Quote Originally Posted by Sekai View Post
It doesn't take pay to play anything to be able to make npc cities. You start with the ability to make 2 cities. All it takes are 10k resource and 250 workers to create an npc city. You can do that on your first day of playing (though it may take a few days before you can raid them). You could do it without ever farming or buying a single medal.

Edit - and for that matter its a matter of maybe 10-20 hours of active (send many attacks, conquer/abandon valley) farming to get the medals for baronet on a new server, and depending how quick you get those npcs set up, a couple to a few weeks, depending on how often you are on, of passive (send the attacks to each nearby npc city once an hour and go do something else) farming to get the rest of the ranks up through marquis or duke.
which game are you playing? You start with the ability to make 2 cities?? since when?>? I;ve had to win my medals on the wheel of fortune to get a second city