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Ikariam First Steps
Posted on 03.17.08 4:44PM under Tutorials
After creating your Ikariam account, you will be given a few squares of good, quality land which you are to transform into a successful city! First things you should do is check out the Interface Tutorial offered by Ikariam Tip to familiarize yourself with the vast menus! Of course, practice is the most important factor in perfection but we’re just providing you with a first hand insight!
In my opinion, here are the first steps you should follow for a jump start! Building and following the tips below will help you make the most of it! Of course, it’s up to you to model the town your way!
- Click on a red flag and build an academy.
- If you wish to give your town a better name than the default one, Polis then click on the Town Hall, the construction you start with and change it to something nicer.
- Change to Ikariam Island view and select the forest; set the number of workers to 30 by dragging the scrollbar. Don’t worry about your gold going down at the moment. The change you’ve made above means that your workers will get you 30 wood units per hour.
- Grab a drink while the academy is completed as there’s nothing else we can do at the moment. We can’t start building other constructions as you can only build one building at a time in Ikariam.
- When the academy is complete, click on it and change the number of scientists to maximum, that of 8. In order to start strong, you needn’t be afraid of spending all your gold at the start. If you prefer to be on the safe side however, you can still increase this to 8 but decrease the number of lumberjacks.
- Another important change you need to make is setting your research field to Science.
- Next important buildings are the barracks and trading port. It doesn’t matter which you choose to build first as we will have to wait until the little scientists research the Well Digging we told them to! - this takes about 3 hours.
- After the research is complete, instruct the scientists to research Economy
- Make sure your Lumber Mill ( the forest in Island view ) is upgraded to level two - if it isn’t then donate to upgrade it as it will do you good!
- Whenever you get the chance, upgrade your Town Hall and Academy.
I hope the above provided you with an insight on how to start off your Ikariam empire! Ah and one more thing. Sometimes players on the island will decide to attack you in order to loot your items. It’s not worth building a big army at this stage - more important is to build a wall and research Conservation so you can build a warehouse which means they won’t be able to get any resources. The latter is a more radical step if the attacks from other Ikariam players are indeed affecting you a lot. If you are fine with them and they don’t take much, just build that wall and carry on with Economy research.
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Posted by tankilo on 04.01.08 5:55 am
Other “first steps”.
The island you are on will also have a deposit of either ; Why not employ some citizens to gather this resource as well?
Objectives of the game:
Every unused citizen you have earns money (I guess they are paying taxes), this builds up the “Gold” you have. You will need lots of gold later to research stuff for your armies or to buy the materials you need
Citizens are +Money
Gatherers are -Money
Scientists are -Money
If you employ a citizen into the state to either be a scientist, gather “Wood” (building materials), or gather one of the other resources on your island; you have to pay them.
Wine: Keeps citizens happy, thus they multiply, and pay more taxes
Marble: Needed in higher levels to upgrade your buildings
CrystalGlass: Needed in higher levels to upgrade your research facility
Sulphur: Needed in higher levels to upgrade your military
You may need to research some stuff at your academny before you can do this:
World/Server: Kappa
Island: Leroutia[15:39] (Click Show World, then enter 15 39 it’s the island with the blue crystal rock and the tower with wings on the top like an indian totem pole) Double Click the island
My city is just “on top” of the right wing of the tower (currently named “Draka” but I may change that)
Click my city, to the left of the map click “Diplomacy”.
Send me a message to say hi
Within a few days, you can build up a little town with some fun stuff, and then it gets to the point where you can login in the morning, click on one of your buildings to upgrade/send a trade ship out/check on research/switch up material gathering. And then log off. Come back that night, check again, maybe build another building. Check on if anyone has anything to buy or if you can sell some of your excess.
A fun little distraction. I assume at some point I’m going to try and build an army and take over the world, but I assume that will be years from now, and the people who came before me and got started building months ago will also have armies…
Posted by tankilo on 04.24.08 2:08 pm
Defense
After awhile, you will get attacked, best way to defend is to make at least 1 ship (will prevent other players from blockading your port), and then at least build a city wall.
Posted by Zareja on 04.25.08 4:23 pm
How does one do trading between towns and colonies? I have tried and a message comes up saying that “ship doesn’t have any freight” or it also says I don’t have any trade ships, and I have purchased six of them for my town and colony. Can someone help me?
