About W68 

So w68 is the first paid content world on .net. while many players have feared this. the world seems to have a nice population turn out and seems to be doing well. while there seems to be some newer players this is too be expected and hopefully will help tw get a jump kick in the area of regrowth. In the end it doesn’t matter how many skilled players there are in tw if theres only a handful of them.  for the game to keep going and growing we need new players, and 68 might be a start in that direction.  with that In mind I will start doing a small section with helpful tips and ideas for new players, and any player can contact me for info on playing. if anyone wants to give idea’s or tips to be posted here or a article feel free to skype me.   

Future Content

will have player and tribe info as well as world info. as well as some pictures and charts for your greater viewing pleasure  

Conclusion

Next Blog will have more content and be better aranged, this is just a dry run as a test to see what happens.

December 25th, 2012

Dear Tribal Wars Community,

The Tribalwars.net Blog began years ago as a rather random and undefined service provided by a long-forgotten moderator; something more focused on movie reviews and side projects than actual news of any kind. After that moderator was removed, Jehosophat took over control of the blog and created a very powerful organization focused on providing timely world news. At its height, the blog had over a dozen writers from around the world writing news for many worlds. Recently, Jehosophat retired from her position as Administrator after more than two years of service. Since then, it has gone downhill. The inability for the blog to find new members is a major issue which has led to stagnation and disuse. Regrettably, it has come to the point where the administration has asked us to close our doors. This decision has been endorsed by the remaining blog team itself, as we have nothing left to give. Our plans to revitalize the blog are unusable unless we were to get more bloggers and more time.

Thus, I am writing at the end of this long road. I was there at the beginning, hired in the first month of Jehosophat’s leadership, and the last remaining of that era. It was a great journey, a great effort, and I hope the service we have done for the game has not been in vain.

I am unsure of how the blog will be dismantled, or if there may be a future use for it. That is all up to the administration. If you have any questions or comments, feel free to post. From now on, any world news will have to come unofficially in the forums.

I would now like to give a special thanks to all of the people who have served on this blog. Your names are innumerable, and in our operating period, we have released HUNDREDS of blogs. I also wish to thank all the readers who have remained attached to our work.

Thank you

Sam “Samulis Augustus”, Blog Ass’t. Administrator

Hello, I’m Steve or Malreaux, and welcome to the 5th edition of the W64 Blog! The last few days have been relatively uneventful, but as always there are a few interesting things going on, so let’s dive in at the start!

Out With The Old

So it seems the story of Karmalot’s Elite tribe is finally over. The core member base has survived through merges, duke changes and countless wars, but now the saga seems to be coming to an end. So here’s the story of W64′s current longest serving rank 1 tribe.

The tribe was originally a premade ran by Karmalot, under the alias of Pandaking. He joined and created ELITE on the day the world opened

Although there were not many particularly high profile players in the tribe and those that were there were under alias, coupled with the fact they maxed their member count within days, the tribe swiftly took the rank 1 spot, starting on the 31st of July, 8 days after the world opened.
From there they continued with an excellent growth rate to maintain the rank 1 tribe spot almost unfalteringly (with just a 2 day blip) for almost a month, when, on the 28th of July, Karmalot quit the game temporarily for personal reasons. This had been premeditated and he had negotiated a merge with KISSES, the rank 3 tribe at the time. KISSES’ and ELITE’s clusters interlocked, and Karmalot also believed that nobody in ELITE was worthy of leading his tribe, but the leadership of KISSES was.
Therefore Karmalot negotiated a merge in which all of KISSES and ELITE merged into two tribes, NEW! as the main tribe and Scary as almost the glorified academy tribe, in family form, so that the leaders of KISSES could be properly integrated into both tribes, and the deadweight weedled down.
Whilst Karmalot believed, from what he had observed on the outside, that this new leadership would be successful, many members were displeased with it for getting them into too many unnecessary wars, as the main reason, but also for several others. However this leadership did continue to keep the tribe (NEW!) at rank 1 until the 19th of september.

