1. Empires Online features unique gameplay. Whether you are online or offline, your empire collects resources and grows. Everything that you do is in real time. Please click the arrows to see more tips.

2. 'Honor' on the top bar shows your rough national strength, you can improve it by upgrading structures, technologies, or building armies.

3. Every players in this game are striving for power and glory, 'Rank' shows how many players are stronger than you, you need to use construction, diplomacy or even wars to help your empire grow faster to exceed them.

4. Resources are vital in this game. The quickest way to get resources is to plunder other players. Please click the button below to see our video tutorial, it'll show you how to attack and plunder.

5. Upgrading farms, silver mines, stone fields and lumbers gives you steady income of resources. Resource productions are the same as real world, they never stop even after you logout the game. 

 6. The scrolls at the left-bottom corner contains a number of bonus missions, they will guide you to develop and you can get rewards after finish them.

7. If you want to pay to speed up the development, we recommend the resource package. It gives you a lot of resources at one time so you can develop rapidly. Please click the 'Artifacts' button to see it.

8. To become a successful lord, you should login the game as often as you can. Assign armies to attack or defend strategically, schedule development plans carefully and spend resources in time.

9. Please keep in mind even you don't assign any soldier to defend the castle, your enemies can still drag one of your troops to fight. Don't leave your empire alone for days, enemies may kill your troops one by one.

10. Heroes are important in this game. They lead soldiers in battles, their abilities directly affect your soldiers combat effectiveness. Click 'Recruitment' -> 'Heroes', you can recruit new heroes.

11. Killing enemy soldiers can help upgrade heroes. If you find there is no soldier to kill in the enemy castle, just hit again, further hit can drag one of their troops to fight.

12. Killing enemy soldiers also gives you courage points. Once you obtain 100 courage points, you'll get one champion as bonus. Champion is the most powerful soldier of human.

13. If you are being hit constantly, we suggest you order the shield of peace artifact, no one can plunder you or kill your troops if you own this artifact.

14. Click 'Battlefront' -> 'Battle Log' -> 'Defense', you are able to assign soldiers to defend your castle. When the castle is under attack, they'll fight the invaders.

15. To occupy a town, you need to kill all villagers in it. The second page of a battle log shows how many villagers left in a town. 

16. The game only allows one player to own 5 accounts at most. If you want to own more than 5, the extra accounts should have any of following artifacts: Shield of Peace or Windstriter Boots.

17. With Shield of Peace or Windstriter Boots, in one account, you can hold as many as 7 towns, otherwise you can only hold two. 

 18. When you find the resource number becomes red, that means your honor is too low to hold more resources. Please upgrade structures, technogies or recruit soldiers to improve your honor.