Well when you start out, you first want to be continuosly bought by stronger users. Each tome your hired you get money so you want to be bought a lot. After your no longer moving back and forth between owners you want to if you a free user buy talk points with nobility points at the very last thing market and send an advfor yourself that gets some peoples attention if your less than 1million you should sell pretty quick. Next you want to buy land and biuild on it then get soilders/spys and take money from other people. Then you explore some more and build and attack. Once you've got about 100,000 it's time to ally shop. You buy really cheap allys then they sell and you get money then you buy them again till they're too expensive you make money and can now buy higher priced allys. They sell you get money you buy them again them again they sell ect.. Don't worry if you don't get an ally for long allys generaly stop at arround 300,000 to 1,000,000 depending on their stats. Allys give you better attack and more plunder plus defense so you get more money from attacking. Just keep attacking and buying and you'll get rich. A less violent aproch is to do quest. You should do the easyest one a bunch because you lose less people and so you can do it longer and it has a greater success rate. Just do as I have taut and you'll be rich I no time By SirRock
Rewards on quests rise faster than the soldier loss, but it becomes more likely to fail and get no reward the more difficult the quest. Wonder if anyone has done an analysis on profit vs risk on quests yet...