…and In With The New

At this point, however, the council members of NEW! were unhappy with their duke’s leadership, which eventually led to him quitting the world altogether.
This happened to be around the time that Where? Overtook NEW! in terms of points

with less members. They had been growing faster for a while, but only then tipped the balance. Now they have a million point (33%) lead on rank 2, and the largest average points in the top 20 by over half. I’ll go on to cover Where? In more detail later, but for now, here’s a circ sent by NEW! leadership before the disband button was pressed:

Good Day All

At this point I am sure each one of you are familiar with what my concept of team work is. It has become apparent that maintaining Scary/New as one tribe is not an atainable goal.

We have too many players who do not want to provide assistance to the war efforts, to many who want to point whore, and to many who think that they know better than the council does what our goals should be and how they should be atained.

That being the case Scary/New will be disbanded.

I will be sending invitations to those who have proved that they are valuable team players, regardless of account size, no matter if they are great attackers or support players.

If you do not receive an invitation to this new tribe and feel you should have please feel free to contact me and we can discuss it.

Thanks

F

(“F” referring to Fallen Hobo)

FH’s leadership style has caused some unrest in Ex (the tribe formed of the players originally from NEW! and Scary. He has leadership experience but certain things are holding him back…

I am truly sorry for my lack of posts, don’t take it as the typical quitting, I’ve just been incredibly busy with restarting college, I’l aim to get out at least another post in the next few days, maybe more than one. Thanks for reading.

Introduction  I am miwok forum name yal-a-dar, I have blogged in the past for w57. I have played Tribalwars for many years, having played on many worlds some of which include 64,57, 44, 25, 22,15, and 9. I work in a  factory and live in the united states.  I am 25 years old and have one child, a male age 9 months today. I look forward to playing this world and blogging for this world.  if you have any other questions feel free to message me on skype (kenenth.handsbury) or forums (yal-a-dar)

World Info This World Is no hauls a newish feature that seems to be very popular with many different players. it allows many difrent perks for select players. such as those with limited access to tribalwars, and there are some that feel it allows more of a fair playing field for all players. others think that it allows more strategy and war then a regular world.  on the other side of the coin some may argue farming is a fundamental part of tribalwars and taking it away takes from the game. Its not my place to say which opinion is right or wrong or if any of them are. the world speed is 2, the world will also have gold coins and paladins.  archers are disabled.  there will be no flags on this world. tribe limit is 65 and the tech system is simple. more information can be found here http://forum.tribalwars.net/showthread.php?258787-Settings-Rules-amp-Reminders

Tribe Information A few of the premades for this world are

Pacman- Led by Dab, Dab has led tribes on other worlds and has experiance on no haul worlds. a interview is not available at this time.

Blank – led by kevin, paul and kourosh this will include the remnants of toon. looks like there was yes a pre-world merge of sorts. a interview is not available at this time.

Girl Power - led by lisa, this will be a fun tribe thats here to play for well fun… made up of experienced and non experienced players.  here is a brief interview.

Bunny  – led by anna this tribe is another group of experienced players whose goal is rank 1. a interview is available.

Conclusion The world has a few tribes made out of experienced players and will surly have many new players who will in turn grow to be experienced players. we all know that early world tribes fall and rise and fall. its way to early to say which will and wont do well. and I wont demean the players or tribes by saying which will or wont do such and such. we will have to keep an eye on the world and tribes and see what develops in the future. this was just a simple and brief blog to lay the ground work for the future. Once again I look forward to a bright future with you all. thanks for your time and reading. future blogs will include charts and pictures and music and all kinds of goodies so keep an eye out for them in-till then…. Hyvästi thats finish for good bye p.s. As this is a .net world  I will include in each blog a different way of saying some common term randomly in the blog for enjoyment and cultural diffusion. I will always include the English meaning as well.

Hey I’m Steve or Malreaux and today I’m bringing you the 4th edition of the W64 blog.

Today we’re looking at a few high profile wars and some miscellaneous, but nonetheless interesting, events that have occurred in W64.

War number 1: NEW! vs. MRV

This is a war that has been going on for a little over a week. There are no particular motives behind it other than NEW! wanting to clear up a tribe that was interfering with their growth, and grabbing a few war stats on the side. NEW! planned a tribal wide op on their enemies to coincide with the time they declared.

