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Ikariam Tip A Day: Build and Update Towns

Mike — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 09:45:12 +0000

If you wonder, do you need to build different building in your non-capitol towns and do you need to update them here is the answer.

The answer is yes - you should build all available buildings in each town and improve each one as much as possible. The main reason is part of your overall score is based on the number of building improvements you have made in your towns and the accumulated resources that went into those upgrades so that higher level improvements with larger resource commitments bump up your score in larger increments.

Of course the decision on which building to improve in a town is based on what benefit does the building provide and what are the resource demands to improve it. For example improving an embassy over a second or third workshop adds to your diplomacy points but improving a workshop to a level lower than your highest workshop level only adds to your building points.

Ikariam Tip A Day: Get HighScore

Mike — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:45:02 +0000

In the internet you can find the published formula which determines a player?s overall score:

Total Score points
- Building Material used
- Used Luxury Goods * 2
- Research Points * 3
- Inhabitants * 100
- Used Gold / 4
- Including:
- Completed buildings
- Town hall
- Military counts twice
- Hired trade ships
- Completed researches

The total value is divided by 100

Now you can understand where you need to be more active to get better rankings

Ikariam Tip A Day: Happiness

Mike — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:24:26 +0000

After suffering at the hands of corruption for nearly 2 weeks your happiness could be low. Really low. One really easy way to get happiness is through a cultural assets treaty. This is made a lot easier if you are in an alliance or have communication with a lot of people in the Ikariam World. From what I understand it actually costs you double the diplomacy points to send one and half that to receive one. Either way you will gain happiness in your town that accepts the treaty and that is a huge bonus and free.

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Ikariam Tip A Day: Expansion

Mike — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:22:45 +0000

One key to becoming big in Ikariam is expansion. Settling a new colony is easy but brings with it the price of corruption. IMHO I would recommend to have your Governors Residence ready in all towns before making the move to creating a new colony. This may sound simple but when you have a few towns it can be quite easy to overlook the impact this can cause. Imagine losing 25% of your income and happiness due to corruption or worse 50%. A good example is say you already have 3 towns and would like to expand to a 4th. Do so once all Governors Residence are level 3 and Palace is level 3. A level 3 Governors Residence will cost approx. 19000 wood, 6800 marble and 4500 crystal. It may seem like a lot but it would be a lot worse trying to make those amounts with 25% corruption or worse.

All games like Ikariam based on expansion. So if you have Travian or something like that gaming experience, than you already done that

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Ikariam Tip A Day: Pillaging

Mike — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:21:24 +0000

Pillaging is a very important aspect of Ikariam. Some people like to play a defensive strategy and some don?t. Although Ikariam is better when you are pillaging. But this tip is more for the people that don?t. If you look at a villages generals score and see that they have 0 there is not much point to sending a huge army. So send 1 or 2 units if they have low level towns. Always pillage the inactive players. Inactive means they have not been on for a quite a few days. Obviously this means they may not have as much time to play the game. It should be considered your job to pillage them. Remember everyone else is so hopefully you get in while there are still some goods available.

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Ikariam Tip A Day

Mike — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 19:18:30 +0000

If you are foolish enough to have a zero military score, don?t come crying via Diplomacy if you get pillaged. Ikariam is based on that.

You might think destroying your harbor protects you but you likely just spent more destroying the harbor than it would cost you to have even the simplest defense of a single ship in your harbor.

Lastly, the best way to get folks like me from pillaging folks like you is to:

1. Have at least a tiny bit of military.
2. Simply ask us to not hit you again.

The worst thing you can do is reply with some form of condescension or sarcasm. That will likely get you hit again, and again. Yep, Ikariam is like Travian in that.

It cost very little to have a few troops and I recommend you create such.

It is silly to destroy your port - as it cost you more to rebuild it than you lost - all of which would not have happened if you had even a tiny bit of military.

One last word of advice, I don?t care how much you have played. Your best option to discourage people like me from taking from people like you is to drop the sarcasm and simply ask us not to attack you. Your attitude in this exchange has encouraged me to attack you again and again. So, if you wish that to be the case, then continue with the attitude.

In the end, it is a game. Suck it up and learn from it. Like I said, 14 marble was worth it and I would gladly do it again if I didn?t have better targets.

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Ikariam Tip A Day: Defending

Mike — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 19:15:49 +0000

Make sure your wall and your town hall levels are equal. This gives you maximum defense bonus to the minimum of 20 phalanx. You should have to keep the newbies from annoying you to much. That really helps because sometimes they REALLY can be annoying.

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Ikariam Tip A Day: Using Spys

Mike — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:13:31 +0000

Spys, spys and more spys. A bit of groundwork with these guys can go along way in keeping your troops safe. How do you stop the other guys from popping in and keeping tabs on your every move. Upgrade to at least a level 10 hideout. This should keep most of your precious resources and armies numbers well hidden from the masses.

p.s. These are based on medium sized towns. For towns with over lvl20 townhall you probably have a lot more concerns.

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Ikariam Tip A Day: Items Purchasing

Mike — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:59:14 +0000

Today we starts small series for week or two of short ikariam tips. Stay turned if you’re interested.

When purchasing items be very careful that you will still have the amount of money required to sustain your armies etc. before you click update offers. If you get it down so low that you have only a few dollars remaining you will lose units and there is nothing to do to bring them back. You don’t want such a lose, right?

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