Farming, the practice of attacking another player's city for the sole purpose of gaining resources and gold, is a major component of this game and like everything else, there is a right way and a wrong way to farm. To minimize troop loss and maximize the gold and resources gained, follow these simple rules.
- Never use a lot of troops when farming. Since the vast majority of players have their troops set to hide, sending more than a small raiding party is not only risky, it is unnecessary. I typically send 500 Heavy Cavalry and 500 Supply Wagons. This is enough to net me over four and a half million in gold and resources but more importantly, this is the number of troops I am OK losing in a raid.
- Farm when you think your target is away from their phone or asleep. I usually farm only the players who have attacked my alliance. I would like to say that I do this for purely noble reasons but that would be a lie. The real reason I only farm my attackers is because when they attacked my alliance they gave me intel on them. The report they left gives me a sense of their strength and battle prowess but most importantly, it tells me when they were awake. I know that if I attack them 12 hours or so after they attacked, I have a pretty good chance at catching them while they are asleep or otherwise inaccessible and my odds only get better if I have more than one report to study.
- Send a force large enough to breach the walls. Have you ever attacked a city with no wall defenses and no defending troops only to receive a report that you did not breach the walls? Well, here is something a lot of players do not know. Walls, like troops, have a certain amount of Life. This means that they can repel troops all by themselves up to a certain point. I am planning on running tests during the construction of my third city that should reveal these limits but until then, be sure to use at least a few hundred troops when farming to ensure you breach the walls.
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| Victorious, my attacker still gets nothing |
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| An example of too small a force |
They keys is finding idles within a minute or so of your city. Easy enough to do, simply look for those whose might hasn't changed in the course of a week - likely they have dropped from the game - send no more than 10% of your wagons and whatever troops you like if you need gold. I have 20 or so idles bookmarked who keep me completely stocked with no risk of losing troops or wagons. Good enough to get me to level 55 with 33 mln might.
ReplyDeleteYou can also check Rank to see if a player has gained might over the past two weeks. If not, I assume that they are idle and attack until I find out otherwise.
ReplyDeleteTo be honest i do it much simpler i send one wagon to a city once report comes back i see res then judge how many more to send to haul in res. This way if i hit a wall i dont lose valuable troops.
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