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Coordinate Alliance City Buffs for Maximum Efficient Progression

City Buffs in Infinity Kingdom are a powerful but often underutilized tool that can significantly impact the progression speed of an alliance. With the right coordination, alliances can optimize building speed, technology research, and dragon upgrades, allowing their members to advance faster while saving valuable speedups. In this guide, we’ll cover how and why alliances should coordinate these buffs efficiently to maximize progression.


Understanding City Buffs and Their Importance

Across Norheim, there are multiple cities that provide buffs to enhance progression efficiency. While some cities offer combat buffs, we’ll focus on the ones that grant economic progression buffs, which include:

  • Building Speed Buff (+3%) – Reduces the time required for construction upgrades.
  • Technology Research Speed Buff (+3%) – Speeds up research, allowing faster unlocks and upgrades.
  • Dragon Upgrade Speed Buff (+3%) – Reduces the time needed for leveling up dragons.

Buff Distribution in Norheim

  • Dragon Upgrade Speed Buff Cities: 19 total, 3 also provide combat buffs.
  • Building Speed Buff Cities: 13 total, 4 also provide combat buffs.
  • Technology Research Speed Buff Cities: 11 total, 3 also provide combat buffs.

See complete list of all cities and buffs on the bottom of this guide.

Since combat buffs apply to all alliance members, but economic buffs only apply to the mayor, strategic distribution is essential for efficiency.


Strategic Coordination of City Buffs

1. Distributing Cities Among Alliances

To ensure all active alliances benefit from city buffs, the strongest alliances should control cities with combat buffs, while the remaining cities should be distributed among other active alliances. This ensures:

  • Top alliances retain an edge in combat while maintaining economic efficiency.
  • Mid-tier alliances have access to valuable speed buffs, improving server-wide progression.
  • No single alliance hoards all buff cities, promoting server balance.

2. Setting Up Communication for City Buff Requests

To maximize the use of buffs, alliances should establish a dedicated communication channel for city buff management. This ensures that:

  • Players can request a buff before major upgrades.
  • Officers can quickly assign mayorship to the requesting player.
  • Players return the position after activating their upgrade.

A simple chat format could be:

📢 Request: “Please assign me Dragon Buff for my upgrade.”

🔄 Officer Action: Assigns mayor position and tags the player.

Player Response: Starts upgrade and immediately steps down from mayorship.

3. Assigning and Rotating City Mayors

Since only one player at a time benefits from the mayor’s buff, quick transitions are key.

  • Officers should check requests regularly and promptly assign mayorship.
  • Players must release the role immediately after initiating an upgrade.
  • Officers now have the ability to remove inactive mayors, ensuring smooth rotation.

4. Understanding Buff Activation Timing

Unlike combat buffs that apply continuously, economic buffs only need to be active at the start of an upgrade. This means:

  • Players do not need to hold mayorship for the entire duration of an upgrade.
  • Once the upgrade starts, the buff locks in, and the player can vacate the position.
  • Another player can then request the buff, ensuring maximum efficiency.

5. Leadership Responsibility and Long-Term Benefits

While this requires some attention from officers, it is not difficult to manage. The long-term benefits include:

  • Consistently saving speedups for every alliance member.
  • Faster individual progression, leading to stronger alliances overall.
  • Better coordination between alliances, strengthening server-wide cooperation.


New Officer Controls: Removing Mayors

Previously, players had to manually step down from mayorship, leading to bottlenecks when someone forgot. However, a recent game update now allows officers to remove players from the mayor position, ensuring a smooth transition when another player requests the buff.


Final Thoughts

Properly managing City Buffs can provide a huge advantage for alliances willing to coordinate. By setting up efficient communication channels, distributing cities strategically, and rotating mayors quickly, alliances can drastically reduce upgrade times, save speedups, and grow stronger together.

🔥 A well-organized alliance is a powerful alliance! 🔥


City Buffs List

A detailed list of all cities and their buffs can be seen below to help alliances plan their strategies effectively.

