I'm a noob and was hoping somebody could spell things out for me.
What is the benefit of recruiting a higher ranked hero. Similarly, what is the benefit of having a mayor?
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I'm a noob and was hoping somebody could spell things out for me.
What is the benefit of recruiting a higher ranked hero. Similarly, what is the benefit of having a mayor?
1. Recruiting
I'm not sure what you mean by "recruiting a higher ranked hero". What people focus on is a hero with a base stat of over 65. So "stat" - "level" + 1 = base stat. The higher the better. This doesn't make much difference early on, but when you advance your hero to level 350 for example... that 1 base stat point is worth the experience received from hitting 9 level 10 npc's... and worse as your progress. The best you'll usually find is a base of 69 from the inn. You can then use holy water to redistribute stat points and sometimes get higher on one stat to the detriment of the others (which is fine).
2. Mayor Benefits
The benefit of a mayor is as follows:
____A. If you have a mayor with high politics, you can build buildings quicker, fortifications quicker, and increase your production from your resource fields.
____B. If you have a mayor with high attack, you can train troops quicker. You'll notice most of the decent players on the server level a hero immensely in attack, so they can train ungodly troops very quickly. For example, once your hero has 433 attack, you can build warriors instantly.
____C. If you have a mayor with high intelligence, you can research quicker, to improve your troop and mechanics life, speed, resource production, and all sorts of yummy stuff. Even with a decent intelligence hero, the likes of Privateering level 10 can take 300 hours! (save a 30% speed-up item for this one and instantly knock of 90 hours :P) The time it takes without said mayor is too shocking for me to post here. lol.
high intelligence dose not = More Resource Production! Thats why you use a high Politics, Politics = More Resource Production!
But what he is saying is the high intel can increase research speed for techs that will improve your resource production. For example, researching lumbering will increase your lumber production and a high intel hero will cut the research time.
On Mayors: You can swap out your mayor to get the best use out of them. Put your highest intel hero in as mayor before you research and put your highest attack hero in as mayor before you build troops. After you begin the research or troop build, you can immediately switch to a different mayor (say a high politic mayor to increase resource production)--it will NOT impact the research/build time of things in progress.