I would show war stats from the time the declaration happened but they would be misleading as MRV was being nobled long before the formal declaration, so I will therefore post the stats wth no time limit, and the lost villages of MRV:

Please note that ELITE, NEW! and Scary are in effect the same tribe.

MRV vs NEW! family war stats.

MRV village losses.

Looking at their rank alone it is easy to see why the war is so one-sided, but the map further strengthens this, with MRV being completely surrounded and dominated:

New=Green, Scary=Red, MRV=Blue

Although, this having been said, MRV have racked up an impressive rank 2 ODD, which shows they can at least stack a few villages when they need to.
Athough that  cluster looks impenetrable now, I predict they’ll have a tough time holding off the rank one tribe for too much longer.

War number 2: Where? vs Hades

This war was declared by the latter for the reason that they thought it would rally others and their own to their cause.
They had been sharing a mutual area with Where? Since the start of the world, and due to their preregistering ended up with a cluster almost surrounded by their enemy

Initially the tribe =FUN= was allied with Hades, now they have merged. For the purpose of this account of the war I shall treat them as one tribe:

Where?=Red, Hades=Blue

Due to the account’s positioning near their cluster, early on in the world Hades mass attacked and rimmed Keredlee of Where? This occurred at around the stage where most of the Where? players had only just started nobling, so as a whole the tribe’s D levels were low, and they were unable to help him.
In this time the leadership of Where? also attempted to gain diplomacy with Hades to save the account, but this failed.

Since then the tribes had been on uneasy terms and through coincidence the Where? players nobled a relatively large number of Hades’ villages, only caused by their location and reasonable size:

The Hades leadership saw this as an unofficial war, and although they did not do anything about it at the time, they did declare the war  later on, on the 2nd of September.

Since then these are the stats:

Since then this war has stagnated, as Where? are yet to break their opponent’s cluster.

War Number 3: OnFire vs ADHD

This war was declared by OnFire on the 3rd of September.

The reason for this declaration was that ADHD recruited several members that had exercised hostility towards OnFire. They also recruited a refugee.
OnFire then proceeded to attempt to resolve the matter diplomatically, but ADHD were not forthcoming in discussions and refused to compromise.

During this time the only reason preventing OnFire from attacking was that they had a three day NAP with ADHD, but afte this time was up, they declared and executed an op swiftly and effectively, contributing to the following war stats:

Another reason for the declaration was simply that OnFire wanted ADHD out of the way (and they certainly stunted their growth):

Because the tribe shared a mutual continent with them, and could develop into a potential threat.

OnFire=Red, ADHD=Blue

This war has now slowed down also, as OnFire have pushed their opposition into two clusters of villages which will be difficult to break.

This having been said, ADHD has unimpressive ODD so may not have much defence to go around, or may not be good at coordinating support.

That concludes edition 4 of the W64 Blog, apologies for the lateness, I just returned to college and am extremely busy at the moment, but I’ll try my very best to put all the time I can into making your blogs enjoyable and high quality. Watch this space.

Easter Egg hint (send Malreaux a forum mail with the words printed on it):

You’ll need a map to find it

Thanks for reading

This week we’ll just be looking at the news and what’s gone on over the past 7 days.

Toggles the Chump?

This week saw the fall from grace of two of W64′s most prominent players in one unfortunate sequence of events.
The players in question are Toggles and Mr. Chump, and there’s an intriguing story behind what happened.

Toggles and Chump had been tribemates for a while and had been sticking together, due to their close proximity to each other and their mutual friendship and respect for both of their abilities. All was uneventful and they were holding respective high ranks, neither of them dropping out of the top 5 for a time,  but that all changed when the original account owner of Toggles quit. He quit due to boredom, which he had been planning for a while:

(Quote from 18th August showing wish to quit)

But this was triggered, or advanced, by the fact he lost his nuke and noble train on a stack (coincidentally later that same day). He got AOTD as a result.

