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[Ahra]

sorry but can you invite me to the alliance? Ingame is Ahran. (-357|-211)

[Mysteriousbluepuppet]

Bumping to get more new blood !

Gwt in here folks, dev reduced starting time, and with you guild allies you will grow up in a rather exponential manner !

Navalities will arrive soon-ish, and ( i hope) trade v2 and factions AI. Its pretty much the best time to be settled before all the big stuff arrives !

[Julius Clonkus]

I'm pretty much interested in joining the Alliance and I'm planning to relocate my city somewhere else. Any suggestions where it should be placed?

Currently:
Name: Julius Clonkus
City: Delernum (335|351)

[GlyphGryph]

Dear god the UI is so much worse than when I left. This game doesn't even WORK on my computer any more.

[Mysteriousbluepuppet]

they are working on it ive heard, and you still have acces to the v1 if needed

[Duuvian]

I can't invite, so you'll want to send a message to Akura, as he is our leader. He's is active, so you should see an invite soon. I also asked him to invite you two in the alliance chat, but a message wouldn't hurt.

I'm pretty much interested in joining the Alliance and I'm planning to relocate my city somewhere else. Any suggestions where it should be placed?

Currently:
Name: Julius Clonkus
City: Delernum (335|351)

-675    |    -902 would not be a bad choice. It's on a jungle square, is close to an MBP city, is close to the coast so you can settle a second city there for an eventual port when they add boats, and is next to some various pretty good sov squares. I recommend the jungle square as it's the highest food square you can settle on this island, and I recently read a thread that in Illyriad forums that showed that in the very long run having squares with more food will allow you to support a larger population city and thus have more tax income, which allows a larger army.

Alternately, you could choose squares that are bordered by as many +3% bonus to production of the same type. 3 or 4 of the same type bordering a square is pretty common on the island luckily, usually they are chainmail, sword, or platemail production which are all good. Base sov is 5% for those, so the extra 3% will allow another 15% at level 5. Sov is pretty expensive though, so it would be a while before it's useful.

[Julius Clonkus]

Looks like a good enough spot but as long as I'm not a part of the Slaves to Armok I can't move there.

Nevermind. I skipped a line while reading. DAMN MY EYES FOR GOING TOO FAST WHEN READING!

[GlyphGryph]

they are working on it ive heard, and you still have acces to the v1 if needed

They've changed v1 in some way too, because that's ALSO not working for me any more. :/

[Akura]

I can't invite, so you'll want to send a message to Akura, as he is our leader. He's is active, so you should see an invite soon.

Semi-active, mostly. I'm not really paying too much attention to what's going on around me, but I do check in almost daily. Invites are sent.

[Rex_Nex]

Very interested, but I don't think I can break away from the Lacuna Expanse, especially with Bay 12 being there too. Still, if I do change browser games, expect to see me on this :3

Posting to watch.

[Bouchart]

I just stared last night and am still learning.  Named Bouchart in game.

[Duuvian]

Cool, I'll ask for an invite in alliance chat in case Akura reads that first, Bouchart. If you'd like some advice, feel free to message duuvian in Illyriad. Also I'll send out some resources to help the new people get started.

[Mysteriousbluepuppet]

Upping it up a bit, too much ressources, not enough new blood

[Duuvian]

Illyriad joke:

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[08:08] <Stormlord>Yay, I just sent 500 footpads to the Kingdom of Sunshine
[08:09] <Stormlord>I'm pretty sure it's an inactive player, but hey, collateral damage
[08:09] <Stormlord>The war on animals must be funded by any means

from this at bottom:

