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Ikariam: practical guides

How to get points?

Ikariam’s overall score depends on the sum of 3 different scores plus the total number of citizens in your cities. The different scores are:

• Master Builder scores, which is calculated from the resources spent on building or upgrading buildings;
• Scientists, calculated from the research points used to develop technologies;
• Generals, which is calculated from the resources spent on living units or ships)

How to build a palace?

This building is one of the foundations of your own empire! As soon as you complete the “Expansion” research, you will be able to build this which will allow you to start colonizing on other islands. In addition to that research, you will only need 612 wood for the 1st level and 4h28 of time.

How to get wood/marble/glass/sulphur?

Wood is a natural resource available on all the islands in this game. Going to “Island View” in Ikariam you will have a view of your island, there you need to look for the sawmill where you can assign workers from the free people of the city. For the other resources, which are more scarce, only one of them is available per island. So, until you colonize islands with these resources, trade with other players, buy from the market, or steal them.

How to get points fast?

My advice would be to be very present in the early moments of the game where the buildings are made faster, find some players to start trading the resources you need with the ones you have left over, etc.

How to make money/gold?

Population increase (town hall upgrade, tavern/museum)

• Cutting down the workers of the sawmill, the vineyard, the sulfur pit, the quarry, the crystal mine, the Academy or the Temple)
• Sell ​​the resources you have in excess on the market, note that any price above 2/3 is a profit, but I would recommend selling around 8/12 gold per unit.
• Reduce your army or navy

How to colonize?

As said for the question “How to build a palace”, after having the “Expansion” research ready, colonizing is easy. Going to “View World” you only have to select any of the islands that surround you (or maybe not you prefer it in some “strategic point”) and in the island view if the island is not full you will see some yellow flags. Click on them and if you have the necessary resources, you are done. You will just have to wait a while for the ships to arrive now.

How to move troops between towns?

Go to your destination city and click on “Island View”. From here, select the city where you are sending your troops from and click on the destination city. You will have the button to transfer the clickable troops.

How to search for players/cities?

Please note that this is considered illegal in the game, be careful when talking about this. So a team of big guys created an online tool that crawls all Ikariam servers and you can use this tool to search for any player or any city you want. http://en.ika-world.com/search.php?view=suche_spieler – just select the country and server in the menu on the left and insert whatever you have about the city/player on the left.

How to join/leave an alliance?

You can join an alliance when you have a free diplomacy point. You earn them by building/upgrading the Embassy, ​​which requires the “Foreign Cultures” research. To leave the alliance enter the embassy (Anyone, if you have +1) and take a look at the menu on the left. There you have the link to leave the alliance. Since the last update, when I wrote this, after doing that, it takes 24 hours until it’s actually out.

How to invite people to the alliance?

Since there is no official invite system, you have to send private messages to each player you want in your alliance asking them to join.

How to increase workers?

In order to have a large number of workers in the mines (for example) you have to make constant donations so that you can increase the workers as your population grows. Don’t let all your donating efforts by yourself cause your neighbors to donate too or steal the wood you’re going to donate hehe. In addition, having the research “Helping Hands” you will have the possibility of putting more workers of the limit with an extra cost.