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Posted: **Sun Apr 25, 2010 11:02 am**

SO I've got a quarry with 2 level 5 cottages next to it.

The cottages say they are giving 50% bonuses to stone cutting, each.

The quarry says I am getting 25% bonus from each cottage. What up.

I think the cottage's 50% bonus is being split between the 2 quarries it is touching.

That is interesting.

edit - I think it doesn't work that way. I think I am getting it. The "50%" bonus is that it is giving 25% to 2 quarries. I think that is correct.

Edited By GORDON on 1272208047

Posted: **Sun Apr 25, 2010 11:35 am**

Yes, it's summed on the cottage. Bit weird way of doing it.

Posted: **Thu May 13, 2010 7:49 pm**

For those not playing this game, you should be. It's really starting to get interesting with the taking of various cities and whatnot. Scored a major one last night. When a player stops playing, his cities go 'lawless'. Then it's a mad scramble to get the best ones. A set went lawless yesterday. A larger castled city and it's two support cities. We failed on the castle city only in that we didn't know it had to be besieged. We scored the best support city instead. By TWO minutes! Given the fact that we worked together, moving resources to Gordon, him speeding up build times, etc for about 2.5 hours before his baron could start the 1.5 hour trip to the city. So, 2 minutes is an at the buzzer kind of time frame. They had to settle for the second support city worth about 50% less. Now we are working on the castle. We have to mass up enough troops to besiege it before any other groups can.

I also have a castled city that I raid my neighbors with. So now, I can carry on with my raiding, or I can stop and try for the castle. However, don't know if we'll have enough support to make it happen. Very frustrating. But in a fun way.

It's turning out to be the type of game where you can play a few minutes a day, or a few hours. Just depends on your mood.

If you have any intentions of joining in, you might want to consider joining sooner than later. Everyone is still turtling, so you'll be fine long enough to get a city going and them move to our continent. But, the server could end up filling up and locking out new players.

So, join now!

Posted: **Thu May 13, 2010 10:19 pm**

This game is fun. The building minister is a requirement, imho, to maximize game enjoyment, but that's like $3/month.

The game isn't nearly as heavy into pvp like Travian was, so it should be more tprjones-friendly.

Oh, and if anyone just wants to try it out, I have a spare account I can lend.

Edited By TheCatt on 1273803591

Posted: **Thu May 13, 2010 10:53 pm**

Ya, I've thought the same thing. Based on what I know of his gaming, this seemed like it would be right up his alley.

Troy too. It's totally a game players can get really into, without it eating up all of their time.

One of the best things about the game is that when I take your last city, you are done. You start over, and possibly, not even on the same server. I'm REALLY enjoying invading other peoples' cities too.

If we don't get that lawless castle, I'm going to be taking that castle at the top of the continent.

Oh, I have been playing just fine without the building minister. I won't be giving EA any money, so won't have one.

It's not hard for me to schedule many hours worth of building with the 6 slots I have. I do have some wasted time if I don't get back to the keyboard after the building is done. But, I'm still able to hold my own.

Edited By Cakedaddy on 1273805685

Posted: **Thu May 13, 2010 11:10 pm**

I thought Tazz was Troy.

Posted: **Thu May 13, 2010 11:13 pm**

If he is, it's news to me.

Posted: **Thu May 13, 2010 11:17 pm**

Just assumed since Troy uses that nickname (sorta) everywhere else.

Posted: **Fri May 14, 2010 1:06 am**

What am I doing wrong?

I'm sending a 3K unit army to plunder my neighbor who has a wall, less than one hundred units, and no other defenses.

My morale is fine, but I always get negatives due to that night protection thing.

My army will hit and I'll lose a handful of units to his 3-4 every time.

Why? Is it because he doesn't have a castle? Have they nerfed attacks on players who choose not to engage in PvP? I'm fine with that if that's the case, I'm just curious if I could be more efficient.

