Farming Npc's

[ArnoldoC.]

Farming for Resouces:
It's easy to farm it if you have Ballistas and Transporters
Level 1:100 Transporters 100 Ballista
it gets you 100k Food, 20k Lumber, 20k Stone, 20k Iron, 55k Gold
Level 2 200 Transports 200 Ballista
gets you: 200k Food,30k Lumber 30k Stone 30k Iron 65k Gold
Level 3 300 Transporters 300 Ballista
gets you: 900k Food,75K Lumber,75k stone 75k iron 75k gold
level 4: 400 transporters 400 ballista
1.6million food 120k lumber,stone,iron,300k gold
Level 5:500 transporters 500 ballista
gets you: 3 milion food 180k lumber,stone,iron 450k gold
If you have a high attack level hero Example:200+ you can use less ballista but you need to have the following research:Archery Level 10,Horseback riding Level 9 and a hero with attack level 100+ you will be able to use 450 ballista or less

Farming for Prestige
you can farm NPCs for prestige by attacking them with warriors you will gain a few hundred prestige (from low leveled NPC's) to over 15k prestige (high leveled NPCs). I recommend this formula for the number of warriors to use (NPC level)* 11000/(hero Att/100)except for level 9-10 NPC's where the formula is (NPC level)* 11000/(hero Att./150)

WARNING The given formula for Lv.9-10 NPC is either outdated or simply wrong. Here is an example that demonstrate it: 110k Warrior wave with 251 ATT Hero (201+50 from Excalibur). The formula suggested ~65k Warriors. The attack resulted in total loss with little casualties made to the defending NPC

higher the loss the more exp. including complete loss. while prestige must be a win, anything over 90 rounds yields highest prestige. more importantly one city with level 2 town hall farming 10 npc yields 40k prestige to over a 100k prestige per hit. requires a trusting friend to hold your citys and heros tho. further this can also be done with 99k warriors, 1k transports, on lvl 9 npc, with loss 12k to 70k. (once have instant war who cares how many, the exp is great).

Farming NPCs for experience

Since defeating NPCs gives your hero experience, and experience allows advancement in level, and advancement in level results in additional attribute bonuses, it is appropriate for all heroes to be developed through NPC farming.

Since NPCs fully regenerate their fortifications every hour, you can attack the npc again after an hour

[Hollandrock]

Quite a nice guide, lots of basics in there that will be quite useful for beginners - ameteur players!
Perhaps you could add about adding warrs to lvl 5 hits for exp. and prestige?

Also, it isn't actually possible to hit a level 10 with warriors, (Unless you have an instant pult hero etc...) Think about the 400k warriors and the AT's inside vs. your 125k (max).

Also ...

Archery Level 10,Horseback riding Level 9 and a hero with attack level 200+ you will be able to use 450 ballista or maybe less

You don't need these exact techs, with all my techs at 10 I just use 450 for any attack hero with decent attack (above 45 ish).
So I would assume that any techs able to farm 5s should be ok with 450 ballistas....

Since NPCs fully regenerate their fortifications every hour, they can be attacked 24 times a day if you want to gain maximum experience for your him/her

Not really possible... Unless you bot...

[Aaron4174]

Also ...
You don't need these exact techs, with all my techs at 10 I just use 450 for any attack hero with decent attack (above 45 ish).
So I would assume that any techs able to farm 5s should be ok with 450 ballistas....

With just about all techs 10, my poli hero with an attack of 18 is capable of farming lv5 npc's... A nice little experience if your poli hero is quite low

[Prodigy the 5]

with max tech i just send 400 ballis with any hero over 60 attack. Im pretty sure i farmed with 50 attack poli heroes, but for every 10 points under 60 i send an extra 200 ballis just to be safe.

[Hollandrock]

with max tech i just send 400 ballis with any hero over 60 attack. Im pretty sure i farmed with 50 attack poli heroes, but for every 10 points under 60 i send an extra 200 ballis just to be safe.

So my epic poli hero with 1 attack stat .. ?

1,400 ballis .. ?

[Prodigy the 5]

lol

not sure, never went that low. dont think i even have a hero with 1 attack

[AbeLincoln]

Farming 5's with ballista varies so widely, i decided just to agree to disagree with all of these post!

[.Dangerous.]

should realize, lv10 npcs, leadership is what really counts.

250att, 50 leadership could result in huge losses, 100+ leadership 250att, 4-5k losses,