Player’s Guide - Middle-Earth Gameplay Interface

Player’s Guide to the Middle-Earth Gameplay Interface

The following guide explains in detail the interface behind the gameplay, what each area does, and where each is located.

This area is reached by tapping on the button on the
top-left of your screen which displays your current Level, Name, and how much
Might you’ve accumulated. The top left of this section provides a House icon
which takes you back to your City. On the top right, there are two separate
icons, a Question Mark and a Gear.

The Question mark provides you with various help options
including FAQs, the ability to force a refresh on your app if you are
experiencing problems, a way to contact support, and a link to the forums here.

The Gear icon takes you to the Settings area where you can
link your account to the game using your Kabam ID. Here you can also manage sound
options, which push notifications you receive, as well as your desired
language. By tapping on “About” you can view the Privacy Policy and Terms of
Service that users of The Hobbit: Kingdoms of Middle-Earth are supposed to
abide by.

There are three tabs associated with this area, they are:
Details, Cities, Worlds

Details - This shows your current level and how much
experience needed to reach the next level. Your faction, might, alliance
position, and the name of the alliance that you are in are also displayed here.
Near the bottom you are given an option to rename your character (Cost: 90
Mithril; Initial name change is free). Near the bottom of this area provides
two additional buttons that allow you to report bugs and give you a direct link
to the forums.

Cities – This section displays information about the
city(ies) that you control. It lists the coordinates of each of your city as
well as the name near the top. Your population for the city displayed in
addition to the Food Supply and Happiness are displayed here. An option to
change your city name is also available (Cost: 10 Mithril; initial city naming
is free). Your additional cities can be displayed by tapping the “Arrow” icon
to the right of your cities thumbnail image.

World – This section displays the worlds that are available
to play on. Your current world will always appear at the top. Near each world
is an option to either “Create” or “Return”. The create option appears if you
do not currently have a city on that particular world. The return option
appears if you’ve already created a city on that world and want to “return” to
it.

City Info

This area is reached by tapping on the button which displays
the name of your city and your coordinates. This is located on the top-middle
area of the game screen. When clicking on this button you are prompted with a
window that allows you to choose one of your cities. When choosing a city from
this list, you are able to switch focus between all of your cities without
having to search for them on the world map. This allows you to easily manage
your multiple cities. At the time of this guide, there is only a 2nd city
available.

Get Mithril

This area allows players to purchase mithril packages using
real-world currency. The mithril provides the players with additional bonuses
that are not as easily available to “free” customers. Anything you can purchase
with Mithril can be obtained in-game without paying a dime, usually through the
Gollum’s Riddle game. Another method for obtaining Mithril-based items can
include: farming relics from goblin camps for the second city deed instead of
spending mithril.

The resource bar is located directly under the top bar where
the Player Info, City Info, and Get Mithril buttons are located. This section
drops down when tapped on to display all of the information regarding your
resources. Here you will see the current amounts of each of your resources:
Food, Wood, Stone, Ore, and Gold. The maximum capacity for each resource is
displayed in addition to the upkeep (Food and Gold only).

This area does NOT display base resource production values.
You must tap on your Keep and tap the “Overview” tab then the “Production” tab.
There you can view specific information for each resource by tapping on the
arrow next to them, rather than a collective production value.

Displayed within this resource bar are also Population, Idle
Population, Population Limit, Happiness, Tax, and Protection Limit. Your
protection limit is how many resources that are protected by your Vault.

To the right of each resource is a button you can tap that
is labeled “Boost”. This allows you to use various runes or other items that
allow you to increase the production of that particular resource. (Bonuses show
up just above the Boost button to indicate that you have an active boost, the
percentage of the boost, and how long is left until it expires).

Task Interface

The task interface is located near the bottom of the
Gameplay Window. It holds three tabs which contain the tasks in progress within
your city. They are: March, Train, and Building.

March – Displays your current marching troops and their
destination.

Train – Displays any troops or wall defenses you currently
have in training.

Building – Displays any building constructions or research
options you currently have going.

Beside each option will always be a “Speed Up” button. This
allows you to use items to decrease the remaining time before the associated
task finishes.

The little arrow to the right of the tabs allows you to
expand/minimize these tasks.

Global Chat/Alliance Chat

By tapping on the bar where you can clearly see chat
messages scrolling (or tapping on the message cloud on the right of the bar)
will bring up the Chat interface for the game. Here you will see two separate
tabs: Global and Alliance. Global chat allows you to speak with all players
that are currently playing in the world you’re on. Alliance chat allows you to
speak with only the members of your alliance. When viewing chat, a timestamp
will appear next to the messages of other players. This indicates when the
message was received and displayed by the game server.

Keep in mind when chatting to adhere to the specific rules
of the Terms of Service which clearly state: Please respect all players. No
profanity, hate speech, spam, or links. By not following these specific rules,
you are putting yourself in the position to be reported by other players which
can result in a temporary or permanent ban from the game, depending on severity
and how many complaints are received against you.

City/Field/World Button

This button is located on the very bottom left of the game
screen. This button allows you to switch between inside of your city walls,
your resource field, and the World map. There are three separate “dots” which
are located under the icon and “light up” depending on which screen you are
viewing. The first one is your city within your city walls, second is your
resource field, third is the world map.

