Post by AKC_pico on Apr 11, 2007 22:55:29 GMT -5
Your first Town Center
pico
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Joined: 15.03.07 Posted on 03-04-2007 15:04
For good players, this may be basic stuff, but I have seen other players for which it is not
If you start at "Stone Age" And you dont have a fixed position you should not just place the Town Center right where you are standing but scout the place first with your villager. This is done by making circles of an increasing radius and avoiding places where you cannot get through (like dense forest). Watch out for wood and food; these resources are the most important ones at the beginning. Forget about gold now, you will not need it for quite a while; stones are not very important either but convenient if you want to wall in later. When you have found resources, walk around that place to determine the best location for the building.
Starting with a Town Center
The most popular way to start a game is at the Stone Age (with a Town Center and three villagers). In this case, you will have to find food soon, because you have only 200 food, just enough for four villagers. The first building is a house, which should be built as soon as possible. However, do not build your houses around the Town Center. You can later use the Town Center as a Granary and build farms around it. Depending on what you find (animals or berry bushes) and on the distance of your first food source to the Town Center, you should build a Granary or a Storage Pit first. Also start chopping wood with one villager (choose the first tree near the Town Center). And in a couple ofminites you should be able to tool dependingon how long you have wiated.
That should get you of to a good start
pico
Super Administrator
Posts: 38
Location: US
Joined: 15.03.07 Posted on 03-04-2007 15:04
For good players, this may be basic stuff, but I have seen other players for which it is not
If you start at "Stone Age" And you dont have a fixed position you should not just place the Town Center right where you are standing but scout the place first with your villager. This is done by making circles of an increasing radius and avoiding places where you cannot get through (like dense forest). Watch out for wood and food; these resources are the most important ones at the beginning. Forget about gold now, you will not need it for quite a while; stones are not very important either but convenient if you want to wall in later. When you have found resources, walk around that place to determine the best location for the building.
Starting with a Town Center
The most popular way to start a game is at the Stone Age (with a Town Center and three villagers). In this case, you will have to find food soon, because you have only 200 food, just enough for four villagers. The first building is a house, which should be built as soon as possible. However, do not build your houses around the Town Center. You can later use the Town Center as a Granary and build farms around it. Depending on what you find (animals or berry bushes) and on the distance of your first food source to the Town Center, you should build a Granary or a Storage Pit first. Also start chopping wood with one villager (choose the first tree near the Town Center). And in a couple ofminites you should be able to tool dependingon how long you have wiated.
That should get you of to a good start