Posted: **Fri May 14, 2010 3:32 am**

I'm assuming you are still getting a shit ton of resources though. When you plunder, it's a 'non combat' attack. Meaning, your objective is to steal resources, not wipe out the troops. Although there is fighting, the losses for both side are minimal. When I plunder, I do kill many of their troops and the current city I'm plundering has less than 4 troops left. This was a 171 point city though.

The other thing that might be happening is he has defensive towers. If he does, it neutralizes x number of your troops. So, if you are sending 1000 zerks, but he has traps that neutralize 1500 zerks, then your zerks do not fight. I'm assuming they are still vulnerable to damage though, so you are losing troops, but are dealing no damage.

So, if you are doing NO damage to his troop numbers, I would check to see if there are defensive towers neutralizing your forces. Also, when I attack, I always lose more than I kill.

And speaking of having a 3k army, is it available for an assault on that 4k lawless castle?

Posted: **Fri May 14, 2010 7:58 am**

GORDON wrote:Just assumed since Troy uses that nickname (sorta) everywhere else.

I thought that until I saw him in chat. It sounds like a kid.

Yeah, I have the same plunder issue, my 1400 versus his 20-30, and we each lose 1 or 2. Bah.

Posted: **Fri May 14, 2010 11:24 am**

Tazz is not Troy. I do use similar names when I play online games though.

I keeping meaning to try the game, but just haven't had the chance/not totally bought into the general game concept.

Edited By Troy on 1273851271

Posted: **Fri May 14, 2010 11:56 am**

I didn't think it was Troy from the beginning (cause he had a later start date and just happened to end up on our continent?) and it was also confirmed after I saw him in chat. Asking too many dumb questions, and Troy is usually the one answering them. But I didn't want to say that until after it was confirmed, just in case.

I didn't think I would buy into the concept either. That's why I never tried Evony. But I was in the right mood when this game was mentioned and I jumped on to try it. Even though I'm a non-paying customer, I'm getting a TON of enjoyment out of it. I figured, if I don't pay, then I'm going to be missing a bunch. That's not the case. I'm getting stuff slower since I'm not paying to speed up production/resources, but I'm still in the top 1000 players on the server.

It's just a slow paced RTS, or dumbed down Civilization type game. Or a combo of sorts. But it's definitely fun.

Edited By Cakedaddy on 1273853344

Posted: **Fri May 14, 2010 12:57 pm**

Troy wrote:Tazz is not Troy. I do use similar names when I play online games though.

I keeping meaning to try the game, but just haven't had the chance/not totally bought into the general game concept.

If you want to try it out, I've got 2 spare accounts on our continent that you or anyone can testdrive/have.

Posted: **Sun May 16, 2010 4:40 pm**

11 more minutes, and the castle is MINE!!!! *evil laugh*

Posted: **Mon May 17, 2010 11:13 am**

The castle became mine as scheduled. Rebuilding now and will be my infantry city. My main castle is setup for cavalry. I probably need to start another support city soon as well.

Posted: **Mon May 17, 2010 12:48 pm**

So this was an abandoned one? How do you "siege" something? There's a castle near me that will go lawless within a week, want to be ready.

Posted: **Mon May 17, 2010 1:03 pm**

I included a baron in the siege force. I didn't pay attention to whether it took 100k stone/wood, etc.

So, clicked, send troops, type was siege and included the baron. I wish I had paid attention to the resources.

Once they landed, I knocked out a bunch of their troops and was 10% owner. Other than the unknown about how well my troops would do, etc, it was pretty easy and straight forward.

With lawless castles, you don't have to worry about morale and night protection. They don't get any. I earned 10% per hour.

Posted: **Mon May 17, 2010 1:07 pm**

OK, so they just stay there, camping out, earning the 10% per hour? did you have to include any siege units?

Posted: **Mon May 17, 2010 1:16 pm**

The castle I took was very weak. I posted the battle here: http://www.thecatt.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=81

I did take 30 rams, but I don't think I needed them. Both from the stance that I don't think they are required as part of a siege force for it to count as a siege, and from the stance that I killed his units before the towers were destroyed, so, I didn't need to destroy them.

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