Age II Beginners Overview

[japanpimp]

No offense, but having learned the game without the help of any guides and evaluating what I did right and wrong when I found the forum guides and tweaked things, I have to say that I feel sorry for anyone who follows this guide.

It was much more efficient for me to focus on one or two resources when I was a noob. I focused on lumber. Had two cities that did nothing but lumber. I should have done 1 lumber an 1 iron. Point being- I bought all the food I needed from the market with profits I made selling my spare lumber. I quickly had 1 billion gold. Then 2 billion.

Of course, one reason that I grew my gold reserve so fast was that I didn't have to buy food off the market ever again after I made my first NPC farming hit on a level 5 with ballista and transports. I got all the food I needed for myself simply by farming for exp. Yeah, I didn't care about the food at all- just wanted to level my heroes and the food was a bonus.

But yeah, I would advise knowing more about the game before you make a guide japanpimp. I never played Age I. I started with Age II and learned on my own in the beginning. I am glad I didn't have this guide to work with when I was new because I see a lot of holes in it. Resources are the most important thing to set up when you are new as they allow you to grow faster when you set yourself up right. I think you have failed with the concept of resource priority and management.

No offense intended- I'm just giving feedback.

No offense taken my friend. But I have just as much experience as you then. I have been playing Age II since it first went live in April. I only played Age I for 1 month in March. And I have been online almost everyday since April for at least 3 hours on average. I also worked myself up to a top 200 player and top heros on the server all while being colonized. So I think I know a thing or two.
As for your point, it is taken. But you are one of the rare few. I have been running my alliance since April too. And if you have ever run an alliance for months on end you know that most of the new players have no idea about the market, farming or any of the other tactics you used to help you grow fast. You obviously had someone explain things to you along the way. My overview if for players completely new to the game. When you logged in to Evony for the very first time did you know that you get 3 extra resource fields each time you upgrade town hall? New players don't even know simple stuff like that. So how are they supposed to know about creating lumber cities when they barely know what a resource field is?

So my experience is coming from two places:
1. Having to go through it myself as a complete noob to the game in March.
2. Running my alliance since April and dealing with countless new players.