Ikariam Plus

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Ikariam Plus will allow you to lead your empire to unknown wealth - you will just need a little ambrosia, the food of the gods, and your advisers and workers will work even harder for you!

The following extra functionality becomes available once you purchase Ambrosia , the in-game resource purchased with real cash.

For the different ways to gain or acquire : see Ambrosia

Summary of the Ikariam Plus features

Basic options

You can choose any of the following features:

Ikariam Plus Feature	Cost in	Duration
17th Island building space	250 to Colonize	Instantaneous
17th Island building space	400 to Move Town	Instantaneous
Accelerate loading process	4	Instantaneous
Archive Messages & Reports	1	Instantaneous Permanent
Automated Trade Routes	10	7 Days
Complete Instantly	Varies by build time 2 - 74	Instantaneous
Composition of approaching fleets	1	Instantaneous
Find a Treaty Partner Find partner for cultural goods	3	Instantaneous
Get resources 10%	Varies by town Varies by amount of resources	Instantaneous
Get resources 50%	Varies by town Varies by amount of resources	Instantaneous
Get resources 100%	Varies by town Varies by amount of resources	Instantaneous
List of Players with Available CT's	3	Instantaneous
Mercenary Transporter	5	Instantaneous Per delivery No matter how many Ships are used.
Move Town	200	Instantaneous
Naturalise Barbarians	10	Instantaneous
Padlock	14	7 Days
Premium Account	10	7 Days
Premium Trader	5	Instantaneous
Resource production Steam Saw	10 for	7 Days
Resource production Steam Wine Press	3 for	7 Days
Resource production Steam Hammer	8 for	7 Days
Resource production Steam Sulphur Paddle Wheel	3 for	7 Days
Resource production Steam Crystal Drill	5 for	7 Days
Resource production Potion of Wisdom	14 for	7 Days
Resource production Cauldron of Wisdom	126 for	70 days
Shorten Building Time	Varies by build time 2 - 74	Instantaneous
Spartans	89 for a package of 300 Limited quantities Limited dates	Instantaneous
Steam Lifter	24	7 Days
Triton Engines	2 for 2x	Instantaneous Per delivery No matter how many Ships are used
Triton Engines	4 for 3x	Instantaneous Per delivery No matter how many Ships are used
Triton Engines	6 for 4x	Instantaneous Per delivery No matter how many Ships are used
Ikariam Plus Feature	Cost in	Duration

Get resources! options

Instantly purchase resources for your town

Resource	Options	Cost in	Duration
Wood	Add 10% of total storage capacity	Varies	Instant
	Add 50% of total storage capacity
	Add 100% of total storage capacity
Wine	Add 10% of total storage capacity
	Add 50% of total storage capacity
	Add 100% of total storage capacity
Marble	Add 10% of total storage capacity
	Add 50% of total storage capacity
	Add 100% of total storage capacity
Crystal	Add 10% of total storage capacity
	Add 50% of total storage capacity
	Add 100% of total storage capacity
Sulfur	Add 10% of total storage capacity
	Add 50% of total storage capacity
	Add 100% of total storage capacity

Resource production options

You can choose any of the following features:

Ikariam Plus Feature	Resource	Cost in	Duration
Steam Crystal Drill		5	7 Days
Steam Saw		10	7 Days
Steam Sulfur Paddle Wheel		3	7 Days
Steam Hammer		8	7 Days
Steam Wine Press		3	7 Days
Potion of Wisdom		14	7 Days
Cauldron of Wisdom		126	70 Days

Details of the individual options

Naturalise Barbarians

The patch-notes, posted on the forums, call this feature Civilized barbarians.

On the EN community servers, this feature is called Naturalise barbarians.

On the US community servers, this feature is called Naturalize barbarians .

Image	Option	Description	Cost
	10	Purchase 10 citizens	10 and 200

If you do not have enough Ambrosia or Gold then you will see the following image:

Notes

• If your town needs less than ten (10) citizens to maximize its population then you will be pay 1 and 20  per each inhabitant needed to fill the town to its maximum population.
• You must have at least ten (10) ambrosia and 200 gold before you can use this option, even if you need less than 10 citizens to fill your town to its maximum population.

17th Island building space

This building ground, made of solid granite was created by the gods themselves. Beyond that it does not offer you any more advantages in comparison to other building grounds. Either way, everyone who is planning on settling here should have an adequate amount of Ambrosia available.

Option	Description
Move town to <Island>	This is a premium building ground. It will cost you 400 Ambrosia to move a colony to this building ground.
Found a colony on <Island>	This is a premium building ground. It will cost you 250 Ambrosia to build a colony on this special building ground. The colony will be founded immediately, the remaining travel time will not apply.

Note

• If you delete or move your colony from this location, then it will be free for you or anyone else to purchase this spot again, if you or they have the required to perform the action..

