by Janzor on Mon Jan 12, 2009 8:11 pm
I gotta disagree on your tactics about reaching the top.
The utterly most important thing is planning ahead and beeing peacefull. Having an army/navy and pillaging people while making enemies will not profit you in the end if you're not in an alliance like SoS that lives from pillaging.
Instead make friends all around you and benefit from cheap trading with them instead, as this will help you alot more in the long term.
Another very important thing is to place your colonies on the same resource islands.
I have 3 towns on the same marble island, 2 on the same wine island, and would have had 2 on the same crystal island, if not the upcoming version had forced me to place my 7th town on a sulfur island instead.
If I upgrade my quarry, all my other cities located there gain the profit instantly too - and it's much easier upgrading mines while having multiple cities on the island.
I have upgraded all sawmills and mines to their soft caps on my islands, which has cost me +5,7 million wood over time. Now I'm just sitting back while wood and resources are pouring in.
Something else that is important, is not to go over level 20 with your town halls, as you will be needing too much wine to keep the demand satisfied. Instead this will ensure that you have an overflow of wine that you will be saving up for the palaces/governor residences.
That has made it possible for me to upgrade 3 palace/gr's to level 6 at once, which is 400k wood, 264k marble, 176k wine and 176k crystal multiplied by 3.
Friends around me have made it possible for me not to have an army as they know I'm peaceful and not a threat to them, which mean I get over 25k gold per hour in income, that is spent on buying ships and resources, while I get tremendous amounts of wood and resources in from the high level sawmills and mines.
Breaking the soft caps on buildings is just plain stupid, as it is a short term point boost, which is not what you want, but a steady growth rate instead.
All this has guaranteed me a top50 position on the gamma server out of almost 12,000 people.
Keep in mind that this is not aimed at the upcoming 0.3.0 version, as this will need another strategy. A more aggresive and militaristic one.
But for now, this is what works best.
Cheers mate.
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