The Most Important Building......and its friends.

I have been getting alot of emails and requests regarding the "which building do I try to get maxed first" question. In my opinion, the Silver Mine is by far the most important building you can upgrade first. The main reason for this, is because this is obviously going to be your main source of income. At higher levels, I believe this building gives you the most benefit as well. (higher levels of the building's own level). Let's say you were to upgrade your Silver Mine to level 35. Then you decide that is sufficient for now and are upgrading other buildings. At level 35, you are gaining 7,452 gold per hour (now known as g/h). Which means in a 24 hour period, you'll have gained 178,848 gold. A level 36 silver mine takes 10 hours (roughly) to complete, and costs 98,687 gold to upgrade. If you were to upgrade your silver mine, you would still make 115,276 in the last 14 hours of the tick. Minus the cost of the upgrade, and you would be up 16,589 gold. So usually, as you can see, your profiting from upgrading the mine. Not too mention that you will be getting more gold every hour....forever. At lvl 45, you are clocking 20,225 g/h. 10 levels goes a long way. 306,552 in 24 hours to be exact.

There is, however, a catch. Upgrading the mine is going to require having your treasury at a high enough level to store the excess gold, and it is usually a good idea to be pretty active on the game so that you efficiently using it. You'll also need to rotate out upgrading your farm as well, so it can support the mine. With any building, upgrading the Headquarters always helps to lower construction time, so sometimes it is good to mix these upgrades in to get you your maxed out Silver Mine faster.


Leave any comments with ideas or thoughts, thanks for stopping by! You can catch me on Realm 6 too as well, my name on there is dcipher.

And we are back!

Sorry for the long period of inactivity. My computer died and due to financial reasons I wasn't really online too much. Back now, just started up again on Realm 6, under the name dcipher, 139 -168. Add me if you like, I will be posting more strategy soon! Thanks for sticking around, still getting alot of daily visitors, so stay tuned!

Time to Expand

So, you're building your palace now. 150,000 gold might make you have a hole in your pocket. Of course, now you are looking at the cost of a governor, 75,000. These are tough economic times. I got some tips for you.

While your Palace is building, recruit a couple knights and/or light cavalry. Hopefully, you might have some already. Pick a nearby town, either a smaller rebel village or a smaller player/inactive player are the best targets. You can begin sending forces to attack that players town. If you do this right, you should be able to get around 10 attacks in, maybe more. When you attack a player, you will get to plunder some of their town's gold. So this is a great way to get some extra gold income.

In the next post, we will be talking about maintaining villages, the advantages of servants, and more! Check back soon!


p.s. if you are on realm 3 and are looking for a clan, my clan, The Defenders is currently recruiting. Send me a message in the game, dcipher and i will shoot you an invite

The Early Game

The point of the early game in my mind, is to get to a palace as quick as possible so you can begin to take over another town. This requires a few steps first, but can be done relatively easy. A Palace requires:
Level 20 Headquarters
Level 20 Stables
Level 5 Wall and
150,000 gold.

Technically, this will require a Level 20 treasury as well, to be able to store more than 150,000 gold. In my game, I focused on 4 buildings to be the higest upgraded level, the Headquarters, Treasury,the Farm Lands, and Silver Mine. You want to expand these early because:
1. Your building times will go down with the upgraded headquarters
2. You'll be able to store alot of gold with upgraded treasury, so you wont have to worry about capping out.
3. As you upgrade the silver mine in the early game, late game it will be easier to max it out.

The idea with RoE, is that most of the buildings work together. For example, the higher HQ you have, the more efficient your workers are, and the higher your farm lands are, the more workers you can have. My sugestion would be follow this as a semi model, but try to continuously upgrade your HQ, Farm, Silver mine, and Tresury.
Early on, get your headquarters to level 5 and your silver mine to level 20.
Build a barracks at lvl 5 HQ and upgrade the barracks to at least lvl 5.
Build a level 1 wall, leave it for now. Begin upgrading the treasury and HQ to about level 10.
At lvl 10 HQ, build a tavern, and get your stable built. Begin upgrading the stable maybe to around lvl 10, as this will cost alot levels 15-20.
Once stable is around level 10, get your Silver Mine to 30, HQ to 20, Farm to 20, and Treasury to 21. This will give you the resources need to upgrade your wall fast and make it easier to get gold and upgrade the stables.
Upgrade your stables to lvl 20 and wall to lvl 5.


