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| Day 4 and I am thankful to all the assistance with
resources or it would have been very slow going with building. The access
to resources is the reason it is necessary to join an alliance early in
the first week. Without this help it is impossible to make yourself large
enough within the beginners time to be prepared for attacks after the
protection is off. It you do not receive the assistance then get out and
join another alliance. I have started a 3rd city to try to increase resource production. This is purely a resource city and I will abandon it once I am able to get resources from npc cities hopefully I will be ready by the time the beginners protection ends. NPC farming is one of the most important parts of this game and if you do not start immediately building a supply of these you will not survive as you will not be able to feed your troops. |
| Learn to use your market to buy and sell resources it is
a constant job especially with food for me as I am 3k in the red with food
already so I need to keep the food coming in. No matter how many farms you
build you will never feed a decent army from your resource fields so get
used to managing food in the red and it will not be so hard later. At
present the food on the market is good at 1.09 and lumber selling at 6.2.
Later in the life of this server food will get closer to the price of
lumber then it becomes more important to have a good supply of npc cities. With my time in beginner drawing close I decided to move to another location. Too many red flags around me here and they are a lot bigger than me so i would only last a short time once the attacks start. I only needed to move one city as the other 2 were just the basic essential necessary to be used for academy research. There is a huge difference in time for this research with 3 cities as you will see from my current research levels. Today I will have a level 9 barracks so I can start producing ballista only 10 at a time but at least I will have plenty to attack level 2 npc cities in 3 days from now. Hopefully I will get to enough for level 3. |
| Research: Agriculture 3, Lumbering 5, Masonry 1, Mining 4, Metal Casting 4, Informatics 8, Military Science 6, Military Tradition 5, Compass 6, Horse Back Riding 5, Archery 6, Construction 6, Medicine 4. These may not appear to have progress much from yesterday but it needs to be remembered that the times now are mostly over 20 hrs for each upgrade. Also I have not worried much about resource research as that will not help when it comes to war after day 7 of beginners. |
| Troops: Workers 1800, Warrior 800, Scout 110, Pikemen 600, Swordsmen 700, Archer 1600, Cavalry 30, Transport 160. I am only building troops required to attack valleys and flats. I have enough to take a level 9 now, Over the next 2 days I will rapidly increase the troop numbers ready for the end of day 7. |
| Wall defences: trap 100, Abatis 100, Archer Towers 500 |
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