Town view

The Town View has a major role in Ikariam, because there you can access, see the levels and build new buildings in the town.  The Town view is the first screen a player sees after he is logged on for the first time in the game.  Apart from your own towns, you can see the Town views of the cities infiltrated by your spies, occupied cities and cities of alliance members or garrison right partners if you have troops there.

You can access the Town view of your town by clicking the "Show Town" button in the upper part of the screen.

Building grounds

A building ground is a location in your town where you can build buildings.  There are a total of 19 building grounds, that the player can build on, located in a town.  Some buildings require specific researches in order to be built.

Town Hall building ground

The Town Hall (location #0), in the middle of the Town view, is automatically built when you start the game and when you found new colonies.  It can not be moved nor demolished and can never be downgraded after it has been upgraded.

Normal building grounds

On the 14 building grounds (locations #3 through #12, #15, #16, #18 and #19), marked with red flags you can construct almost every building, except for the   Pirate Fortress,   Shipyard,   Town hall,   Town wall,   Trading port and the resource specific buildings that do not match your islands specific resource.

Bureaucracy building ground

There is 1 building ground (location #13), in which you can not build anything, until you have research Bureaucracy.  Once Bureaucracy is researched, this location will become a   red flag (Normal building grounds), with its same restrictions .

Water building grounds

On the 2 building grounds (locations #1 and #2), marked with blue flags, you can only construct the   Trading port on one of these locations, in the beginning.  You will have to research Dry Dock, in order to build the   Shipyard or a second Trading port, on the other location.

Wall building ground

On the 1 building ground (location #14), marked with a yellow flag, you can only build the   Town wall.

Pirate Fortress building ground

On the Island, out in your bay, there is 1 building ground (location #17), that you can not see, until you have researched Piracy.  Once Piracy is researched you will see a   black flag building ground, in which you can only build the   Pirate Fortress.

Citizen events in Town view

• If you have troops in a town, you will see some troops that look like Hoplites in front of the Town hall.
• If your town is occupied, you will see foreign troops holding red flags in front of your Town hall and towards the Town wall gates (the exits of the town).
• If your citizens are happy, you will see them playing on the beach.
• If your citizens are angry, you will see them protesting in front of the Town hall.

If the Town hall is being expanded during these events, they take place in front of the building located under the Town hall.

Town backgrounds

As the level of your Town hall increases, the background of your town is changed and new features are introduced, such as roads, parks, fountains and gazebos.  These advancements have no effect in the game, but they show, aesthetically, how evolved a town is.

Furthermore, some small buildings are built in the town in which the people of your town live.

The higher the town hall level, the more other buildings appear, reflecting the increased population limit.