Ikariam - war and strategy game in Facebook

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Many times the browser games use Facebook to get more players. One of those games is called Ikariam, which puts players in the world of ancient Greece with the task of building an empire encouraged by the war and strategy.

In this world you must manage multiple resources for success, including soldiers, workers, research, space, and so on. With this in mind, the game is very slow because it takes hours to produce anything, except for some of the earlier buildings.

The veterans of this type of strategy games, and Kingdoms of Camelot, Verdonia, or City of Wonder, will be more familiar with this game. You have to build buildings in particular parcels of land to get some benefit. Is the typical mindset of strategy games, where you build a structure (for example, an academy) to unlock different items in the technology tree. Unfortunately, this tree is very difficult to see.

The only difference between Ikariam and other style games is that there are structures which resources have to worry at first. Instead, you can access the map of the island where you are and send workers to the various resources, such as a mine or a mill glass.

ikariam on Facebook

In order to obtain these resources, you assign a fixed amount of your population to work there. The more work, more hard currency, but also produce more of the resource per hour.

Although the main application, which is used to build all the buildings, it seems the wood and is in all the islands. The secondary resource varies from one island to another. This is part of Ikariam social element where users must trade through the ports, colonize nearby areas, or simply declare war on everyone.

Whatever your choice, has a painfully slow pace of play, and it takes a long time. In fact, this is a curious choice made by the creators of the game. Generally, new players are given a decent and respectable city from the beginning, but Ikariam, during the first instructions of this tutorial, offers resources and can not do anything. This forces you to finish the tutorial to start playing. This is typical of many games.

Despite the slowness, Ikariam other features are noteworthy. The apparent ability to engage users and forming alliances with other players. There is also a well-constructed classification system, and a forum called "Agora" where your posts are seen by other players on the same island.

There is also an interesting way of defense in the form of a statue of a Greek god on each island. Although you must protect yourself from the beginning, it seems that you can give as an offering some resources (wine, marble quarries, etc) so that helps a little statue in protecting 10-100% of scaring the enemy troops.

Finally, players will have to defend themselves, manage the population with housing, and improve the buildings. In addition, you have to continually investigate new technologies to move forward. It is an enormous amount of things you can do in Ikariam.