allowing you to use Alt+Tab in order to switch to other applications without the need to minimize and maximize the game, while also not having the distracting borders one would expect from a game running in an application frame, with a minimize and close button.

Custom allows you to switch between Aspect Ratios, use any supported resolution numbers and use them in either a Windowed or Full Screen mode. If your monitor's resolution is not included in these, you might not have selected the right Aspect Ratio.

One thing to keep in mind is that Full Screen is a veritable gamble in this game, having the potential of locking it up for long periods of time, with hardly any recourse to get it working again. Please exercise caution when using it, and make sure you've got the afternoon free in case something tragic happens.

Graphics Settings:

This is the meat and potatoes of the settings menu, home to the most complex changes you could make to the game's visual presentation.

If you do not want to bother tweaking small things to cater to your wishes, you can always use the Simple Settings option, which offers you a slider that you can drag in order to adjust settings to a roughly equal degree between a few created presets. Just switch between a few of them and see your framerate results.

Picking Custom will allow you to access the Advanced settings menu, allowing for fine tweaking of each available setting to your heart's content.

Just like before, I will go through each setting from top to bottom, and left to right:

Model Detail:

This setting controls the quality of the models used in-game. This means any 3D element, such as the player character, monsters, or sometimes the maps themselves and props within them. This setting has generally low impact on performance, and with its usual camera distance, will not be very noticeable.

Texture Detail:

Textures are the images applied to surfaces in order to convey what that surface is supposed to represent, such as a wall, a patch of dirt, player clothes, or weapons. This setting can affect performance if you have a low amount of VRAM, and if your game stutters a lot (meaning, freezing temporarily, not having a constantly bad framerate), you should probably consider lowering this setting. Visually, surfaces will start looking visibly more pixelated the lower the setting is.

Shader Detail:

This setting has a bearing on the way things are shaded, with regard to players and other dynamic objects. In Source games (the engine on which this game is made), shading quality can drastically change the look of some scenes, but does not offer much of a change in framerates.

Particle Effects:

This setting controls all the special effects that are generated when interacting with the world, things such as sparks, abilities, or any effect shown as feedback for hits. This setting could potentially affect framerates when using a character with attacks that would generate a lot of different effects at the same time, such as Delia or Lynn. This setting can make the combat look less satisfying, but context might demand that you disable it, since it can end up causing a lot of stress for your machine.

Lighting Effects:

This setting controls the quality of the lighting between a few basic presets. This can affect performance when faced with dynamic lights, such as those from lit braziers or campfires. Source calculates this dynamic lighting in a much more basic form when compared to games released today, so this setting does not usually have a great impact on performance.

Shadow Detail:

This is one of the most important settings you will be able to tweak. Dynamic shadows are counted differently from dynamic lights, since the dynamic lights seldom actually cast dynamic shadows. This process is one of the more intensive that the game can run, and lowering it has the potential to greatly affect your performance, at a great potential loss in image quality, depending on the map. 

Animation Effect:

This setting affects the quality of the character animation, both yours and the enemy's. This setting could change the way combat feels, and its impact on performance is hardly pronounced, so it's recommended it stays on its high setting.

Physics Effects:

Source is known for its use of the Havok physics interactions, allowing you to move objects in the level, throw them around and even break them into several tiny pieces. What is not so well known is the potential CPU strain these interactions can cause. If you know you are being CPU limited, unfortunately lowering this setting might be your first required step.

Display other Player's Effects:

This setting allows you to only render your own particle effects in combat, lowering the burden you are placing on your GPU when you go into a dungeon with more people. This setting can have a drastic impact on performance, which could end up drowning out any visual boost you might see from being able to observe the other player's effects.

Transparency Effect(Both for yourself and other players):

Rendering effects with transparency values(also known as alpha textures) is a more intensive task than simply rendering the effects, as there are a lot more variables to take into account. This setting is a slider, but I would encourage that if you find issues with effects, then try lowering this setting before going to any other ones.

Texture Streaming:

This setting implements a texture streaming system, allowing players that have less VRAM to use higher texture settings without necessarily compromising their performance. Despite its description as a good thing, this setting has always tried to apply the highest quality textures right after loading, resulting in very nasty stutters at the beginning of every dungeon, so I would recommend keeping it off.

Antialiasing Mode:

This is the second biggest factor in what kind of performance you will get. Antialiasing is the concept in which the edges of objects are smoothed out, making the game look less pixelated even when the player moves close to the screen. This game uses Multi-Sampling Anti Aliasing(MSAA), which has options of 2x, 4x and 8x. It is advisable to have this setting enabled, as it makes the game look much clearer, but it is recommended to not go beyond 4x unless you have too much power to spare. It is a very expensive option when it comes to performance.

