Should you even bother upgrading farms and caravans?

[Zloca]

OK So I'm in Medieval, and in my order of progress, I first upgrade all of the offensive army stuff and research, then I move onto resources and then defenses, obv peppered with library techs throughout.

So I'm just finishing upgrading all the caravans and I've spent like a week of play upgrading farms and caravans up two levels each. In the current setup of the game, they add a little over a grand per hour each and that's ridiculously low for any use, let alone to bring back what you spent on them. In this age, you really have to attack and raid every day if you want to get anything done, so a few thousand is another few minutes of play.

Another reason for not upgrading them is to have less resources manufactured so you're a less interesting target to others while you're not playing. It's flipping tiring upgrading all the resource stuff when it does fcuk all.

 

[Tekkaman Blade]

Yes, of course you should upgrade caravans.
But farm is not very useful since everyone just hit em and end battle, you won't collect crap out of them. There is no point to convert the more important and hard to loot gold to less important and easy to loot food.

You can raid 2 hours everyday and research library or army.
Or
You can raid 2 hours everyday and use your 10 workers to upgrade 5 caravans. WHY NOT UPGRADE THEM??? Bonus gold is bonus gold, every bit counts.

 

[Dhigse]

I'm using the Japanese currently at Gunpowder age. With my long peace treaties, sometimes reaching even 20 hours, having upgraded farms and caravans mean I can collect more from them .(Currently have seven level 10 caravans, and seven level 10 farms, and one level 9 farm.)

 

[Zloca]

Yeah I'm not saying they don't add something, especially if you open the game near the end of a peace treaty, it's just that things cost absurdly more and more and resource production goes up very little. When I get to a stage where I care about my medal count, having less food and gold produced will make me a less desirable target.

 

[bingcrosby]

I built farms but no caravans on my second village. I don't even notice. They just make your base more desirable.

 

[Zloca]

Yes bingcrosby, that's what I'm talking about. I wish I could get rid of mine, but pretty much all at lvl9 so will probably keep upgrading as makes no sense to stop now, I will be targeted regardless of whether they stay at this level or max.

It's good to raid, get what u need, spend it and leave fcuk all for attackers to find. They'll pass your civ and you'll keep ur medals. Not that I give a shit about medals atm, but end game is all about medals.

 

[mhylton44142]

Yes bingcrosby, that's what I'm talking about. I wish I could get rid of mine, but pretty much all at lvl9 so will probably keep upgrading as makes no sense to stop now, I will be targeted regardless of whether they stay at this level or max.

It's good to raid, get what u need, spend it and leave fcuk all for attackers to find. They'll pass your civ and you'll keep ur medals. Not that I give a **** about medals atm, but end game is all about medals.

Is there really a need for you to "swear" by changing the lettering around? In just about every post but one I've seen of yours, you do this. Really?!?! How old are you, 15? C'mon grow up and talk like a mature person

 

[This game is laggy]

I think the forum censors certain words but I might be wrong.

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edit: the line above says "testing: f*ck f*ck"

 

[Zloca]

Sorry mate, is it really that offensive? That's a very common way to say nothing in British slang and carries little to no weight of the f word on its own

 

[woolybugger]

I agree that the production aspect of the game is quite weak.
But I've been able to supplement it with hunting, fruit trees and mines.
And exchanging cider and metal for resources.
Yeah, it's all just a drop in the bucket but every little bit helps in the long run.

 

[Zloca]

exchanging trade goods for food and gold will very soon be a waste of trade goods for you, the costs of everything will go sky high and those shipments will remain at like 1000-3000

 

[Aceman]

If your objective is to progress as quickly as possible thru the ages, upgrading resource production is not very useful. I experienced the same in clash. I did not do my pumps and mines there until I was an almost maxed out TH10, and builders had not much else to do.
Have only played Domi for couple of days, and the pattern seems the same here. I raid 100k gold in 15 minutes in iron age (farming inactives in Classical), There is no way my caravans can even pretend to keep up with that.

 

[dbukalski]

i cant afford to spend worker time on ineffective economy buildings when i need offense and then defense upgrades.

 

[ebaab]

i agree it's not a priority, but, i'm typically sitting on more food than i need at the end of the day, when i'm raiding for gold to upgrade walls. i keep all but two citizens busy 24/7, but why not put the last two citizens on a caravan overnight, particularly when something else will finish up before morning? The benefit is small, granted, but so is the cost. during the day i'm getting ~25k gold/hr from caravans/roads/mines/hunting.

 

[dbukalski]

Im currently upgrading my farms caravans while i sleep for the 8 hr upgrade because i have 2 spare workers. Im doing this for level bragging rights not because its useful. Plus who knows maybe infustrial will be lvl 90 or 100 requirement. But mostly its useless