Once you had enough ressources you would learn new technologies which could increase your production levels or enable you to learn new units for your armies. When I entered my city I understood I had to build houses as quickly as possible (the more people live in my city the more money I get in) and then it was all about building up ressource production, that is food, wood, stone and ore. You simply touch a treasure chest and can win items, ressources and special abilities. Loved the beginning because the daily came in directly and it was Gollum himself who offered to play a game with me. Pretty straightforward and I dived right in. Legolas tells you will have to erect different kinds of buildings to get ressources, start developing technologies and build up an army. You get a quick tutorial on what to do and that is very basic, indeed. You start by chosing to be an elf or dwarf but this does not really make any major difference only the architecture seems to be different. The screenshot loading gives you a very nice cut-out from the map of Middle-earth, assets are being loaded and the game begins. Play a game with Gollum: Tons of treasure chests on his island Downloaded it, easy-peasy, and started playing. I wanted to play The Hobbit: Kingdoms of Middle-earth (KoM) for three reasons: it’s free, it’s a mobile economic sim and it has Tolkien stamped on it. Why this introduction? To show you I’m not a total n00b (and yes, I also dabbled in some browsergames, from time to time – the last one was Goodgame Empire) but that for me, having bought my first smartphone only months ago this would be my first ever mobile game to play. This game opened up the opportunity of playing online, with other players from all over the world and I quickly did so (the same with Battle Realms, Stronghold, Empire Earth and The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth), becoming a household name for quite a few games as ‘Macrobee.’ You may note from the name of some of the games that I am a RTS gamer (real-time strategy) and have only dropped out of in recent years because I went for World of Warcraft instead where I have been kicking some butt as a healer and pvp mage. I have never been much of a console player but have always appreciated playing them (C&C, man, yesss!) but I think I really started playing for hours on end with Age of Empires. Ah, the good old days □ Anyway, through the years I nevers stopped playing, including GameBoy, the PS1 and then PC’s when they finally managed to get away from the 8-bit-sounds and pixelated graphics. The first (and to this very day probably the best gaming computer ever) was the C64 – alongside an old Atari 2600. I have been a gamer as long as I can remember.
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