sanityassassin

Just a question what size of an army should I have to protect myself I've got around 550 bodies at the moment

Winters_Sorrow

It's never enough!
Some of the people on here have literally thousands of warships & men.

It's no exagerration to say that I have over 1,000 fully upgraded spearmen on my isle and I still think someone could wipe me out without half trying

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Sparrahawk

Can any of you inselkampf veterans answer a few questions for me please.

• I've just built the laboratory and researched sail, what does the next level of research do for me and is it worth doing?
• How does the whole market thing work and is it worth using or am i better off just saving the resources that i need?

I think thats it for now.

Winters_Sorrow

Sail level determines firstly what type of ships you can build. You can't built Large warships/merchant ships until about level 7 and you can't build colonisation ships until sail level 10 (and harbour level 20).

Also sail level determines how fast your ships go.

As far as the market goes. It can be useful I suppose but really only lumber and troops get sold regularly and why would you want to sell lumber or troops when you're starting out? Normally you need as much lumber and troops as you can get your hands on.

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Quokka

Cool hadn't looked into the market yet, I take it you need merchant ships to sell but not to buy?

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Sparrahawk

I've been investigating the market Quokka and you need to have ships to deliver payment to the isles you are buying resources off. I decided to buy some stone so picked a good deal and went about sending payment, it turns out that it will take my ships 52 hours to deliver the gold. lol. When my ships get back next week i may get some lumber, assuming the sailors dont die of starvation or go mad from such an extended sea voyage.

Thanks for the info Winters Sorrow, it looks like i may have to invest in some faster sails.

Winters_Sorrow

Gah!
If you need stone, please just ask on here!
Stone is the one resource people always have too much of, hence the very low price it generates.

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Quokka

Ditto that Ill be able to deliver stone soon myself, I was more thinking about selling some excess lumber/stone while my gold is catching up.

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Sparrahawk

Doh!

I think i have gone about this all backwards as i have excess gold but my lumber and stone seems to disappear as quick as i get it.

Quokka

I think it all pretty much balances out, it's all gotta be built . I'm still just trying to max resources and get to Large Warships ASAP.

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Winters_Sorrow

I'll send you some stone/lumber Sparrahawk.
Not sure how much your storehouse holds so it'll only be 2000 of each.
Let me know if you need more.

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Sparrahawk

Thank you Winters Sorrow, that will be plenty.

cornelius

having 8K of wood and 9K of stone avaliable, who wants some? stonethrowers, anyone? pm, reply or send me a message ingame

Marky Lazer

Quokka will get his arsed kicked soon... *Evil grin*

Quokka

What the?

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