Game of War: Fire Age contains elements of your favorite MMORPG/strategy games. The constantly moving world of this mobile game can be compared to other mobile games, such as Kingdoms of Camelot: Battle for the North. You’ll have to keep an eye on all your town’s resources, soldiers, buildings etc. as you contend with rival armies and other harmful entities.

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This mobile MMORPG/strategy game will test your limits as you strive to strengthen your personal stronghold. After amassing a nice collection of troops and putting together a solid village for them all, we came away with 10 tips/tricks/cheats for the game.

Machine Zone launches ambitious iOS title Game of War: Fire Age after huge investment. Players can team up in alliances of 100 people and attach their alliance to a kingdom. Different kingdoms can vie for the throne, and the winner can be crowned the king of the entire game. Hundreds of thousands of players can gather in the same space in the massively multiplayer online role-playing mobile game, the company estimates.

1. The Basics Behind Game of War: Fire Age

In order to get less experienced players into the game’s basics, CheatMasters.com provided some info on the game’s basics:

Game of War: Fire Age is a building simulation and real time strategy game. Players can construct buildings and train armies that can be used for offensive and defensive purposes. There are also allegiances to join, which is especially important as allies can share resources as well as help each other in their respective tasks. Aside from working together, players can also attack each other, and the winning team will be able to gain additional resources as rewards.

2. Hook Up With A Local Alliance

Don’t play the lone wolf role during your time with the game. You’ll have an easier time dealing with rival armies just as long as you adopt some alliances. Pick the right options and you’ll have the support you’ll need in those tight situations. Alliances also help make the construction of buildings easier. Make sure you return the favor to your buddies by paying attention to the goals you see when you take a peek under the “Alliances” tab. The more you aid your alliances, the more loyalty points and gold you’ll obtain.

3. Take Advantage of Resource Fields

TouchAppPlay.com provided some tips on what you should do after building up a sizable, powerful army:

After building a decent army, look for resource fields on the map and occupy them. You will probably find quite a few unoccupied ones at first, it’s a good idea to go for them too. Also have in mind that you should go for the resources that you lack (iron for example). Interesting about occupying is that you don’t permanently own that area once occupied, just harvest it until troops get to maximum capacity and then they automatically return home with the loot.

4. Stock Up on Hospitals

It’s better to have more hospitals set up around your stronghold than tons of dead soldiers (DUH!). Hospitals help heal your troops and rebuild your defenses quicker. More hospitals means more healed soldiers and more rebuilt fortresses.

5. Stock Up on All The Resources You Find in Chests

Resources are primary when it comes to keeping all your buildings healthy which in turn keeps your soldiers healthy. Some of the buildings you end up constructing can also produce resources. You can obtain resources by opening up chests and playing the in-game lottery. These resources don’t directly move over to your overall resource pile; they go to your inventory in the item menu. Keep some of these resources stockpiled in your items menu so it won’t have a higher risk of being stolen from your resource pile.

6. Take Advantage of The Game’s Peace Period By Building Barracks and Hospitals

Modojo.com posted some beginner tips that prove beneficial for the start of the game:

You immediately enter a peace period at the start of the game, but it won’t last long. Make sure you create plenty of hospitals and barracks, and have the necessary number of troops needed to fend off attacks. Once the period ends, you can bet someone will come for you.

7. The Red Dotted Lines Indicate The Future Presence of a Rival Army

Modojo.com also spoke about the meaning of those red dotted lines that you may spot around the game’s world:

Watch out for red dotted lines. This indicates that a rival army is about to take over that territory. Let them move in and do their business. Once they do, and if they don’t overtake the area, you can easily move in and finish the job. Watch your numbers, though.

8. Choose Quests That Have Better Rewards

The better the rewards, the better the quest! Don’t always pick the quests with higher levels. Just pick the quests that award you with the resource rewards that you really need. If you’re desperate to get the right resource items for your operation, pick lower level quests that have them.

9. Hide Your Troops in Empty Areas With No Resources

WriterParty.com put together a couple of tips that should keep your favorite troops alive:

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Another way to hide troops from getting attacked so that you don’t even have to use the hospitals is to occupy an empty area of land with no resources (thus, something that nobody else will want to attack) and send any troops there that you want to hide. Send them back whenever you need them for defense, or simply attack other players from the encampment.

10. Pay Attention to All The Recipes You Have in Your Forge

The more daily requests you complete, the more crafting items you’ll procure. Put those crafting items toward the new item recipes you’ll see in your forge. Duplicate items can be formed together to produce new items, which leads to new item recipes.

