Noob Guide - Maximum Resource Productivity
Noob Guide - Maximum Resource Productivity
NOTE: The idea was taken from a friend of mine and i decided to create this thread . But thanks does not all go to me.
This guide will explains how to get your resource productivity up very high early on.
Total resource production rates depend on these factors:
1. Politics rating of your Castellan.
2. Researched technologies.
3. Level of your sawmills, farms, iron mines and quarries.
4. Number of resource fields you have.
5. Number of, and level of, valleys you own.
6. Application of productivity items.
7. Population
8. Number of cities you have.
It is VERY important to get all of these up as much as possible as soon as possible. The end of the 7 days protection is going to come very fast and you want to be in a position to have a decent army and excellent city defenses.
Castellan:
When you first start, it is important to get a Castellan with a high politics rating as soon as possible. The Castellan affects both construction time and resource production.
There are Quests for all of the steps required to obtain a Castellan, so you will come out ahead on resources by using the Quest.
Steps to obtain a Castellan:
First, build an Inn.
Second, build a Feasting Hall.
Upgrade the Inn to level 2.
Upgrade the Feasting Hall to level 2.
Unpack all the chests.
Do the Hero Recruitment Quest, this requires the use of the Hero Hunting item. After you use the Hero Hunting item, look to see what heroes are in your Inn.
Recruit the hero with the highest Politics rating.
Use the item that offers a position to a level 10-level 15 hero.
Go to the Feasting Hall and make the hero with the highest Politics rating the Castellan.
Researched Technologies.
You need to research all of the resource gathering technologies and the construction technology. To do this you need an academy. There is a quest to build an academy. Build the academy and then research Agriculture, Lumbering, Masonry, and Mining. This will cost gold, if you run low on gold look through the Quests and do any Quest that pays gold.
The Construction technology is very important as the level of your buildings increases. You need to research this technology as soon as possible. Unfortunately, to research this technology you need:
Level 2 Forge
Level 2 Workshop
Level 5 Lumbering
Level 2 Metal Casting
Level 5 Academy
To help with doing all the research you need to do you should build a second city and a second Academy as soon as possible. There is a quest for building a second city. When you unpacked the chests you obtained an army and workers. If your idle hero has good ratings for the attributes that help with warfare use this hero, if not use the hero hunting item and find a better hero for warfighting.
You will need 250 workers. The chest gave you some number less than 250 workers, 199 if I remember correctly. So, you need to build a barracks and recruit the remaining workers. You also need to recruit at least 20 scouts.
Constructing resource producing buildings and cottages
First thing, go to the Town Hall and set the tax rate to 0. You'll change it later.
When constructing buildings construction time must be minimized. The Speed Up button provides free speed up of construction time for lower levels of most buildings. You want to have as many resource producing buildings as possible up and running and upgraded as high as possible using free speed up before you start having to wait for construction times longer than what is handled by the free speed up.
Go to the resource fields. Start with sawmill. Build a sawmill and upgrade it as many times as you can using the free speed up. This level varies depending on the building type. Next build a quarry. Next build an iron mine. You already have a level 5 farm. Each of these has a Quest, so be sure to collect the reward for the quest.
Now go to the town hall and change production to 100 on all resource types.
Now you need to build enough cottages to supply enough workers. You can build a cottage and upgrade it to level 3 using the free speed up for each upgrade, beyond level 3 the upgrade will take more than 5 minutes. Build enough cottages so that you have a population limit at least twice as large as the number of workers required to run all of your resource buildings.
Keep going back and forth between building resource producing buildings and cottages. Build one each of farm, sawmill, quarry, and iron mine, and then build enough cottages to supply the needed workers.
Keep the idle population number low. And keep the population limit at least 30% higher than the current population.
There is no point in constructing resource producing buildings if you don't have the population to work them, so wait until you get the people needed.
Two things that can give you "instant" population growth. Population raising feature on the Comforting tab in the Town Hall, and applying the Civil Code item. You should apply the Civil Code item as soon as you have cottages to hold the extra 100 people you will get. Do this as soon as possible. Maximize food production so that you can use the population raising button often.
Increasing number of resource fields
You add to the number of resource fields by increasing the Town Hall level. There is a quest for this. Do NOT increase the Town Hall level greater than 4 until the 7 days of protection has expired. AFTER you have filled up all the resource fields with resource producing buildings, then start increasing the town hall level. Increasing the town hall takes a lot of time, so use items to reduce the construction time.
As soon as you have increased the town hall level, new resource fields will appear. Build an equal number of farm, sawmill, quarry, and iron mine on the new resource fields.
Make upgrading the Town Hall level a priority because you also get additional valleys, and this dictates the level you can upgrade certain building types to.
Conquering Flat to build city
Steps to follow.
1. Build a level 5 Farm.
2. Build a rally point.
3. Build a barracks.
4. Research Informatics to level 3.
5. Recruit 20 scouts
6. Scout a nearby level 1 flat.
7. Unpack all the chests. There will be items that give you army units, apply these items.
8. Recruit enough workers so that you have 250 workers.
9. Recruit whatever other army units you need so that your army is 3 times the size of the army uncovered by the scouts.
10. Attack the flat, do NOT send the scouts or the workers in the attacking force.
Conquering valleys
Before attacking a valley ALWAYS scout it first. Recruit a hero with a high intelligence rating and use this hero for scouting. You will need 3 heroes for 1 city and 1 hero each for every city after that. 1 hero is the castellan (per city), 1 hero is for attacking, and 1 hero is for scouting. Different attributes are better for each of these things, so you want to recruit accordingly. You will also need to upgrade the rally point to level 2.
While the scouting party is returning from the scouting mission, attack with a large enough army that you outnumber the opponent 3 to 1, this will ensure low casualties.
When you unpack the chests there are items you can apply to obtain soldiers. There are also quests for recruiting soldiers. When you unpack the chests and apply the items and complete the quests you should have an army that can defeat most level 1 valleys which are not controlled by another Lord. Try to only conquer valleys that are NOT controlled by another lord.
Determine what resources you want to add a production bonus to and find level 1 valleys nearby and atttack them. AFter the attack is over you have to tell the army to return, otherwise they will just camp at the valley.
After you have all the level 1 valleys that your town hall can support, upgrade the town hall, now you can attack another valley. Keep upgrading the town hall until you have a level 4 town hall. Conquer as many level 1 valleys as the town hall at level 4 will support.
Now recruit 20 more scouts. Scout a level 2 valley. Research archers and recruit 20-30 archers, depending on what army you will be facing in the level 2 valley you just scouted.
Recruit an army so that it is 3 times larger than the army in the level 2 valley.
Abandon one of your level 1 valleys and attack the level 2 valley. Do this for each of your level 1 valleys.
Now you are ready to move to level 3 valleys. After that go up to level 4. Keep increasing the number of scouts
