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    Default bad advice in World chat

    I am sitting there cranking out troops in all 6 barracks
    and I see this in world chat

    do not open your gates until all wall defenses are full

    it was actually from an alliance host probably meant for alliance chat
    we all know how that goes the cursor is blue the tab says alliance chat
    we get black output and lose a speaker

    anyways I sat down and did some math

    decided to use current construction speeds and figure it would take longer
    if I considered I couldn't begin until I had trap tech

    15000 slots for defs
    1/2 hour for 25 average

    thats about 60 mins for 50 defs

    or 300 hours at continuous production
    12.5 days to fill 15000 slots and I have been playing for less than 4

    so i guess with the great defs I already have
    and the great leader with attack and int in the high 70's unbuffed
    and the 43k /hr food consuming army I have standing
    I should what just close the gate and let someone get a FREE shot
    at my gold and resources?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Xeander View Post
    I am sitting there cranking out troops in all 6 barracks
    and I see this in world chat

    do not open your gates until all wall defenses are full

    it was actually from an alliance host probably meant for alliance chat
    we all know how that goes the cursor is blue the tab says alliance chat
    we get black output and lose a speaker

    anyways I sat down and did some math

    decided to use current construction speeds and figure it would take longer
    if I considered I couldn't begin until I had trap tech

    15000 slots for defs
    1/2 hour for 25 average

    thats about 60 mins for 50 defs

    or 300 hours at continuous production
    12.5 days to fill 15000 slots and I have been playing for less than 4

    so i guess with the great defs I already have
    and the great leader with attack and int in the high 70's unbuffed
    and the 43k /hr food consuming army I have standing
    I should what just close the gate and let someone get a FREE shot
    at my gold and resources?
    Even if u open the gates, if those guys are hitting you with over 100K troops, there's not really much u can do. So it's a choice of two bads, either u lose resources or you loose troops AND resources.

    There is a way around attacks that size. Dump all your resources on the market, offer them for extreme HIGH prizes, that u are certain of no-one will accept, after the attack withdraw the offer. Same with gold, offer to buy a resource at an extremely low price, no-one will fall for that, but your gold is in limbo and not in your city, after the attack, withdraw the offer and you're back up.

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    Its not bad and not good you need to find a away of playing that is good for you

    some people find that with there defence there army can kill more

    but the cost of all the troops out ways ur cost recorces losts

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    Yea this game is kinda funky. At many times I found preserving your army is more important then the city. Just let the city burn until he get enough of an army to fend them off lol.

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    100 k troops??
    all i have seen is report of our 4-5k members being hit by SPK and sisters with
    20k warriors and transporters

    so far from what I have seen the game is bash the noobs

    I want a real fight

    no one has actually even scouted me

    I stand the biggest town in my area and all the rest were there
    when I started a few days ago

    simple game to learn I suspect a tad simple to hold many players interests
    over many eras

    I find it hard to understand some things

    If the gate is closed how does the attacker reach the TH where the gold is kept?
    with warriors?? who scales the walls? who breeches the keep?

    Why are all the troops in barracks in the town?
    Shouldn't those troops be outside the walls?

    In real world castle combat the archers and leaders stay inside the walls
    most of the battle was OUTSIDE fought with axes shovels and pitchforks

    and its nice i can build 15000 archer towers for defense but really shouldn't
    there a be a slightly lower amount ?? seeing as even the best defended castle of all times Helm's Deep in LOTR had a total of 7 archer towers

    there is also a flaw in the title quest system if you reach 16k prestige the acquiring of rose medals is all but impossible

    meaning if you build quickly and complete quests quickly you will be trapped with 2 cities waiting on medals you don't get anymore

    So basically i spend every moment online fighting battles and getting no medal
    or a lion medal
    I have tried all level valleys and flats and a few NPC towns
    nothing rewards with a rose medal since passing 16k pres yesterday morning

    I only created an account to look at the client and game mechs before considering if I wanted to apply for position on the development team.

    At first I thought nice .. a little Travian a little Age of Empires and a little Tribal Wars

    but no I feel like there is none of that in this game at all

    its a system where messaging cost more than using a cell phone

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    heard now the market trick is useless, now if you are plundered the market transactions are cancelled and the raider gets the loot .....
    "Experience is a hard teacher as she gives the test first, the lesson afterward"

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    i always leave my gates open lvl 9 walls in most cities and full of defenses but my army eats over 3m food per hour

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    lol hungry buggers I make mine earn their keep...
    "Experience is a hard teacher as she gives the test first, the lesson afterward"

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    Stowing in the market was 'fixed' in last content patch. It ejects the orders. Sometimes the plundering party gets what you had in orders, some times the numbers are wildly random. Some times they leave the stocks of the player being plundered, some times they don't and both involved parties end up with more or less than was to be divided up between them.

    We won't even get in to the database nightmare adding the market to the combat engine is going to bring.

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