Archive for the ‘islands’ tag
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 »
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 »