When viewing the City or Field maps, you are faced with your
free spaces (or constructed building spaces) that are available for you. Just
under your Resource bar, there is a Clock which displays the current game time
in 24 hour military format (Server time – The current time where the server is
located). On the far right side, next to the game time, are buttons that
display your active buffs (your used item bonuses) as well as Promotional
events going on within the game. On the far left side, next to the game time, a
button will appear with a number next to it if you have a Watch Tower built and
are expecting incoming attacks. The number symbolizes the number of marches
incoming against you. You can tap this button and it acts as a shortcut to your
“Incoming Attacks” tab located within your Watch Tower. Often a game
announcement will block this area when you first login. Tapping on the
announcement and then closing it will reveal the missing information.

When viewing the world map, you are faced with a grid-style
map displaying what is located around your city. These can be: other players,
goblin camps, or resource production wilds. Other players are indicated by a
thumbnail of their factions’ city (Dwarves look like a mountain of stone with a
doorway, Elves look like a normal city). Goblin camps are designated with a Red
Flag.

There are 4 types of Wilds that can be conquered (See the
Wild section of the Player’s Guide to Middle-Earth City Management located
here: Player’s Guide to Middle-Earth City Management

There are a few icons at the top of the World Map as well.
There is a GPS icon which upon tapping focuses on the coordinates of your city
that you have active. The book icon displays your bookmarks. Bookmarks are
extremely helpful when trying to remember coordinates to a city, camp, or wild
that you might want to farm. There are two text fields located just to the
right of this that allows you to manually enter coordinates to focus on. The
magnifying glass focuses the screen on whatever coordinates are entered into
the X and Y text fields.

When tapping on a grid square on the World Map, you will
receive a popup window indicating what that coordinate consists of. You will
receive the Name, Might, Alliance Information, Alliance Diplomacy with them,
and Coordinates with the options to Scout and Attack (Reinforce and Transport
options instead of Scout and Attack if they are within the same alliance). On
the top left is a book icon that resembles the top bookmark button; that is
exactly what it is. This allows you to more easily bookmark a location. In the
case of player cities, an additional icon will show up on the top right of that
window. This allows you to send a mail to the owner of the city.

The shortcut icons are displayed across the very bottom of
the game screen. They are as follows:

store by using Mithril. You can also view the items you currently have by
tapping on the “My Items” section located within. The items are separated into
different categories depending on what using them does, they are: Misc., Speed
Up, Combat, Resources, Chest. These are pretty self-explanatory except for
“Chest”. The Chest category holds the chests that you have been awarded by
completing tasks or gaining levels (or purchased).

Quests – This section displays your active quests. This is
where you will need to go to view what tasks you need to complete in order to
finish the quest(s) and receive rewards from them.

Alliance – This displays information regarding your
alliance. Here you can view all of the relative information to your alliance.
There are four tabs associated with the Alliance section, they are: Info,
Members, Alliances, Reports. Info provides basic information such as How many
members the alliance has, their world ranking, how much might the alliance has
combined between all members, your current position within the alliance, and
the description of the Alliance. Higher positions in the alliance will also be
able to allow other players into the alliance, kick them out, set diplomacy
with other alliances, and view diplomacy with other alliances. There are two
additional buttons located at the bottom of the Info tab that allows you to
send a mail to everyone in the alliance or leave the alliance entirely. The
“Members” tab allows you to view all of the members in your current alliance.
This area is also categorized by “regular members” and “leaders”. The Alliances
tab allows you to view all of the alliances that exist within your current
world and their ranking. A search bar is available for you to find the alliance
you are looking for if you have its name. The Reports tab provides information
on any incoming/outgoing attacks/scout missions from or against anyone in your
alliance. You can also filter whether you see the incoming or outgoing attacks.

other players, your alliance, or developer announcements.

Each day you are awarded 1 token to play the game with (each additional Tokens
cost 5 mithril to play). After you choose to play, you are given a grid of 3x3
boxes that you are required to choose one from. Inside are random items
(sometimes a very rare item is thrown in). You are awarded the contents of whatever
chest you choose. Inside you can randomly find anything that can be bought in
the store using mithril (aside from promotional items and chests).

Train – This provides a shortcut button to your training
queue in the Barracks.

Research – This provides a shortcut button to your Research
Options within your Academy.

instead of by Alliance. (Player leaderboard is updated once every 24 hours).
There are three different available rankings you can view, they are: Might,
Might Gained, and Troops Killed. The Might leaderboard just ranks people
associated with their current might. Might gained is a collective number of how
much might they have acquired over a given period of time (All time, Current Week,
Last Week). Troops killed specify how many enemy troops that specific player
has killed (only other player troops are counted toward this, Goblin Camps or
Wilds are not counted).

settings. The other way this can be reached is by tapping the button that
houses your Player Name and clicking on the Gear icon located on the top-right.

with Facebook in order to invite friends or share the game on your Wall for
others to see. There is also an email option that can be used to refer friends
using their email address(es).

Footnote

Any additional information that I may have missed will be updated as I can.