More resources out of NPC cities

[Kasoni]

I have found a odd way of getting more resources out of Barb (NPC) cities. I find it really strange actually. Hints half the reason for the guide. Getting more resourses out of them is good. To have someone else be able to duplicate this would be awesome (so please do try).

Basically there is a math error that occurs and can be forced to trip. If you do not have enough transporters to collect all the resources then for some odd reason you skip some of the gold and collect extra of others. I have done this repeatedly on a level 5 NPC city, and infact now do it everytime (although my long neglected longistics is being studied... so I will need to change my numbers here soon to keep doing it).

The best way to do this is to take the total number of resources and divide it by your max load on a transporter (but it will be a little lower... due to them needing food to get there and back, easy fix is to go to the attack screan and see how much food it takes to get there and back, add that to your total... may have to adjust a few times).

I found this out by accident. I did the math to see how many transporters I really needed to tie up with each wave and I got 441. So I just sent 440. Then the errror started to trip.

Normal level 5 gives
3,000,000 food 180,00 lumber stone and iron, and 450,000 gold
Short hit level 5 gives (your numbers may be a little different, I WANT TO HEAR THEM)
3,177,968 food 190,678 lumber stone and iron, and 238,347 gold.

That is 177,968 food, and 10,678 extra of each lumber stone and iron. That totals 210,002 extra resources.
WHILE you get shorted 211,653 gold. Making a difference of -1651 resources

Now at first this might seem like a lose. Until you open market and think about it. Right now on server 75 (granted prices change) but current to buy prices are
4g/1F
5.6g/1L
.28g/S (ok this one is bad)
6.7g/1I

Which means besides that 10,678 extra stone, these resources are worth MUCH MORE than what is lost. The food alone more than makes up for it.

Now I bet your thinking this is stupid. Well if you are NPC farming for 180k resource hits... well your already doing the micro. I was farming players before I started the NPC. Granted you get a lot less crying (except "You're farming 'my' NPC, please stop" mails) and no chance of retals for the most part.
Also this frees up transporters (I know many with Longistics 10 still hit with 500 transporters).

There is NO chance of lossing the battle because you sent too few trans porters. So why not give it a try. So what if you only hit 3-4 NPC's a day. Still that is more resources and more value then what your getting now and less transports used.


PS:
Anyone that can duplicate this by the method I mention PLEASE POST your results. Anyone that just wants to say this is stupid. Well yeah so is framing level 5's to begin with. It sucks, but ever drop you can get, right?

Oh and I was very tired when I wrote this. I had some events that made me stay up over night and well... I will not wake up for work here in a little bit if I go to sleep. So yeah just ignore the spelling and typos please. I will try to fix and I can find tomorrow (after I sleep).


edit: also i appolagize for rating my thread a 5. I did not know the forums only took the 1st rating and did not let anyone wlse rate them. This sucks as i just wanted the thread to stand out and get some replies. I figured it would also get people to vote on it, but that will not happen it seems.