Tutorial - Start of a Goldentowns town (First steps)

Check out part 2 here!

When you have registered your account in Cashtowns you start with 6 houses, 6 production buildings (one of each raw), 1 town hall, 1 Warehouse and 1 graveyard. Your main focus should be to get your houses to level 10 as soon as possible but you gonna have to see this as a long term goal and you have to develop you town in many different stages before you can achieve this goal. 

What should I start with?

1. The first thing you should do in my opinion is to start with the production of wood, stone, vegetables and food. Iron and clay is not needed in the beginning of the game.

Tutorial - School is important!

After some changes in the game where specialists changed from being trained in their respective buildings to being trained in the school the school became immensely important for every town big or small.

The school works a lot like the town hall with the difference that you train specialists (doctors, cooks, hookers, etc.) instead of unskilled workers (normal citizens). It takes the school 24h to train a specialist so you should plan in advance and be able to see when you need one. (Like everything else in cashtowns ;))

Nice drawing eh?

New rule changes from admin (27/2 - 2013)

Just came across these rule changes on the CashTowns forum. These are some small rule changes for the game but in my opinion not that bad at first glance.

Quoted from the forum:

"1) all buildings must be in the area of the required maintenance buildings in order to be renovated. Up until now many upgraded the houses, demolish all administrative buildings and build other buildings in their place.
I think this is a good change, it will make life harder for those who have gotten that far in the game but I think this is how it should work when you think about it.

2) all towns that have houses that are NOT in the area of their required administrative buildings will loose happiness points. This measure was taken because there are some towns that have the initial 5-6 houses at q10 and no administrative buildings surrounding them. Since the initial buildings do not require renovations, the first rule would not affect them.
Again, this is probably how the game was intended to work from the start.

3) all towns must have 100% happiness in order to sell workers/soldiers.
Another change to prevent the market from dropping encouraging new players to buy raw's.

4) Also starting today the population bonus is increased from 0.001/citizen to 0.005/citizen. This will help small towns to grow.
This is now a proper bonus that will get you some real gold amount even if your town is a bit smaller! Nice one!

5) also a bug that required q10 roads in order to renovate q10 houses was fixed.
Nothing to say, bugfix, good.

6) also the school's display bug is now fixed (the images were not accurate)
Incredible annoying bug that finally has been fixed. Personally I lost a building because of this and that is freaking frustrating!"

All in all, good changes! Nice to see the game progressing after a few weeks of nothing.

Tutorial - Basics of Goldentowns - Which country should I choose and why is this important?

So you are pumped? Ready to play and earn some real money? Easy there sailor, if you want to make some real cash in this game you have to be patient and know the game. So I hope this tutorial will get you going!

First, I want to say that the rules of the game are changing sometimes when the devteam are making updates so when you read this some things may have changed. But anyway...

New browser based strategy game that you can earn real money in

For those of you that are familiar with the idea of earning some extra cash on the internet this is probably nothing new and for those of you that are anno1777 veterans or some other browsergame where you have the possibility to earn real money this will be very familiar. But anyway there is a new game out there from the makers of anno1777. It's called CashTowns and are only in ALPHA version at the moment (4/2 -2013) but it has already got a couple on thousands of users and are some of them have already started to cash out some money.

 The game is expected to go into full version in a couple of months and anno1777labs (the makers of the game) are expecting the users to storm in and so will the possibility for you to earn some extra money while having some fun at the side! 

 This blog will focus on giving you the help and tips you need to get started and settled in CashTowns, if you have any suggestions or anything to say, please do! If you like strategy games and enjoy the challenge of making some extra money this is something to check out! 

You wont need any invite or nothing like that just sign up and start --> CashTowns