So after Tewg’s quitting (Tewg is the forum name of Tyler Hall, the player who originally owned the Toggles account and kept it at a solid rank one all through startup), his ex-duke and friend took over the account. What happened from here is debatable and in terms of solid evidence simply comes down to one person’s word against another’s, but allegedly the Mr. Chump players had been planning to rim their ally for over a week and tricked one of the coplayers on the Toggles account into emptying their villages for them to have a clean rimming.

Regardless of whether these (denied) allegations were true, at the same time Mr. Chump had been involved in a cross-world recruitment idea performed by the North West tribe Where? During which several high ranking players (including the two in contention) from the South East joined it. Mr. Chump had been led to believe that more SE players would join the tribe, and when this plan fell through he left the tribe.

So there they were, Mr. Chump and Toggles both tribeless and involved in a personal war that Chump was winning, and then Toggles got the tribe N-M-E involved. They showed their organisational skill and proceeded to bombard Mr. Chump for days, whilst he carried on with the nobling of Toggles.
So as Chump nobled off Toggles:

N-M-E nobled off Chump:

You may notice Chump’s tribe being Rage, well Rage absorbed the lost SE players after they left Where? (the reason being they were promised, and not delivered, an additional number of SE tribemates). Although it may look like a failure on Rage’s behalf to prevent one of their members being rimmed, Chump was being bombarded on the external forums for deceipt and betrayal, and one of the side effects of this was, to regain a fraction of his positive image, Chump never once requested support from his new tribe, otherwise it would appear, as had been suggested,that he only joined them to save his  own skin.

So at the end of all that drama, both players ended up being rimmed.

An Easy Farm

After Toggles’ fall from grace the rank one spot was again open to contenders and a new influx of players jumped into the top spots.
The highest ranks have begun to look a little more competitive around now and are constantly shifting, but a clear trend of a few top players bouncing around rank 1-5 is emerging. For a few days Easy.Farm  seemed to be comfortably holding the coveted rank one position, with strong growth and excellent farming, but since then he has (rather publicly) been banned. Although it was not permanent, and he was given a punishment that would have allowed him to keep playing relatively comfortably, he believed it to be too harsh, and announced he would be quitting the game for good. Whilst it is, as of yet, unure whether he will go through with this, for now at least it seems he is still growing:

Though not at nearly the same rate he was several days ago, and has slipped down the growth rankings:

You will notice Easy.Farm does not even make the top 20 growers list. If you were interested, he clocks in at 24.

Looking at the other players on that list however, it is possible to make certain observations, such as that vr.money, galskrika, Pain.Carbon and stoic rudeness are all high ranks on both the points chart and the growth chart, suggesting that they will all stay up top on both. (it is also worth noting that stoic has had a huge bonus from being in the middle of a merge, galskrika is a solo player, and also vr.money went through at least a stint of being the best farmer on world:)

Now I believe the award is being dominated by Pain.Carbon and some players lower down the ranks,but this is unconfirmed.

Merges

The past few days also saw the forming of the new top 2 tribes, both by merges, within the same few days.

The tribe NEW! was formed from the merging of the two former tribes ELITE and KISSES. The main reason behind such a large merge at such an early time was that Pandaking, duke of ELITE, (also known as Karmalot) is taking a break from the game for personal reasons. He wanted the best for his tribe, but that meant he would need to find it new leadership, as he was the only one qualified in his eyes to lead such a tribe.

So from this merge came two new tribes, NEW! and also Scary. Many are frowning on this merge due to the fact that all of the same members remain in two family tribes that effectively work as one, but the reason for it was that all of the best players from both have ended up in one tribe with all of the best leaders from both, giving it the best chance of success in the future.

They have an excellent spread for growth and domination, and all of the advantages lined up for them to go far. It looks like NEW! will be a force to be reckoned with long into the future. (on an unrelated note E2-ELITE’s academy-has broken off from the main tribes and is now completely unaffiliated)

NEW! spread

The other merge that I referenced was that of [PMS] into Where?
[PMS] Was formed of a breakoff tribe from Where? in the early stages of the world, over various disputes such as leadership and recruitment. Since then the tribes had been allies and their leaders had been negotiating the rejoining of the core members into the Where? [PMS] had been recruiting and managing itself like a normal tribe and the remerging was never set in stone, but it was much better planned and thought out than the failed SE merge, and the members had better relationships, so it should be another tribe formed that will last long and do well.

