The underdeveloped island that holds my capital. Sulfur is used for the training of military units (a process that can be queued, thankfully). Glass goes toward upgrading academies and temples (recently added), military upgrades, and the training of spies. Wine is made available in local taverns to keep your population happy and growing. Marble is used in higher level building upgrades and city walls. Just for my own play purposes, I would prefer them in that order. Beyond that, trading is limited to nearby islands (the trade radius defined by how much you’ve leveled your trading post).Īside from building materials, the basic resources are marble, wine, glass, and sulfur. Setting up a trade alliance with someone only means that when they add things for sale in their trading post, you can see it even if you’re far away from them. It made me wish there were a way to set up more permanent routes in the game like that. Please keep 200 and send 200 on to so-and-so at such-and-such location.” Really fun, actually. Occasionally I’d get a note that said, “400 sulfur is on the way. We plotted our locations on a map and posted it to the website. To cope with the travel time issues, the MMO Voices folks initially set up trade routes together to help each other get started. My husband and one of our friends have both relocated their civilizations completely to some islands on the fringes of the map so that they can build their resources together. While you can certainly build your second colony anywhere and eventually make it your capital, it takes a while to gather the resources to accomplish this. You begin in a random spot on the world map. This is where some of the challenge comes in if you want to play near your friends. Travel time, as far as I can tell, never changes (unless there is a miracle, which I’ll talk about later).
Ikariam search island Patch#
Research used to be queued (sort of), but they changed it in a recent patch so that you accumulate research points and then buy the discovery of your choice when you have enough. Unfortunately, there are no building queues available unless you pay for a premium account. As with EVE, the early skills and lower level buildings don’t take long. It reminded me of EVE in that regard - set up your training and then go do something else for a while. Rather than being turn based like Civ (which it couldn’t be, since it’s an MMO), activities like building, research, and travel are all time-based. (This mine allowed me to collect glass, one of the four harvestable resources.) After hiring a few researchers, I went to the island view to hire some workers in the lumber mill and crystal mine. Back in my Civ days, I was always going after the space ship rather than the military victory. You start with a single colony on an island and some wood to construct your first building, either an academy to begin research or barracks to house your budding military. With some reluctance, I made an account to play along with the other folks at the site. When I joined up at MMO Voices, Beau chose Ikariam as one of the first site games.
Couldn’t possibly be as compelling as Civ, I thought.
Things going against it included that it was a browser game, it was free-to-play (but with premium options available for cash), and that it looked like a Civ-type game. (I can’t remember if it was a blog or a podcast, to be honest.) I glanced at the game site only briefly and it didn’t even interest me enough to make an account at the time. I remember sitting there at my desk at work, daydreaming and listening to podcast, and something prompted me to check out this game. I first heard about Ikariam about a year ago. WoW still takes up most of my gaming time, but the game that is currently a close second place? Ikariam. I’ve tried several other MMO’s and a few single player games that I’ll write about soon. In the last couple months, I’ve branched out a bit and started playing other games.
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