Posts by DooMDr

Keeping the current system unchanged may significantly benefit certain players who know how to take advantage of its mechanics.

Here is how the process of taking advantage of the system:

1. Player A creates a small secondary account (Account little a), declares IP sharing (keeps everything legal), and purchases a large amount of Ambrosia. Some players reportedly even purchase Ambrosia at much cheaper regional prices, such as Turkish pricing.
2. Player B does the same, creating a small secondary account (Account b), declaring IP sharing, and purchasing Ambrosia.
3. Player A moves a city from Account a onto Player B's island(s). Account little a then donates the maximum possible amount of resources via ambroisia donations to the island's mine and forest.
4. Account little a goes to the graveyard and is subsequently brought back. This allows the donation process to be repeated: the account returns, donates again, goes back to the graveyard, and so on.
5. By repeating this cycle, Player A can contribute enormous amounts of resources to Player B's island, potentially raising the mine and forest to levels above 60.
6. Player B then returns the favor, using Account b to repeat the same process on Player A's island.

Want to see evidence of how this works? Check the donation highscores on your server and look at the status of the top donors. You'll find that many are inactive and appear to be heading toward the graveyard. Some later return and resume donating. Tracking these accounts over time can reveal a recurring pattern of inactivity, graveyard transfers, returns, and large donations. While this alone doesn't prove deliberate exploitation, it raises legitimate questions about how the system is being used.

The result is that both players end up with significantly upgraded islands by repeatedly using these mechanics giving them a substantial advantage over players who develop their islands through normal contributions.

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The issue isn't necessarily what individual players are doing, but whether the system itself creates an unfair advantage.

of course he does not have a port

but how does one unit takes 6 month to load ( not talking about travel time, just loading time is taking moer thna 6 months the travel time is about 15 days)

true but how can someone get the loading of one unit and previoulsy one sulfur to take 6 plus months.

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Attack him and take his port. That will abort the loading time and force his ships to launch.

He switched from loading sulfur to loading one spearman over 6 months and 11 days . I attacked (as suggetsed above) the port with 100 fire ships

he had his whole navy on that port

and the fight lasted only two rounds but that did not affect the loading time

A player is blocking my city not allowing me to TP by loading one sulfur on a cargoship and the loading time takes months 6 months 19 days (down from 7 months) what to do?

cest toujours les meme degats?

nonetheless these are informative for us

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Unless you face someone with submarines at level 15+ defence, then all your dreams will be over.

Attack is essential in some cases as well.

As I said to another group, one-shot rockets that die instantly, despite your carriers' attack, are one thing, but facing submarines with strong defence is a completely different story. They won’t go down easily to your carriers, even if your carriers have level 10 damage and 25 def.

You should play the game.

For real, subs are expensive and get melted with 22+ speedy ships and 6 carriers.
Melted.

I did obliterate over 100 Submarines in 5minutes, they die like flies.

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We had a big discussion about subs with some of the top fighters and remember they are defensive and not offensive. With the right amount of proper upgrades They can work very well and especially against waves. It's too complicated to explain it all here but when waved in a big battle they can be very effective.

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what would the proper upgrades be in your opinion?

thnaks in advance

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If i can advice you, go only to upgrade paddle attack. If next paddle attack up requires 50m crystal and you could do other different 10 ups to other ships, ignore them and just go for up paddle attack. If you want to remain competitive in naval combat it doesn't matter about ram or fire ship, you just need to be sure that your opponent lose >= number of balloons than you.

would you give the same advice for land army too?

No

thank you waiting for the update

Is the base damage the same for all three events?

the damage rate in the AA event is a % that changes every milestone but i am under the impression that to interpret I we need the base damage of each unit no? othrewise a 120% spearman dmage will be more than a 110% steam giant. i am trying to find out the base damage of each unit

Forthe medusa event how is the damage of the mortar calculated? mortar is listed in help as having Dagger Damage accuracy :200 and Mortar shell

Damage accuracy :5400 munition

same question for battering ram and for naval units such as rockets ships mortar ships etc...

thamk you this has been very helpful

I have noticed that the workshop cannot be moved and position exchanged with other buildings. I have three each in a city and in all three cities i cannot change the position of the workshop although i can rearrange the position of any buildingin the city

there is enough info to prepare cities and empire for when the update is available

need to make sure you have research points available (may have to delay a research until the new update for example)

Should also plan on freeing up a city slot for a new building

i suspect the new benefit iscity based and not empire based and likelyrequire interaction than once a day

what do you think?

Dear players,

prepare for the wrath (and the love^^) of the gods!

Divine intervention is making its way to Ikariam. The "Gods of Olympus" update will soon be brought to the live servers, bringing a host of new things to do for players and bonuses to factor in your strategy.

Start researching "Mythology" to unlock powerful new gods such as Dionysus, Pan and Hephaestus and more. Each will bestow their own rewards upon your cities in the form of various bonuses.

But beware: if you fail to provide the proper tribute, their generosity and benevolence wanes quickly.

Construct a glorious Shrine of Olympus to provide a place of worship for these deities. Complete new daily tasks to earn their favour. The more favour you offer, the greater the gifts they will return to you!

More details, along with a release date, will be revealed soon. Keep an eye on the heavens, who knows, you might get a glimpse of their arrival?

Your Ikariam Team