Apr 9th 2011, 1:25:16
hi, first thing's first. You're a month late and that's not working well in your favor as other players will have a bigger, meaner countries than yours. Looking at this, don't worry too much if you're getting attacked a bit :)
Now, about building up countries... You are better off building one (or two at some cases) type of buildings than building all sort of buildings and being self-sufficient.
The easiest strategy to play is a farmer - basically all you build are: Construction Sites, to increase your Building Per Turn, Farms - to produce food bushels, and a little fraction of industrial complexes - to produce spies.
your country currently has 11 Buildings per Turn(BPT), which isn't too good. something like 40 Building per Turn should be what you're aiming for at this stage of set. A good way to improve your country is to start building all farms and increase your BPT at the same time - the easiest way is to alternate building 4 construction sites, and one BPT's worth of farms.
After you produce food, you can sell them on private market(on the purchases menu) for instant profit, or at the public market. Keep in mind that while the food price in public market is usually better than in private market, it'll take a few hours for it to reach the market and sells.
Another way you can improve your country is to buy agriculture tech with your spare money. This way, you can produce more food with the same amount of land. In this game, land is everything. Gaining land is no big deal - keeping it, is a big deal. This is why you need to optimize your gains on a limited amount of land.
If you need more help, I am usually idle in the irc channel #earthempires.. Just click the link "chat now " at the top of the homepage and voila! Else, update your country an I'll give you pointers. Good luck and welcome to the game!
