I guess my question is, is it legit ( legal) to what 1 player is supposed to be able to do without any help from anyone or any software?
I have a downstais neighbor, a close personal friend of mine who assisted me in our atemp to break 120 million food per hour without any softwares of any sort and no vesta. we failed.
Here is why, there is roughly 8 hours plus to fully regenerate npc.
First waves of npc 5s what we consider free food and resources within 3-4 miles on a 50 min return trip, all 9 waves per city of 27 million food provided it wasn't farm by others already. Because i have a double city in most location the npcs where divided by 2, therefore instead of 4 waves i can farm it in 2 waves cutting my time farming.
Now the second waves takes much longer, or any waves there after due to the distance and every single rally spot if possible must be utilize as farmers.
This second waves averages at 40 mins @ 6 miles distance one way trip making that a total of 1 hour 20 min for another 27 million food and resources. This bring us to the total hours used farming 2 waves; 50 min on the first wave plus 1 hour 20 min roughly totaling 2 hours 10 mins with only 6 hours less to farm till the next regeneration.
Now the 3rd wave is a bit tricky, i switch mayor leaving my best hero due to the farming distance. My main hero farm 10s as close as possible or use this method the entire farming wave and risk a lower resources production, which i dont do anymore. Back to the 3rd waves, the average miles for my 3rd waves are 10 miles @ 1 hour 6 min 1 way average bringing the total hours for all 3 waves of roughly about 5 hour plus, leaving us less than 3 hours left before the next cycle.
Now the remainding time i either use my quicker farming method, which is cavs on any players closest to me dead or active provided there is enough resources.
Now lets for instance say i use the rest of the time to farm more npc, this means i would be stuck in the farming mode for almost the entire 8 hours putting me at risk when under attack.
How? you say, defense against attack requires one to manipulate troops count to counter attacks accordingly, with all available rally spot used, i will be stuck on open and close gate mode which can be more damaging defensively.
I quess what i am trying to say is,even software assisting tool cannot alter the time allowed given to farm, it surely cannot add any more time than 8 hours to use before each regeneration. Farming great distance would be pointless due to the factor of time and it does occupy 1 or more farming waves, plus the food it takes to travel great distance using bally and trans which will be ruduced progressively depending on distance.
I could have 1 city in 1 area and have 4 to 5 farming waves per city plus
10s, but that would still be close to using 6 to 7 hours, which i rather not due to the facts i have a life.
I am not going to disagree with you, because if you were able to, then there must be a way, but base on logic and several attemp using my personal experience, i was unable to break -120 with 8 cities legally even with some farming assistant from a close personal friend. The npc layout is very important and alliances members spread must also be taken into account. A crowded map with members having the same goal is jut 1 big obsticle.
Now in the other hand, an assisted program may be able to add a few more waves however, it wont double your foods, mainly due to the time limitation.
However, multi account or none active account using software to farm to which the main account can harvest later can make a huge difference, even more so as more of this are set up.
I hear you, i to experience lossing several 5s, 2 or 3 10s and all 8s on 148.
I would also like to add one more thing. I normally scout alot of cities in hope to find one of those resource bank which i have been lucky in more than 3 occasion and or scout for inactive account that has a high resources.
Most players hide thier resources in a small city away from suspecting eyes if they are hording resources and I have been lucky to find 50 mil wood and 70 mil iron and countless food on a level 1-3 city roughly. As to why they do this, no idea i was lucky to find some.


) is 300k res and 3 mil food per full NPC so that's an extra2.7 mil lumber and iron and 27 mil food per city per run...... Now farming in a circle you should be able to farm every NPC within 7 miles in just about 6 hours 45 mins.... and a good location means roughly 25-30 NPC 5's in that 7 mile radius
. I hit on average around 60 L10 NPC's per day (this is very hard for those that don't have the time, I agree). I also find that the extra resources in 5's help too.
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