Archive Messages & Reports

Price: 1 per message or report
Duration: Permanent

You can store a message, battle report or spy report longer then normally by clicking the "Save in archive" button at the bottom of that page or message.

Premium Account

Price: 10

Duration: 7 Days

Always being informed of all activities within your empire and having full control over your subordinates is the challenge that any good leader faces! That can all be done a lot easier - with Ikariam PLUS!

Constructor's Overview

The town overview of the improved town advisor gives you three completely new overviews over your entire empire´s economy.

• At a glance you can see where the citizens of your empire are working
• The satisfaction in all towns is shown on one screen
• An overview of the stock inventory in all towns and the level of the mining deposits on the islands
• Direct links to all towns and their mining deposits
• The expansion level of all important buildings such as the Town hall for all your towns!

Military Overview

As commander-in-chief of your troops you have an overview at the General of your entire armies and fleets as well as their respective costs in upkeep.

• Your entire available army in one overview - check out where your units are stationed and how many units you can take into battle with you!
• The entire upkeep costs per hour based on unit type or total!
• Have it shown where the greatest costs lie and optimize your army! Statistics on land units and ships available.

Research Overview

With the research overview you can convert knowledge into actual power! Complete overview over your expenses!

• Observe the academy levels and assigned researchers in all of your towns!
• Cost accounting for all researchers!
• Direct links to all Academies!

Diplomacy Overview

In diplomacy, just as in war, accurate and actionable intelligence reports are the foundation for any well thought-out decision. You´ll find all that you need in this overview!

• All active spies in all towns in one overview!
• Check directly what mission was completed last, where your spies currently are and when they will be done with their missions!
• The current risk of being caught for all your spies - find the most camouflaged spy in the target town with only one look!
• Direct links to the spies' home towns to immediately give them new missions!

Building construction list

Players that have an active Premium Account can put up to four building jobs in the building construction list. These buildings will be built one after the other. Jobs in the building list can be canceled at any time. The building costs will only be taken from your account when the building has begun.

Longer Godly Protection

Players that have an active Premium Account are safe from being attacked until they reach Level 7 of their Town hall, instead of Level 5 with a standard account.

More notes capacity

Players that have an active Premium Account can save more text in the menu item "Notes" (8,192 characters instead of 200).

Bigger world map shortcut list

Players that have an active Premium Account can put up to 25 island shortcuts besides theirs in the World Map Shortcut List, instead of 5 shortcuts that come standard.

Premium Trader

Price: 5 per exchange

Duration: Instant

Using the Premium Trader you can exchange your resources for other types. The Premium Trader is a simple slider: Both wood and luxury resources are traded 1:1.

Premium Trader Usage

Let's say you have:

18,000 , 100 , 3,000 , 0 , 0

and you want some to upgrade your Academy.

You can slide or type 2,000 in the marble box (any number, but something less than your current max for Marble), then you can slide or type 1000 in the Crystal Glass box (or hit the Max arrow button). Now, you have 2,000 and 1,000 (2,000 + 1,000 = 3,000). Maybe you don't want to use the Marble. Then, you can use wood at a 1:1 trade: slide or type 16,000 in the wood box, then slide 2,000 in the Crystal Glass box. Here, you have to use 2,000 to get 2,000 luxury. Of course, the numbers are up to you, as long as the gains and losses equal zero. This means if you take 1,432 , you have to put 1,432 somewhere else.

Hitting the Max button (the triangle that points to the right) on a slider gives you all that you can convert for that resource. Hitting the Min button (the triangle that points to the left) of the slider sets that resource to 0. You must give up some resources before you can add to others. To be sure you've allocated everything, hit the "Max" button on each resource before clicking the "Trade (5 Ambrosia)" button.

You can Set all to 0 which can help you allocate from scratch, and you can "split equal" which makes equal levels of all resources. Some might not like the "split equal", because of having little useless remnants of resources after upgrade purchases.

• Note: When you hit the "Trade" button, you will be charged 5 , even if you have changed nothing.

Premium Trader Tips

• When using Trader to convert for sale/profit, be mindful of what you can actually sell your luxury for. If the marble is plentiful, it is more likely to be cheaper than you think.
• A large Warehouse increases the efficiency of the cost of the Trader. It is unwise to overlook a full complement of to enhance Trader efficiency. Even Wood purchased at 10  is a 20  luxury wholesale cost.
• A large Trading post will help as well. Don't stop at level 16, especially if you are interested in making the most money from your goods. Remember: Every odd level of the Trading post increases your trade radius.
• While it may be overlooked, increasing your Trading port enables you to trade faster by increasing loading speed. Don't forget to spend some of your profit to buy more (cheap) wholesale goods for conversion to retail goods, as well as buying more Cargo Ships.
• Don't convert all of your wine to another luxury. Running out of makes your citizens unhappy.

