Well, it used to be predictable but then the hcs were capped too quickly for evony's tastes. So sorry, it is not predictable at the moment. Just hope for the best and plan for the worst.

Also, the fool who assumes that just because someone having to port in and a feed the city means that the person who needed to be fed is a bot makes an assumption that is not true of all age 2 players. And that assumption is that all major Age 2 players use facebook for Evony and have allies.