[size]My Seven Day Guide[/SIZE]
Day one: Follow the 63 steps (Thank you Kenshin08 who originally wrote these steps)
1. Click Quest button
Daily Quest tab, Get reward
2. Build Cottage level 2
Speed it up
3. Build Inn
Speed it up
Click City
4. Build Farm
Speed it up
5. Build Sawmill
Speed it up
6. Build Quarry
Speed it up
7. Build Ironmine
Speed it up
Turn in quest
8. Build Sawmill level 2
Speed it up
9. Build 3 Cottages level 2
Speed it up
10. Build Rally Spot
Speed it up
11. Build Barracks
Speed it up
Turn in quest
12. Build Feasting Hall
Wait for it to complete
A good time is 3-5 minutes
The record is 0:01:29
At this point you should have about 200 Prestige, 7300 Food, 3950 Lumber, 5750 Stone, 7300 Iron -- pat yourself on the back!
While waiting
13. Do 10 push-ups because exercise is good for you!
14. Click Overview, Levy and choose Stone
15. Click Overview, Comforting and choose Praying
Turn in quest
16. Train 10 Workers in your Barracks
17. Click Overview and set the Production of all four resources to 100
Turn in quest
18. Click Overview and set the Tax Rate to 20%
Turn in quest
19. Click Overview and rename your city
Turn in quest
20. Click your portrait and change your flag
Turn in quest
21. Click the Wheel of Fortune (the roulette in the bottom-left corner), then Apply
Turn in quest
22. When Feasting Hall finishes
Turn in quest
23. Recruit hero from Inn
Turn in quest
24. Appoint him mayor in Feasting Hall
Turn in quest
Note: Check the Inn periodically - if a hero with at least 10 higher Politics is available, replace your current hero with him. Higher
politics reduces construction time and increases resource production!
25. Build Marketplace
Turn in quest
26. Train 10 Warriors in your Barracks
27. Build Town Hall level 2
Turn in quest
28. Levy Lumber
Comfort with Disaster Relief
29. Build Embassy
Turn in quest
30. Build Academy
Turn in quest
31. Research Lumbering
32. Build Warehouse
Turn in quest
33. demolish warehouse.
34. Research Agriculture
35. Build Ironmine level 2
Speed it up
36. Build Ironmine level 3
<insert> Build Two level 2 Cottages
37. Build Forge
Speed it up
Turn in quest
38. Build Forge level 2
39. Research Military Science
40. Build Workshop
Turn in quest
41. Build Quarry level 2
Speed it up
Note: If you get stuck, Levy the missing resource
42. Build Walls
Turn in quest
43. Build Beacon Tower
Turn in quest
44. Build Beacon Tower level 2
Turn in quest
45. Build Beacon Tower level 3
Turn in quest
46. Build Town Hall level 3
Turn in quest
47. Build Walls level 2
Turn in quest
48. Click Gift icon in top-left corner
Claim Newbies Package and Package for Lords
Click My Items, Chest tab
Open both packages by clicking Detail, then Apply
At this point you should be a Lieutenant with about 1400 Prestige, 35000 Food, 15000 Lumber, 20000 Stone, 25000 Iron
49. Build Farm level 2
Speed it up
49. Build 6 Sawmill level 3
Speed it up
50. Build 3 Quarry level 3
Speed it up
Continue building up 11 Sawmill level 3, and 6 Quarry level 3
Build cottages to keep population from going red (eventually you will want 10 or 11 cottages in your city)
51. Build Academy level 2 when resources allow
Turn in quest
52. Research Masonry
53. Build Barracks level 2
Turn in quest
54. Research Mining
55. Build Academy level 3
Turn in quest
56. Research Informatics
Speed it up
57. Research Military Tradition
58. Train 10 Scouts in your Barracks
59. Build Barracks level 3
Turn in quest
60. Train 10 Pikemen
At this point you should be a Knight with about 2100 Prestige, 40000 Food, 15000 Lumber, 7500 Stone, 10000 Iron
61. Build Marketplace level 2
Recommended resources to have: 12 sawmills, 4 quarry, 3 food, 3 iron
Explanation: 12 sawmills as stated earlier most valuable resource. 4 quarries you need stone to build and reasonably priced if you wanted to cut down to 1 quarry but this requires you to spend more time watching market, 3 food is low but food is very cheap and while in beginner protection you don't need to feed an army until the 7th day at which point you can upgrade town hall and build all the farms you want, 3 iron because archers use iron, again like stone you can have one but that requires you to spend even more time watching market.