You can build defensive towers earlier if you want for extra protection, but only do this is you will be making a small force to protect yourself, otherwise this is a waste. It is a good idea to get the tavern up to protect from spies as well, but that is personal preference. When youre ready to begin saving up for a palace, your town should look similar to this.




When you reach this stage in the game, save up, build a palace, and begin building a force to take over another town! We will talk more about taking over towns in the next post, Time to Expand...

Building Upgrades

To start, lets take a look at how some of the building upgrades in RoE help your town.

Headquarters
As you upgrade the Headquarters, the workers in your village get more and more efficient and as a result, construction
takes less and less time.

Silver Mine
The higher the level of the silver mine, the more silver it yeilds per hour

Barracks
As you upgrade the Barracks, recruitment and training of troops becomes more efficient and you are able to attract and train new recruits faster.

Stable
As you upgrade the Stable, recruitment and training of cavalry becomes more efficient and you are able to attract and train faster.

Siege Workshop
As you upgrade the Siege Workshop, your engineers become more efficient at constructing the machines resulting in quicker production.
Tavern
The higher the level of the tavern, the more patrons it attracts enabling you to recruit spies much faster.

Trading Post
You can transport silver between your own villages but you can also send silver to other player's villages. The higher the level of this building, the higher your transport capacity.

Farm Land
The higher the level of the farm land, the more food you are able to produce.You can never recruit more toops, or hire more workers than your farm can support as excess food is perishable and is not stored. Excess food is most welcomed by the usually half starved villages, and is eaten in big and wild festivals at every possible occasion.
Wall
The Wall by it self does little to protect the village however the wall does improve the defensive ability of the troops defending the village. The higher the level, the better job the wall does.
Defensive Towers
Defensive Towers are periminter wall towers as well as gate house towers that greatly improve the ability of the troops to defend the village. Defensive towers can be demaged and/or destroyed with Trebuchet.

Treasury
Treasury is where you store your silver coins. As silver is produced, it is stored in the treasury. However, the treasury has a storage limit and when reached, your silver mine either stops production. Therefore, it is a good idea to upgrade the treasury to be able to store a fair amount of silver.

The Palace
Palace is where you entertain your guests and where aristocrats gather. Palaces are the perfect and necessary place to attract aristocrats to join your realm in performing the role of governors. Governors are necessary for you to take over another village as they are the ones who convince the enemy's village council of elders to join your kingdom, and stay at the new village to govern it.

As you can see, all the buildings give different advantages. When you start a new town, It is best to upgrade these in a certain order so that you will start off the game strong, and capture a 2nd village early on. We will discuss this in the next post, The Early Game.

[p.s. you can see all the building upgrade details if you click on a building in your town, and then click details...]

Video - What not to do as a Noob

Here is a video from a RoE player named Dan. He won a contest for servants for this video. I thought you guys might find it funny, check it out! It'll remind you that it is JUST A GAME which is the best Strategy ever!

Realm of Empires Mapper

From the owner of the game Greg Balajewicz (via facebook)

This is a downloadable program allowing you to map the entire realm.

Screen Shot: http://www.realmofempires.com/roepowertools/roeptScreenShot.aspx

This is a temporary and UNSUPPORTED tool that will eventually be replaced with a simillar in-game functionality.

However, we felt that something like this is really neccessary and did not want to wait till we offer it in-game.

Unfortunatelly it will only work on windows (and parhaps other OSs with MS .NET 2.0 framework ported). The download is absolutely safe.

For more info and download: http://www.realmofempires.com/roepowertools/roept.aspx