If, for instance, you're trying to pay for a Palace or Governor's Residence and are ready to use the trader, it is highly recommended that you have at least 500 more than is required for the Palace or the Governor's Residence.

Get resources!

Instantly purchase resources for your town

Building Materials

You need a resource quickly? Fill up your warehouse here immediately!
Select your resource:       <destination town>

Wood	Resource options	Duration	Cost
	- Fill up storage capacity by 10%.	instant	Varies by amount
	- Fill up storage capacity by 50%.
	- Fill up storage capacity by 100%.

Wine

You need a resource quickly? Fill up your warehouse here immediately!
Select your resource:         <destination town>

Wine	Resource options	Duration	Cost
	- Fill up storage capacity by 10%.	instant	Varies by amount
	- Fill up storage capacity by 50%.
	- Fill up storage capacity by 100%.

Marble

You need a resource quickly? Fill up your warehouse here immediately!
Select your resource:         <destination town>

Marble	Resource options	Duration	Cost
	- Fill up storage capacity by 10%.	instant	Varies by amount
	- Fill up storage capacity by 50%.
	- Fill up storage capacity by 100%.

Crystal Glass

You need a resource quickly? Fill up your warehouse here immediately!
Select your resource:         <destination town>

Crystal Glass	Resource options	Duration	Cost
	- Fill up storage capacity by 10%.	instant	Varies by amount
	- Fill up storage capacity by 50%.
	- Fill up storage capacity by 100%.

Sulfur

You need a resource quickly? Fill up your warehouse here immediately!
Select your resource:         <destination town>

Sulfur	Resource options	Duration	Cost
	- Fill up storage capacity by 10%.	instant	Varies by amount
	- Fill up storage capacity by 50%.
	- Fill up storage capacity by 100%.

Enhanced resource gathering

Steam Saw

Resource	Ikariam Plus Name and Bonus	Duration	Cost
	Steam Saw You will produce 20% more building material on all islands when you use your steam saw.	7 Days	10

Steam Hammer

Resource	Ikariam Plus Name and Bonus	Duration	Cost
	Steam Hammer Whilst using the steam hammer, all your islands will produce 20% more marble.	7 Days	8

Steam Sulfur Paddle Wheel

Resource	Ikariam Plus Name and Bonus	Duration	Cost
	Steam Sulfur Paddle Wheel While you use your steam paddle wheel, all your islands will produce 20% more sulphur.	7 Days	3

Steam Crystal Drill

Resource	Ikariam Plus Name and Bonus	Duration	Cost
	Steam Crystal Drill While you use your steam crystal drill, all your islands will produce 20% more crystal.	7 Days	5

Steam Wine Press

Resource	Ikariam Plus Name and Bonus	Duration	Cost
	Steam Wine Press While you use the steam wine press, you will produce 20% more wine on all of your islands.	7 Days	3

Potion of Wisdom

Resource	Ikariam Plus Name and Bonus	Duration	Cost
	Potion of Wisdom (10 Day)   While under the influence of the potion of wisdom, you will produce 20% more research points in all of your Academies. This doesn't increase the research points you gain from an experiment!	10 Days	35
	Potion of Wisdom (30 Day)   While under the influence of the potion of wisdom, you will produce 20% more research points in all of your Academies. This doesn't increase the research points you gain from an experiment!	30 Days	85
	Potion of Wisdom (60 Day)   While under the influence of the potion of wisdom, you will produce 20% more research points in all of your Academies. This doesn't increase the research points you gain from an experiment!	60 Days	135

Notes

• The duration of each bonus is calculated in real time from the moment the click is registered. Additional clicks merely add time to the countdown clock, and can be purchased without losing the existing purchase time.
• If you go into vacation mode, the clock still ticks down on your enhanced resource gathering, and you effectively lose some of the bonus that you've paid for because your workers stop harvesting.

Using the enhanced resource gathering bonuses, you will receive 20% additional resources on each of your islands that produce those goods. The 20% bonus is calculated from your base production.

• Bonuses are cumulative, not multiplicative. Example: Βase production of 500 per hour + a Level 5 Stonemason (10% increase) + Enhanced Resource Gathering bonus (20% increase) = 500 + ( 500 * 0.1 ) + ( 500 * 0.2 ) = 500 + 50 + 100 = 650 per hour.

Move Town

Price: 200 each town movement
Duration: Instant

Using this feature, you can move a town to wherever you want as often as you want (no cool down). Only condition is that there is no event on the city (army, navy or transport, neither yours nor from anyone else). You can move a town from the "Colonize" screen, so find the spot you want to move to, and then select the city to move there.

