New Server – 2nd city


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Due to many requests and messages in game I will continue my strategy blog/guide for a new server for a while more. This post will be about the build up of your second city and where to place it.

Anyways, when it comes to placement look for a landlocked spot close to as many forests and hills as possible, you can see on the screenshot further down in the post an example of this, this is my second city on server 59. Remember it is the hills that give you stone nodes, not the mountains, the mountains are for iron. You want the hills preferably to be directly north, south, east or west of your city, as they will give you the most extra resource nodes in your city. Having forests and hills diagonally, south-east, south-west, etc, will also give you extra resource resource nodes of wood and stone, but not as many. If you found the city next to water you will get less total resource nodes in it, so I suggest finding a landlocked spot to place it, preferably within 1 hour travel distance by carts from your first city. Continue reading →


New Server – Day 2-3


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Day 2 starts once your town hall level 8 is finished, if this is later than day 2 for you that’s no problem, the advice here is still valid. Anyways, if you’ve followed my day 1 post you should now have a city with good stone and wood production optimized correctly with stonemasons and sawmills. You should also have somewhere between 10 and 15 cottages. There are two things I’d like to discuss before I go into my step by step guide again, moonglow tower construction and playing the market.

First to the moonglow tower construction, you should build this up to level 3 right away together with your other buildings once TH 8 is complete. The moonglow tower takes a long time to build at the higher levels, but it is pretty cheap. You can use this to your advantage by having 3-4 moonglow tower upgrades at the end of your building que at all times. Whenever you happen to run out of resources another level of moonglow tower will start so you are not wasting time. Also if you have to stay offline for a longer period of time you build on the moonglow tower. Another building you can build overnight or when you’re away from the game for long is townhall level 9, this building is quite expensive however at 60k wood and 60k stone.

When it comes to playing the market it’s basically selling wood and stone at high prices and buying in the other resources at lower prices. You need to buy the iron and food that you need from the market following my guide, as you won’t be producing any yourself, so check the market for good deals as often as possible. Make sure you sell enough wood and stone so that you always have at least 20k gold laying around for shopping, preferably more. If you manage to sell wood and stone for anything higher than 1500 gold you are doing good business. If you’re member of an alliance you can also ask other players to trade wood/stone for food/iron, don’t overdo it though and hurt your growth, you don’t need the iron and food until your moonglow tower is complete after all.

Now to my step by step guide for day 2.

  • Once your TH 8 is complete build moonglow tower and 1 market if you don’t have it built already.
  • Build cottages so that you have 15-16 total, try to organize your city so that each cottage touches 3 resource producing buildings.
  • Get the market to level 4 so you can do some trading.
  • Build on your moonglow tower whenever you run out of resources.
  • Fill up any extra building slots with resource producing buildings.
  • Upgrade woodcutters and quarries to level 5, starting with the highest producing ones.
  • Upgrade all cottages to level 5, if you have lots of extra resources laying around you build cottages before you upgrade woodcutters and quarries.
  • Upgrade boosters, stonemasons and sawmills that is, to level 4.
  • Start construction of townhall level 9.
  • With TH 9 you need to build the rest of the buildings you need to expand, I never get townhall level 10 until quite a while into the game as it is so expensive to build.
  • Build the trinsic temple, 2 more markets to a total of 3 and a warehouse if you don’t have that already. The reason for 3 markets is to do more trading and also because 3 market at level 7, 8 and 8 is faster than 2 at level 8 and 9, you need 250 carts to build your second city.
  • Build cottages up to a total of 20.
  • Upgrade trinsic temple to level 4 and your 3 markets to level 5.
  • Upgrade your 10 best cottages to level 6, that is those touching the most resource producing structures.
Now you should have the following buildings.
  • 1x Moonglow tower – level as high as possible
  • 1x Trinsic temple – level 4
  • 1x barracks – level 4
  • 1x warehouse – level 5
  • 3x Markets – level 5
  • x sawmills and stonemasons – level 4
  • x woodcutters and quarries – level 5
  • 20x cottages – level 5 and 6
Now you have to try to estimate how long it will take you to get the required resources to gain your next title, that is 50k wood, stone, iron, food and 40k gold. This depends mainly on two factors, how lucky you get with trading at the market and if you are using diamonds or not. If you do well at the market and/or use diamonds you can just go for it, meaning upgrading moonglow tower to level 10, purify to gain title and go for trinsic temple level 10, baron and new city. If you’re struggling getting enough resources for your titles upgrade your resources to level 6 and boosters to level 5 before, and just do the moonglow when you are low on resources or have a long time away from the game.
By following this guide you can have your 2. city on day 4, this is quite hard to do however, and getting your 2. city on day 5 is pretty good as well. As always I’m happy for feedback of any type, constructive criticism, questions, comments or whatever, just post it below.

