Ideas to help your city out.

I think you both have right.. you're just a little bit too heavy on the details. Everybody has their own style of governing their city.

Well, my way seemed fine up through level 5. To upgrade to level 6 and 7 I needed 2 accounts supplementing each other, once specializing in Wood and Clay, the other in Stone and Iron.

"My way" is a tough road. In retrospect, I would agree that one should level one's main town evenly and save specialization for one's settlements.

And yet, maybe the 2 acct, dual-specialty system will pay off in the long run. It's just tough getting over that lvl6 hump.


Edited by Ivorich Von Forge - 22 Apr 2010 at 18:20

:) about resources - if You are in an alliance - You shouldn't worry about that much (if Your rank is lower than other member's)... they will be always happy to share - just ask :)

I always get nervous when someone says "I needed two accounts..." when giving newcomers advice.

For what it is worth, my advice-geared to people from beginners to  under 200 pop(after that, you should be beyond simple advice)

As they said, drop taxes to 5- 10%- each pop makes 4 gold coins per hour, and you don't have much to spend it on.

You start off with a bunch of food in storage.  Don't worry about building farms past level 2 until you hit -20 food growth, then build it back to -5 or so

  If a building currently uses 1 food per hour, and the building costs lists "+2 food p/h", it will go up to 2 food p/h, not 3 food p/h.

Build your 4 resources evenly until you have 20 level 4 sites.  Then push one from each type to level 7 (for the specialty buildings).  Now decide on one to concentrate on (probably wood), and build it faster than the others- but don't forget to keep building the others.

Trading with your caravans is almost useless (the transport time is the biggest headache, but seriously, how much extra are you willing to part with, to get that item?)- your guildmates don't need a formal "trade" to send you stuff

However, increase your market to at least level 5- caravans are useful for gathering extra resources you'll see lying around, sending stuff to your guildmates, and doing quests.

Thats right, "quests" are tradeing deals you discover in the tavern.  Be sure to read the helpful guide on what you'll get for your hard earned resources http://forum.illyriad.co.uk/quests_topic46.html

Remember, you need a bookbinder to cast spells- and casting a rune spell such as "fear" will not cost mana beyond the intial casting cost.

start building your army by the time your pop hits 50-

Your armies cannot raid gold from other players, but they can get other resources.  You get more resources from "attack"ing than "raid"ing, since all the troops participate.

You need at least 1 commander per army.

Settlers can't be used to build new cities until your pop hits 450

 

 

When I started I focust on market. There a loth of free resources laying on the map and you can have an other caravan with every lvl marked. Plus, with a higher marked you can reseach Improved Loading and if you push it a little to lvl 7 Reinforced Cartwheels. This will make your caravan carry more.

It gives you something to do when you start and helps you get the resources you need. plus, the carravans are very usefull doing quests to get stuff you can not build your self. You'll need a libory to there is a loth to reseach in the beginning.

 

To defend my self I made spearman. Which I use to pillage nearby inactives this help my resources very much and I feal a bit saver. When that's done a couple of scouts. They are good for many quest and it enable you to see people who use diplomacy units on your town.