Notes

• If you move your town to an island with a different luxury type and you have a luxury boosting building already in your town, that building will stay in your town, but becomes useless.
• Any donations that you made to your old island will remain in your donation score, but will not transfer in any way to the new island. If you later move back to your original island, your earlier donations will show up there again.
• You may still move a town in this way even if you have spies in transit, their transit times will just be adjusted accordingly when you move.
• Your capital can be one of the towns that moves.

Accelerate loading process

Main article: Accelerate loading process

Completes the loading of cargo ships at that port.

Shorten Building Time

Main article: Shorten Building Time

Reduces the normal build time of a building level by ½.

Complete Instantly

Main article: Complete Instantly

Completes the building level after ½ the normal build time has been completed.

Steam Lifter

Image	Name	Duration	Cost
	Steam driven Lift Truck The new steam lifter will offer you 100% more storage capacity in all your Dumps and Warehouses. If the steam lifter expires, you will lose all goods in excess of your normal storage capacity.	7 Days	24

Using this feature, you can double the amount of resources stored in the town by the Warehouse, the Dump and the Town hall for 7 days.

Notes

• If there are more goods stored than then what will fit in your smaller warehouses when the function expires, all surplus goods will be lost!

Padlock

Image	Name	Duration	Cost
	Padlock (10 Days) All your warehouses will gain 100% increased theft security on all goods.	10 Days	35
	Padlock (30 Days) All your warehouses will gain 100% increased theft security on all goods.	30 Days	90
	Padlock (60 Days) All your warehouses will gain 100% increased theft security on all goods.	60 Days	150
Image	Name	Duration	Cost
Note: The phrasing "All your Warehouses will gain 100% theft security on all goods." does NOT mean you will have 100% theft protection. It means that the Warehouse protection amounts are doubled or 2x their normal protection amount.

Automated Trade Routes

Image	Name	Duration	Cost
	Using this feature, you can set up a transport of resources between towns of your account, executed every day at the same time - for a week. The route can only transport one type of resources. You get the option to set a transport a trade route at the "Transport goods" screen Note: First trade route is free	7 Days	10 per route

Mercenary Transporter

Price: 5 per transportation
Duration: For one transportation, as long as it takes

Some seafaring man would sail to the end of the world to get a bit Ambrosia! You are able to charter transporters for 5 Ambrosia to sail with your fleet and increase your transport capacity significantly.

Using this feature, you can double your existing quantity of Cargo Ships for one transport action.

• This appears to be a very expensive Ikariam Plus feature, as its duration is likely to be less than a day. In contrast, even if the Trader is instantaneous, it can also save over a week worth of gathering goods. There are only a few opportunities that make Mercenary Transporter a practical expense.

List of players having available Cultural Asset Treaty

Price: 3 each time you order the list
Duration: Instant

Using this feature, you can get a list of maximum (number of free slots you have available * 5) players that have an available Cultural Asset Treaty, online in the past 5 days and not in vacation mode, and make offers up to (number of free slots you have available * 3) players. You can also set different criteria about the players to whom you want to offer cultural treaty agreement (eg. players located next to you, far away from you, etc). This feature is avalable in the Museum.

Composition of approaching fleets

Price: 1 each time you order the composition of the fleet
Duration: Instant

Using this feature, you can find out more information about the composition of army or fleet that is attacking, and also for the exact amount of each resource or unit is being sent to your towns using Cargo Ships.

Triton Engines

"Triton Jets" redirects here.

• The patch-notes posted on the forums refer to this option as Triton Jets.

It will take the Normal 20 minutes per island location, excluding diagonals. (0% reduction - 20 / 1 * 60 = 1,200 seconds)

It will take 10 minutes per island location, excluding diagonals. (50% reduction - 20 / 2 * 60 = 600 seconds)

It will take 6 minutes 40 seconds per island location, excluding diagonals. (66% reduction - 20 / 3 * 60 = 400 seconds)

It will take 5 minutes per island location, excluding diagonals. (75% reduction - 20 / by 4 * 60 = 300 seconds)

These engines are crafted in Triton, son of Poseidon's, temple and can be mounted on the outside of our trade ships.  For a fair Ambrosia donation, Prometheus will fill the engines of all ships used with a divine fire from Hephaestus' forge, which will drive the ships across the seas with divine powers.

Notes

• This option is additive (not multiplicative) with Draft, the Temple of Poseidon and/or the Sea Chart Archive, if they are also used to increase your Cargo Ships speed to transport resources.
• Triton Engines (Triton Jets) can not be used with soldiers.

Find a Treaty Partner

If you click on the Museum then you will notice the following image in the pop-up window on the left:

Small - Left window options

This option will then give you these options in the pop-up window on the right:

Big - Right window options

Depending on which options you choose; will give you one of the following:

Missing Treaty partner-1.png image

Missing Treaty partner-2.png image

Missing Treaty partner-3.png image