Everyone gets the basics of the game build your buildings, research your Science, train your troops. These three things should be constantly going non stop. In fact in my opinion if you spend on anything in early game it should be a second builder to be able to have multiple buildings going at once. The other thing you should highly concentrate on is Growth Missions. These missions provide the best rewards in the game for completing and help you to level up your chief very fast. It is my opinion that you follow these missions as much as you can until you get your chief leveled up enough to get Rapid Development which is a massive game changer when it comes to building and research. In order to get rapid development you need to be chief level 27 in order to activate this skill (it is in economy talent tree). Once you have gotten to this point you will want to do building upgrades and research upgrades at same time. I try and time mine so that both end within a few minutes of each other and if possible that both builders and research end together. (remember Rapid Development can only be used once every 24hrs). The way i always do my upgrades is use a settlement buff on research and construction (or whichever I am upgrading) and then hit rapid development which give me 5 minutes of massive discounts on research and building times. This should also be used in this same way if your planning on speeding through some researches or buildings as you will use less speeds then without. I personally always use the 4hr settlement buff reduction because its 15% reduction instead of the 2hr one that is 10% however it costs a lot more. The amount of time you will save by ensuring you use Rapid Development on every major upgrade is huge so big that if you forget to use it it is worth canceling the upgrade and doing it again with rapid development (unless its been a day or more).
As for Research in the beginning most people always ignore econ, and Development, and go straight to battle research as this is a war game and battle makes you stronger. However me I prefer to concentrate on Development as the tech, construction, and training researches are all in there and these are the most beneficial to people in early and mid game and still has lots of benefit it late game. Once I get to where research in development is taking a decent amount of time i will switch over and do battle research and even some econ but i always end up back at development until later in the game. One of the most important things to do and most overlooked is your research tasks (in same area as daily rewards and missions) these offer reduced times on research i have been able to get many free econ researches by completing these every time they are active. In the end research is a preference thing I can only share what I believe works bests to help you level the fastest.
Some of the other items that are important in initial game is the explorer missions which will provide a lot of great resources. Me personally i do a few a day only to help me get my daily rewards or biker carnival rewards (which I will post about later) as i want these to do double duty get me rewards for completing and also help complete challenges needed for other rewards. I am a big fan of having everything do double duty. (which i will also explain in another post) Troop training is vital and should never stop especially in early stages always make the best troop you can make and have them cooking constantly.
A few Things to remember in early game that i will expand on later each of these will be a topic of another post but this gives you insight to some basic strategy
Talents- Keep talents in Econ for early stage of game in mid stage you will want to be using talent resets often to switch back and forth between Econ and War talents.
Speedups- though it is tempting to use speedups as soon as you have enought to complete research or buildings I urge you to save every speedup you get and use them all at once during Survival of Fittest or other events.
Hero Searches- Same thing with hero searches especially in early game everyone wants to use them right away and get the additional rewards but I urge you to save them for events.
Alliance- Join an alliance as early as you can the help you get from alliance members can’t be understated it is incredibly valuable. Also donate as often as you physically can earn up those alliance credits. If you have a say push for alliances to research alliance members and alliance helps as these are both very beneficial to you as an individual more people means more people to help you because more on at a time.
Fighting- I know this is a war game but fighting at low levels only hinders everyone’s progress. However sometimes you need resources and the best way of getting a lot quickly is to attack other bases. However if you are a low level there should be plenty of inactive accounts near by that you can raid for resources with little or no risk to you or your troops.
Spending- Don’t buy basic packs unless you have no choice save your money for specific goals or specific times I will explain this in much greater detail. the one thing you should buy no matter what if your planning on spending money is a second builder.
Please as always if you have any questions or i didn’t answer something or if i have something wrong let me know.
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