My Lands: Black Gem Hunting

Probably, but I don't know it... From 3 to 6 months...

The cost of Mapping Science: lvl 1 - 2 000 lvl 2 - 3 000 lvl 3 - 5 000 lvl 4 - 10 000 lvl 5 - 20 000 lvl 6 - 40 000 + 100 BG lvl 7 - 100 000 + 300 BG However lvl 1 is enough to participate in tournaments. The thing is that tournaments will be later in the game, when the server will be older. And don ...

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Only one thing, the gold cities are in the Desert. I know you know it, it's just a little mistake, but you should correct it

The first wave is only to weaken the ruins but it must be defeated. If you win, ruins disapear. As an esquire as you are, the single attack is all you need, maybe even better than two. Two wave attack is not usefull till 4 stars...

I think that now you can become an apprentice even if you have lvl 5 main building, but before your first robbery.

Come on, obviously he just try to help. He didn't write as long posts as you but I think his advice has the point. It's impossible to answer all questions you can add (how to look in game, how to write in game directly...) in first post and sometimes is better to answer briefly. At least for me ...

Kuroo wrote: ...
That means they have the protection of the ancients ... your spies ... they are all going to die.
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That is not true. Ancients don't have anything to do with spies.

I'm sorry but a can't agree whit you Kuroo. 1. On beginning it's better to build more buildings than upgrade to high. It's cheaper and you always can destroy them when you need space. For example I have my cities full of labs lvl 2 and thanks to that I have income of science over 2000. And the ...

It's simple: You look at cost of science (in "bottles") and divide it by your income of points (per hour) of science ("bottles") and you get time in hours.

Is that what you asked?

No problem

If you don't know something and you cant find it in encyclopaedia or here, try UK forum or any other. This game is longer in Europe then in US so there is lots of questions asked and answered ;) For example this one I found in CZ forum, so I add link and you can try to translate it with goggle or ...