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.

Below is a step by step guide to what I’m doing on a new server.

• Get level 4 town hall right away, it is very fast and cheap to build.
• Fill up your 40 build spots with woodcutters and stonemasons.
• Get all your other buildings to level 2.
• Once all your buildings are level 2, upgrade townhall to level 5.

• Now it is time to build some cottages, as level 3 buildings take quite a while to build, I suggest building 5-6 cottages and upgrading them all to level 3, this doubles your production speed.
• After upgrading your cottages to level 3 you should get all your other buildings to level 3 as well before you go on construction town hall level 6.
• Build town hall level 6 which is about an hour build time with this many cottages.

• Build the sawmills you need, 1 tree + sawmill is better than 2 trees, so move your buildings accordingly.
• Use extra building slots for cottages. If you’re using diamonds you could also use a shovel to speed up construction speed.
• If you’re not a diamond player you don’t need more than 4-5 more cottages to a total of 10.
• After that you save up and start town hall level 7, don’t build any resources to level 4, it is better to build the level 7 town hall first.

• At TH 7 you build the stonemasons you need and move your buildings accordingly to maximize resource production.
• The rest of your build slots I suggest using for either woodcutters, quarries or cottages, build what you need the most.
• Upgrade all your sawmills, quarries and cottages to level 4, the sawmills and stonemasons should stay level 3.
• Start construction of town hall level 8.

This should be all for day #1, at least for me it was. For many players it will probably take longer and that’s ok, the building order is still the same.