If you have any extra tips and cheats you’d like to contribute to fellow Game of War: Fire Age players, throw them in the comments section!

After more than a year of effort on its biggest game yet, Machine Zone is launching its free-to-play Game of War: Fire Age today on Apple’s iOS platform. Among the features is an automatic translation engine that allows players from different countries to communicate and band together in alliances. That enables global gameplay and a chance for one player to literally rule the world.

Everything is built to facilitate mass battles with an unlimited number of participants fighting in real time. Players can team up in alliances of 100 people and attach their alliance to a kingdom. Different kingdoms can vie for the throne, and the winner can be crowned the king of the entire game. Hundreds of thousands of players can gather in the same space in the massively multiplayer online role-playing mobile game, the company estimates.

“We wanted to put an incredible number of people together in the same world, and we invented the technologies to make that happen,” said Gabriel Leydon, the chief executive of Machine Zone, in an interview with GamesBeat. “This is a sign that mobile is becoming a more mature game platform.”

This kind of investment could become the norm as mobile games such as GungHo Online Entertainment’s Puzzle & Dragons bring in $110 million a month in revenue. That title is so successful in Japan that GungHo is valued at $15 billion. But Leydon wants to witness the birth of truly global mobile games.

Advanced technology

The multiplayer empire-building game requires you to construct a city, raise an army, feed it, craft weapons, and forge alliances with other players. It is similar to titles like Kabam’s Kingdoms of Camelot, but Leydon said that the company tried to raise the bar in making a next-generation mobile game.

The parallelized group chat translation system is capable of taking phrases in chat and translating them on the fly. For phrases that it doesn’t understand, it farms the job out to players, who can do the translation themselves. If they participate in correcting the translation, the players can earn extra goods like silver, food, ore, and alliance loyalty points.

The company spent more than a year crafting the game, using funding that it raised from venture capitalists. Besides the real-time translation engine, Machine Zone also built a sophisticated communications platform into the game. Players can send threaded emails, text chat, make comments, and share their feats on social forums. That creates sophisticated political intrigue, from spying to 24-hour defenses. Now it’s harder for someone to catch you off guard while you’re sleeping or working.

“It is very social,” Leydon said.

Machine Zone also made the game so that it plays in real time. That involved beefing up the company’s server resources and software. The 2.5D graphics (viewed from an angle from above) look pretty.

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The title is an exclusive for the Apple iPhone, iPad, iPad Mini, and iPod Touch. Past games include iMob 2, Original Gangstaz, and Global War. All are role-playing games that earned followings among hardcore gamers, giving Machine Zone more than 40 million downloads. But the graphics were primitive, and the games didn’t truly have global audiences.

Rivals like Kabam and Kixeye are sure to be working on their own ambitious games.

“We really want players to get a feel for what it is like to rule over real people,” Leydon said. “The whole game is about servicing that goal. Because the people in your alliance are real, the pressure is more intense.”

Empire-building gameplay

The company has been testing the title for months in countries such as France, Singapore, Australia, and Mexico, where it’s been a top-grossing title. At any given time, you can see a lot of activity, with icons for armies moving across the page as players send their citizens out to harvest farms or their armies out to seize strategic points such as wonders. If a faction holds a wonder for six hours, they will own it for the next three days. Owners of wonders can fight for the throne of a kingdom. Each kingdom can have tens of thousands of players. And their owners can fight for control of the entire game.

In contrast to games like Kabam’s The Hobbit, you can see the armies move and watch the action on a strategic level. The game stops short, however, of depicting animations of actual battles. Each player has a hero who helps them in combat, but another player can defeat a rival in battle and capture a hero. The player who lost the hero can put up a bounty for some to retrieve the hero. Then an alliance can launch a fight to rescue the hero. Such incidents stir the pot, creating enemies and friends across the game. In an alliance store, you can earn currency that you would normally have to pay for.

A team of about 80 people on Machine Zone’s roster of 95 employees built the game over 19 months or so. In that sense, the title’s budget is as big as many console titles from the last generation. The team watched the players in the beta and iterated on features. The title is built on a thin client that can be updated and fixed rapidly. Over time, the company will add dynamic events.

“We effectively built a real-time Facebook network and added a game on top of it,” Leydon said.

So far, the results are good. On average, players engage with the game two hours a day, 14 hours a week. They play 10 12-minute sessions per day. Players are incented to join alliances. Leydon said the game can be “reskinned” for other genres now that the platform has been built.

“We’re finding that mobile players have more time to spare than they thought if the game is good,” Leydon said. “I want this to be the best online game experience, period.”

Here’s a video of the game below.