Posted by ikariamlover on 05.02.08 6:41 pm
Your Trading Port level determines how many resources people pillage from you. No Trading Port means you only get 60 Resources stolen while a Level 1 Trading Port is 200 resources stolen and so on in some random order I don’t know about. I think a Warehouse requiring Conversation bult protects more resouces therefore overriding this resource restriction.
Posted by tankilo on 05.10.08 8:00 pm
Zareja, I made a post answering that question on the official boards: http://board.ikariam.org/thread.php?postid=239846#post239846
Posted by tankilo on 05.10.08 10:15 pm
What to look for down the road:
As best I can figure out, looking down the road here’s what you can expect:
1. You will need to make a colony for another luxury good. I imagine stone to build more buildings, wine to keep your people drunk and multiplying (and paying more taxes so they can finance more lumberjacks / troops / etc).
2. A consensous seems to have formed that you need to keep your trading port at lvl 1 so if you get attacked you won’t lose many resources.
3. A consensous also seems to have formed that you should train Phalanx in your barracks, and use them for defense, they have the best “defense to upkeep ratio” of all the units in the game.
4. It appears that you should periodicaly:
4a. Click on your “Town Hall”: Make sure your “Housing Space” (in the top left corner) isn’t full (IE: 193/193), you always want to have some space (meaning the second number bigger than the first) so that there is room for your population to grow. If you are “full” IE: 193/193, upgrade your Town Hall so your population can increase, pay more taxes, and finance your world domination.
4b. However once your “Town Hall” increases, you need to upgrade your “Town Wall” to be the same level to get the maximum benefit of +Defense to your Phalanx.
4c. It also appears that once you get a bigger population, they require more “bread and circuses” http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=bread+and+circuses+rome
So every so often you will have to upgrade the museum and have more cultural exchanges (click on a town in your island (ignore the towns with grey letters in their names, I think this means those players are inactive), click the “Diplomacy” button on the left, this will let you send them an email, and choose the subject “Cultural Treaty”. If they don’t respond in 36 hours, just try someone else.
Also upgrade the tavern (but not that often) so you can serve more wine to keep them drunk, multiplying, and paying taxes.
4d. Getting close to a lot of the resources you are gathering? Upgrade the warehouse. At the point I’m at now I have my capital on Crystal, a colony on Marble, a colony on Wine; and I need to upgrade all my warehouses to keep from losing too much if I get pillaged, and I want to upgrade all my palaces first before opening the 4th sulfur colony, which I will then start invaiding other people.
At this point, building buildings seems to take quite long, so you can kinda chill out, maybe only log in once every other day. Keep the tax coming in (you can click on the little picture of gold coins to see if you are at net gain or loss)
Posted by tankilo on 05.12.08 5:32 am
it appears that as far as “happiness” goes, every person in your town is -1 and so you have to do something to get +1 happiness; you can see the breakdown when you click on “Town Hall”; I’m betting the cheapest way is to through larger and larger museums, unless you can get your hands on some cheap wine (IE: You are a wine colony)
Posted by tankilo on 05.27.08 3:01 pm
Something else I just figured out. When expanding out to more and more colonies. Upgrade the palace and governors place before you colonize, that way you can send all your resources to the new colony to get it’s governors manshion upgrades so the corruption doesn’t take over.
At first I saw corruption as just -5 to town’s happiness and I figured “so what, I’ll just build a museum”, and then found out that it was slowly increasing over time, and within a few days, was up to -11. So the longer you go without upgrading your governors place, the worse the corruption will get, the more your towns people will be unhappy.
Posted by tankilo on 06.05.08 2:32 am
I’ve been letting my colonies gather their resources:
1 crystal(where I started);
2 marble;
1 wine;
Upgrading my warehouses to lvl 16 so I have enough space to upgrade my palaces to lvl 4 before I go for my 5th colony (I’m thinking Sulphur).
I guess once I get a Sulphur colony going, and build up a respectable army there, I’ll start threatening my neighbors with donating, and if they don’t comply, pillaging them. Or maybe I’ll build alliances, either way.
In other news: Apparently mail goes away after awhile. I was going to email some of the people I had talked to before (who had seen these posts), but all my mail was gone.
So “Hi guys, how has it been going for you?”
Posted by Ikariamlover on 08.23.08 10:38 pm
Hi people of ikariamtip.com, this is Ikariamlover here. Anyway, I can’t get access into any of my Ikarima accounts and neither can my brother,but I willl still be checking in on http://ikariamtip.com/ now and then, but rarely because of school. PEACE TO YO IKARIAM HOMIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!