Why wine is the most important resource
Wine is by far the most important resource in Ikariam, and in my opinion it’s not even close. The first reason is that once your town halls starts getting larger you need to spend wine every single hour to keep your population growing, or just to make it stable even. If your citizens don’t get enough wine they’ll get angry and start leaving your village, and you definitely don’t want that too happen. What good is a large town hall when it’s only half full. Read the rest of this entry »
Colonization
In Ikariam you can quickly build your second village. All you need is to research expansion in the seafaring technology tree as well as upgrading your palace. It’s a good idea to build your second village fairly quickly in my opinion, as it will give you an income boost cause of the extra population as well access to another resource. You should really build it on a different island with a resource that you need, unless you’re using my wine and plunder strategy. Read the rest of this entry »
Starting guide – the first few steps
There is pretty much one standard way to start out with a new account in Ikariam. I’ll just go through it quickly here, this is how I do it and how most people do it. You start out by building an academy, fill it up with scientists and have them research well digging. Well digging is the thing you should start out with since it will give you room for 50 extra people right away, population is important both for taxes and wood income early.
It’ll take some time for the academy to be finished though, so just send as many workers as possible to the saw mill while you wait for this. You find the saw mill by clicking the view island button and then clicking on the pile of wood on your island. Depending on if this is a new server or not the saw mill might be at level 1 or at a higher level. The saw mills level decides max number of workers each city can have there. When the academy is finished you might have to withdraw a few workers to get enough idle population to fill the academy to the max. Academy is your main focus, you want to get that well digging technology quickly. Read the rest of this entry »
What is Ikariam?
If you’re here you probably know already, but in case not here is a short description. Ikariam is a massive browser based strategy game produced by Gameforge AG. It’s similar to games like Travian, TribalWars and Evony. You could also compare it to the classic game civilization if you want to, the biggest reason being your number of opponents. There are tens of thousands of players on dozens of servers. Read the rest of this entry »
Welcome to IkariamGuides.com!
Welcome to IkariamGuides.com, the new strategy website for the massive browser game called Ikariam. On this site you’ll find lots of tips, strategy guides and other useful articles. I’ll also write about various tools and addons for Ikariam. I’ve been playing Ikariam for a while now, mostly on the speed servers, and been pretty successful so I hope you will find my posts here useful. Feel free to leave comments and questions, I love to get feedback.