I used these steps when I started they worked well for me.
Tip: I will just say this once now. The market is a great way to get gold. If you watch it you will see sometimes you can be the highest bidder and lowest seller while making 20%-50% profit! Expecially when a server is new prices are unstable, pay attention to them and you will make more then enough to pay for the research you need.
My suggestion on finding an alliance: start on page one! If an alliance is in top 50 it is active that is most important. Now starting from page one look for an alliance that says in its description something such as "We are based in". So the first alliance you see starting from the first page that says it is based in your area apply. If they reject you ask what is the prestige requirement or if they have a second devision you can join (example Romans RomansII). If they do not respond keep moving down the list until you find one. This worked for me I am in a great alliance with alot of active people in the top 10. (Server 52 alliance UENO)
Day Two: Build cottages you want about 10 or 11 in each of your cities. Upgrade resources starting with sawmills. make warriors. While building warriors upgrade barracks to level 4. Research lumber to level 5. Research construction. Once level 4 Barracks is reached and warriors are done build archers. Be sure to find a hero today with attack above 65! Start leveling this hero immediately by conqouring 4 valleys using the archers and warriors you have built. Still got time? Go back to upgrading and researching resources!
Second City: Get this today. Build level 1 inn. Build level 1 feasting hall. Find a hero with 60+ politics as soon as possible. Build an Academy, upgrade it as soon as possible so resource fields get boost from research and most importantly construction. Build level 1 rally point. Build resources, upgrade resources, once resources are to high to upgrade instantly if you have time keep upgrading, once your out of time upgrade your townhall and call it a day.
The image below shows the heroes I found. The highlighted hero is my intelligence hero and his stats make him the best hero I have even though his level is low:
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Day Three: Upgrade resources. Upgrade barracks to level 8, if you can start level 9 upgrade this evening. Research level up to level 6 archery. Research Iron working up to level 6. By now you should have your four valleys. You should continue attacking valleys without loss to gain xp for your attack hero and for the chance of finding a medal. If you do find a medal immediately jump up, do a dance and sing a song! Because you are one lucky SOB!
Second City: Upgrade resources, upgrade townhall. Once your townhall is level 4, send your troops with your attack hero to this city. Once your troops are at this city conqour 4 valleys and get your valley boosts. If possible you want all your valleys lumber valleys. When you have done this continue attacking valleys for chance to find a medal and experience. It does not matter what city you keep your troops in.
Day Four: Build level 9 barracks. Switch mayor to your attack hero then Start 250 bastillas (use napoleons to speed up 30% the finish time once applied should be less then 72 hours if you have proper attack hero) You do NOT need to have your attack hero as mayor while troops train so once ballistas are started switch back to political hero. Keep attacking valleys in hopes of getting a medal and to level attack hero. Continue to research construction and resources. You should have found an intelligence hero with 65+ in his intelligence attribute if you haven't find one quickly you will need it tomorrow.
Second City: Have this city contributing to research remember the 100% tax rate tip, use it! Both cities as much as possible 100% tax, disaster relief every 24 minutes! Keep building up resources.
Day Five: If you managed to keep up so far congratulations. There is one more thing you must do if you plan to attack level four npc when protection wears off. Research level 7 archery! Yes it costs a lot but if you do not start it soon it wont be ready for when your beginner protection wears off and your stuck with level 1-3 npcs are likely being farmed right now and by the time you get there will be dried up. So today get level 7 archery
MAKE SURE TO HAVE YOUR INTELLIGENCE HERO AS MAYOR BEFORE YOU START RESEARCH!!! once research is started however you
can switch your mayor back to political hero. Continue to upgrade resources and attack valleys.
Second City: Continue to upgrade resources, research construction and resources.
Day Six: Ok so the hard part is done, now for the easy part. Upgrade resources, research construction and resources. BUILD ARCHER TOWERS!
The more the better idealy you will have 1k for both your cities by the end of beginner protection so start now. Keep attacking valleys and leveling your attack hero(es) you may have more then one by now which is great it will let you attack more npcs/players at one time. Make sure if you plan to do this you upgrade rally point a few times does not take long to get to level 4.
Second City: Build up resources, upgrade wall and when you can build archer towers. If you have enough gold continue to research resources and construction.</insert>