Where? merged [PMS] members in blue

So that concludes part 3 of the W64 blog, part 4 will be in about a week‘s time.

If it isn’t, don’t worry, I haven’t quit, you’ll get your content, but please don’t keep begging/messaging/sending fakes at me to try and get it

Easter egg hint (50 PP on the line, remember, mail Malreaux on the externals):

It’s in the title

Thanks for reading

Hey, I’m Malreaux or Steve, and welcome back to my in-depth review of the flag system, with information and tips and tricks on how to make the most out of your flags!

Here’s part 2, it’ll be continuing directly from where part 1 left off, if you missed that, you can find it here.

4) Trading

Trading is not a good way to get better flags than what you currently have, which is the ultimate goal,  due to the fact that in each trade you can only receive a flag of the equivalent level you gave away. In addition to this you can only trade with your tribemates, which limits the number of offers you can see/participate in.
This having been said, flag trading can be useful in borrowing a flag you may need for only 24 hours, and then trading it right back, which tribemates will usually be sympathetic to.  An example of when you may need a flag could be to store some cheaper packets for your train, or when you have a few incomings and could use a defence flag. Other than that, stick a few trades up of bad flags and hope someone accepts them, but don’t follow it too closesly.

5) Combining

The first time you came across the combining feature (if you haven’t already, I almost guarantee you would have if not saved by me), you probably instinctively thought that  it was a brilliant thing which only helped to serve you by giving you a higher level flag by throwing out your old trash, but I think of it differently, I think of it as a loss. Having said that, in startup and the early stages, you have such a low amount of villages hoarding the early ones will just be a waste, all they’re doing is sitting there, but later on, perhaps you have fifty villages, if you combine three flags, may receive one better flag, but two villages will be flagless, and without a permanent bonus. In these cases it can be better to simply leave all three flags with their slightly lower values.

Possible exceptions to this rule include, but are not limited to, cheaper packets/coins flags, where it is possible to simply up the market and shift resources to the village where your costs will be reduced,  and attack/defence flags, whereby one may keep a flag in reserve and move it where it is needed, although this is extremely limiting in terms of the 24 hour change time and the fact when attacking/defending multiple villages they will fight less well as a whole.

In all, every flag combination should be considered thoroughly, and all possible outcomes analysed given the situation, but I will say that later on in the game, again perhaps excluding cheaper noblemen flags, combining is less a help than a hindrance.

6) Promotions

Promotions are few and far-between, and really worth counting on, but when they are around, they’re quick and easy to get, so why would you not?

7) OD

Whilst getting flags for OD seems like a consistent and reliable way to get flags, and is 3x more rewarding in terms of the individual flags you receive compared the nobleman rewards, as when you look at the amounts of OD you need early on it seems it’ll be easy to get later, but whilst I am unaware of the actual denoted amounts you must achieve (I did ask Morthy but he simply told me you only get a level 2 flag from OD, regardless of the amount), it is not a linear increase, that much is clear from the early amounts, meaning that whilst it will get exponentially easier to get OD as time goes on, the amount of OD it is necessary to achieve for a flag reward will increase dramatically.

OD whores, feel free to keep going for OD, but don’t do it simply to get the flags, see them as a bonus, not an incentive.

Next, seeing as they’re almost completely new and unseen, and thus there aren’t a lot of strategy guides on them, I thought I would give you a few hints and tricks on how to use them.

In my eyes some of the flags come in pairs in terms of their equal and opposite usages, and therefore I will explain them as such.

Haul capacity/Resource production flags

Both of these flags impact your incoming flow of resources in some way, but in terms of their usage they should be used in opposite circumstances.

