Empires And Allies Government Buildings - What Are They For?

Empires and Allies government buildings - what is their purpose? Can you ignore them? Can you NOT afford to ignore them?

The whole point of these government buildings is to limit the rate at which you can expand. To unlock features in the game such as higher level buildings, you need to increase your population. But at any given time, your population is always limited. You can see in the lower left hand corner what your current limit is. So how is the limit set?

Your limit is determined by government buildings. You need to build the next one to raise the limit that you can expand with houses. Unfortunately, government buildings usually cost a lot of coins AND a lot of wood. In fact, as the game progresses, you will find that the wood limitation gets quite annoying.

This is why it is important to build enough lumber mills. Don't find yourself out of wood when you need it most. Wood is more important than oil in this game (at the moment anyway). Wood and coins are both important, don't worry too much about oil.

If you want to know a whole lot more then I strongly recommend Chris Coolridge's amazing guide. I used it and was able to get to level 27 in just 3 days! Before that I had spent a week getting to just level 6! You can check out his great strategies here: Empires Conquered.