Grepolis – Basic Beginner Guide to building

Posted by player on Jan 26, 2010 in Grepolis |

Basic Beginner Guide To building by grepolis.net player MichaelRazor

This is a Beginners guide i tried to create and help share some of my knowledge of the game and hope there will be more better guide to help us all make a better gaming experience out of this one.
Enjoy and please help with comments and productive criticism to enable us all to understand better…
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Basic Beginners Guide to building your settlement
okay, this is from my point of view when you start even though i haven’t had much to read in the beginning from wiki but i basically used my previous gaming instinct and so far so good, talking about the building side here.

Beginning your settlement
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you start up with 6 swords and a no clue what to do or what to build but of you have played before similar games you will get the hint of it, but again every game has its requirements for building materials.
here in the beginning you need to focus on
-Wood
-Farm
-Warehouse
-Senate
-silver
-Rock
-Barrack
-Wall

I have placed them in accordance of priority, with some players it will vary but for a beginning that is what you need. Your settlement will require wood heavily in the first stages after that you will need to upgrade your farm to have more settlers to fill in gaps. You will notice that each island has a (+) and (-) for resource bonuses, which you can easily find when you hover your mouse over each resource symbol you will find it there, this indicates what you should expect to get more when farming Neutral villages or (NPC) and also it indicates to you which resource level you should upgrade more than the other.
Right now you need to level up your village to a state where you get least a not too bad income from resources, so this is how your village suggested to look like when you reach;

Up to 500 points
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Wood = level 10
Rock = level 8
Silver = level 9
Farm = level 5
Senate = level 7
Barrack = level 2
City wall = level 1

Farming and Expanding your settlement
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By now you should have a basic income of resources as well as a stage one settlement which upon you will be able to upgrade further and expand more buildings. Now comes the important issue you will face which is (Farming).
Apparently in the beginning you have no clue who to farm and you think you will find barbs and abandoned villas to farm, but here no. Inno games have developed a new approach towards the farming system to attempt and give a more or less realistic War sim game from which you will need to adapt yourself.
Now back to farming, as you see that you have few villas around you that I will call it (Neutral) because they do not belong to anyone and second you can not occupy it, they are there only to be farmed and Trade with when needed also it gives a possible offensive form if the Mood here changes, and that is another subject we will talk about later.

You start with your few swords and in the beginning you need more resources so you have to spend your resources on getting troops so you could do few important things here with troops.
1-maintaining the strength of the farming villas you are farming because the lower the strength the less resources you are likely to get depending on how many troops you send but an average 20 swords will lower the strength by (-4%) every time you attack, also the mood will change which you need to be careful never to attack if it is lower than 50% unless you have good offensive force because the neutral villas will attack back as defence.
2-Obtaining resources to upgrade your buildings further and build nor troops

Once you have gained 20 swords, you have 2 options
1-to split your forces into 2 groups of 10 each one will attack to strength the villa and the second one will attack to obtain resources so you are not wasting time on sending all of them to raise then back again to loot. The bugger part here is that another player might be already looting while you are raising strength so it is a 50:50 chance it happens, but you have to take risks if you need to get higher. or? but of course the more troops the better the percentage you will raise the strength with and also the more loot you will get but beware of the MOOD. keep an eye on it not to drop below a lower level like 50% or you face a greater chance to be attacked by the villagers.
2-Second option is to send your whole force and loot then send again and power up but it is also not always good depending on other players farming with you the same one.
A good hint here is to let your opponent if he is a Noob to loot till it is low and he will eventually loose troops and you have him trapped between he is low on troops and the farm belongs back to you to farm

500 to 600 points settlement
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Wood = level 12
Rock = level 10
Silver = level 12
Farm = level 8
Senate = level 9
Barrack = level 3
City wall = level 2
warehouse = level 5

continue to build troops and farm as much as you can just remember that silver is needed heavily to buy troops.

600 to 700 points settlement
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Wood = level 13
Rock = level 11
Silver = level 13
Farm = level 8
Senate = level 9
Barrack = level 5
City wall = level 2
warehouse = level 5
Academy = level 1

once you reach to that level you will have started to get a hint of the game and how to build and farm effectively but of course this is not all, there will be more to come once you reach 1000 points you will start to encounter more options and research options… but until then this guide should be a good basic to get you starting .

Hope this guide helps a bit and the more i get from this game the more i will share, so far there are loads of questions but we will get the hang of it sooner or later… trial by errors )

One more thing to add… like all war games you will get to choose a path
1-defensive with a mixed starting villa of both defensive and offensive with more def than off
2-offensive with more off than def for those who want blood shed

each of them choices will have a certain approach towards building and upgrades as well as research
whatever you choose it all depends on your position on the island and neighbouring islands
some players will say no wall before this or that before this, well like i said it depends on your position, if you are in the middle of the hot zone then you need to be ready to at least show them that you are not an easy target and if they get once resources from you they will always come back for you and it might cause you sleepless nights
Troops and more Troops is your survival guide )
Happy hunting everyone

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