 


New Server – Day 1


Posted by Iwind

So I started on a new server on Lord of Ultima today, and so far it seems to be going well. It’s the World 59 European server, and at the moment I’m #2 in production, which is the most important statistic at this point I believe. We’re about 2 hours into the server now and I would like to share some of my startup strategies, this is what works well for me, but if you disagree with something feel free to let me know, I’m happy to discuss anything.

Anyways, I just started up like I always do following the quests quickly, building and blowing up buildings I don’t need. Stuff I don’t need is anything but woodcutters, quarries, cottages, training grounds and barracks. You also eventually need a marketplace and a warehouse. Feel free to blow up the training ground if you don’t want to train more berserkers.

Place the woodcutters and quarries where they produce the most, you can easily move them later on. Preferably go for a higher wood production than stone, as you will need more wood early on. This depends on where you start though, if you start on a bad location, going for more stone and just buying wood at the market is ok. I got a very bad starting location on this server, so I’m considering producing some iron as well. Continue reading →


Play4Free Funds


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In my opinion you need to buy some Play4Free funds, used to be called diamonds, to become a top player in Lord of Ultima. The main reason you need funds is cause of the ministers, once your empire starts to grow you pretty much need to have the ministers to manage your empire. Without ministers you need play almost 24/7 to keep up with the other top players who are using ministers.

I always get the minster bundle for 30 days, as this is the cheapest way to get all of the ministers. The ministers are not of equal importance, but you don’t save much on leaving out one or two ministers compared to getting all of them. If you can’t afford to get all of them, at least have the building minister. The building minister will build up your cities while you are away, eventually you will only build the first level of each building in your new cities and have the building minister take care of the rest. Continue reading →


Army guide – first few months


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There are lots of different troop types in Lord of Ultima, and it can be difficult deciding which troops to train in your cities and castles. In this article I will tell you what troops I believe are the best to use early on a new Lord of Ultima server, with that I mean the first 1-2 months on the server, depending on how fast your empire is growing.

The first and most important rule is to never mix offense troops in any city, the only exception is when training frigates, then you need other troops to fill them with obviously. You can mix defense troops of the same type in your defensive castles if you wish, but personally I specialize each city to one type of troops. The reason for not mixing offense troops is that defense troops are usually mixed, and a mixed offense force will then do much worse as each of them will fight the defense troop it does worst against. Also, mixing troop types in any city will mean your troop training time will be lower. There are 4 troop types, infantry, cavalry, magic and artillery. Continue reading →


How to become a top player in Lord of Ultima


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I have reached #1 on at some point in time on every Lord of Ultima server I have played on, and in this article I will tell you how I have accomplished this. Lord of Ultima is a very complex game, so this is no step by step by step guide, but rather a summary of my play style and how a manage to always do well in the game. You can see me as #1 in a screenshot further down in this article, that was on server 37 I believe.

First thing you need to be competitive in Lord of Ultima is a decent amount of time to play the game, you don’t need to online every hour of the day, but you need to be able to log in at least twice a day for an hour or two. This assumes that you are paying to have the ministers, if you don’t do that you need to be online a lot more to be competitive. I suggest everyone who plays Lord of Ultima seriously to spend the money to get the ministers, it makes the game way more fun and less repetitive, and it is also good to support a game you enjoy playing.

You need to optimize the first 10 cities you build well, so they reach a high production, focus on building the resources that are worth the most in the marketplace, from
experience that will be stone and wood. Place your cities smart so that they are close to forests and hills so you get a lot of rocks and trees to build your resource buildings next to.

