u farm to maintain and plunder to grow.
thats my basic math
and the in between is when you burn troops on peeps just to dump honour/cripple them, which temporarily reduces risk thus you can keep a smaller upkeep temporarily. If you have a higher att hero than ur neighbours/threats, then you can further optimise the upkeep balance. Its not how much it costs you, its what it costs you in relation to others.
and trading, lol.. .thats the last trick that really pushes you over the mark
I still can't imagine the 200 million upkeeps tho lmao. Mine rarely have ever gone over 20 mil in a city ever.
i could never imagine maintaining multiple cities like this, but the city i recently ported out to wage war was bleeding about 140 mil food an hour. I have 8 cities so each city was bleeding ~22 mil an hour before i sent ~17.5 mil an hour worth of troops to my war city. I farmed my azz off the days before i started building up for the war, and got huge stockpiles of food in each city. I shipped a few billion to my war city (freshly capped 10) stuffed all those troops in it, and ported. Thursday night i was bleeding 140 mil an hour and had 10 bil food. It is now monday night and im still bleeding just under 80 mil an hour, but still have 12 billion food. The only feasible way (in my opinion, at least) to feed these massive cities is to plunder like a madman, which i did![]()
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they might also farm level 8s those are the npcs with the most lumber/iron and you dont have to loose arch to farm them only send 98k warriors and 2k trannys
Farm players. Much more profitable. It's not uncommon to hit a player and snag 1-2 bill food. Even if you snag 1 bill food, you're feeding your 200 mill/hr army for 5 hours. Do this 5-6 times a day (very, very feasible) and voila... you're covered.
when i used to play i was around 15 mil an hour 7 lvl 10's 3 times a day thats 399 million food in a day and 15 mil an hour eats 360 mil a day, i had a couple wood and iron cities to help with the rebuilding of the troops for that. and btw im australian so hit npc's before school, around 4-5 PM my time then right after maintenance. and i only had 5 cities so you dont assume i had 10 :P
Add in the valley farming, since safe-valleys are able to be plundered for up to 1.3M lumber each hour (a third of that in iron for hills) without loss of troops, and a chance of medals.
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There are several ways to maintain -120 mil to 240 for heavy coiners, some more.
Farming 10s alone will eventually drop your total troops.So farming 10 alone will sustain the food, but over time troops count suffers. There is a way you can keep a low lose but i won't get to that.
Here is my set up and i have been able to keep -100 to 120 mill stable and legit.
Pair 2 city together, a wood city which also be your mech city that can take advantage of the higher idle pop, pair that with your iron city, keeping them close as possible. Here is what i do, i stock my wood surplus resources on my iron city and vice versa and often time i can accumale billion in resources in a short while, along with 5s and 10s farming provided you have enough cities. This is not it, the kicker is you wait till the next 50% off or zero food consumption and sell all the resources and buy food when it is dirt cheap. Get this, i was able to buy billions of foods an average of 7-10 billion per city depending on the food price or if you where able to force buy food at a very low cost or control the market prices.
Also i had a very high pol hero which i train by hitting 8s, with 99k wars 1k trans, or hit a 10s when min after farming it.
If you want to quickly level your pol hero, try this method which i shared with a few players.
Organize your entire alliance if you will to scout bomb you. I normally recruit alot of warrior, send it to a valley, fill my feasting hall to avoid capping their hero and wait to recieve 695k exp her 100k scout bomb, ensure your alliance uses penicillin if they are able.
I wanted to break the -120 million food per hour from 8-9 city but the npc layout and alliance member spread wouldnt allow it.
-200 million plus need a vesta, other wise it wont be legit, the constants farming to maintain such high upkeeps forces a player to log on 24 hours, hitting 9 waves times 3 per city, per farming session, plus several 10s.
None legit method is to have multiple partial dead account just to accumalate resources with bare minimum or zero troops to which you farm, however, this is an open game for anyone near that city. I don't advise this, but merely an explanation to how it is possible to maintain high upkeep, but often for a short while.
I can think of 5 legit ways and roughly more none legit.
I tell you what, on the next time evony puts zero food upkeep or if they ever do, i am certain the food price won't be dirt cheap like in 148.
Last edited by deadlysage; 02-23-2011 at 04:55 AM.
Sorry Sage. Read my Post. -200mil -300 mil is EASY to maintain without even hitting anyone
All ya got to do is send and come back as they come back. Read my post......
In non war times I was running non stop with my Standing defence army of -350mil an hour not including a usual 30+ reo waves out which meant I had another 3 Mil Archers out at any given time which I also supplied food for if needed
From my Main city I'd send single scouts All over the map sometimes literally 400 miles away testing..... And anywhere I saw a decent NPC farm with few players there I'd cap a 10 next to my main and send 10 100k scout waves at each city then range an NPC if it had decent res or adv port a city in if I had an Adv port handy
It is easy enough to maintain a standing army of -500mil an hour WITHOUT Vesta's, Being sent food, Using any automated software or cheating in any way shape or form...... Believe me I got reported enough cause no one could believe I was farming that much but they knew not to Attack me as I was almost always online and if I wasn't I had the game open and every Alliance mate had my mobile number to call if I was hit or my honor moved more than 100k
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