The resource production flag is very simple to comprehend and understand, it simply makes your mines produce more, but the increased haul capacity flag can be confusing. When you see the title of the flag it is easy to think “this will help me farm more!” and simply stick it on, but no, the flag does not help you farm more resources, it helps you farm more efficiently. This means that you will not receive any extra resources from what you are farming, you will simply be able to get those resources faster.
In practical terms,  the way I would best advise how to make the decision between the resource production flag and the haul capacity flag is to look at your farming and your pit levels. If you are always getting full hauls in your village, that means that your farms are producing too much for you to harvest with the troops you have. Whilst keeping troops queued is of course a solution, to supplement and improve this, a haul flag can be useful, as it is not the number of troops you have, but the overall capacity of the troops you have that impacts farming (look at it like this: If you have 3 heavy cavalry to farm with, you have a combined total of 150 haul capacity, but with 2 light cavalry, you have 160 capacity). This means that a haul flag will help you drain your farms in the same amount of time with the same amount of troops.

If you are still confused, imagine you have a farm that is 10 minutes away by LC.
Imagine you have 2 LC and that when your LC go from your village to this farm, and land at the farm, it will have 166 resources total there.
If you send your LC at the village normally, they’ll get there in 10 minutes, get a full haul, then return in 10 minutes. After this, you can resend one of them to get a partially full haul and drain the resources there.

The amount of working minutes for your lc this culminates in is 2 (for 2lc)x10 (for the journey) x2 (for the return) + 1 (for the one lc resent)x10 (journey)x2 (return).

This equals in 60 minutes of LC working time, or one hour.

With a +4% haul flag, your lc will have a haul capacity of 83 resources each, meaning when they land at your farm they will get a full haul of 166 and return to your village with all of these resources, leaving you free to wait the right amount of time for the village to stock up again to the right amount, and resend another 2LC.

This is a total of 2x10x2 minutes, or 40 minutes, meaning in this example the +4% haul flag makes your farming 50% more efficient (this will never happen in practical terms, it is simply an imaginary scenario to show the increase in efficiency, regardless of what the actual increase is).

{Whilst this is a very narrow example, the principle is clearly shown that you get more resources in less time. Whilst you could argue that you can simply go without the flag and wait for the farm to stock up, the goal is to get all the resources you can in the shortest time you can, meaning the second option is superior).

Through using either lengthy calculation or educated guesswork you should be able to work out whether resource production or haul capacity is better for your village.

In terms of having multiple villages, it is much easier to decide which flag to put where.
As all the flags work with percentages, the bonus you will be given for using each one is proportional to how high your capability in whatever the flag improves was originally.

For example, if you have level 29 resource pits on speed 1 and a 10% resource production flag,  your pits will be producing 2063 resources/hour, and with the bonus you will receive is 10%, ie. a tenth, so the bonus=

2063/10 = 206.3 (rounded down is 206)

If however your pits were level 30, the bonus would be:

2400/10 = 240

Therefore for all flags it is best to put them in the place where the capacity for whatever they do is already best. This is of course assuming all flags will be used as a bonus, not a necessity-if you have just conquered a village and need to get it up and running as soon as possible then you should administer your flags accordingly.

This method can also be used to work out which village would benefit most from an increased haul capacity flag.

If you consider that the factors affecting the efficiency of your farming, ignoring the farms you are farming and assuming they are always full and that each resource is equivalent in cumulative value, each unit has two contributing factors that influence how well it farms:

Hey, I’m Malreaux or Steve, and welcome to my in-depth review of the flag system, with information and tips and tricks on how to make the most out of your flags!

Firstly, what are flags?

The flag system is a system newly introduced to .net on W64.  It will be present on most .net worlds from now on and has been used on others servers already.

Flags are an extra utility you can add to your village in Tribal Wars to give you an advantage in a specific field or area, such as giving your resource pits an extra production bonus, or making you Barracks, Stable and Workshop produce troops at a faster rate.

