Freesky Online: Terraforming
May 25, 2009 Freesky Online|1,060views
Freesky Online (http://fo.igg.com) allows you to build an Empire from the dust of the earth. You get to watch your cities grow and flourish like roses in a garden. However, when the garden gets crowded, and you want more roses, what do you do? Let terraforming take the guesswork out of your plans for your Empire. When you need a resource you don’t have space for, you can terraform other land into whatever you need!
Terraforming can have huge benefits for your Empire, no matter what kind of development you have planned. Both Economic and Militaristic Empires have resources they need, and both often have a limited space for them. This is where terraforming comes into play. Let’s say you need to increase Sand production. Simply look at your resource fields and find ones that you either don’t need, or don’t need now, then terraform them into Deserts to boost Sand production. For those players more focused on the economic side of imperial expansion, focusing production on one or two types of resources will cut the cost of constructing unnecessary buildings, in addition to saving skill points from being wasted on upgrading buildings you don’t really need.
Terraforming gives you a whole selection of land to choose from, including Plains, Deserts, Lakes, Mountains, and Woodland, each with their own available resources and ore.
Freesky Online is the new Empire building game from IGG that lets players design and develop an Empire, forge alliances, and fight for control of the world!
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Freesky Online: Open Beta on Its Way
May 23, 2009 Freesky Online|305views
Freesky Online has been enjoying a very successful Closed Beta. Within just 72 hours 200,000 players from almost 200 different countries help us to make this CB one of our best ever! Today we are also happy to report that the Open Beta will be available on May 22nd EDT (GMT-4).
Although the Closed Beta has been a definite success, that doesn’t mean there haven’t been setbacks. We’ve been busy fixing bugs, adjusting code and improving the overall feel of the game. With 5 servers launched to date, and so many problems resolved, we expect that Freesky has a bright future ahead in Open Beta!
We’re so excited about the Open Beta we have a special event planned for our players to enjoy right off the bat! Our Treasure Box Party is going to be a big hit with players being able to open 80 treasure boxes each day. This means 30 extra boxes containing various resources, gold, and airships for players to enjoy everyday!
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Freesky Online: 3 Military Development Directions
May 20, 2009 Freesky Online|409views
Freesky Online is a strategy-oriented web game that challenges players to found and then build up Empire. If players want to stand out in the future, they must have solid goals for development and clear plans about how to achieve these goals. We’ve talked about Economic development before, so today were going to be discussing the details of the other primary development strategy, strong militaristic development.
Money Then Military
Although this is a very common development strategy, the differences here are in the details. The only major drawback is the obviously insufficient military power of your Empire when its in its most crucial growth stage. Selling large amounts of resources is one way to stimulate the development of the economy in the short term, while you prepare to quickly build the military when the time is right. Because you’ll be focused on stockpiling resources to fund a military buildup that hasn’t happened yet, this can be a confusing and sometimes effective way of staying one step ahead of your enemies in the region.
Secret Strike
This means of development takes one part of the previous strategy and moves it front and center. Forget trying to jump start the economy. Forget about the mind games. Just stockpile every military resource and airship you can get your hands on, keep it secret til you’re ready and then launch a pre-emptive (surprise) attack on an enemy of your choice. This method can be devastating, and with good size Armies taking only a day or two to build, very effective. However, because it relies on secrecy and surprise, it usually can’t be used more than a few times before someone pre-emptively attacks you, so as a long term strategy, it’s not quite as useful.
Keep Your (Potential) Enemies Close
This is a very flexible development direction, because how you develop depends on what your Alliance needs. If there are many economic-oriented players in this alliance, then you’re probably going to be the muscle, and quickly developing a strong military is essential in order to protect them from danger. Remember, they got the funds you need to keep the airship production lines humming, and you have the protection they need so they don’t get mugged by a hostile army. Just make sure you let them know that they need you a lot more than you need them.
With certain items, you can take control of a war with ease. If military-oriented players use these kinds of items, enemies might even mistake them for an economy-oriented Empire and make the mistake of picking a fight. Then, you got them right where you want them…
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