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wealth (resource buildings) and knowledge (support buildings) on allocated tiles that may increase by age. The next tab is the task tab, which displays ongoing tasks that need to be done. The last tab is the empire tab, which gives tables of resource income, lists of army garrisons and ability to toggle tax.
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Reactor, for 24 hours against the rest of the server; including other players who are also building their final wonders. Success was depended not only on raw military power, but diplomacy and politics is also essential to gather allies and manipulate enemies to fight each other. Once the final wonder
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Whilst there is clearly still time for you to finish your current journey through the ages one final time, I would like to take this opportunity to introduce another tactical strategy game in the Jagex portfolio. If you enjoyed 8Realms then I think you'll probably love War of
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and your settlements. In the overworld, the user can view and interact with settlements and garrisons of other empires, as well as barbarian-held tiles which can contain resources or luxuries. In settlements, the user may build or upgrade buildings, which divides into control (military buildings),
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Time and tide wait for no man - and time has run out for you. Over seven arduous Ages, you have grown a humble settlement into a fine and proud empire. With the completion of a wonder to get into the future age, the hour has come for your empire to join so many others in the annals of
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