This is called the fair. The cool thing is, with gold coins, you can get them normally every minute, as you just click for coins and they rain down on you. But if you need a lot of coins, or need to buy credits, than you need the FAIR. The fair is where you can purchase coins, credits or even stones or gems to power your gear. (Note, to purchase gear itself is interesting. You can only purchase first level items. If you need a next generation item, than you will have to collect stuff in your storage, which I mentioned in a previous post, to upgrade your gear.) The more powerful the gem (Gems come in different levels of course) the more powerful your gear.

Don't be fooled in thinking that power is what you totally need in this game! Power is good to have but having your characters in a certain formation can make all the difference in the world. There are so many different aspects to this game. Finding the right member for your team for (Members are earned..or in some cases obtained by luck, in a draw a card program.) Example. Its good to know which characters are good and which are better. For that..

You can see that here:
https://sites.google.com/site/tynonfansite/heroes-and-formation

That page has helped me figure out a lot of advantages to the game. The forum is available as well but I have found it really was not all that helpful.
http://bbs.tynon.com/forum.php

For a first time gamer, It can be quite baffling. When I first started, the people in my guild amounted to three of us. One who owned the guild was never there. The other person was there but never talked, nor would answer questions. Asking people in the game for help, is difficult unless you move to a brand new guild. Once you quit your guild, you have a 24 hour cool down period before you can choose a new guild, and then... then they have to decide if you are worthy. If you mess around, and are not in the gamer spirit, they might tell you to try another guild. When I quit my first guild (Sheef) I knew I wanted to go to Sword.Art because I loved the name, and they were a top ranking guild. I was lucky they allowed me to join and my stats were fair. I met their requirements, and I was a go getter. I also brought my own team spirit to the guild... and that was appreciated as well. Once in the guild, you can learn from those better than you. It was only later, that I found material on my own, and even conveyed that to my team mates. When you have people in your guild who are in the top ten of all players, playing for your guild, you can learn from the best. Because of them, I rose up to be 12th in my guild. (We have 39 members presently).


And our guild Sword.Art is presently ranked Third. When I joined it was number one, but has dropped recently. Still, being third is pretty good when there are hundreds of guilds..