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Social Empires is a real-time strategy game on Facebook. It is very much like the old Age of Empires PC game.

In Social Empires, players start out with a small area of land and a town center, where they can produce villagers and start growing their empire. Players need to produce and manage basic resources while protecting their empire from trolls and other Facebook players.

Game overview:

Resources – Basic resources in the game includes food, wood, stone, and gold. Food can be produce through farming and rearing cattle. While wood, stone, and gold can be collected through mining. Players can also earn gold by killing trolls, completing quests, and of course by attacking other players.

Empire

Buildings – Several types of buildings are available to build and are generally divided into 4 categories namely – buildings, defense, attack, and wonders. Except for wonders, all other buildings are divided into 5 levels with level one be the most basic type. As a one reaches higher levels, they will become powerful enough to build and own higher level buildings. Houses increases the maximum population limit of an empire.

Units – Villagers are the backbone of an empire and they are the resource collectors. They can be produced through the town center. Troops in the

game include swordsman, archers, Knights, and siege weapons. They can be produced once you built the necessary building. Troops, like buildings, also have different levels. Troops can be used either for attacking or defending. Remember that different type of unit eats up different number of your population slot

Social factor – Social factor doesn’t come into play much except for the daily gifting, sharing bonus, and visiting each other.

Battle

Battle System – In battling other Facebook players, the attacking party can use only their attacking unit, but are able to strategize their attacks. While the defender empire has both attacking unit and defense buildings to defend, they are  AI controlled. A battle can be finalized at any point of time by the attacker. The party who has more kills when a battle is finalize is declared the winner.

General gameplay – Villagers can be selected and click on trees or resources to collect resources. The same formula works for troops. You can also select a group of particular unit by double clicking on a unit. Resources have to be clicked every time to collect. Trees and mines (stone and gold) are fixed. Once collected, they will be replenished after fixed amount of time. Cattle have to be captured first before rearing. They don’t last forever and after producing food for a couple of time, it vanishes and you will have to capture them again as they spawn on the map.

Trolls are the other inhabitants on the map. At first they are pretty harmless and won’t attack unless provoked. But, as one progress through the game more aggressive trolls will spawn on the map and will attack your empire from time to time. You will also have to take on the troll camp from time to time to complete different quest.

Social Empires World

There are several quests to complete and is an easy way to collect gold. Gold is the most useful resource and is really difficult to collect them.

Once you reach level 7, you can start attacking other players and boss monsters, which is a quick way of making gold. But, stay away from those who have good defense else you will end up more than you loot.

Conclusion:

A note: My troops also disappeared without any reason in the beginning, but that was a one-time tragedy. Also remember to explore the map because your empire is only a small plot on the map.

One big downside in gameplay is micromanagement in collecting resources. Every farm has to be clicked to collect food. To collect wood, stone, and gold, villagers have to be selected, click on the resource to cut or mine, click again to collect when they are finished. On top of that, you have to do this for each and every tree or ore. It will be great a selected villager collects a group of resource at a place by giving the command only once.

Social Empires is a nice looking game. It is fun and addictive. Quest also becomes more challenging. The game interface gives a detail statistic of your resources, population, level, and the number of trolls alive at the particular moment. You can easily zoom in and out with the scroll of your mouse. Graphic is cute and detailed and surprisingly, the game also loads pretty fast. There is nothing groundbreaking in the game but definitely worth playing.

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