Market

The market is a relatively cheap investment with relatively large advantages, making it a smart build early in the game. It will allow you to:

• Trade excess resources with tribe members (or other players) for extra or needed resources. This can secondarily help to build or strengthen alliances, and gives you bargaining power when trading.

• Increase your merchant capacity. At this stage, it’s also a good idea to upgrade the market when you have extra resources to keep it trending upward and to further increase trading; make sure that you only update your market when your Barracks and Stable already have a steady queue.

Of note: The balance here is really important.  With the above comment in mind, it’s generally a good idea to get your market to level 10 before the players around you enter the nobling stages, but before you invest in a level 15 smithy.  But, as previously stated, do not level up your market at the expense of having proper defenses. The market is a wonderful resource and strategic upgrade, but use it wisely or it can be a downfall.