The different categories for what flag bonuses do are as follows:

Resource Production-Makes your resource pits produce more as an additional percentage of the whole.
Troop Recruitment Speed-Lowers the recruitment speed of all units by a percentage of the whole
Attack Strength-Increases the attack strength of all units by a given percentage
Defence Strength-Increases the defence strength of all units by a given percentage
Luck Balancing-Balances the luck factor of a battle closer to zero by a given value. So if the flag, for example balanced by 18%, 25% luck would be balanced to 7% luck, and minus 25% luck to minus 7% luck
Extra Population Capacity-Increases the population capacity of the farm by a given percentage
Cheaper Noblemen-Lowers the cost of packets/coins by a given percentage
Extra Troop Haul Capacity-Increases the resource haul capacity of all units by a given percentage

(You will notice that all bonuses are percentages, so no farming with rams quite yet)

Flags also come in different levels per category of flag.
There are nine levels and each one gives a larger bonus than all those before it. Each tier is also colour coded. Regardless of the type of flag, each tier will always be the same colour.

Here are the colours of the nine levels in ascending order, omitting the logos for the type of flag:

Here is the effect each level of each type of flag will have:

There are a number of different ways to earn flags of various levels. Each time you earn a flag, the type is completely randomised, the only thing set in stone is the level, so here are the ways to get them:

1) Quests , certain quests give low level flags as rewards

2) Awards, awards give flag rewards depending on the tier of the award, ranging from level one to level 5 for Gold awards.
Daily awards of any type always give a level 3 award.

3) Producing Noblemen , every time you successfully train a nobleman you will be awarded a level one flag.

4) Trading, there is a trade screen as part of the flag window (top right hand corner of the screen, next to the paladin icon), here you can trade a flag of any type for another flag of any type, as long as both are the same level.

5) Combining, you are able to combine three flags of the same level and type and exchange them for a single flag of the next level up, eg. Three level one flags can combine to make a level 2 flag.

6) Promotions, Innogames offer free promotional flag codes at certain times, for example at the moment three level one flags are available for little effort, just go like the Innogames Facebook page and you will receive a free code! Click here for more details.

7) OD At certain amounts of OD you will be awarded a flag, it is always level 2.

When you earn the flag you have the option of assigning it to your village.

Each village can have only one flag assigned to it at a time, and prior to exchanging the flag for another (they will not disappear, flags are permanent unless traded or combined) you must wait 24 hours since the last change. This applies to each village individually.

And here’s perhaps the most influential and consequential point concerning flags, The flags you have on one world carry over to another world, meaning you have the same flags to put on your villages in W64 as you would in 65, 66 and all the following worlds. You have to choose which flag to apply to which village in which world at which point in time, and all the rules apply as though each of the villages was on the same world.

So now you know how the flag system works, time for some tips on how to use it.

Firstly, what is the fastest way to get high level flags? I will examine each of our methods from earlier.

1) Quests

Quests, whilst being quick to complete and easy to do, only give low level flag awards and can only be completed once per world, therefore they are not a good way to get high level flags, but they are certainly worth doing for the extra bonuses they offer

2) Awards

Awards are the fastest way to get an individual high level flag, ie. level 5, but like quests they can only be done once. They can also be harder to obtain than quests, as the Gold tier is the only tier that awards a level 5 flag.

Before the 8.6 update, the “Beloved Friend,” award was by far the easiest way to gain flags, but since then this has been changed, as it was deemed far too easy. Now none of the awards stand out as particularly easier than another in terms of the time it takes, but the ones which require the least resources and effort are perhaps the market awards (spamming 10:10 trades with a neighbour can be very efficient) and using the little known trick to get Reliable Commander.
Instead of sacrificing a unit and getting a friend to attack the village, you can in fact get this award with zero losses. Simply place a single unit (anything but a scout) in a barbarian village and send scouts at it over and over. Each scout attack will count towards reliable commander.

3) Producing Noblemen

Producing noblemen is easily the most reliable and consistent way to get flags, but it is also one of the most expensive.
If you get a single level one flag for producing a noble, that means you can combine  3 of them to get a level 2, so 3 nobles means a level 2 flag. Seeing as you need three flags to combine, for each level we multiply by three, so:

=lvl 1 flag

 lvl 2

 lvl 3

 lvl 4

 lvl 5

 lvl 6

That right there is 243 nobles

A single level 7 flag would be 729

A single level 8 flag would be 2187

A single level 9 flag through producing solely noblemen would be a minimum of Six thousand, five hundred and sixty one nobles.

The faces of all the nobles that must die for you to get your flag	SelectShow