🏰 Coordinate, optimize, and dominate Norheim! 🏰

CityAlliance wide buffMayor buff
AnemoiFood Production +3%Building Speed +3%
AuxoFood Production +3%Dragon Upgrade Speed +3%
EuporiaFood Production +3%Tech Upgrade Speed +3%
HesperusFood Production +3%Tech Upgrade Speed +3%
MezasmateFood Production +3%Healing Speed +3%
NereusFood Production +3%Healing Speed +3%
SeleneFood Production +3%Dragon Upgrade Speed +3%
TritonFood Production +3%Dragon Upgrade Speed +3%
PhosphorusFood Production +3%Training Speed +3%
AnahitaHealing Speed +7%Training Speed +3%
AnuketHealing Speed +7%Healing Speed +3%
AquiloHealing Speed +7%Healing Speed +3%
CarpoHealing Speed +7%Building Speed +3%
DamiaHealing Speed +7%Training Speed +3%
JordHealing Speed +7%Healing Speed +3%
KayanohimeHealing Speed +7%Training Speed +3%
ManagarmrHealing Speed +7%Tech Upgrade Speed +3%
ThiaziHealing Speed +7%Dragon Upgrade Speed +3%
KratosImmortal Attack +4%Dmg by Spearmen +5% 
NyxImmortal Attack +4%Dmg by Cavalry +5% 
PhilyraImmortal Attack +4%Dmg by Shieldmen +5% 
BaldrImmortal Attack +6%Dmg by Cavalry +5% 
DaphneImmortal Attack +6%Dmg by Spearmen +5% 
PauahtunImmortal Attack +6%Dmg by Shieldmen +5% 
Dark MinervaImmortal Attack +8%Dmg from Cavalry -5% 
Gallant VulcanImmortal Attack +8%Dmg from Shieldmen -5% 
Vigorous SilvanusImmortal Attack +8%Dmg from Spearmen -5% 
ErelimIron Production +3%Dragon Upgrade Speed +3%
EunomiaIron Production +3%Building Speed +3%
HaomaIron Production +3%Training Speed +3%
BrizoIron Production +5%Building Speed +3%
CochabielIron Production +5%Tech Upgrade Speed +3%
EaIron Production +5%Training Speed +3%
SiriusIron Production +5%Training Speed +3%
TohilIron Production +5%Tech Upgrade Speed +3%
EiarStone Production +3%Dragon Upgrade Speed +3%
MyesyatsStone Production +3%Training Speed +3%
AudhumlaStone Production +5%Dragon Upgrade Speed +3%
AuxesiaStone Production +5%Tech Upgrade Speed +3%
ChicomecoatlStone Production +5%Dragon Upgrade Speed +3%
JokullStone Production +5%Building Speed +3%
NingalStone Production +5%Healing Speed +3%
PlutusStone Production +5%Healing Speed +3%
AdonisTroops Attack +4%Training Speed +3%
AllocenTroops Attack +4%Dragon Upgrade Speed +3%
NottTroops Attack +4%Building Speed +3%
PotamoiTroops Attack +4%Tech Upgrade Speed +3%
SelvansTroops Attack +4%Healing Speed +3%
TyrTroops Attack +4%Training Speed +3%
ArtemisTroops Defense +3%Healing Speed +3%
CenticoreTroops Defense +3%Training Speed +3%
JammTroops Defense +3%Building Speed +3%
MandragoraTroops Defense +3%Healing Speed +3%
OureaTroops Defense +3%Tech Upgrade Speed +3%
ThrymTroops Defense +3%Dragon Upgrade Speed +3%
PersephoneTroops HP +2.5%Building Speed +3% 
TishtryaTroops HP +2.5%Building Speed +3% 
TycheTroops HP +2.5%Dragon Upgrade Speed +3%
BritomartisTroops HP +3%Training Speed +3%
DryadTroops HP +3%Training Speed +3%
IreneTroops HP +3%Tech Upgrade Speed +3%
AramazdTroops Training Speed +5%Healing Speed +3%
EgeriaTroops Training Speed +5%Healing Speed +3%
EndropTroops Training Speed +5%Training Speed +3%
ErebosTroops Training Speed +5%Training Speed +3%
GavielTroops Training Speed +5%Dragon Upgrade Speed +3%
GirtabluluTroops Training Speed +5%Dragon Upgrade Speed +3%
NinsarTroops Training Speed +5%Building Speed +3% 
OrthosiaTroops Training Speed +5%Dragon Upgrade Speed +3%
PherusaTroops Training Speed +5%Tech Upgrade Speed +3%
PhthinophoronTroops Training Speed +5%Building Speed +3% 
SachluphTroops Training Speed +5%Building Speed +3% 
ThalloTroops Training Speed +5%Tech Upgrade Speed +3%
AstraiaWood Production +3%Dragon Upgrade Speed +3%
CharonWood Production +3%Dragon Upgrade Speed +3%
EosWood Production +3%Building Speed +3%
LughWood Production +3%Dragon Upgrade Speed +3%
NdauthinaWood Production +3%Dragon Upgrade Speed +3%
Silvery Mt.Wood Production +3%Healing Speed +3%
SophielWood Production +3%Training Speed +3%
DiceWood Production +5%Dragon Upgrade Speed +3%

Published: 19-03-2025