Farms and caravans as a way to defend your loot

[JuDomines]

Thought about one thing: A raider can loot 50% of gold and food from road/caravans but only 22ish% from mills/market. On surface it's a strong incentive to have place as much as possible loot in the mills/market. BUT, i've red somewhere that there is a max loot per raid you can loose. Something like 250k in GP age. Which leads me to wonder: what about maxing out caravans/farms in order to dimunish the portion of loot raiders can steal from your market/mills. Put another way, you sacrifice your production in order to protect your hardly won loot stored in market/mills.
After all, everything you produce, you did not spend time on it. With those very long peace treaty since the last update, it'd mean you'll get raided less often AND that your production will be bigger. Kind of double shield for the market/mills.

Have to admit I'm a bit lazy to do the math to see if it's viable, but worth digging.

Thoughts?

 

[dbukalski]

Nope. Until farms caravans roads get buffed their useless. Not gonna make the smallest dent in ur resource needs as they currently are.

 

[dbukalski]

And takes like 1 year to recoup the resources u sink into them. Just keep raiding at new slower speed

 

[firedancer]

I don't think there is a 250K cap. I did saw a replay of people attacking me seeing 280K available gold for him to loot.

 

[Danix den Andre]

The cap applies to markets and mills only.
And I don't consider roads useless, 8800 gold per hour adds up

 

[dbukalski]

8800/hr = 211k a day minus the 50% raiders take. so lets say u get 150k of that. thats like 1-2 raids worth. never gonna get anywhere like that

 

[Danix den Andre]

With just the road? of course not, just saying i like 211k a day instead of much less. And raiders don't get much except markets and mills since I collect before the daily logoff, and get hit within minutes.

 

[snowhound]

I totally use my roads, caravans and farms. If I'm raided and want to hide in a treaty for a awhile because I don't have time to play then when the treaty nears it's end I'll have over 100k worth of gold and food to collect. It pretty much repays the loot that was stolen from me unless of course I was sitting fat when I was raided and they got over 100k of each. Farm, caravans and roads are totally worth upgrading,

 

[Pharon]

Yeah, I don't get the hate. Caravans and farms are passive income. Raiding is active income. Can't hurt to have a good mix of both.

 

[Cent Kail]

the point is u used way too much of you active income to invest in your passive income and it take forever to gain your invest money back with current farm and caravans at their slow rate. This is why its not worth it

 

[alienode]

I totally use my roads, caravans and farms. If I'm raided and want to hide in a treaty for a awhile because I don't have time to play then when the treaty nears it's end I'll have over 100k worth of gold and food to collect. It pretty much repays the loot that was stolen from me unless of course I was sitting fat when I was raided and they got over 100k of each. Farm, caravans and roads are totally worth upgrading,

Agree, everytime I age up, first thing I do is max out my farms, roads and caravans.

I don't want to do work to get resources. I just want to farm a couple times a day. I get almost 500k gold per day not having to do anything.

 

[serenity4jwr]

I'm staying in Medieval Age. I'm maxed out; I never have to worry about resources. Anything I lose in a raid is essentially replaced before I wake up. I just enjoy planning attacks and watching the battles. If I upgrade to the Gunpowder Age, the upgrade costs from then on are just ridiculous, and I'm not spending all that time and money to upgrade a wall, or clear a forest. ( No, I didn't bother to clear all my forests; I cleared just enough space for my complete town.).

 

[Redgar]

If you play actively, workers become one of your main resources... And waiting for two days to get extra 400 gold per hour (200 per caravan) is a joke indeed and bad investment for enlightement until you maxed out the most of your attack and defense. At other hand, road is still okay combined with SH imo and helps you to collect bigger sums of gold easier.

 

[serenity4jwr]

^^^ ...And when I mean Maxed out, I mean COMPLETELY Maxed out. Nothing left to spend gold or food on, plenty of resources to buy mercenaries, no worries about losses.