Going from Medieval to Gunpowder age....

[Joe Bamboo Wissmann]

Okay so I rushed a little bit but I have started my upgrade to Gunpowder Age. When I get there, what should I upgrade, research, build first? Would love some advice from more experienced players. I realize at this point defense is starting to matter as I am stacking resources up. Any tips and advice would be appreciated.

 

[Andy]

For me, first barracks, blacksmith, and the legion and archers upgraded so I could get strojng to do more raiding to get more resources - in GP - farms just don't cut it unless you're REALLY patient.

After that - defence in this order, Mortar, cannon, redoubt (all are visibly intimidating), then a single barracks, and a single stable (so troops from Colluseum and forrest are also upgraded) then the other 2 of those same. Then towers.

That's where I'm at now, after that my walls (heaven forbid at $500,000 a piece... that's close to $60 million, so that'll take a while.

 

[Lumberjake]

What are you averaging for raid resources at that point in the game? $60 mil seems absurd.

 

[Whatwhat]

just finished my lvl8 walls andy and yea its a real drag...

noticed quite a few people with full lvl 11 walls (i assume they are 6 million each as a lvl 10 is 3 million).

However im fairly confident that if anyone has lvl 11 walls they are a cheat or spend lots of money on this game.

 

[Joe Bamboo Wissmann]

Wow level 11 walls lol. I appreciate the feedback everyone!

 

[Andy]

Yeah Whatwhat, I know what you're saying about very high level players walls - I think even if they remove all the "extra" walls they have they still have L11 walls, which would have cost thousands of real dollars, so is pretty unlikely - so is most likely cheating.... but you have to give someone the benefit of the doubt.

Still - it's a script right - they know how much you spend in the game - so if you didn't spend any, and you have L11 walls, then it's physically impossible to have been playing as long as the game has been out and get there?! There must be a cheat that gives you money - allowing this to happen. Or a way to get the money back after spending?? I think Sioux indicated it was possible when he was still about.

Either way - upgrading your walls is good. I toil through it - I'm raiding about 100k a hit, averaging about 80k. So it'll take a long time to get L8, let alone L11.

 

[sjb]

Joe Bamboo, I did the exact same thing. Before advancing to the next age I made sure I researched and upgraded everything, but when I went to GP I just went, leaving most of everything undone. Now I struggle to upgrade as I can't keep my loot safe for long.

I also upgraded my farms and camels as much as I could thinking this would be a good supply of gold and food but when you consider that a 240,000 upgrade gives you an extra 200 per hour, that's 4,800 per day. It will take 50 days just to recover the gold and food for the farms' and camels' upgrades.

I think I wasted a lot of gold and food!

 

[Andy]

Great point about the recovery on the upgrades at this level sjb - Nexon should take note of this.

 

[Joe Bamboo Wissmann]

I feel foolish now Sjb.... lol

 

[dbukalski]

what tactics are u guys using to farm 100k a pop? cav + bows? mixed?

 

[Andy]

104 troops, 24 archers, rest legion (Roman), love an elephant, love a general. sometimes a wall miner if I'm going after bigger fish.

 

[sjb]

My army is not that big only 85 at this stage. I go for about 14 cav, 1 wall miner. I have taken to throwing in a companion to get started on defensive buildings and fill the rest up with a mix of foot soldiers and archers (crossbowmen for me).

The mercenary group is good if you have the steppe cav raiders. they help get loot quickly.

This means that I mostly only get marginal victories, but I'll throw the general and tactics in if I need to give the looters more time or if I have a chance at a 100% victory.

 

[Conquistador]

jesus 500,000 gold per wall? god i hope they will give us the option of buying it with gold or food like in coc

 

[Mizzo]

Yeah ive noticed some players having really high leveled walls, how are they even cheating? i my self was searching for over an hour but i couldnt even find anything (yeah my devil side did make me have some thoughts of getting alittle bit extra haha). I did encounter some players that had 2 acro wonders and extra defensive buildings, oh yeah and the ones that has their buildings hidden in the forrest lol, i did take some screenshots , but i've been lazy to upload it in the PC and send an email. But sheesh 500.000 a piece for walls, thats alot.
What really buggs me is the amount of time and crowns it costs to upgrade buildings,