Surviving Empire Z: Tips for beginners

Surviving Empire Z:  Tips for beginners and noobs

Here are a few tips for playing Empire Z as a beginner

Be prepared to lose your soldiers.  This will happen often especially when there is a WAR event. Whether your attacking or defending, you will lose soldier.

LUCKILY, this game is about production power and how quickly you can recover and if you focus on that, it won't matter that you lose soldiers.  It will actually reward you since WAR event are usually followed by a GAIN POWER event.

For more about events, check out this post:  [Empire Z special events:  What are they all about]

1) Fill all the tiles in your city as soon as the tutorial is over.  Make use of the free VIP time you have at the beginning.  You can quickly fill and level every tile of your city with the 5min instant build you get with VIP

For the correct city layout check out How to get 100,000 power in Empire Z in 2 days

ProTip:  If you follow the city building advice, DON'T collect empire mission rewards until a "GAIN POWER" event.

2) Always keep your Storage Bunker at the max level.  This will proctect your resources up to a certain amount from being plundered.  Also, if you keep your resource stock at or below that level, it will make you a less desireable target for other players since they won't get loot other than coin (and apart from researching, coin is useless)

3) Focus on troop production over defenses.  Troops can scavenge and can be healed if attacked in your city.  Defenses can't.  In the beginning, you will be rather resource poor.  The cure to that is scavengers (ie troops) and not all troops carry the same amount (load).  Pickup trucks are the best for scavenging even at higher levels since they carry a lot, move fast and are cheap both to buy and maintain.  Only build defenses during a "Build defense" or "Gain Power" event or overnight if you have excess resources (over your protection level)

4) Have enough hospitals to heals all your soldiers.  When you are attacked in your empire z city, soldiers are injured instead of killed as long as your hospitals have room.  So if you have 5000 soldiers (of any kind) and you have 5k space in your hospitals, you will never lose a soul when defending.  This is also very important to save time and resources since it's cheaper and faster than training new troops.  And if you heal properly, it will be even faster and you will actually help your other alliance members get alliance points.  Read [How to heal your troops for maximum speed and reward ]

5) Do your missions (daily and alliance) religiously, especially if you're in an alliance.  Daily Missions are rewarding both in hero XP and resources (when rare or epic) and, during special events, special items.  Alliance missions are very important because they allow you to gain alliance points (used to buy speedups and boosts) and give alliance point to the alliance (which is used to supply the alliance store with the speedups and boosts).  DO NOT COLLECT empire mission rewards unless it's a "GAIN POWER" event. I repeat it because it makes a huge difference.

A note about mission refresh:  If you follow my advice about winning events, you will start collecting mission refreshers, save them for special events that reward with special items.  For example, at the time of writing this it is thanksgiving.  Empire Z is having a special event that requires you to collect and "eat" (use) thanksgiving food items like turkey and mash potato.  You can find those items as a reward for doing missions, so more missions = more special items = better ranking in the Thanksgiving event = greater rewards.

6) Find a strong alliance to get protection.  This is more or less self explanatory.  Before attacking another player I always check their alliance.  If they don't have one or it is weak I will attack.  If their alliance is strong I will refrain because I don't want to get my alliance in a war (and I don't want to get attacked needlessly).  So get into any alliance right off the bat, build your power to 100K and then join a strong alliance.  To learn how to reach 100k in 2 days check out [ProTips for Empire Z:  How to reach 100,000 power in 2 days]

7) Always harvest from higher level tiles.  Harvesting from a tile lvl 1 resource is slower than lvl 2 > lvl 3 and so on.  I'd prefer to march a little further and get a lvl 4 farm rather than a closer lvl 2.  Simple as that.  Always look around the map for the highest level resource tile to scavenger

ProTip:  Scavenge the tiles to 0, even if there's only a little bit left.  This will allow for a new resource tile to spawn and therefore replenish your farming area.

8) Keep your queues working at all times.  There are 4 queues:  3 Majors: Researching, Building, Training and 1 minor: defense building.  Always have your major queues working and when you have extra resources have the minor going too.  If you are active, I prefer to build thing with short timers and keep the long timers for overnight.  Eventually the time it takes to build things become long for everything and extra long for research, but at first it works out well.

Follow these tips for starting you game in Empire Z and you will have a good start to the game.  Also remember not to get discouraged if you get attacked and wiped out.  I was recently wiped during a war event by a 1.5 millon power player and almost quit, but it didn't take me long to bounce right back and I'm still growing in power everyday.