Editing Ikariam (section)

====Day 4-5====
*In order to expand, you will need:
*4 cargo ships
*9000 gold
*1750-2000 wood. (you need 1250 to expand, but you want to take extra with you)
*Expansion (a seafaring technology)
*A Palace (you cannot build this until you have Expansion)

To get Expansion, the following researches must be bought: Ship maintenance, Deck Weapons, Carpentry, Dry-dock, Wealth, Pulley, and Conservation.
To get more wood, just assign more peons to the woodpile on the island view.

To get more gold, reduce the number of peons cutting wood. If you remove your scientists from your academy you will make a lot more gold, which I recommend after you have researched Expansion.

To build cargo ships, you can buy them from the Trading Port for a cost in gold. 

Once you have all of these things, you are ready to build your colony. Go to diplomacy and send a message to Skub, asking where you should go. The majority of fa/tg/uys are based around the bunch of islands at the co-ordinates65:68 (go to Show World, and put those numbers into the boxes on the left). Your first town should be on an island with wine as its resource, and the first thing you should build is a governor’s residence. After that, it’s up to whatever you want to do. If you go on IRC, some of the higher level fa/tg/uys may be willing to give you extra resources to help quick start you. 

Once you send out your colony, you should assign all of your peons to making gold (i.e. do nothing) or as scientists for more tech. You will eventually be destroying your starting city, so there is little point in upgrading it further. Technology and gold are both global and will not be lost when you abandon your city, so you want to focus on these. You could harvest more wood, and then send it to your new colony after it is built, however the distance will mean it will take a very long time (up to a day to arrive). Additionally, fa/tg/uys will probably give you a lot more wood very quickly when you arrive (or give you methods of acquiring it) which will make whatever you produce in your starting town redundant.

=====Joining The Alliance In-Game=====

In order to officially join the alliance in-game, click on a town controlled by the player Sasquatch. Select send message and select alliance application in the dropdown menu. Just tell him you're a fa/tg/uy and you're in.

This concludes the basics for getting into the alliance.

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