Getting Started

Welcome to Earth Empires!

Earth Empires is a persistent browser based country simulation and strategy game. Join over a thousand fellow players in a quest to build the most powerful country in the game, through land exploration, strategic attacking, and carefully planned military deployment.

Read the Rules!

[Game Rules]

Create an Account

To get started, make an account and then create your country; once you've created a country, you can try playing your first turns.

Choose a server

Different Servers offer different benefits to different players. Some with "Teams" or "Clans" and others designed for "Free for All" type play. If you want to join a group of players just make a post in the appropriate forum to get started. Make sure your thread topic states your looking for a alliance.

Primary Server

The [Primary Server] is every man for himself. Here you're on your own to find friends and protect your country!

Team Server

The [Team Server] is a place to play with a few friends to dominate the game. Each "team", "squad" or "clan" is made up of 4 players. If your new and want to play in the team server post in the forum and one of the many great clans will teach you the specific game play found only on the Team Server.

Alliance Server

The [Alliance Server] offers Alliances, Squads and Clans of unlimited size. Here you can play dozens of other team members all ready to teach you advanced tactics of the game. Remember just because they're big doesn't mean they're the best!

Free For All

The [Free For All Server] allows you to run up to 16 simultaneous countries. This will allow you to try multiple strategies at once. This server also has Unlimited Size clans and it is highly recommended to join one.

Express Server

The [Express Server] is for those who like it fast! With the fastest turns of all the other servers this server allows you to try new strategies in days not weeks. This is a great server for beginners because you can mess up your country and start over in a few days.

Tournament Server

The [Tournament Server] pits you against others in a battle for the top country. The server is broken into multiple games, where you must be in the top percentage of finishers to move up the ladder. You may keep your country from set to set, proving you run the best country time and time again.

Now Choose a Strategy

These are the 6 main strategies used in Earth Empires. It is highly recommended you "specialize" in one of these. Rainbow strategies are very ineffective in Earth Empires.

• Industrialist This is one of the easiest and fastest to start with. The purpose of this is to produce military strength.
• Casher This strategy is directed toward cold hard cash. You'll be producing money with this strategy.
• Farmer If you like farmville this will be boring! You'll be producing "bushels" or food with this strategy.
• Oiler Without Oil armies cant move! You'll be producing barrels of oil with this one.
• Techer The "techer" researches and produces any of the 12 technologies available.
• Reseller This will be buying military and reselling it. This is an end game and only recommended for advanced players.
  

All of these strategies are vital to the economy of the game and are all equally viable in making your country grow. The pros and cons of each are detailed in each strategy's section.

Make Friends & Benefit your Country

In Earth Empires, friends come with benefits!

You are allowed to make relations with other countries. You can have Defensive, Offensive, Research, Intelligence, and Trade relations. Each of these will benefit you or your friends. Click the relations link for more details.

Basics in Defence

You MUST defend your country, otherwise you can expect to be attacked frequently by other countries.

• Defensive Defense - Have enough units with defensive attributes to keep others from attacking you. (most common)
• Offensive Defense - Have so many offensive units a player is scared to attack you.
• Tag Defense - If you're in a strong alliance, that can be defense enough! However, if you rely on this and war comes you'll be in a tight situation. (very effective)

Spies

Spies are very important in the game. Their main purpose is to spy on other countries so you can find out their military and economic capacity. Also, special spy operations allow you to steal, destroy, and negatively affect other countries' military, goods, and economy. The strength of your intelligence operations is based on the ratio of spies to land owned, known in-game as "Spies Per Acre Land", or simply, "SPAL". The higher your SPAL, the more likely your operations will succeed, and the less likely other countries will be able to use their spies against you. Spies are very expensive for your country to upkeep.

Sell on the market

Most strategies rely on selling on the market. Each server has different rules for the speed your product gets to the market, so read up on the rules for your server.

Private Market

The Private market is an internal market- these goods are bought/sold within your country. Building Military Bases will alter the prices on this market, and it's key use is in the "Reseller" strategy.

Public Market

The Public Market contains goods that are put up for sale by players. The purchase prices are usually much lower than the prices on the private market. The prices will vary with the current game economy, so keep this in mind when buying and selling. A great resource to watch market trends is [EEStats.com].

Stop the Farming

Getting farmed? Boost your defense, find some defensive allies or join a clan. Sometimes the big guys just pick on the little guys.

Advanced Information

Check out the basic section for details on governments and every topic you'll run into on Earth Empires. Gameplay Basics For a brief introduction, see Earth Empires Introduction.

- The Earth Empires Community