Early game boredom: give me something to spend gold on, please.

[cordomontagne]

I'm still pretty fresh to the game and now I'm stuck waiting for my earnings to climb high enough to earn 10 000 gold for my ninth tile. I've got 48 gold, but no realistic use for it since buying wheat would give me less than I earn in a second and I don't have any use for wood as anything but a construction material yet.

[Ragnarr Loðbrók]

patience young padawan

Just started to play 3 days ago and i already got over 30k gold there will be plenty of things you will have to spend gold on in mid/lategame

[TSE Imperator]

I started playing and had over 50K gold in one day. It's basically about abdicating when the game starts to slow and not holding on too long.

Between that and accruing overnight it's not too bad.

[zoycite]

build temple, do rituals. each ritual is a 10% bonus to abdication gold

[Ayashi]

Originally posted by narwhal:

build temple, do rituals. each ritual is a 10% bonus to abdication gold

when u have goddes of nature active yes. (started yesterday and guess is a must have) running panth of fat chicken as heritage and goddes of nature as panth with chicken god as religion right now and should have my 100k gold together in one or 2 hours from now)

[Mc'doge]

Path of chicken is an easy grind to get the academy early. Free tiles are good.

[Ducks]

Originally posted by Mc'Doge:

Path of chicken is an easy grind to get the academy early. Free tiles are good.

Just used my first academy, and at least now, it's useless.
Each academy gives one hero which will capture one tile. And on that tile you will then construct the same building you could have put onto the tile you built the academy on instead. I'm guessing by the build costs of heroics that academies become useful later after you sailed and actually need heroic buildings.
EDIT: I take it back, didn't realise conquered tiles were permanent, so yes, Academies are great.

[Yinan]

You do not lose that captured tile when you abdicate, Lyvion!
That's what you want at the beginning. Get an Academy to get one tile and then abdicate. Now you have 1 more tile than previously. It's important to get more and more tiles after all and Academies is a good way to do so in addition to the gold (if you would only get tiles with gold it would take years to get to sail away to another contintent).

[Orrus]

In a similar situation as OP here. I have 10 tiles and need 1 million for the next. Feels way too slow and uninteresting to grind out that 1m. I'm getting around 40-50k per abdicate and I can abdicate about twice per day If I'm really on top of it.

[Ducks]

Necessarius, yeah, came back here after abdication, to edit, it makes more sense now.

[zoycite]

once you are around the 1M or 10M per tile (or before) cost, you are going to want to plan a run that is dedicated to a heritage or a mentor run. though mentor is 300k so recommended you have already purchased the 100K tile at least. Once you get beyond the 1000 battles required for a hero, the battles get much harder and you need more exp a lot faster since you wont have upgraded weapons yet.