The Absoulute Way to Prolong Protection On Your City After Getting Off Protection
Ok so i've been off protection for about a week and i have not been scouted or attacked EVER!!!!!! heres what i did:
Please note the following tips will help u make this happen quicker:
#1 - The longer u hold onto ur items that are worth alot the better off ur gonna be
#2 - Use the proper mayors every time. So attack mayor with highest attack will cut down on troop production time alot. same goes with politics helping out constructing buildings and intelligence for research.
#3 - Use your intelligence hero with the highest points as mayor while u are away or sleeping. This will help protect ur info while u are sleeping. more on this later on...
#4 Constantly being active the first few days and then u can cruise in the long run and not be as active... so the more hours u play at the start the better start ur gonna have... and the more everyone keeps moving elsewhere...
#5 - Save the upgrades that take the longest till the very end after everything else has been upgraded. This will further cut down the time when ur Hero is mayor and he has more points. every extra point is 1% off more from the time. so a 10 hour upgrade will take off 6 mins for every extra point (60 mins * 10 = 600 mins * 1% = 6 mins ). I upgraded the same thing on some occasions everytime it completed a level up to lvl 5. after lvl 5 the upgrades times get really long so try to get everything to lvl 5 first and then work from there. try not to have something with a very high level and have everything else low or average lvl. Only do that for informatics and beacon those are two very important elements and MUST be upgraded to higher levels ASAP.
#6 - Make ballista ASAP and Farm NPC to get alot of xp to the hero. the hero will then thank you when he gets 20k in xp in one attack and goes up like 3 levels and when u put him as mayor he's gonna reward u with an extra 3% off upgrade times just because he went up 3 levels that quick in the early levels. Nice huh!!!
#7 - Barracks, Beacon, Informatics, Walls, Construction, Engineering and Machinery are the top priority upgrades for this to work in that order. Iron Working, Military Tradition are second priority and then Military Science and Metal Casting are third all in that order.. This priority list should help u maintain a strong defense while hiding ur info as first priority and then defense.
#8 - Info > Defense > Offense - Trust me on this you'll thank me later
#9 - Right before something is done such as an upgrade, research or an order of troops switch to mayor that corresponds to what's gonna finish so he gets the xp for his efforts. that way he can further help you quicker. so if a troop order is about to complete make attack hero mayor so he can level up quicker and your gonna have to switch to that hero and make him mayor anyways to begin another order, u might aswell benefit from the xp at the same time.
Now onto the guide:
--- Upgraded the lowest times for everything i possibly could in the first few days so to raise my upgrade completion time down the road and wipe out the minimums ASAP.
--- Used up almost all my spaces on sawmills and get them producing alot ASAP
--- Around the fifth day of playing the game i decided to work the market with a lvl 2 marketplace and sell wood since that's what i was producing the most. Buying as low as possible and then sell as high as possible and then write down the price i paid or sold it for future reference. When i wasn't buying and had free time while playing i scan the market as much as i could and write down the lowest and highest prices so i know how much i expect to buy/sell it for in pending transactions. If i had all my barracks, research and buildings already working non stop, i would sell EVERYTHING of that resource and stay with a little bit depending on how much i would need to burn the resources into buildings, troops, research, etc... so i would try to keep the very minimum i could and the reason is for two reasons:
#1 It helps you make more room to buy more resources *Very Important*
#2 It makes enemies go elsewhere if they scout you and u got no resources or not enough for them to waste their time on you.
*Now i have a lvl 6 marketplace and i have as many pending transcations as possible so when the price goes in my favor i make the big money. also helps when ur sleeping too. I try to sell as high as i can then right after place a pending order for the same resource at around half what i sold it for. If after like 8 hours goes by and the order is still there i'll lower the price just a little and evaluate the going rate for the resource and adjust accordingly.
--- After i started noticing that i was bring in the profits big time i talked to my alliance members about becoming the alliances bank reserves and to have players aware that i can send them resources when they are low and that if they would be away for a while (like on vacation) to send me all their resources and troops to protect them here while they are away and at the same time profit more for the alliance. If i myself was low on resources i asked a member to ship me resources so i could keep mine in pendings and profit later on. This is good because not only do i have reserves in the market but u also profit and form trust and stuff with other fellow alliance members.
--- Now the day has come and i was out of protection and i was worried especially when i already had a few million in resources, so i just stayed low and under the radar. I decided not to attack anyone and to keep profiting from the market and began focusing on raising my defense ASAP.
--- The resources i made from the market i began producing tranporters and then i started mass producing them
--- After i had my first batch of tranporters i would attack any whales i found that had very little defense and alot of resources within my area and certain amount of prest and no alliance (i found a whale with no alliance, no defense and had 8.4m in resources and is 15 miles from me and was an easy pick up) :)
--- I Researched Informatics as quickly as i possibly could and as many levels as i could and also started upgrading my beacon too little by little but no slow either
--- After my wall was at around lvl 5 i started researching Engineering and get it to lvl 5 ASAP.
--- When i was basically doubling my resources with every sell i made and i was loaded i decided in order to protect myself i need to mass produce scouts ASAP and as many as i could so i need to build more barracks ASAP
--- After i had 7 barracks i can start mass producing of scouts and so i did. My target was to reach 10k scouts ASAP. This will help in these ways:
#1 - Scout Wars = the more scouts u have and the gate open the more protected ur info is from the enemy. 10k scouts vs 1k is a piece of cake and u kill his scouts at the same time. :)
#2 - You can do mutiple recon missions with like 200-500 scouts and locate whales and scout valleys and npc asap around you to plan ur attacks
#3 - The more scouts u have the more resources u can send someone when he's low. Yesterday i had a member who was going on vacation in 3 days and needed to build his defense as best as he could before he left. he told me he needed around 250k in wood and 250k in iron. At that time i had a little over 6k scouts. i was shipping him 44k in resources every 6mins round trip. That is very fast and he was around 45 miles from me. i shipped him a total of around 500k in resources in around 1hr 15 mins round trip. My transporters would have taken around 2.5 hours round trip to send the same 500k so i shaved half the time off and he was using those resources alot quicker than if i had sent them with transporters.
- As my defense was really blowing up now, i began really mass producing alot of archers and swordsman. my target was 1k swords and 2k archers. i built them rather quickly in a few hours with 4-5 barracks mass producing them
--- now to make this guide shorter i'm just gonna go to the end... i got out of protection on 8/27 and till this moment i have never been scouted or attacked. i'm packing over 21m in resources AFTER all my queues are full and don't stop producing troops and fortification. i have 119k in prest with lvl 8 beacon and lvl 8 informatics so to end this guide the key here is to make money in the market (i try to get double what i paid) and the make alot of scouts and have ur beacon and informatics as high as u can ASAP. the higher they are the more protected ur info and ur resources are. think of ur city as a really big storage for u and ur alliance members. i mean who's gonna attack a big fortess blind if a scout war is ur first line of defense. also if you place ur intelligence hero with the highest point in intelligence while u are sleeping you info and fortress are protected unless a really big wave comes ur way in which case ur looking at a really big massive war involving plenty of members to help guard the alliances stash. Also do realize that by working the market u will make prices skyrocket and the weaker have to spend more therefore u have the advantage and so does the alliance. If i need to add something else i will edit.
Good Luck!!!!!
