1000ad And Helpful Hints About How To Play
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Join Date: 2003-06-30 Member: 17813Banned
Join Date: 2003-06-30 Member: 17813Banned
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<div class="IPBDescription">1000ad and other free online rpgs</div> ok so heres the scoop
1000ad
an online RPG, where you create and guide your own civilazation
1000 AD game is a turn based game. You only need a web browser to play it.
Turns: When you start a game you have some initial number of turns (months) that you can use. To see number of turns you have available look at the top left of the page:
You gain new turns every 5, 10 or 15 minutes, depanding on the game you're playing.
To end a turn click "END TURN" on the top right menu or type number of months you want to end on the left top menu and click the "GO" button.
Getting Started: familiarize yourself with the top menu:
The most important resource of the game is land. There are 3 types of land: mountains, forest and plains. Each building can only be built on one of those. Look at the buildings help to see what buildings are built on what type of land.
You gain land either by exploring or by conquering it from other empires. Usually, the first 300 to 500 months of the game it's much more worthwhile to explore then conquer because army upkeep is expensive and to gain a lot of land from attacking you'd need big army.
You can start constructing buildings right away, because at the start of the game you have some free land. Each tool maker provides 6 builders that can construct your buildings. If you want to speed up your construction time, build more tool makers, but each tool maker needs 1 tool so that he can work.
You also need more and more people to work in your buildings. On the management screen you set your food ratios, that decide how fast your population will grow. At the bottom of the build screen you can see how many people are working and how many are not working, or how many are needed to fill all open jobs. If you do not have enough people for work, some of your buildings might not produce any goods when you end a turn.
Town centers are big and consume a lot of resources and time to construct. But they are one of the most important buildings. Each town centers provides 5 explorers that you can use for exploring and each town center provides 1 thief, 1 catapult and 1 civilization specific special unit. If you want to explore faster you'd need to build more town centers.
When you end a turn you will see what has happened during that month. How much food was eaten by your soldiers, how much food was eaten by your people, and during winter how much wood was used for heating. Also, you will see your population increase or decrease. All the production and usage of resources can also be seen.
Look frequently at the status screen. It will show you your total income or decline of goods when you end a turn. Your total goods and how much more warehouse space you have available. Your total army and your total population.
Once you get a good and steady flow of cash and have some extra land, you can start building mage towers so that you can research. Research is important in the game, because it increases your production without, increases your army strength, and is good for other things. For more information look at the help research page.
Tips:
start building more tool makers at the beginning (5 to 10 initially is good). Set their status to 30% to 50% so that they don't use your valuable resources.
then build wood cutters and iron mines (between 20 to 100 should be enough)
always explore, once your explorers are done send another batch of explorers
build town centers so that you can send more explorers
build farms and hunters to have enough food for your explorers
set your food ratios to high or very high, so that you have enough people for your fast expansion
you can gain gold by selling wood, iron or food. gold mines are expensive to build, so it might be better to trade. use the local auto trade option.
don't build weapons or train army until later on in the game.
join some alliance so that you can have some other empires help you and protect your from stronger empires
1000ad
an online RPG, where you create and guide your own civilazation
1000 AD game is a turn based game. You only need a web browser to play it.
Turns: When you start a game you have some initial number of turns (months) that you can use. To see number of turns you have available look at the top left of the page:
You gain new turns every 5, 10 or 15 minutes, depanding on the game you're playing.
To end a turn click "END TURN" on the top right menu or type number of months you want to end on the left top menu and click the "GO" button.
Getting Started: familiarize yourself with the top menu:
The most important resource of the game is land. There are 3 types of land: mountains, forest and plains. Each building can only be built on one of those. Look at the buildings help to see what buildings are built on what type of land.
You gain land either by exploring or by conquering it from other empires. Usually, the first 300 to 500 months of the game it's much more worthwhile to explore then conquer because army upkeep is expensive and to gain a lot of land from attacking you'd need big army.
You can start constructing buildings right away, because at the start of the game you have some free land. Each tool maker provides 6 builders that can construct your buildings. If you want to speed up your construction time, build more tool makers, but each tool maker needs 1 tool so that he can work.
You also need more and more people to work in your buildings. On the management screen you set your food ratios, that decide how fast your population will grow. At the bottom of the build screen you can see how many people are working and how many are not working, or how many are needed to fill all open jobs. If you do not have enough people for work, some of your buildings might not produce any goods when you end a turn.
Town centers are big and consume a lot of resources and time to construct. But they are one of the most important buildings. Each town centers provides 5 explorers that you can use for exploring and each town center provides 1 thief, 1 catapult and 1 civilization specific special unit. If you want to explore faster you'd need to build more town centers.
When you end a turn you will see what has happened during that month. How much food was eaten by your soldiers, how much food was eaten by your people, and during winter how much wood was used for heating. Also, you will see your population increase or decrease. All the production and usage of resources can also be seen.
Look frequently at the status screen. It will show you your total income or decline of goods when you end a turn. Your total goods and how much more warehouse space you have available. Your total army and your total population.
Once you get a good and steady flow of cash and have some extra land, you can start building mage towers so that you can research. Research is important in the game, because it increases your production without, increases your army strength, and is good for other things. For more information look at the help research page.
Tips:
start building more tool makers at the beginning (5 to 10 initially is good). Set their status to 30% to 50% so that they don't use your valuable resources.
then build wood cutters and iron mines (between 20 to 100 should be enough)
always explore, once your explorers are done send another batch of explorers
build town centers so that you can send more explorers
build farms and hunters to have enough food for your explorers
set your food ratios to high or very high, so that you have enough people for your fast expansion
you can gain gold by selling wood, iron or food. gold mines are expensive to build, so it might be better to trade. use the local auto trade option.
don't build weapons or train army until later on in the game.
join some alliance so that you can have some other empires help you and protect your from stronger empires
Comments
<i>I'm never going to touch another multiplayer text, turn-based game again</i>
A year after making that vow, a friend of mine got hooked, so I made a new vow
<i>I'm going to play again solely to attack him and only him so that he'll be discouraged to play</i>
He left before I finished building up a force that had a chance in attacking him, so I made abysmal attempts at attacking others before I dismantled my entire kingdom and let a newbie kill me.
Since then, I have never touched another multiplayer text-based game.
Quite fun and an easy way to kill 10 minutes.