Definitely do not expand your trade ports as it only works against you. Who cares how long it takes to load up boats, except that the faster they load, the more the enemy takes from you.
Tips:
1) Expand your academy in order to get more scientists to speed up research times.
2) Raid cities called Polis(i) to get wood, send at least 5 slingers and have a boat handy. The (i) means he is inactive and has 2 days worth of goods. I donate half of the lumber pulled to the Sawmill or Mine.
3) If you raid, you need at least one Transport ship handy. A raid without a cargo ship means you will walk away with 3 units of lumber per unit you attack with. A raid with a boat will net you 60 if the defending city has no Trading Port, 200 if they have a level one trading port (More if they upgraded it).
4) Expand your marketplace and have several thousand in cash to snap up some of the stupid sales some people have. Going rate for wine is 25, yet I picked up 600 units at 2 per.
5) Most raids come by water and you can protect yourself from these raids by leaving one attack vessel in the harbor.
6) Early game asset importance is Marble then Crystals. I am at a point where Wine is more important then either as I can expand so quickly that I can buy other goods as needed.
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