Level 10 Palace City Layout

Requirements:
- High construction speed
- Food storage, some wood and stone storage
- Castle (required for enlightenment)
- Moonglow Tower for purification of excess resources
- Basic defense
- External defense
- Nearby hub
- High score and short distance for increased chance of enlightenment


Building Strategies and Procedure

1. Build around shrines and take up as many spots around them.  This ensures that you have control of the shrine and takes up spots so that other alliances cannot take them.  Take the closest landlocked spot to the shrine and designate it as your alliance's level 10 palace.  Unless your alliance has control of the water, it's usually not recommended to build your palace on water.
2. Build a regular resource city with a Cityguard House.  Recruit your City Guards in that city.  Build walls and 2 Scout Towers and 22 Ballista Towers, or other defense towers of your choice.
3. As soon as the shrine becomes activated, build a castle.  Make sure you have external defenses nearby.
4. When your castle is enlightened and resources are shipped in with "Palace Delivery," build the palace. As you upgrade the palace, convert resource buildings to cottages for increased construction speed.  See chart below:
5. You should also have hubs nearby (see System of Hubs for Palace Donation).  A lot of defenses should also be somewhat close.
6. There should be plenty of other castles around the shrine to build up faith.  A level 9 palace only contributes 16% faith.  Your alliance needs a minimum of 96% faith to build a lvl 10 palace.  So 80% of faith must come from somewhere else.  Building a whole bunch of low level palaces is a lot easier than building a few higher level palaces.  Just make sure you "Lock The Palace" at a certain level to prevent it from getting enlightened again.  You want to focus on the lvl 10 palace and get it to enlighten as often as possible.

                       Palace Level   -  Recommended Min CS  -  Time

                       --------------------------------------------------

                       1                        400%                              2.5days

                       2                        2000%                            3 days

                       3                        2500%                            3 days 

                       4                        2500%                            4 days

                       5                        3700%                            4 days

                       6                        4400%                            5 days

                       7                        6000%                            5 days

                       8                        7500%                            6 days

                       9                        10000%                          6 days

                       10                      10000%                          9 days

Construction speed can be accomplished by cottages, shovels, research, or faith bonus.  Thus it is possible to get over 10k CS.  You may also use Medallions to fast forward construction.

Example of a level 10 Palace Layout

How to Build a Kick-ass Berserker Castle

Berserker is your most basic type of unit in the game.  They're my favorite because they're fast to recruit, cheap to make, good for raiding and is generally pretty good offensive troops.  My berserker castle below.

• Layout: http://bit.ly/p15NvV
• Max Troop Cap: 300K Bersekers
• Recruitment Time:  3sec/zerk
• Storage: 775k wood/stone 1.9mil iron/food
• Purification/shipping capabilities
• Requires: ministers, 75k food/hr

How to Build

1. Copy the full link (not the short URL) to the layout of this castle and overlay it on your city.  You'll need LoU Tweaks.
2. Set trade minister with resource targets at: 200k wood, 220k stone, 1mil iron, 1mil food. Request missing resource from nearby hub.  Surplus goes back to hub
3. Set building mister to auto upgrade, except for cottages
4. Set target army at 300k berserkers, auto upgrade walls and towers
5. Upgrade townhall to lvl 4.
6. Build 40 temp cottages and upgrade to lvl 6 or 7, depending on how fast you want to build the castle
7. Upgrade townhall and add permanent buildings, as shown in the layout.   Make sure you build storage, marketplace, moonglow tower some time early on.  Don't build a castle yet
8. Upgrade walls and towers to lvl 10.  
9. When all existing permanent buildings are at level 10, delete 8 cottages and add 8 permanent buildings
10. Build a castle and upgrade all building to 10

Of Note:

• Don't build a castle until you have enough resources to build it and enough food to support it
• This castle requires that you have ministers.  If you don't have minister, add food in the castle.
• Require 75kfood/hr.  I'll show you how to make a food city in a later post
• This castle should be landlocked (not on water)
• You should also have adequate defenses in case it's attacked.  Unless you're on a secure continent.

System of Hubs for Palace Donation

You do not need this until later in the game, when donation to palaces is the focus.  It's most useful when donating to places lvl 4 or more.  Each city can ship out 16 million in resource in 1 shipment.  If you have 10 cities, that's 160 million resources!  You can fill a level 1-3 palace in 1 wave!!!

You need at least 2 cities, but you may want to build as many as 10 or more.  Build these cities as close together as you can to cut down shipping time.

City 1: See Palace Hub
When use in the system of hubs, this city should not be used to send resources to palaces manually.  Carts should be available to fill cities 2-10.

City 2-10: Shipping http://bit.ly/oXElhX
Set wood/stone level at 8 million each.  With 16,600 carts, you can ship out all 16 million in 1 shipment.  This city can be on water or landlocked.

Palace Hubs

Continental or Palace Hub - Ideal for shipping resources to palaces.  

• Layout: http://bit.ly/nun8Tk
• Storage: 40 million wood, 40 million stone, 7 million iron, 7 million food
• Carts: 6200
• If use as a palace hub, this should be built close to a shrine.
• Should be on water to receive intercontinental shipments
• All cities in the region should ship surplus resources here

Other Hub Layouts - You can build fewer of storage and more carts/ships as you need.  I also like to add a barrack and a trinsic temple to send barons to new continents.

