Ikariam Hints

How to get research done a lot quicker!
Step 1. Build a level 2 or higher academy.
Step 2. Enter the academy.
Step 3. Look at the progress of the current research and remember how much time is left.
Step 4. Drag the "assign workers" meter so there is the max. number of scientists.
Step 5. Click confirm
Step 6. Now compare how much time is left to the old time.
Step 7. You can drag the meter back to get more gold again whenever you want but you can also get research whenever you want too!

Players can use any script they want in Ikariam. Don't be afraid to use them everyone else is. There is no way for a GO to catch you using any kind of script unless you tell on yourself they don't have the tools. If they could catch you using scripts then they could also see when someone is being bashed. But they have to rely on screen shots for that because they cant even check old data. This site has a lot of scripts some legal most not http://userscripts.org/scripts/search?q=ikariam

In Ikariam it is illegal to mulit-account with some terms. The rule says
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I. Multi-Accounting
Each player is allowed to control no more then a single account per World (Server).

If two or more accounts are usually, occasionally, or permanently being played from the same network a GameOperator must be notified, without exception. In these cases the accounts will not be able to have fleet contact while on the same connection.
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As you can see the rule indicates that players are allowed to play on the same network as long as they dont have fleet contact. So what you do is when you start a new world

1. Go to the boards and start an oticket telling the GO of that world that you and your Dad, Mom, Brother, Sister, Live in Housekeeper, and pool boy all play on the same connection.

2. Play as normal on all those accounts still following the no fleet contact rule.
3. When ever you get expansion on all your accounts start a new colony on the same island.
4. Use all but 1 account to do nothing more than donate. And buy transports to get score higher than the 1 you plan on keeping. Get your mines/mills up insanely fast. On the account you intend to get really big build nothing but Warehouse levels in all of your towns (18's if possible).
5. Go to your friends house that doesn't play log into all of the accounts and send all those accounts stuff to the one you want to get big and now has huge warehouses that can hold tons of stuff. As long as the account doesnt have a higher score than the rest your golden.

Instead of loosing all of your resources you save half when you know your getting attack and your military advisor is red send all of your resources to one of your own towns and the ships will get mixed of in a sea battle away from your town by the attacker they only get half of the resources on bored and your ships and resources come back

If you have a spy in a town Did you know that you can see the town And if you keep that spy in that town forever you always can see inside and the person will never know and the spy cant get caught and missions just allow you to look inside the buildings. That's even better

A really amazing bug!!!!

okay, lets say there are only 1000 resources in your city...city A....500 of the 1000 are protected by the warehouse....all goods you have are in the warehouse. if you are first level warehouse and you only have a max of 500 per each resource before you cant take any more, well, you can't put 500 in the traders, and still have more besides that....

so, you have all your resources in the traders, and half of all your resources are protected by the warehouse protection....

when someone invades, they walk away with what isnt protected....but, after they load and leave, if you check your traders, all your resources will still be there. so basically, the game creates new resources to give to the would be pillager...and leaves you with what you had.

this can be used in two main ways.....

1) because having all your resources protected by the traders, you don't have to protect your towns....you could, for a time, have all your mines and mills at 0 workers, you could make crazy $ really quickly, and then you could just buy a ton of trade ships....and you don't loose any resources in doing so...except wine....because you need to constantly use wine....so it is good to have PLENTY of wine before doing this....you can keep the wine in the traders and just leave 50 or 100 out for each city at a time...

so, it's a quick way to put all your energy into making gold with no risk....a good thing to do here would be to fire alot of your army, and just let your cities do there work...i bet you could get 10 trade ships within a few hours if you did this....

another thing would be, if your resources are safe in your cities if they are in the traders, put your resources in the traders in all but one city...then, your main city, the one you want to build up levels with, you put all your troops and armies and ships....then, from there, you pillage everyone around you, building up resources...once you are satisfied with your level of town house, or governors residence, or of your palace or whatever, you simply put your remaining resources in the traders, and then send your army to the next city to do their work there...

by doing this, you could probably build 3 or 4 levels of the palace up in one sitting....get a bunch of cargo ships while youre doing it, and then go and setlle places, sending your army in, and settling them one by one....building up GR right away...to get out of coruption. or at least to 25% or less...then, move onto the next city.

so that is one strategy you could employ with this secret.

and another one~!

2) you can find someone who is willing to be a co-conspirator. what you do is this: you put all your resources into traders, and same with them. then, when the time is right, at the same time, you both send all of each others fleets into the other to pillage....now, what happens? you both pillage, and gain the resources that the game creates from the bug. so if you both have 10 000 reources, and 1000 are protected, you each walk away with 9000 new resources that get created out of thin air!

this one is a little more dngerous in that, you could probably get caught if you were doing it too much....or if you did it a bunch and just...OSHHHHEWWW you went from 100 place to 5 place in overall rankings in a few hours, they would know something was up...

but the first way, there is basically no way they can catch you as long as you arent putting like 10 000 resources in the traders. and if you have a main city you are working on at one time with all the armies there pillaging, well, what you can do is this: spend all the money on new levels of palaces or whatever, and then move onto the next place...if you have a conspicuous number of resources, then ship them to the next city...or even better, because you found a loophole that allows you to concentrte your might, allowing you to gain $$$ way faster by completely concentrating on one ity at a time, you can simply put them in the traders, in smaller ammount (no more than 5000 at this point in the game), and sell for 5$ each...it isnt alot, but you will sell them VERY quick, and the $$$ you make can buy you a ton of cargo ships....so you can get even more when you are pillaging!!!!!

All it takes to get someone banned in Ikariam is a little Photoshop work. Bashing is illegal and the GOs rely on screen shots from the "victim" to enforce the rule. So you find someone that has attacked you just take a screen shot go to your favorite image editor and copy the attack line then change the time. Presto banning in progress. It will take the person that gets banned at least 2 days to get unbanned even if they are completely innocent. The GOs are extremely slow and usually have to send the request up to a higher power.

When u need a quick research then u go to the academy, and then u click on change research and click one of the research's and the last second click a different one. only works once per day.

If someone is transporting some goods to you, in Military Adviser you won't be able to see how many of them are coming. You will need too buy Ambrosia for that, but don't rush! If you go to the Trading Port you will be able to see exact number of goods coming. 100% working on ba.ikariam.com.

Once a day, go to your academy and change your field of research constantly. It should research one topic for you, if you do it enough. You can only do it once per day.