Quote Originally Posted by Ocih View Post
LOL, read this stuff back to yourself.
So you don't have Valleys. Is there a rule that says I can't go in to "your" barbarian farms and plunder them in to the ground? Where do you get you millions of gold to buy your millions of resources then? You pull these hypotheticals out of your butt. So I can't hit your main city. You have 4 cities I can hit. You can't have 100K Ballista in them all.

This idea that you should be able to make head shots and decapitate players and anything less is a broken game? That's why the devs patched the damn game.
Grindy, grindy, grindy, Boom. I'm a PvPer and I am going to run around making lethal strikes with my I-Win army. You still haven't shown me that anyone is invincible. Just at the powerfull level they should be after months of working and not fataly poisoned by a Zerg.
Alright, I will show you that I am invincible.

I have 9 cities. I keep 1 free so I can capture stage cities.

I think I am still in the top 200 of server 3. I don't know, haven't bothered playing it too much.

Food does, and always will cost less then wood. Fact of life. Wood is always three times the cost of food at least.

A level 9 farm can support 500 archers. So 37 level 9 farms can support 18500. With techs and a 150 polly hero that is 64,750 archers. So without valleys we are looking at a city having the potentual to support 65k archers.

Well, as I said, wood is always worth three times food, so without valleys, if you are willing to spend the time to sell wood and buy food, each city can support 194,250 archers without valleys.

Once you have everything built, you are unable to spend resources on anything but supporting or building troops, so having cities with nothing but sawmills or farms isn't really a pain in the butt.

Archers are the most expensive foot unit, so if you want a meat shield as well, you can go with around 150k archers, 100k warriors in every city.

This is the new maximum army without using scrips, having valleys, raiding PCs, or farming NPCs. Level 5 NPCs can still be farmed, and they still give you a buttload of resources three times a day.

Without bothering to actually play the game outside of logging on to swap wood for food, it is easy to have 250k troops in every city. No ballista, no farming, no attacking, just being a smart carebear.

This means if you launch a well coordinated attack against three of my cities, I can drop in around 650k troops in each city. Most of those troops will be archers with a huge range boost, able to attack ballista before ballista can attack them. Additionally, I can have my allies help me. Lastly I I have lots and lots of towers.

And on top of that, attackers have to fight that army in 90k waves, 100k tops without cash items, but that is rare.

So yeah, high end players are invincible even without farming NPCs, PCs, or valleys. With farming them, one player can be attacked by every player on the server who is able to save troops and still survive.

Invincibility is no fun. My 150k ballista couldn't put a dent in one of my cities, even if I was allowed to launch them all, with support from 100k archers and 100k warriors.