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[06:27] <Stormlord>Damn, it appears the market has FINALLY caught on to the fact that 1 food = 4gold
[06:35] <Stormlord>I'd imagine speculators and consumers would purchase food if you happen to have an excess to offer on the market at cheaper than 4 gold
[06:42] <Stormlord>I'm putting up buy offers for 1-1 ratio for food if under 100k and 1r-1.2g if over 100k. Feel free to beat me on those prices, since as of this message it will be possible to get both the high bid for but AND sell for just under 4 gold
[06:42] <Stormlord>but = buy in that paragraph
[06:46] <Stormlord>Also, when I say feel free to beat me, I mean that honestly, that's why I gave you what I'm charging to make a potential profit, there should be enough for everybody in StA that way
[06:48] <Stormlord>Basically what up is that sellers are charging 4 gold and no one is buying, so sellers can either set up a higher price or be lazy and hit the highest button if reasonable for an instant deal
[06:48] <Stormlord>when they are buying their supply I mean
[06:50] <Stormlord>I think I mixed up the second sellers in the message before last, meant buyers; damn the lack of an edit feature
[06:50] <Stormlord>it will get you new people at some point, I guarentee
[06:51] <Stormlord>remember that what you write here is set in freaking stone hehe
[06:53] <Stormlord>at least until you spam a bunch of stuff to make it page up faster
[06:54] <Stormlord>Hehe, it happens at some point with every wave of people due to the way Illyriad alliance chat works and it always annoys the heck out of that person
[07:02] <Stormlord>Anyways though, if you are low on food you can buy any amount you require through the marketplace with the gold someone probably has sent you by now
[07:03] <Stormlord>Same with the other resources
[07:04] <Stormlord>http://forum.illyriad.co.uk/marketplace-use_topic1476.html explains it pretty well
[07:09] <Stormlord>It's because right now there are no buy orders up except for stupidly low ones
[07:11] <Stormlord>the kind that are just people hoping someone clicks on it too fast since caravans are irreversable
[07:13] <Stormlord>Right now I'm leading buy offers at 1.2 gold per food. The cheapest is one 30k 1-1 offer and the rest are 4gold for 1 food
[07:13] <Stormlord>er thats for sellers
[07:13] <Stormlord>Actually I bought the 1-1 so forget that one
[07:18] <Stormlord>So after you bought food or if you have it already, sell it for around 3 gold or at least under the 4 that it's currently orth, and you'll have made money
[07:20] <Stormlord>That's if you want to that is, I'm not asking you to if you don't want to, just trying to show an example of how the market is pretty fun to play in this game for the new people
[07:22] <Stormlord>The funny thing is I did this exact thing the last time around when prices started to inflate, and it lowered prices for a good period
[07:22] <Stormlord>which let me take advante of the fact that taxes produce 4x population gold
[07:23] <Stormlord>so you can make 4x as much than any other resource, thus each other resource is worth 4 or slightly less more likely but 4 is good enough for me
[07:24] <Stormlord>so basically I'm several million gold in the plus and never stopped building as I was constantly importing food and resources way cheap to fuel 100% taxes
[07:25] <Stormlord><evil genius laugh>
[07:33] <Stormlord>This only happened once before though, this would be the second Illyriad economic cycle
[07:33] <Stormlord>since the economy was monetized
[07:34] <Stormlord>when it first came out gold was only used for upkeep and to see how much you can get
[07:35] <Stormlord>trades were clay for stone or wood for food, or swords and food for stone and horses
[07:36] <Stormlord>any combination, which sounds better, but I like this system more as money has dual purpose now
[07:44] <Stormlord>anyways though, I guess I can't guarentee it would will wrok the same way, but I thought it was funny the last time so I'd try again
[07:45] <Stormlord>plus if it didn't happen it breaks the market
[07:57] <Stormlord>Also the competition isn't fierce and if you set up trades one day they usually will be done the next day or the day after at the latest
[07:58] <Stormlord>meanwhile if you log off with the best offer 90% of the time it will be sold by the next day
[08:08] <Stormlord>Yay, I just sent 500 footpads to the Kingdon of Sunshine
[08:09] <Stormlord>I'm pretty sure it's an inactive player, but hey, collateral damage
[08:09] <Stormlord>The war on animals must be funded by any means

[Duuvian]

[09:03]<GM Stormcrow> @Stormlord - no, thank you for writing it. Your Bay12 forum thread on Illyriad is a very useful source for us, as it's a public window into what players are advising each other to do/consider/weigh-up/prioritise; which is very, very useful for us in guaging whether our changes and releases are having the intended effects. So thanks to you all.