Uhtred

Building your City defenses:

Whether you plan on joining a peaceful or military alliance, every player should build their cities so they can be defended from rogue attacks once your rainbow expires.  This includes building your Mage Tower, researching Seeking Runes, and building T1 Thieves.  Read about these below.

Beginner Recommendations:

Keep an eye on your food level. Do not run in the red!  Never go below +50 for food production.  While T? will send you lots of Wood, Clay, Iron and Stone, you are expected to manage your Food supply, although we will help if you do run low.

Work on all resource plots. Take one of each to lvl 7 and then work on evening the rest out.

Level your storehouse up as it maxes out.  That way you always have reserve to build something along with it.  Ask in T? AC for res to help you build, we’re happy to help you with that.

Level up your Library to at least lvl 11 or 12.  You will then be able to generate a pretty good flow of research, and books can be used to train Diplos and not research.

Level up your Consulate to lvl 9 to build T1 Thieves to help protect your city.  Build 50 T1 Thieves as soon as you can, which will require books and horses (do T? Quests to get these!).  

Level up your Mage Tower to lvl 10 to put in place the Seeking Glyph rune, set to Thieves.  This will protect you against 130 enemy Thieves, which will deter enemy attacks from small players experimenting on neighbors.  You may want to go right to lvl 10 as soon as possible to set Seeking Glyph against 130 Thieves; even Seeking Rune at lvl 6 is fairly easy to overcome by sending 41 T1 Thieves.

These are just beginning recommendations but it will help to secure your city, remember if you include the above into your build plan from the start it will be easier to keep your city safe.   The first line of defense comes from within.