This is a game worth playing. I have been playing this game since three years. It is a strategy game. You build your village, join a clan, make alliances, attack your neighboring enemies and grow. If you have liked playing Rise of Nations, Age of Empires, etc. you will surely like this game.
You start with a small village with the basic levels of Head quarter, Silver Mine, Treasury and Farm. You get to choose your player name and your village name yourself. The Tutorial teaches you all the basic game play you need to know.
When you start the realm, you village overview looks like as shown below. When you keep upgrading your Head Quarter, Silver Mine, Farm, Walls, Towers, Trading posts,Tavern, Stables, Barracks and Palace, your fully upgraded villages looks as shown on the right. We upgrade them to have more silver and also recruit troops faster. Your first Aim should be upgrading your Silver mine to around 32 level with HQ at level 15. Then you should focus on making troops from Barracks, Stables and Siege Workshop. 
When you visit your map to check on neighboring villages, you shall have neighbors who will be players from around the map. You shall start with same size alongside them. You will have rebel villages and abandoned villages around you for farming and fast growing. However, you should focus on bringing down a big player in your neighboring area to save yourself from any threat later in the game play. Proper planning with good diplomatic skills will help you a lot in your growth in your area. 
The two map shown gives an idea on how your map will look when you start and then with time after weeks and months, how your map will look. White color is used to represent your villages, Green will be the your clan mates, Blue shields will be your allies and Reds shall be enemies. Yellow is used for Non Aggression Pact.
You can always check your stats as well as your clan stats in your area as well as over all in the realm.
So, I would surely recommend you to get your hands off FarmVille and any other Ville. Rule the world and the play the best strategy game ever made on Facebook.
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