WP - "Empire Z has five primary types of resources: wood, food, metal, oil and coins. All five of these always seem to be in chronically short supply, yet without them, your construction will completely stall, your troop training will grind to a halt, and you're stuck waiting around for your city to generate more."
WP - "Empire Z is the wildly popular new zombie-themed MMORTS that's taken the competition (such as Game of War and Dragons of Atlantis) by storm. The gameplay is most similar to Game of War, but with many nuances and strategies that make this a very original game in its own right."
WP - "Empire Z is an MMO real time strategy game in the same vein as Game of War: Fire Age, but with zombies, and with that, a whole range of new strategy that's fairly unique to this type of game. Here you will find yourself getting attacked frequently by other players, especially if you are on a server with more experienced players."
WP - "Empire Z is a game for fans of Game of War: Fire Age, who also happen to like zombies. Like many games of this type, you can get all kinds of VIP bonuses in the game, which include goodies such as free speed ups, speedy resource acquisition, troop attack and defense bonuses, and even more alliance missions."
Been playing this game everyday for over a month and the best thing you can do honestly is after you level up high enough, seek any of the top alliances in your server and join one of them this will let you 1) collect gifts from people who spend money in your alliance 2) win prizes from alliance events 3) have protection since most of top alliances have pacts or alliances with each other. Also due to this, you will rarely if ever get hit and are free to keep stockpiling resources. The game is pay to win through and through if your not in right group your just a farm for people in top alliances that pay for stats.
Other then that general advice is, at least from how I play:
1)Build as many farms as possible, I spammed the bottom half of my city with 20 leaving only one building from each resource.
2) The extra food will allow you to have more troops to collect more resources, though some people let themselves go into the negative to prioritize troops and bleed food as soon as they get it.
3)Start building troops before worrying about defenses, maximize the number of troops you have before building defenses as the extra troops will collect you more res.
4) Always leave something of everything on queue, from building, researching, to building traps and training troops. Doing this will allow you to level up while away and wont make you look slow and inactive to your alliance. Empire missions are especially helpful, they usually come from building certain buildings and can give you additional resources and level up your power depending on reward.