Tips for new players

I think leveling up one resource faster than others is still valid when building with relatively little help from outside sources.  What I did in building Ryelle with minimal outside contributions was level one of each resource to lev 7 in combination with leveling the storehouse to lev 7.  Then I leveled one of each resource to lev 17.  Past about lev 2 or 3, it makes more sense to concentrate on one of each resource, and more so beyond about level 12.

I built Ryelle to be mostly resource production and she is thus relatively slow-growing in terms of population, which might not be attractive to all or even most new players.

you advise to level up one resource producing building of each kind to lvl 7 before attempting to level up the rest of them. This is advantageous to players who are supported from outside with resource deliveries, as they can unlock advanced technologies faster that way.

But if you are self-reliant, it actually does not make a lot of sense. It is more resource effective and faster to level up all resource producing buildings simultaneously and ignore other buildings, which will give you a sustainable resource production after a few days to develop the city in the way you like and rapidly enhance research production etc.

Technical explanation: each level of resource producing buildings has further diminishing returns. lvl 3 gives you +2 production in return for 16 resources of each type required for lvl up. lvl 4 gives reduces that to +2 for 20 (I think).

So your resource production will grow faster (if no resources are injected from outside), if you first level up everything to lvl 1, then to lvl 2, etc.

The_Dude who was the original author is back Manannan. Perhaps that is another reason why people need not message you.

Regardless... ENJOY 

EDIT: Should also give thanks where thanks are due for helping to proof read and spot mistakes before publishing the latest version. In no particular order Shadow, Lorre, ScottFitz, LadyLuvs, Urgorr The Old and Kumomoto... beers are on me! 

Thanks also to everyone (there are too many to mention) who contributed suggestions as to what needed adding. Not all were used but they were all helpful all the same.