The art of farming

[w1c]

Hi guys,

as Valor is occupied with alot of inactive players, you should use this as an advantage.
Inactive players won't grow, but they can perform as your unlimited amount of resource.

Knowing any "activated" town, without any upgrades whatsoever, can hold about 600 of each resource, and also produces a certain amount of these precious resources each hour.

When you just left beginners protection, you should use your basic troops (you get them by doing your missions) to attack these. Farm untill one town is empty and move on to the next one!
Once you grow bigger, aim for knights! An exact amount of 44 knights will give you the maximum you can haul in each inactive town.

Imagine this (realistic) scenario: You have 44 knights, and 6 inactive towns around you. Let's take an average for the time to hit them (30 min), so 1h untill your knights come back with the resources.
This gives you a boost of 3600 of each resource, and once you have hit the last town, you can restart the cycle.
Now imagine the same, but with 132 knights... ( 10800 wood, iron AND clay)

I hope i helped some of you in the farming tactic (once you start calculating barbarian city's in this tactic, it gets extremely complicated, so let's just stick with this)

Grtz!

[Lantos]

I could be wrong, probably am, but those citys get like 150 resources each a hour, right? So only the first wave you would get those 3600 it would take the city 4 hours to get back at 600. Or do I see it wrong and just misunderstood your post?

[colossk]

44 knights is the sweet spot for any inactive players. 54 is overkill

[w1c]

@ colossk: you are right, I miscalculated on that one! 44 IS the hot spot (haven't played since world 6, thank you for the comment!)
@ Lantos: Indeed, that's why you have to make a certain "farm round" which repeats itself every 4 - 5 hours.

[Incest.]

What do you mean by hotspot? So how many is ideal?

[Alexpelavas]

resources are different in different worlds a barb can make 150 in one world and 200 in another thats because world speed affects this

[Ampatriot]

Excellent,excellent advise. Farming is the key to this game. Whoever farms the most will be the most successful

[Alexpelavas]

ampatriot no because i never do haha

[Kryzen]

the must is to scout for not have surprise today I farm ppl who have 1100 points and he have 300 lancers
so scout player for the first time are not a bad idea and can save your troops

[johnny_whoops]

Another trick to farming. Even an empty city with a wall of 2-5 will kill one or two of your knights. So as soon as you can build some rams and zerks and clear the Walls and then you can farm without loosing any knights so it's free resources all the time with no risk. Just keep on expanding your wall free resources.