Well since Ive noticed a few people owned the game I decided to make a thread about it. Me and a few friends have played against each other recently and wondered if anyone else would like to join us sometime.

Feel free to throw your own tips out there as well.

Heres a few tips to jump start your economy.

Fill empty positions in economic buildings, Like farms, Universities, Woodcutter camps, and Mines.

Dont worry about Advancing with your opponents. If needed its ok to be 1 age behind them, this will give you a fighting chance if war erupts.

Only create enough citizens to fill your empty positions and build. Usually 2 Idle citizens will do the job unless your building a fort, tower, or wonder. Right before advancing to the Information age create around 6 extra to get a jump on those oil reserves.

Usually once you hit the Enlightenment age you should have a steady income of resources, if not now would be a good time to start. Demand for metal, food, and wood will only increase from here out.

If you are in a dire situation dont be afraid to turn your citizens into militia, minuteman, or partisans depending on your age. Only use this on Defensive situations because citizens turned unto military units suffer SEVERE attrition damage when entering enemy territory regardless of Supply Wagons.

Rare resources provide benefits although they might not seem like the rewards are great it helps capping certain resources

Most game types start you with a scout (2 if your the Spanish) use these scouts to your advantage and set them to auto explore

For focusing on economy I find it easier to play as the Germans, they receive the ability to build granary's and sawmills earlier in the game.

If your more of the Warring type I would personally choose the Russians. They provide a good attrition to your opponents for defense while packing a special unit for almost every age. The T80 tank and shock Infantry are very useful units in the information age.

hey I like Rise of Nations.... for newbies play on the easiest difficulty to get the hang of the game

What nations your favorite?

the Aztecs... I like them a lot.. whats your favorite nation?

I prefer the Americans. But recently ive taken to the Germans.

cool.... you ever played rise of nations: rise of legends?

Yep love it. Although some complain it doesn't live up to the expectations that Rise of Nations set before.

I like it too.... it got me off the addiction of Age of Empires III.....

LoL every time I play RON I'm concerned that I wont remember the basics of it because Ive played to much Age of Empires III.

lol... I have played Rise of nations and I still know the basics to AOE III

Ive only recently started playing AoE 3 as you could tell by my lvl 43 British home city. Anyway got any more helpful hints and stuff for beginners. Also I know more people own RON on the RS forums...cmon people!

try playing on a small map if you can.. also have your scout explore the map to get an advantage or two..... have merchants gather the rare resources too

God, i haven't played Rise of Nations in a while, but boy, i loved it, its expansion is a must, adds so much more to it.

If you like EPIC, GRAND battles, theres some mod, a RoN:TaP , which allows for a population limit of 600, though the bots don't really use it, whilst you can have as much as you please, though on occasion, i've felt the opposing AI has used +200 pop, which is fun as heck.


If your in for a ton of fun, though your in for a long battle, choose the east indies (if i remember) map, set it to max players, from the first age to the Modern Age (i find the information age a tad too hectic + th superpowers impose rushes to the super power), with diplomacy on, and enjoy having a fun, destructive battle against your enemies and allies, i find it great to end near the Renaissance/Enlightenment with going all out and take a couple cities from EVERY ALLY you have (i usually have 1 or 2) then rejoin them as allies (which means your going to have to pay alot to get back their alliance, but you'll be grateful because once the modern age hits and your constantly battling your ally(ies), you'll be happy your enemies now are undercapable at combatting you.

yeah.... I usually do the "no rush" rule until the gunpowder age in most games

I usually play with Diplomacy mode. And when I send a request for an Alliance and they reject I just roll in there with 5 artillery units and just destroy everything. But I dont take the city just destroy the buildings and leave.

heh..... I usually take the cities but they are reclaimed by the enemy eventually

Anyone here wanna play with me and some friends? If you have AIM i can contact you with that and give you the IP and time.

Aren't you nice.



I don't think my game is playable online, since i have the changed the population script. Sorry Echo.

Its cool We almost have enough to do 3 on 3 that would be awesome.

By this weekend i'll have RoN:TaP on my new PC so i might still be able to play with you guys.

Sweet if it works out right and you can play it should make for an amazing game