Monthly Archives: January 2012

New Server – 2nd city


Posted by Iwind

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


Posted by Iwind

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


Posted by Iwind

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


Posted by Iwind

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 →