Location

From mykingdom pedia :


 * "My Kingdom is a location-based game and your location in real life determines your location in the My Kingdom world. You will see a Google map shine through the My Kingdom world map, so you can see how the two are linked."

From the forum :


 * (Pendragon) The location is determined by your iPhone that uses cellular towers and Wi-Fi hotspots as a fallback if you can't get a good satellite fix, but if you've got clear line-of-sight to the sky, you should be able to get a pretty accurate location fix from the actual GPS receiver. The cellular towers are only used to speed up the lock-on process (hence the use of the term A-GPS, for assisted GPS).


 * Indoors, on the other hand, you're relying on nearby Wi-Fi networks or, in the absence of those, on a very inaccurate cellular tower fix (which usually results in the "GPS position may not be accurate" warning message in the case of My Kingdom).


 * (Yxe) The location system from the iPhone works in 3 steps:


 * 1) Quick Locate by using 1 telco mast
 * 2) Locate more precisely using 3 telco masts
 * 3) Find an accurate location using the slower GPS system.


 * If you open up the maps app, you can see the speed and usage of these 3. Just locate yourself on the maps app and you'll see the dot with a large transparent circle around it (1 - 1 mast), a few seconds later the circle will shrink (2 - 3 masts) and at last it will disappear entirely (3 - GPS)

The game world is divided in regions, counties and then area's.

Tiles
A location is based on a tile or square of which you'll always see 9 on screen. When the tile is black, no one has ever visited that location, when it is faded, some one did. In the latter case chanses to find a treasure are reduced as well (this is an assumption, not confirmed though).