Quote Originally Posted by ElDiavolo View Post
Some people may disagree, but 'no bot' game would benefit the attacker even more. Timing from 3-4 cities isn't that big of a deal really especially if half the waves are fillers/walls/layer waves, altho it takes a bit more time than on a bot, and if u take away botted troops, 3-4 cities is all u need. Plus the defender could only put his walls up once or twice at best, empty his feasting hall only be4 all waves hit, time reins correctly and hope the attacker doesnt change his waves... And even on bot, your hits will hardly ever land in a correct order if timed to a fraction of a second.
Without the lag created by bots slowing the servers, hand timing would become extremely accurate again. I have hand attacked my whole evony career and have had some very good results to date.

Quote Originally Posted by Phidaux View Post
Banners have changed the way one needs to attack, sure in the past bring in 3-4 city's set some to spam, others to mech, others to delayer, etc. send based on what you were trying to do. required dozens of big hero's and even more spam hero's. 4 city's timed together hitting took 40 hero's if sending all 10 rally spots.

Today you can do the same thing from one city with 10 waves and only need 10 hero's, of which only 4 would be good attack hero's and the rest can be your fillers etc.

If you want to test your merit today, it is now all about how few waves (and thus how few city's/accounts) you need to wipe a target.

Anyone can get a half dozen accounts and a few city's from each and send an insane amount of attacks at a target and eventually win, that takes no skill. skill is bringing one city to bear on 4 targets and making them all either wiped or run while they are attacking your team mate! Online war city wipes are all that matter today, everyone can build big, everyone can get a good defense or attack report on someone, but can you destroy an online target from a single city and do it before they port away!

Yeah timing from 3-4 citys is easy. With fleet feet its a little harder, but still doable, but even the most effective attacker cant send 40 waves in 4-5 minutes, which they can do through a bot. Give me 4 min to defend i can mitigate losses. Give me 10 min and you wont kill anything i dont want you too. Give me half an hour and even if you have timed 150 attacks Ive still got time to recall waves and port if that is the best option. In 4 minutes you cant do that and you are pretty much screwed if they come with a lot of banners.