Don’t build any food or gold cities as your first 10, food is cheap in the market usually and you will get gold from raiding and selling resources. Only build castles to get free titles, the first one a defense castle as 3th city so that you get 4th city free, the second one either defense or offense at 7th depending on how safe your neighborhood is. Focus on building up your resource cities first, castles are expensive and slow to build. If you build castles to high levels too quickly without proper defense they are also at great risk of being conquered.

Raid dungeons as much as possible, from all of your first 10 cities. You don’t need many troops in each city as the dungeons in the beginning of the server will all be low level. 3-4 barracks and one training ground in each resource city. In your castles you will obviously have a lot more barracks. and from the castles you can raid the higher level dungeons that starts popping up later. Unless you have no castles or your continent is very peaceful, I suggest you train rangers in your resource cities. Rangers are decent raiders and excellent at defending early infantry attacks coming at you.

Follow the market, there is a lot of resources and gold to be made here. You produce the most expensive resources and sell them on the market, the cheapest resources, most likely food and iron, you buy at the market when you need them. You will get most of your gold from raiding, and the rest you need from selling wood and stone.

Build city 2 as soon as your first city reaches around 1000 points, build the highest levels of the Moonglow Tower and Trinsic Temple over night when you’re not able to log in. Don’t build level 9 town hall in your first city until your 2nd city is built. Whenit comes to city 3 however, don’t stress that, as it is very expensive. Your first two cities should be around 2000-1500 points before you build city 3.

Don’t stress with joining an alliance, if you keep playing well and have a good rank several alliances will approach you. I suggest waiting at least one week into the game before you join any, unless you need an alliance to help you against aggressive neighbors. If you’re top 20-30 you should easily be allowed to join any alliance you want, pick one of the top ranked ones.

I’m sure there is a lot of stuff I’ve forgotten to mention here, and I will update the article as needed. Also please take a look at the other articles here, they will explain in more detail how to build your cities, how to expand your empire quickly, how to raid players and dungeons, what troops to train, how to play the market and many other aspects of the game. Please leave a comment below if you have any questions or suggestions.


Resource City building guide


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When you build a new resource city it is important that you build it correctly to make sure it produces as many resources as possible. To make this easy you should use an optimization tool that places your resource producing buildings in the best possible positions. This article will teach you how to do this.

Click city notes in the city you just created and click on City Planner. Click “Yes” in the external link popup while holding down Ctrl or Command, to open the link in a new tab. Copy the link to the page you are taken to where you can see your city, it should look something link this:
http://www.lou-fcp.co.uk/map.php?map=LAA000000A0C00000A000AAA2000000
00000AA2AAA00000000B0C00000A00BB000A0B0C0000000A000C0BBB000000A00000B0B
000000000000000000BB00000D0B0C00000000C0D0CC0X000D00000000000000B000A0
0000AAA0CC0BB00AA0002A00C0000AA000O0A00000D0000000CCC000000C0000D00000
0000AA00000000C000000CAA00D00B000D00C00000000A00000C

Now you go to http://loof78.appspot.com/lou_city – which is the city optimization tool that I prefer to use. It is made by loof78 and is very easy to use. Paste your lou-fcp url in the big white text field. Hit enter and paste the following on the next 3 lines:
use_slots=90
num_cottages=20
placement_schedule=WSI

Use slots is how many slots will be used for the wood, stone and iron resource buildings and cottages, change this as needed. Cottages should be anywhere between 15 and 25, usually the lower means more production but lower construction speed. Placement schedule is what resources to focus on, “WSI” means all 3 resources apart from food, “WS” is wood and stone only and “W” means wood only. If you want to focus on wood and stone but have a little iron as well use “WS,WSI”. Continue reading →


About the Lord Of Ultima Guide


Posted by Iwind

Hello! Welcome to my guide to Lord of Ultima, the best browser strategy game out there, at least that is my opinion. I’ve played Lord of Ultima for more than a year now, so I decided to make a guide to it. I love strategy games like Lord of Ultima, and tend to always do very well in them. I really enjoy coming up with the best possible strategies, and here on this website I will share some of them.

I’ve reached the #1 on every Lord of Ultima server I have played on, and hopefully some of you will do the same putting the strategies I share here to use. If you have any comments, suggestions, questions, whatever really, you can leave a comment to any of the articles here and I’ll get back to you as soon as possible. Please also share or +1 any of the articles here that you really like, thanks!