http://apps.new.facebook.com/realmofempires/
Here's how this one works. You join one of three realms (Realm One started a year ago and has over four thousand players; Realm Two started later on, but has almost 30,000 players; Realm Three just started this past weekend and has over 5,000 players), or all three of them if you want. You're given a medieval village, a headquarters, a silver mine, a few other buildings, and a couple hundred militants to protect yourself with. As you produce more silver, you can upgrade your buildings, recruit more troops (from lowly militia to to spies to knights), build a wall, etc.
As things start to pick up for your village, you're promoted from a lowly serf, to a peasant, to a merchant, all the way up to a prince, king and finally a grand emperor. But you don't get there just by building up your one village. The fun of RoE is taking stuff over! You can send your troops all across the map to spy out, loot and pillage other players' villages. Your best tool at this point is your battle simulator: you tell the sim that you want to send X number of troops to this village, and it tells you what your chances of success are.
I have three villages, one on each realm (it's against the rules to create multiple accounts on a single realm, although you can take villages over to expand build your empire). I'm getting ready to attack my first village, just to plunder their treasury, which I expect will get me over 20k pieces of silver, but I won't know until my spies get back from their covert mission.
I'm having fun with this game. It really only takes about 10 minutes a day to keep an eye on your village, and it moves you from the very beginning stages to a more involved level pretty quickly. If it dragged on and on, I'd probably not stay active, and my village would be plundered for silver, and my troops killed.
Anyways, I'll keep updating here to let everybody know how it's going, but if you're looking for a fun RPG that's easy and fun to play, a "medieval world of politics, espionage, diplomacy and war", check out Realm of Empires.
RoE is a well paced and evolving game, challenging you with every step you move forward. Come and join this engaging game of diplomacy and war.
It has filled the leisure time of thousands of players with exhilaration and fear at the very sound of the footsteps of the troops approaching their walls. It innovatively and successfully combines many of the best, most addictive properties of online Strategy and RPGs, and competitive multiplayer games in one beautifully produced package.
So I just signed up for this game last week, and I'm already addicted. Seriously, I'm checking my village every hour, thinking about whether I should upgrade my silver mine or recruit more light calvary, waking up to run a new scenario through the battle simulator. I've never played an RPG before (that I can remember), but I'm hooked.It has filled the leisure time of thousands of players with exhilaration and fear at the very sound of the footsteps of the troops approaching their walls. It innovatively and successfully combines many of the best, most addictive properties of online Strategy and RPGs, and competitive multiplayer games in one beautifully produced package.
Here's how this one works. You join one of three realms (Realm One started a year ago and has over four thousand players; Realm Two started later on, but has almost 30,000 players; Realm Three just started this past weekend and has over 5,000 players), or all three of them if you want. You're given a medieval village, a headquarters, a silver mine, a few other buildings, and a couple hundred militants to protect yourself with. As you produce more silver, you can upgrade your buildings, recruit more troops (from lowly militia to to spies to knights), build a wall, etc.
As things start to pick up for your village, you're promoted from a lowly serf, to a peasant, to a merchant, all the way up to a prince, king and finally a grand emperor. But you don't get there just by building up your one village. The fun of RoE is taking stuff over! You can send your troops all across the map to spy out, loot and pillage other players' villages. Your best tool at this point is your battle simulator: you tell the sim that you want to send X number of troops to this village, and it tells you what your chances of success are.
I have three villages, one on each realm (it's against the rules to create multiple accounts on a single realm, although you can take villages over to expand build your empire). I'm getting ready to attack my first village, just to plunder their treasury, which I expect will get me over 20k pieces of silver, but I won't know until my spies get back from their covert mission.
I'm having fun with this game. It really only takes about 10 minutes a day to keep an eye on your village, and it moves you from the very beginning stages to a more involved level pretty quickly. If it dragged on and on, I'd probably not stay active, and my village would be plundered for silver, and my troops killed.
Anyways, I'll keep updating here to let everybody know how it's going, but if you're looking for a fun RPG that's easy and fun to play, a "medieval world of politics, espionage, diplomacy and war", check out Realm of Empires.
