Premium

Premium is a feature of the game which allows a player to gain certain advantages in-game through the use of various advisors, reducing the time it takes to build buildings, train troops, and research at the Academy. It also allows you to gain Culture Points, and summon the Phoenician Trader to a city of your choice. Each of these features costs gold. The follwing will explain how to acquire gold, and also the benefits of the premium features.

Gold

There are a number of ways in which you can acquire gold. Each of them is different and provide different amounts. They are:

• Purchasing it
• Earning it
• Inviting a Friend

Purchasing Gold

Once you open the Premium window, you will see three tabs - Use, Buy, and Advantages. Under the Buy tab, you will be able to select the amount of gold you wish to purchase. Make sure that the currency is set to your currency. You will then be able to select the method by which you want to make the purchase. After that, you will just need to follow the steps and once the transaction is complete (this usually takes no more than a few minutes) you should receive a report letting you know that you have been given your gold.

Earning Gold

Just like buying gold, you will start the process through the Buy tab in the Premium Window. However, instead of selecting the amount you wish to purchase, you will click on the Earn Your Gold Coins button. This will bring up a list of all of the current offers available. This is done in cooperation with SponsorPay, an outside company which then credits your account with the gold. Please be aware that sometimes this can take longer than directly purchasing the gold. However, once credited, you will receive a report letting you know that you have the gold.

Inviting a Friend

This is a new feature and allows players to invite new players into the game. New players are defined as those who have never played the game before and do not currently have an account on any other worlds. Should the invited player reach 1000 points, then the player who recruited them into the game will be given 200 gold for their efforts (Players who share an internet connection will not be able to collect this reward). There are three ways in which you can invite a new player to the game: by email, with a direct link, or through banners on websites.

Email & Direct Link

With these options you can choose whether to start your friends in a specific location of your choosing, or to allow them to start in a specific direction or randomly spawn a city. The methods are fairly straight forward and allows a player to begin their journey with Grepolis almost immediately.

Web Banners

Web Banners work differently as these are not directed towards a specific person. As any player can place a banner for the game on a website, the banners are specific to that person and carry the link which identifies the inviting player. This method does not allow the inviting player to choose the location of the new players, but can allow a player to earn more gold as more people will see the link.

Advisors

Advisors
Administrator	Merchant	Priestess	Commander	Captain

Under Premium on the sidebar, you will find the option to enlist the help of 5 Advisors in the game. Each of these advisors provide you and your cities with various benefits. In order to start using these advisors, you will need to have enough gold in your account to activate them.

Administrator

Administrator

The administrator supports you during the development and organization of a huge empire. With his help you can add 5 additional building orders to the building queue, and receive detailed resource, troop, trade, culture, gods, caves, and city overviews. He will also grant you access to the Quick Bar as well. This advisor becomes active after you gain a second city as a promo to experience the features available with it.

Quick Bar

This bar is quite useful and probably the single best reason to activate the Administrator. The bar is completely customizable and can be edited with a wide variety of java scripts to give instant access to different parts of your city.

Advisor Overviews

Trade

• The trade overview helps you to send resources between your cities quickly. You can see current trade activities in your cities and can also sort your cities according to the various products traded. An intuitive drag-and-drop feature makes this very easy.

Command

• The command overview shows you all of the current activities in your empire. This can give you a quick summary of how your commands have been executed. You can also cancel any erroneous commands here, if your troops have not moved too far along yet.

Recruitment

• This overview will give you a summary of how many units are stationed in which city, what resources are available there, and how much additional population you can feed. You can also train new units and build boats with just a few clicks. The more cities a ruler owns, the more time they will save with this overview.

Troop

• Here you can see an overview of your troops and check in which cities your barracks or harbor are idle. You can also see how many resources and available population you have in your cities.

Troops Outside

• Here is where all the cities you have sent troops for support are listed. You can recall individual troops or all your troops to their native cities by clicking on them.

Building

• The building overview helps you get a quick summary of the developments in your cities. You can see your current resources in the individual cities, along with the costs of the individual buildings. With just one click, you can construct new buildings or demolish old ones.

Culture

• The culture overview gives you a summary of the cultural developments in your cities. You can see your empire's cultural level and any current festivals in your cities. In the culture overview, you can also initiate new festivals with one click.

Gods

• In the gods overview, you can see information on the gods worshiped, favor of the individual gods, and temples and statues in your cities. You can also cast spells on your cities quickly and easily. That way, you can always have an eye on the gods of your empire.

Cave

• This overview displays all your caves. It allows you to conveniently distribute your silver coins in your cities.

City Groups

• In the city group overview you can create groups and can assign your cities to them. That way you can always keep an eye on your most important cities, no matter how large your empire gets. You can get details about your individual cities, such as information about available resources or the troops you have stationed there. Once you have selected a group, the other overviews will only show you the cities in that group.

City List

• The city list will show you all of the important information about your cities at a glance. You can instantly see if there are attacks on any of your cities or whether any buildings are currently being constructed. You can monitor your resource capacities and control your troop size. With this list, you can always keep watch over your empire and are able to react quickly.

Merchant

Merchant

The merchant optimizes your economic cycles. He increases your base resource production by 30%.

High Priestess

Priestess

The High Priestess has an especially good relationship with the gods. She increases your favor production by 50% and supports your mythical units. Your mythical units fight 20% stronger.

Commander

The commander enjoys the highest regard among your troops. He is able to increase your troop's motivation even further, so land units fight 20% stronger.

Captain

The Captain is an experienced seafarer who has already defeated many enemy fleets. His experience is a valuable enhancement of your naval battle force, so naval units fight 20% stronger.

Attack Planner (2.0)

The captain also comes with an Attack Planner (2.0), so that you can organise attacks easily and share them with your allies.

Cut Building Time

Next to your advisors you also have the option to instantly cut a building's construction time in half, this will cost 20 gold per use.

Cut Recruitment Times

As of version 2.07, you also have an option to instantly cut recruitment times in half, similar to how building times are cut. However, there are some limitations:

• You may only use the "cut recruitment time" feature a limited number of times for each group of units being built. A complex formula is used to work out a non-reduceable time, which must remain after using the "cut recruitment time" feature. This formula is:
  • (Units building x "20 seconds")- *lapsed time to push reduction* = unreduceable time

Note that the 20 seconds is dependant on world speed. For example, on speed 2 it will be 10 seconds and so on.

Cut Research Times (2.0)

You may now cut research times in half, similar to how you cut building times in half. This costs 20 gold per use.

Summon Phoenician Trader (2.0)

You may also summon the Phoenician Trader instantly to one of your harbours. This costs 50 gold.

Olympic Games

Olympics

Furthermore, you have the ability to hold the Olympic Games. The Olympics can begin in the Culture Tab of the Agora and will cost 50 gold, however you need a Level 30 Academy to begin. The Olympics will contribute towards your culture points, which are required to conquer and found other cities.