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Just started on Delta - > Nysuios[52:13] -> Poketo (town name)

No idea what I am doing but I will give it my best shot
 
Caustic said:
I don't think being on a sulphur island is great at the start at least. You need too much marble and crystal to get going and if the server is new, others don't need crystal yet either!

I think this is going to be very like Travian. Alas I can see me having to force myself off this game as Travian was getting in the way of life by the time I quit.
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Agree, it starts slow (if you land on the right island) and looks more like sim city. But I reckon in 1 month will be bloodshed.
 
talkshowhost said:
haha i have no doubt this will be as bad as travian - I quit after about 4 months as it was so time consuming.

It's nice to play at the moment at a nice gentle pace.
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Agreed. I like the pace as it is. But I can see it getting nasty later on :p
 
Tripnologist said:
Report him for bashing.

IV. Bashing
It is not allowed to attack any given city owned by a player over 6 times in a single 24 hours period.
Bashing is only allowed when your Alliance is at war with another Alliance
The War must be announced on the official Ikariam.org board, in the correct forum and must comply with the boards specific rules.
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Cheers, reported him now.

I managed to repel 1 attack so he sent more people to attack. 7 times in 24 hours, hopefully he will get a ban.
 
Well, I have got to the stage I can set up a second colony. What do people reckon? I was going to setup on a marble island but I am trading with a player on a semi regular basis which gives me a fair amount of marble.
 
Caustic said:
Well, I have got to the stage I can set up a second colony. What do people reckon? I was going to setup on a marble island but I am trading with a player on a semi regular basis which gives me a fair amount of marble.
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Its got to be either marble or crystal. Personally i'm finding it hard to get my hands on either of them. At the moment I really need marble so my first colony will be on a marble island. I've got a decent trade with wine going though. Might see if I can set up a wine for marble trade with someone.

I'm about to be Level 5, wines flowing nicely, about to upgrade the tavern to hopefully take me to +5 pop growth, currently 4.64
 
I'm on delta [63,25] and I am finding there's enough marble around for sale. I am also getting a lot of money from selling wine and wood. Some guy just put up 1000 crystal for 15 gold each. I snapped up around 750 of it. Crystals the only one I'm having a problem getting though apart from that so as soon as I have finished researching expansion and have my palace up I'm off to a marble island.

What I like so far about this over travian:

Slower pace
Not as much bloodshed
Combined island efforts
Trading is better
No 'gold', everyones on equal footing.
Looks prettier
Research!
 
Mp4 said:
Whats everyones starting plan ?
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Build up your main building, academy, warehouse, docks, trading post.

As soon as you have a trading post and trading ships you can start selling the excess of whatever resource your island has. Mine has wine so I am selling that and my excess of wood. This has got me quite a lot of money which means I can buy what I need of the other resources. It also means I can operate at a deficit, all my people are working either in wood cutting or grape vines or research atm.

1 person can make around 4 gold if left alone, however he can also cut 1 wood which can then be sold for 15 gold or more. So it is best to have them working as much as possible.

Build your academy up as quickly as you can. It's the most important thing. Only worry about your main building when you are getting close to your population cap.

Build the other buildings as you research them. Tavern is quite important as your population will grow quickly if you give them wine.

Build up your trading post and build barracks and dry dock for the future when you will need an army. Right now I haven't bothered with an army as I was only attacked once and I asked the guy politely not to attack. Now I'm the same size as him so he won't anyway :)

If you are under attack then build up your warehouse. It will keep your resources safe.

Build your trading post up so you can put more goods on the market at the same time.

Research wise go for wealth first. That will let you mine/grow whatever your island resource is. Then you can sell it and you're rolling in money then :)

After that I'd go for expansion. Personally I got well digging and paper but neither are that important. I also got up to professional army in military but as I said im not concentrating on military yet.

EDIT: Oh and always try and have something building. That's what takes the most time so don't waste it. Always make sure you have enough resources to build something or upgrade a building as soon as your currently building one is finished.
 
Thinking I am gonna need some marble sometime soon, I am on a crystal island. Just about to finish wealth research so I can start mining it!
 
Things seem to have quietened down... you all still quietly building your empires? How about an update from you all?

I'm approaching level 6, just built a palace so hopefully about to expand out, I'm thinking about going for a Glass island since its the hardest to get hold of at the minute, I can trade for marble easy enough.

I've decided its much better to pump as many workers as I can into Wine and Wood. There's always a demand for wine which outweighs any income loss.

Currently losing 146 gold an hour but can sell wine for 20 gold a piece, since I can farm 40 wine an hour that makes 800 gold... its all good... for the moment at least :D
 
Town Size: 6
Palace built in 50min

Making: 98 wood, 34 wine /hour
Losing: 14 gold /hour

Other Buildings:
Academy lvl 7,
Barracks lvl 4,
Warehouse lvl 3,
Port lvl 3,
Trading Post lvl2,
Tavern lvl2,
Shipyard lvl 1,

Researched:

Seafaring
* Deck Weapons
* Ship Maintenance
* Expansion

Economy
* Conservation
* Pulley
* Wealth
* Wine Press

Science
* Well Digging
* Paper
* Espionage

Military
* Dry-Dock
* Maps
* Professional Army

Bit of a loss at what to research next so I'm currently researching Foreign Cultures. Will be setting up my first colony in one hour.

EDIT: Oh and my first successful pillage :)

Swordsman 6(-0) 6(-0)
Darg from Brownie has won the battle and pillages Spielburg.
Loot

* Gold: 28
* Building material: 452
* Crystal glass: 145

Before this I had gotten just 1gold off a place.
 
My town is level seven, academy the same. Currently waiting for someone to buy my excess wine so I have enough money to build a second town. My intention is to expand on to a marble island but I'm finding crystal glass quite hard to come by too.

Wood production is 134 per hour. Wine only 37. My military is quite weak but no problems so far. Currently researching foreign cultures which should be complete in a few hours.
 
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