General tips, some noobie, some not.

[Hollandrock]

You say that every city should be self sufficient. In the meaning above that you gave you said that you shouldnt be taking/sending resources to and from other cities. You later say to take and send resources in order to keep producing. That is not self-sufficiency. It depends on other cities to work. Also lumber cities, iron cities, food cities, and stone cities ARE resource cities because they produce a specific resource.

No... Self sufficient means that they area able to produce enough resources by themselves, this isn't an efficient way to do things though, so I send it to a different city - allowing me to keep producing at all times for more res...

Please think about what you're typing before you type it ...

[darknoob]

I did
I think you should think about your word choice though...

[grahaml]

Say you have a hero from the inn, level 20 - attack 60... The base of this hero is 40. If when you holy water it hes goes up to level 20 - attack 72... The base of this hero is now 52. The base is not a prediction on what he will likely be after he has been holy watered, it is his current base stat attribute.

That is false. The base is 40-60. You just don't know what the base is until you water it. Like I said, if you think a hero can change base your understanding of a base is wrong.

[grahaml]

All cities should be self sufficient in terms of farming NPCs, building troops and defending. But for greatest theoretical efficiency no city should be able to produce everything it needs for troop production.

[Jasc999]

Not bad. I liked the map and chart about the relation between archery and horsebackriding

[darknoob]

theoretical sure but not always practical to move resources around like that

[P.P. LePew]

I have my cities producing either all wood or all iron and I've noticed that the all iron cities have way less idle population. of course there's a way to bring the population to it's max in order to make troops though

[whipazzgod]

This guide was very helpful, as on serversi get really hard times in getting the medals!

[darknoob]

iron mines require more population to run than any other