A Newbie Guide by an Actual Newbie

[Pwadyal]

To be honest without naming any names ( though from comments these guys seem well known) ive looked over a few guides from vets a few times and they are quite pathetic for a noob guide. Alot of them have misinformation and bad advice. Some of which i will list here:

1) farm NPC cities in BP to get high pres - sorry dude you cant farm cities in noob.
2)You need high pres to get in a good alliance - not really you just need to be more intelligent than a pencil and active.
3)leave your townhall at level 2 - wrong again TH greater than 2 is required for many things.
4) get out BP and farm low level NPCS ASAP- thats just dumb who wouldnt take advantage of 7 days of " you cant touch this" just for a lil farming
5) you dont need any quarrys- yeah you do. Stone like everything else fluctuates its not always super cheap( actually on my server its the second most expensive) Noobs dont have gold to toss around.. oh wait we was suppose to get gold from the magical attacks on NPCs lol.
6) build 6 billion barracks so you can train 5000 troops in 2 seconds. - forgot one thing building barracks takes my time and resources both of which are in short supply. I dont need to take over tuscany single handed on day 8. i just want to live to see day 9 so imma focus on ATS walls and useful things and in the meantime ill casually build up a couple thousand archers so i can farm level 1s and 2s.
7) build 6-8 cottages - right with level 2 townhalls right? LOL. so if i put #6 and 7 togather i can train my 500 troops im going to have in .3 seconds.. great waste of resources.

1) Ya that's why when you're out of BP you have ballistas to farm food and stock up on resources.
2) You actually do need high prestige to get into good alliances. There are prestige requirements you moron
3) Leaving TH at 2 is for people that want to get 100k prestige, that's a completely different objective than playing the game itself. Learn the difference, once again... moron.
4) Out of the 4 servers I started in I have NEVER been attacked. Want to know why? No one messes with the number 1 alliance and when I do get scouted, you think someone is gonna waste their time and 5k+ archers just to take out 1k ATs and ballistas? No one does major attacks like that so early in the game
5) You don't need quarries, sell excess resources (there are ALWAYS excess resources) in marketplace and buy stone
6) 15 lvl 1 barracks are all instant upgrade. getting them to lvl 4 each takes like half an hour for each? Is that really that bad? After that you level up a barracks each night till it hits 9. And wow wut a hippocrite, you talk of offense but you don't want to build troops quicker? Uhh... wow you really are a newbie LOL
7) 6-8 cottages isn't bad. Especially if you consider that no one is actually keeping a level 2 TH unless you're messing around just to get 100k prestige. And again, those aren't serious players. Serious player will have like a lvl 6 TH and 6 to more like 10 cottages that are all lvl 6-7.
8) You're saying that the VETERANS don't know what they're talking about? You aren't the smartest person on the planet dude. Experience is knowledge. Veterans have played this game much more than you and have experienced a lot of different styles through looking at other alliance members. Why do you think no one is saying GOOD JOB on this guide?


EDIT: Agh forgot the important part. I had two cities in the beginning. One was my main which housed sawmills and the other was my farm that had ironmines. So that's probably why you started out so crappy, you had one city... as you make it seem in this guide.