My breaking point

[ReekyBullet]

Yeah from a rough estimate, lots of bases without walls or upgraded defences sitting with 200,000-300,000 of each where I'll usually only lose soldiers and gunners at worst. Biplanes don't really take much damage either. These bases are so easy that the training blessing is actually unnecessary.

Oil is a bit tricky as it isn't stored in huge quantities so I just play as usual and slowly gain up until 70000-80000 where I'll do a training blessing or two with raiders and wall miners to get to my goal. If I'm specifically targeting oil I'll also sometimes sacrifice an army against an active player if the gain is worth it.

I'm not certain this will be as good for oil in global age though

 

[Brand Marrow]

just finished a horrible oil slog to get my global airstrip and while there was plenty of oil around 1000-800 medals, somewhere it dropped off, by the time I was below 500 it was getting really hard to find oil-rich nations to loot...so better to take a break and climb back up in medals, if you have the time, before switching to raiding mode again..

 

[Pharon]

There's also something to say for the league bonus at higher medals. Empire I is around 165k gold/food for every win, even one star.

 

[Mythic]

isn't there a frequent and obnoxious "can't find opponent" scenario? I was already hitting that too often in empire 2.

 

[Königsberg]

Yeah. But seems it got better with opponents. Guess a lot of people in higher medal range dropped due to -39 crashes.

 

[Pharon]

Yeah, and it does get more annoying the higher you get. Above 3k it's downright insufferable.

 

[BV123]

I'm mid industrial and I honestly don't really even see many raised spam armies anymore way down here at 400-800 medals. A ton of easy dead farming bases to loot as well which can often be beaten without losing any units allowing quick turn around of ~1000000 resources every 10-20 minutes. These bases also give protection most people don't bother to touch an active base among such easy targets.
You should probably try dropping down first to check it out, I even usually have maxed resources as I wait for workers to finish and very few people bother me.

Yo reekybullet.... shhhhh! Don't go telling everyone. I'm busy stuffing myself full down here. Hahahaha

 

[ReekyBullet]

Lol, soz. Just gets annoying hearing people winge about resources when it's not even an issue. Although I'd say that the oil is pretty unbalanced compared to the others

 

[BV123]

ReekyBullet Yes...very hard to get the oil for all those upgrades. And I'm still IA...not even GA yet...sigh