10 Must have Tips

These 10 tips are going to save you a lot of time and get you started on the right foot in Game of Empires!

## 1. Place your depot's wisely

Always gather with your depot's on the highest level plot of land within your alliance territory. Collection speed and resource load increase within your alliance's occupied territory around each Trading Post. The higher level the Trading Post, the better bonuses it provides, and shrines provide the same bonus collection speed and resource load bonuses as their adjacent Villages or Trading Posts.

## 2. Manage your depot's

I'm rank 25 in resource collection on the Sicily server and I've done that by just constructing depot's in a good spot, evenly dispersing my villagers between them, and leave the depot's for 5-8 hours mostly. I invested a bit into my resource collection tech early on, then didn't touch it for a while, and now I've recently dedicated 1 research queue to progressing my resource tech at all times.

If I had more time I could readjust my depot's more often to increase my resource collection rate. Now what I do is choose a good location that is central to a good amount of resources. But if I wanted to maximize my collection speed I would place my depot's differently. I would place them as close to the resources as possible, so the villagers would have the least walking distance. Then as soon as those resources were depleted, and my villagers would begin walking further to reach the next closest resources, I would demolish my depot, and reconstruct it as close as possible to the next resources. It's not necessary, I don't do it, but if you want to maximize your collection speed that's how you do it.

## 3. Purge for Peace

During the Purge for Peace event, you'll have to kill as many barbarians as possible within 5 minutes. The best way to get the most points in this event is to do it in a group. Ideally the R4 or R5 will set times on the calendar so people can easily organize for the event. Or they'll use markers to signal to meet at whatever time at this location for the event. However, some alliances won't do that so schedule a time that works for you and send your buddies some messages to let them know you'll be doing Purge at that time. Maybe they'll have free time then too and you can team up to get way more points.

## 4. Just Train Troops

You can train troops, or you can promote them. Just keep training and don't worry about promoting until it's time to burn a lot of speed ups in a training event. Promoting doesn't use Total Unit Capacity since you're exchanging one lower tier unit for 1 higher tier unit. That means you can save your lower tier units until a training event then speed up a large amount of troops without making an impact on your unit capacity.

Also, you may get the same amount of points for promoting any level unit to Tier 5, as training a fresh Tier 5. That's not confirmed but keep it in mind.

## 5. Save your speed ups

On the very first day of a new account you might use all your speedups so you can get to a decent starting point. Other than that I would recommend you conserve your speed ups and use them wisely. You'll be tempted to use them all during events but you should always have a bank of speeds. You'll need them to keep your account running smoothly and besides that you'll need to have a strategy for spending your speeds.

### When to use Speed ups

1. If you're going to sleep then use speed ups and start new research to eliminate down time. If you sleep for 8 hours but your research ends in 5 hours, speed it then start a research that takes longer than 9 or 10 hours to compensate for the alliance help time.
2. Use them to get the guaranteed rewards in an event. For example in Legion Expansion you get rewarded for reaching 1 million points. After that you can keep going to get extra rewards if you rank highly. You can just get the million points then stop if you want to conserve speed ups.
3. I recommend saving up a huge amount then spend up to 90% of your bank when you see an event that looks very lucrative. Later I will mention those lucrative events here, when I come across them myself.

## 6. The VIP shop has some great deals

I recommend buying the Stamina, the legendary hero proofs, the directed relocates are there if you need them, equipment chests, and more legendary proofs. I'll have to get a higher VIP level to really know for sure but the equipment material may be interesting, the 4h def and atk buffs will be useful probably, as well as the mythic hero badges.

That's everything I recommend for the average player but if you're a whale then this is a good place to dump your extra gold for all kinds of resources.

## 7. Use your frontier camps

Place your frontier camps at Hero Statues, and at your alliance's main Citadel for alliance events. Think of your Hero Challenges as additional research queues. You'll need to complete their challenge, then wait until you can challenge the next stage, and the wait time is longer after each stage. So ideally you'll have all the Hero Statues you have access to on cooldown all at the same time. Then you can easily get your troops to any statue where you have a Frontier Camp in seconds when the next stage is ready.

When the new region opens you will want to move on and leave the old region behind. You'll want to demolish your old Frontier Camps and construct new ones at the new Hero Statues in the new region. So get started on your hero statues as soon as you can on day 1 and keep upgrading your heroes and troops so you can keep beating the highest stages you have access to. If you're too weak to solo it, then try a rally.

## 8. Your farms are a stable source of food

You could put all of your villagers on depot's but then you have nobody to construct a new building and I like to use my farming villagers to complete the villager intel missions. Then when they return to my City I know exactly where they need to return to and their right next to the farm already. Same concept for alliance trading Post construction, I send my farmers so I can quickly and easily get them back to work when they return, instead of having to figure out which depot I should put them on.

Only put standard villagers on your farms since super villagers move speed bonus is put to better use at a depot.

## 9. Join the best alliance you can

Get in the strongest alliance you can because that's where most of the whales are and every time they buy a pack you get an alliance gift. The better the pack they buy, the better alliance gift everyone gets. You'll also get increased resource collection speed and load when you gather in your alliance territory. So if you get in the rank 1 or 2 alliance early on then over time you're going to get a lot of benefit from being there.

Not to mention the more intangible benefits you get such as protection, teamwork, organization (hopefully), and comradery.

## 10. Keep your Academy research going

The Academy increases the tech speed of your other buildings. In my opinion, tech speed is the most important stat in the game. It can save a great deal of time if you maximize tech speed. It's still the early game on my server right now and already the researches take days or even multiple days and with only 10% tech speed I can save 2 and a half hours on a 24 hour research. Well I have 46.5% tech speed and some of my buildings have around 65% and that's saving me an enormous amount of time. Which means I'm powering up at a faster rate than anyone who has less tech speed.

Speaking of maximizing tech speed, don't forget to hunt Shrine Guardians and collect the tech speed buffs every time before you start a new tech.