• http://bit.ly/T6DY8D

• http://bit.ly/T9kksA

System of Palace Hubs

As the game progresses, you'll need more and more and more storage and shipment to palaces.  I will show you how to create a system of hubs, consisting of 2, 6, or 8 hubs in a later entry.

First 7 Days Tutorial

Do this anytime you get a chance:

• Join an alliance - there are plenty of alliances looking for members, just type "looking for an alliance" in general chat and someone will probably respond to you.  If that fails, email the recruiter of an alliance you find on ranking.  You may want to join the training alliance of an established alliance on your continent.  They will probably provide you with better protection, guides, and leadership.
• Read everything on LoU wiki.  Knowledge is power.  Read up!

Day 1

• Finish the tutorial
• Plan the layout for your first city (see previous post First City Layout) 
• Upgrade your town hall to lvl 4
• Build a warehouse
• Build 39 buildings woodcutter huts/quarries in the best locations (locations that would produce the most resources.)  You can see the production of that building by hovering over it on the autoplanner 2)
• Upgrade all buildings to as high as you can.  Upgrade all the level 2 before you upgrade any to level 3. If you have LoU tweak installed, just type the letter "l" and your lowest building will be added to the building queue.  [Don't hit it too fast or LoU will lock you out.  If you get locked out, try loging out, disable LoU tweaks, restart browser, log back in and enable LoU tweaks.]
• Optional: you may ask for resources from alliance members and upgrade your town hall to lvl 5

Day 2

• Upgrade your town hall to level 5
• Build 10 more buildings of woodcutter huts/quarries in the best locations
• Upgrade all buildings to as high as you can, but save enough resource to build town hall to lvl 6
• Upgrade your town hall to level 6
• Build 10 more buildings of woodcutter huts/quarries and keep on upgrading
• Try to get 3k/hr wood and 2k/hr stone production by end of day

Day 3

• Upgrade all buildings to has high as you can, save for TH lvl 7
• Upgrade your town hall to level 7
• Build 10 more resource buildings/cottages in the best locations.  Notice that you will start building other types of resources food/iron and cottages now.
• Upgrade all buildings
• Try to get 6k/hr wood 4k/hr stone and 200% construction speed

Day 4

• Upgrade all buildings to has high as you can, save for TH lvl 8
• Upgrade your town hall to level 8
• Build 2 marketplaces
• Build 8 more resource buildings/cottages in the best locations.  This will include some sawmills and stonemasons and townhouses
• Upgrade all buildings
• Try to get 12k/hr wood, 8k/hr stone, 2k/hr iron, 2k/hr food, 1k/hr gold and over 500% construction speed by end of day.
• If you have extra resources, you can sell them on the marketplace to get extra gold

Day 5

• Upgrade all buildings, save enough for lvl 9
• Upgrade your town hall to level 9
• Build 10 more resource buildings/cottages in the best locations.
• Try to get 15k/hr wood, 12k/hr stone, 4k/hr iron, 3k/hr food, 4k/hr gold and over 1000% construction speed
• If you have extra resources, you can sell them on the marketplace to get extra gold

Day 6

• Upgrade your town hall to level 10
• Build a trinsic temple, a moonglow tower and a barrack
• focus on upgrading trinsic temple and moonglow tower to lvl10.  Upgrade your marketplaces so you have at least 250 carts.
• Save up to have at least 100k wood, 100k stone, 75k iron, 25k food, and 100k gold
• Recruit a baron (50k iron 100k gold)

Day 7

• Look for a space close to your current city on the regional map.  Optimize for spaces with lots of surrounding forests or hills.  You get more wood if the city is next to forest, more stone if it's next to hills.  It should be less than 1 hr away from your current city by cart.  The closer it is to your current city, the better.
• Send out your baron to found the new city.

Congratulations!  You've found a new city.  Now you can use the autoplanner to build another city.  This city won't have the trinsic temple or a barrack, but still has the moonglow tower and 1 or 2 marketplaces.  Aim for over 80k/hr resource production.

What you DON'T need to build:

If you're in an alliance that doesn't make an enemy out of themselves, you don't need to build hideouts, cityguards, any traps, towers, walls, or any military buildings.  Don't build a castle until you have at least 10 cities.  If someone plunders you, just purify all your resources so they don't get anything.  

Intro

About me...

I've been playing Lord of Ultima (LoU) for about 7 months. My main empire is in World 20. I also have a secondary empire in World 25 to feed my addiction when World 20 is down for maintenance. If you want to play with me, this is my referral link.

Why should you listen to what I have to say?

As of today, I am Emperor Sleepmonster in World 20 with 338 cities. Below are

some of my stats

• score: 3,101,994
• 224 non-castled cities, 102 castles, 12 palaces
• passive income: Wood/Stone/Iron/Food/Gold 4.2/3.6/3/-1/1.1 million/hr
• raid income: 36million/hr
• military: 20 million offensive TS (troop strength), 9 million defensive TS, 1.6 million UD (units defeated), 22 billion resource plundered

What I write on this blog is drawn from my own or my alliance member's experiences. If you have any questions, just ask.