Texture Filtering Mode:

Texture filtering applies when the camera is facing a texture in any other way than head-on(or, looking at it at a perfect 90 degree angle). When seen at a very oblique angle and at low settings, the texture will become less and less clear, until it ends up looking like a particularly colourful soup. It often has very little impact on performance, if  any, so my recommendation is to keep it at its maximum setting of 16x and go on your way.

Wait for vertical sync:

This setting controls Vertical Sync(or Vsync, as it is often called). This setting can affect your performance, since each frame will be delayed until it is complete and ready to be shown, and it's also one of the options that can have an impact on input lag(the time between you pressing a button and the result of it being shown on screen). Enabling this option will eliminate screen tearing, which happens when a half-finished frame is pushed out before it is ready, making the game potentially look choppy in motion. The tradeoff is clear, so this setting is often down to the player's personal preference.

Multicore Settings:

This setting allows for the game to use more than one core from your processor in order to work. Disabling this will only serve to make you CPU limited in most instances, and should always be kept on, as any processor made in the past decade will have more than a single core.

Motion Blur Detail:

This setting affects camera motion blur, an effect that happens when moving the in-game view, in order to convey the sensation of speed or a smoother framerate. It can have a small framerate impact, but enabling or disabling it is largely a matter of personal preference.

Vignette Effect:

This setting allows you to have the edges of the screen slightly darkened, allowing for a less harsh transition between the game and the edge of the screen. It has virtually no impact on performance, so using this setting is also a matter of personal preference.

Hardware DirectX level:

This setting allows the player to change between a DirectX9(also DX9, or D3D9) rendering API or a DirectX8 one. This setting is given for the sake of compatibility, as some older machines would run much better on the older API version, while all new machines would be best suited by the newest version available.

From +10 to +12 (Stones used : Goibs)
At this point you should start using Goibhniu's Enhancement Stones and Protection runes.

• All buildings in Colhen can be entered by your character. If you're looking for a particular NPC, walk around the interior of the building — different NPC dialogues will open up at fixed locations inside the building.
  

For example, here's the inside of Clodagh's General Store:

• There are various circles on the ground around Colhen. Entering a circle toggles on an effect specific to that circle. To toggle off a circle's effect, you just have to step back inside the same circle again. Feel free to explore them around town!
  

The circles look something like this:

• Several circles perform fashion transformations on your character; those transformations are temporary and can be undone by boarding a boat.
  

New characters start with a number of free gifts in their NX inventory:

The most important item here is the Expedition Bundle.

Each Expedition Bundle will continue to give you a higher level Expedition Bundle for you to open in the future.

Make sure to open these whenever you can.

Gifts include new equipment, Enchant Scrolls, Runes, AP capsules, materials, and utility items.

It is recommended to join a guild ASAP; you'll immediately receive a large amount of free AP and other benefits from it (repair discounts, bonus EXP, etc.)

• Lv. 60-70: [Easy] From the Depths // [Hero] Two Moons (great source of Magic Powders) // [Hero] Colhen in Flames (Season of Macha oath) // [Easy] Serpent King Lakiora
  
• Lv. 70-79: Ship Graveyard / Twilight Desert / Crescent Moon Island
  
• Lv. 77-80: Rocheste by the Sea (Muir)
  
• Lv. 80-90: Main Storyline Quests / Easy BPQ / Season 1 Raids on [Hard] difficulty (Titan, Thor, Ingkells, Ahglan, Glas, Shining Shakar, CBH, Lionotus, Colru, Siglint, Beokros, Elchy, Keaghan)
  
• Lv. 90-100: BPQ, Season 3 & Niflheim Raids
  

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0:33 - Enhanced Smashes . . . . . . . . 2:23 - Full Bloom
2:41 - Furious Tiger Buffs . . . . . . . . . 3:29 - Thunderleg
4:03 - Little Rat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4:34 - Windstep
5:45 - Thunder Rat . . . . . . . . . . . . 7:13 - SP Skills
7:44 - Iron Flag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8:01 - Divine Spear
8:55 - Long Armed Devil . . . . . . . . . . . 9:22 - Flying Snow
9:44 - Jade Fox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12:48 - Feather Dart
16:00 - Attack Walking/Dodging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17:43 - "Dancing" Around Bosses
18:24 – Smashes