This means that with the same amount of buildings your road/building ratio will be always better with the Town Hall in the middle, than in the corner. Yes, you also need crossroads to use all the space, and that makes a middle-TownHall even better, because you need less of them.

Reward expansions are unlocked by researching certain technologies in the technology tree or rewarded upon the conquest of certain provinces on the campaign map.

Defense boost for City Blue Shield = Defense boost for City (defending) Army.

The nuts and bolts of a successful city is production. Only if you produce enough coins and supplies will you be able to get the newest buildings and military units. Be sure, though, to have as many residential buildings and production buildings as possible, since they give you your main income.

Efficiency Table

And put streets on both sides to save. Space. Speaking of optimizing space it's a good practice to place your biggest buildings at the end of the street. Towards the periphery of your city.

How to Get Coins?

1. Residential Buildings. Each residential building produce different amount of coins - some take minutes, while others can take as long as one day.
2. Special Buildings. Many special buildings produce coins.
3. Great Buildings.
4. Quests.
5. Guild Expedition.
6. Events.
7. Incidents.
8. Aiding.

Absolutely although it will take more time to get there. You win diamonds by completing GE each week and by completing normal quests so there is no need to spend real money to get them. I have never bought diamonds but players do and you can usually spot them.

This building gives the player a chance and ability to double resources collected in the first few buildings (excludes collection of Military Units from Military Buildings, Great Buildings and the Town Hall), and provides the player with Medals every 24 hours.

The crown is shown next to the name of the best guild member. This is the player who got the most points in the last competition. There can only be one best player in each guild.

Arrange your buildings in columns or rows, and put all buildings with the same width together. For example, all the buildings having (3x3) area should be in the same column or row. Also, every building needs to be connected by a road to the Town Hall in order to function.

Auto-battle all the time. it saves a ton of time and effort. When auto-battle either does not lead to a win or too many lost troops, Or some circumstances (an opponent with a pile of Rogues) then manual battle.