Having trouble with Empire & Allies or looking to improve upon your empire? Here is a guide of tips and tricks I use while playing the game to make tons of coins, resources, and more. Empires & Allies - Build your forces and join your neighbors to defeat the Dark Alliance!
First off when you start the game you might want to complete the tutorial quests to get a handle of what you have to control your empire. The most important thing to have in this game is tons of active neighbors if you plan to be an active player. The more neighbors you have the more income and resources you can possibly have. It is recommended to have at least 50+ to see any real major jumps in income. There are many facebook pages where people post add me advertisements to gather neighbors. The following is an active page that always guaranteed to give you at least 10-15 friends a shout out. Empire & Allies Neighbors
Depending on your luck you pre-generated empire may give you a random ore that you can use ore mines to mine out ranging from gold to uranium. If you are lucky enough to get the Uranium ore as your main ore you will be making a ton of coin since this ore will be useful later in the game to build some of the more stronger units, buildings, and resource plants. The ores sell for 200 coin each while stuff like oil and wood sell at 20 coin each unit. It is important to hit the population cap as soon as possible for your current bracket level as this opens many new types of buildings and resource plants. Your goal is to try to get where you have access to level 3 type of resource buildings since their 1 hour gatherings yield as much as level 1 24 hour gatherings. Also expand as early as possible because you can have an entire island or two dedicated to gather resources which makes it easier to find for your neighbors. Also it is crucial that you put military units around your resources if your not under the World Embassy protection because players can destroy or leech off your resources if you don't have them protected by a good force. When your under the World Embassy protection none of your neighbors can invade you and you can't invade them until it is off. But you can still invade but it revokes your protection for 6 hours leaving you expose to attacks. If your still building your armies it is recommended to have the protection until you feel you can fend of alot of attacks back to back.
Build lots of farms once you have some nearby island open and plant the 24+ hour crops like pumpkins or pineapples. As the more farms you have the more independent source of coin. Also as time overtime you might want convert your older buildings to new higher population buildings such as Brick houses and such to not only get more room to build resource plants and decorations but also get more money while not having to check up on the buildings so often. Also you want to layout your empire to where you can easily protect all your assets with troops and such to prevent the invaders from looting your stuff. Another important thing you want to do with your neighbors is get on as many staff for their government buildings as possible because you get a huge amounts of coin for every time you visit them. It is usually indicated with a big yellow plus sign over a building which means there is an opening. Also having tons of active net you some big cash when they visit your government buildings. The more they visit the huger your bonus will be everyday. Keep government buildings as easily located together as possible to make it easier for your neighbors to locate and visit them. When you start rolling enough resources to where you have a ton of extra it is wise to sell your excess in the market for a big profit. Wood, Uranium, and Oil are big sellers among newer players. Be vocal about what you need on the game people will help you if they know what you need and if you help them as well.
Update July 8, 2011- Recently in a update to the game you can now sell your units to your neighbors for a profit. It is recommended you only sell your extra units only if your in Neutrality or if you know you can sell them safely without being invaded to badly.
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