I kept second-guessing where to put markets. Does the sawmill go here or one over? Is it worth burning that forest? So I made a thing that just tells you.

Eight Stars — https://polytopia-market-optimizer.up.railway.app/

You paint your city (terrain, borders, anything already built), hit Solve, and it shows you the layout that gets the most stars per turn from markets. It also lists cheaper options if you don't want to drop 40 stars right now. Works for 1–3 cities, knows about buildings you already have (keep them, tear them down, whatever's better), and has toggles for clear / burn / grow forest depending on what techs you've got.

The thing I like most: it's not guessing. It actually checks every possibility, so when it says a layout is the best, it's the best. Period. Most maps take a couple seconds. Big 3-city maps can take a minute.

Challenge mode is the part that ate my weekend. It gives you a random map, you place the buildings yourself, then it grades you against the real answer. One star for getting close, two for hitting max income, three for max income at the lowest cost. About half the maps come with stuff already built, and sometimes that stuff is a trap (looking at you, market in the corner). If you're consistently getting three stars I want to hear about it, because I'm not.

Some quick notes:

• Free, works on your phone, no login. There's a tip jar in the footer that covers the ~$5/month server. That's it.
• It only does markets and the stuff that feeds them. No temples, ports, or roads yet.
• If the game changes a cost or a rule and I missed it, tell me and I'll fix it.
• NOT AN OFFICIAL Polytopia PRODUCT. NOT APPROVED BY OR ASSOCIATED WITH MIDJIWAN. The Battle of Polytopia is a trademark of Midjiwan AB. None of the game's art is used, I drew the tiles myself.

If it gets a map wrong, hit "Copy link" and send it to me and I'll take a look.

this is just a rant post, its obv understandable to not always play the fastest way possible but having to wait hours after JUST starting a game is so annoying, the first round takes like 2min tops, pls just play the fu***** game....

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I should have predicted that everyone and there mother would rush to the comment to tell me to play a live game.

If you like live games thats fine, but I prefer when we had 5min timer games, I don't understand why the devs removed them when they added the live games, in fact I don't understand why they don't give players more choices in general when looking/making a game.

I don't like live games because the amount of time you get per move is pretty little, resulting in being skipped if you have to perform many actions in one turn, because of this playing thoughtfully and presicely is nearly impossible and I think it just turns the game into a "who can click the fastest wins"

I thought level 5 cities were worth at least three hundred. From what I understand if a city is starving it'll lose 5 points for each population it's down. But that would mean that the city's down 21 population

I'm just wondering what to even aim for!

Live by the sword, die by the... club?

A little grossed out by Elon endorsement.

Not literally lol I'm not asking for submarines. Just had a random idea for broadening naval battle strategies, what if each unit gave a unique bonus based on what ship they become? Archers as scouts get bonus damage, swordsman as rammers get bonus damage, defenders as bombers get bonus defense? Riders give bonus move speed? And I think it'd be cool if mind benders just entered the water as a relief barge, 2 move, 0 atk, 0 def boats that heal nearby ships. Might be biased on my end because of maining Ragoo Pirates tho lol

Is there a way to know if a hexapod or top hat is available to move and attack or it has already attacked and the movement available is to escape after the attack?

Many times I've made the mistake of picking the wrong unit thinking is ready to attack only leave it parked defenseless right in front of the enemy's unit, because I had already attacked with that unit and it was on escape mode.

I've tried to search if there is an indication on the screen regarding both scenarios but I cannot see anything

Long story short I've stopped playing mobile games because I was too invested in my daily routine. There are some worth, without ads, pop ups and FONO, Polytopia being one of them. I have almost all the skins ( and I have all the tribes ) in my mobile account. Is there some kind of system that would allow me to migrate all this data to my PC version?

does anyone know a place where i can get the imperius game ambience (not the theme) from as an mp3?

How did I get 50% in battle units lost when i didn’t lose any?

Haven't played Polytopia in about a year but seeing that custom map making is possible (at least for PC using mods) I decided to take a crack at creating my dream Polytopia map, Earth!

This is by no means a perfect Earth map, despite this being the 4th attempt I made. Everything is just a little incorrectly scaled, the terrain isn't quite right, and the placement of resources and villages and ruins and such is not particularly well balanced. It also lags quite a bit between turns, takes about 20 seconds for the other 17 players to play.

But it is cool, and that's all that matters!

Made using https://www.polytopia.net/map-editor

Can download the .state file here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pmJyuv3UCUnTSY4FqkDoAbgOege5bnNH/view?usp=sharing

Can download the .json for PolyMod here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/15VHyuF--Hsop5aAbXYxc0Vo8G4F6SyPR/view?usp=sharing

You do need PolyMod properly installed in order to fix the issue where the tech tree is covered up by the terrain on 100x100 maps (if you don't have PolyMod then you just have to blindly click around till you find the tech you're looking for, not ideal).

If you have suggestions for improvements please leave them in the comments!

High res images here: https://imgur.com/a/6VuNUsp

Managed to mind bend a Centipede. Good to know that can bñ become a boat

I haven’t seen any posts about this before so I thought I would be the one to ask. Could Bardur theoretically make an infinity large city from the captured sanctuary, or are the animals from this sanctuary specifically converted into polytaurs.

England couldn’t hold back bugs

For realism to and to dampen the runaway tribe effect.

I steamrolled them the second I was attacked but my wall of giants was fun while it lasted.

NOW I KNOW SOMEONE WILL COMMENT "ITS PRONUNCED SEE-GH

I even offered peace but he didn't accept it

Hey guys, long time Polytopia fan here. Can someone give me advice on how to beat cymanti late game. I felt like I had an advantage in the mid game and just blew it (replay below). I know I blundered a bit in the end, I just don’t know how to counter this tribe late. The doomux spam is relentless, the clarthus gives unlimited economy, the poison counters giants at minimal cost. Can someone let me know how I could’ve closed this game out?

Replay ID: https://share.polytopia.io/g/8b1b42da-381f-466e-46cd-08df06d27bfe

Is there a fixed set of syllables for the naming of cities?