What's Ikariam?
Ikariam is an online real-time strategy game where you have to manage your resources to extend your imperium from a small settlement in a forsaken island to a complex network of cities and colonies. Its theme is based around the Mediterranean coast that saw many civilizations come and go, trade and fight. These would cross the sea to meet other cultures, sometimes with trading purposes, other with more aggressive intentions. Keeping this very spirit, Ikariam is bases around two concepts: trade and fight your neighbors to get the desires and rare resources that your cities need to keep expanding.
Ikariam World News
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Ikariam Defend Your Towns Guide
In Ikariam having a strong defense is vital if you dont want to become a farmed player. Even if you have just started playing Ikariam and you find yourself surrounded of old players with big armies, if you follow this Ikariam defense guide, perhaps you wont defeat them in an open battle, but you will get something more valuable: be no one objetive. The best way not to loose a battle is avoiding it! This guide will show you techniques to help you get in a position such that your enemy will use more resources attacking you than what he would loot back in return, thrus, rendering his attack counter productive. This defense technique is what you need to mimic in your cities to avoid beeing the focus of some big fish out there.
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New Version: v0.2.4!
A new version of Ikariam has roll out addressing some of the long standing bug and more issues that players have been concerned with, here is the list of whats new:
- Feature: error message for alliance foundation added
- Feature: city added to alliance message
- Bugfix: lost ships
- Bugfix: added missing translations
- Bugfix: status index while building a museum was always complete
- Bugfix: citizens were not refunded in case of a canceled colonization
- Bugfix: inventors upgrades were not shown correctly during upgrading
- Bugfix: player search at the highscore always showed the same results
- Bugfix: TXT_ERROR_NO_SAFEHOUSE
- Bugfix: space characters were automatically removed
- Bugfix: wrong error message for registration errors
- Bugfix: error messages were hidden by graphics
- Bugfix: harbour blocking/ploundering slider did not work
- Bugfix: research advisor point index corrected
- Bugfix: players are not attackable during vacation mode
- Bugfix: "next page"-arrow for the research advisor did not work
- Bugfix: link to the research advisor added
- Bugfix: city wall did not show failed attacks correctly
- Bugfix: sort deserting units per ID
- Bugfix: wrong rounding for overall attack and defense at the battle reports
- Bugfix: improved link structure to military/battle reports to military advisor/battle reports
- Bugfix: construction queue help button did not work
- Bugfix: breaking the blockade with one ship was possible
- Bugfix: improved time index for mission end
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Ikariam V0.2 - what's new
The new Ikariam v0.2 has just rolled out on the German and English servers and with it a load of new features and changes. The new version Ikariam v0.2 brings a Town Hall View, Action Points, Corruption, Piracy, a complete restructuration of resource system, noob protection system, local tribes as a tutorial to learn the basics of Ikariam warfare and a more. All of this shows that Ikariam may be in a very early development stage but it's growing quickly and strong. There is a lot of Ikariam yet to come and we will keep you well informed here in IkariamTipS.com.
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Introducing Ikariam Premium
Ikariam Premium players will be able to order new features via the new inter-currency "Ambrosia" (like Dark Matter or Rubies in other GameForge Games). By buying Ikariam Ambrosia you may order the premium features that will show up as 4 different "Ikariam Advisors". Quick and easy list of Ikariam Advisors:
- 20% more Advisor for each Luxury Good : there is one premium feature for 20% more marble, one for 20% more crystal glass, one for 20% more wine and one for 20% more sulphur, and you can choose between them... so you have to buy all to receive 20% more of all
- 5% more Building Materials Advisor : if you buy all Advisor´s you receive 20% more building material
- Empire View : list how many troops / which building levels etc. in every city/town
- Merchant
: what is it and how to use it? You call e.g. a merchant who buy´s
crystal glass (with x Ambrosia) and trade it into something else. So
e.g. 1k crystal glass into 2k building material or 1k crystal glass
into 1k marble. After the successful trade the merchant disappears and
you have to order a new one for your next trading. Details for the
merchant trade ratios:
- luxury goods (crystal glass, marble, sulphur, wine) : luxury goods = 1:1
- luxury goods : building material = 1:2
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New Ikariam Version 0.1.8
This new Ikariam version has brought its share of bug-fixes and nice features, some of them are:
- Feature: The smiley face inside the Town Hall now tells you hints of why your people might be unhappy
- Bug: no longer you can trade art works without having an empty slot in your Museum.
- Bug: The troops-duplicating bug has been fixed.
- Feature: Now you can check your colonies from their own island, just by clicking them
- New: Server time is now displayed
- Bug: No longer will ships get lost while carring goods to your colonie and finding the port is block.
- Bug: Fixed a bug with the email system.
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Ikariam Test Server
A tets server has been open to test the latest features. The official languages is english. Access is limited to 500 players from any country. The address is: http://test.ikariam.org
Firstly, action points, a controversial issue. They limit the amount of movement you can have from and to a given city. Trading, attacking and blocking ports all count as "using" one action point which will be set free once the event finishes. As you Town Hall goes up, you get more Action Points in that city,they are not shared. You start with 2 AP and gain an extra 1 for every 5 leves of Town Hall upgrades.Corruption will make new colonies less eficient, specially at the beging. To counter-effect the corruption we will use a new building avaiable only to colonies: the Governors House.
With the new piracy system we can send troops to go out hunting other cities trade ships and looting them. To secure your own cargo ships, you will be able to protect your ships with troops while they carry resources. Trading Schips that arrive at a port suffering a blokade will have a chace of dropping their load into the sea instead of going always to the owner of the ships dping the blokade.The Resource System will be completely reestructurated to balance the game. Sulphur will be made more important and the initial advantage of Marble cities will be removed. Also, there will be longer gathering resources phases combined with shorter building times.
The Barbarians villages will be controlled by an AI and they will server as target for new players to try their battling skills. (Much like a tutorial system but with the added benefit of giving resources). From all of those new features, only the new Town Hallv0.2 view has been implemented, the rest is pending.