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Game » consists of 1 releases. Released Apr 20, 2010
Creates Siege weapons .
A Build Queue allows a production unit or structure to immediately build a new unit once the current unit is finished building.
The concept of building a single city and its respective houses/institutions (e.g. Sim City) or building cities as part of an extending empire (e.g. Civilization).
You can ally and together you can coordinate your attacks .
Countdown timer for all the events in the game. Like training, building, siege, raid , plunder , etc
Commercial servers that are run separately from the game client, their bandwidth and processing power is dedicated solely to hosting. In particular hosting multiplayer games with large numbers of players. Dedicated servers superseded listen servers, that could be set up using the player-client hardware.
Games that include a simulated economy which the player(s) can affect.
Farming is the act of growing plants and raising animals for food.
Free to Play titles allow a user to play a version of the game without paying an initial purchase fee, but generally require the purchase of microtransactions to access additional content.
A parallel projection technique used in 2D sprite-based games to fake the appearance of 3D depth.
A heavily armored soldier in the service of a lord or cause. Typically a champion of good and a defender of the innocent.
Small payments made with actual money which result in an in-game bonus, such as an extra item, character, etc...
Games which allow players to interact with others over the internet.
Units in the sea that you can loot to get resources
The act of taking on an in-game task; most often, these are provided to the player by an NPC. MMOs and RPGs are the primary users of this concept.
In MMORPGs and similar games, a raid is a (generally large) group of people working together to accomplish a goal.
The act of acquiring resources for the purpose of building structures and/or unit construction. Resource gathering is a staple of the RTS (Real Time Strategy) genre.
The assault on a city, or classically a castle, by an opposing force with intentions of conquest or pillaging. This is commonly accompanied by siege weaponry.
Game titles that are three words long, and have a conjunction or a preposition. These games usually take the form of "X of Y" or "X & Y".
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