Starting with your first city.
When you first start the game, you are given a single city with a level 1 town hall and 3000 each of wood and stone. An in-game tutorial will guide you through the basic buildings to get your city started, as well as give you resource rewards for completing the basic tutorial quests. You should complete the tutorial for the quest rewards, but not all of the buildings are necessary. I recommended demolishing the hideout and city guardhouse after collecting the reward for building them. The tutorial ends when you get your town hall to level 5, then you are on your own.
Doing well in the beginning of the game will help you do well later on as well. This is because getting your first city up and running efficiently and cranking out tons of resources will allow you to get your 2nd city up faster, which will allow you to get your 3rd city up faster, and so on.
The key to doing well in the beginning is to efficiently plan your first city to maximize resource production, and to prioritize your building and upgrading order to fulfill the requirements needed to settle your 2nd city as soon as possible.
In order to get your 2nd city, you need to:
Doing well in the beginning of the game will help you do well later on as well. This is because getting your first city up and running efficiently and cranking out tons of resources will allow you to get your 2nd city up faster, which will allow you to get your 3rd city up faster, and so on.
The key to doing well in the beginning is to efficiently plan your first city to maximize resource production, and to prioritize your building and upgrading order to fulfill the requirements needed to settle your 2nd city as soon as possible.
In order to get your 2nd city, you need to:
- Get a Moonglow tower to Level 10 (this requires a level 7 Town Hall)
- Purify 50k of each resource and have 50k gold to research the Title Advancement to Earl
- Get a Trinsic Temple to level 10 (this requires a level 8 Town Hall)
- Recruit a baron (costs 50k iron and 100k gold)
- Settle a city (requires 100k wood, 100k stone, 25k iron, 25k food, and either 250 carts or 25 merchant ships. I recommend settling by land with carts because that number of merchant ships requires a level 10 harbor, which requires a level 10 town hall, which takes much longer to get than the carts. 250 carts requires 2 marketplaces: either a level 10 and a level 7, or a level 9 and a level 8.)