Beat the bot

[jegsjegs]

Tired of your npcs being farmed by someone who appears to never sleep? Try this:

Monitor the farmers population - if it doesn't change he is not recruiting so probably afk (but, strangely, still farming). Pick your time then capture one of the npcs and teleport it away and capture the flat and recall.

If it is a level5 then the absent minded farmer will send transporters and ballistae to attack a lvl5 flat; wait for the plunder report!

If the flat was plundered but not captured he is maxed out on valleys - relieve him of one (or many if he has more than one city nearby).

Sooner or later he will capture the flat and, too add to the strange behaviuor, he will leave his trans and balls there.

So now there is a flat with a weak but expensive force sitting in it right beside your city - don't think I need to spell out the next step

It costs a teleport but the satisfaction of catching a cheat and making him pay where it hurts - in the resource department - is deep.

[kingmikeserver71]

smart or u can just hit farmer if u strong enough

[arrowshot]

i would just knock the farmers city out.... to much work doing it your way lol

[greyking]

yeah no point running just take out his city. but if you are to small to do that then yes run and hide

[Baltezar]

Or, if you're in a good alliance, you could mail someone else and tell them to do it for you.

[greyking]

Or, if you're in a good alliance, you could mail someone else and tell them to do it for you.

thats true use the lazy method and let a different person handle it i am ok with this method as well

[zbest]

Why teleport the city? Just throw some stones at it -- and they'll throw them at the ballistae and transports.

They'll probably send more later, too.

[KingKovacs]

Just capture the city, and reinforce with enough troops to take out farming materials.

[Boneless]

why waste a teleport? what i do is capture the level 5 and let his balls run to my wall backed by thousands of archers =)

[YoureAtowel]

I think its a fairly clever idea but it seems the time you would have to spend doing this doesnt seem worth it