The optimal way for new players: Find another new player, and play together. Discover some strategies yourself.
The central gameserver is always online (Network Game -> Play on the Central Server). You don't have to wait for our scheduled sessions. Ask your friend in your favorite chat tool for a spontaneous session.
Don't memorize hotkeys before your first game. Maybe learn a single hotkey, e.g., for the builder, and click all other skills. After all, IchoTolot plays a strong game and still clicks on the skill buttons.
Our scheduled sessions take 2 to 4 hours and I livestream them, that's a lot of energy for me. You don't have to attend all of it, you can join or leave between any two games. A single game takes only a few minutes.
If you have nobody to play: Ask me in IRC (Quakenet
#lix,
you can join chat in your browser). I'm happy to play 1v1, or with a group of new players. We can play even games or handicap games, as you like.
About Flopsy's questions: Saturday or Sunday are both fine with me. I've left it to you because you work for your job on weekends and I don't.
I'm happy to play with fewer players. After all, Lix is most strategic at two players, or with two teams. But bigger sessions reach more players, which spreads the love further.
-- Simon