Posts by Quartz

    wait a bit....isn't the port from the target town used to load the resources...?


    Yes. If you Occupy a nearby town you can raid from there, cutting the travel time - useful if you have to wave - but the looting time is slightly different: your cargo ships travel from the occupied town to your target (where they loot) then back to the occupied town and then to your nominated city.

    How do you guys repeatedly pillage players from far away to siphon their resources?


    Your initial thought is called planting a mobile. An alternative is teleporting an existing city. A third is to occupy an existing city nearby and they get a small percentage of your take.


    Did you forgot to consider the travel time?

    The 14.0.1 update does look better but the colour is still not quite right. And I think I've spotted why:



    Lighting has not been applied. Notice the shadows of the Workshop and the Temple. The Forge needs to be lit from the same side so it is lighter on the left and casts a shadow to the right.


    In general, lighting and shadows on the buildings do not appear to be entirely consistent but that's another matter; here it's completely missing.

    I don't think I did. I've just checked and I do not now, but then I've done spying missions since then. It's always possible I misclicked somewhere.


    Edit: another change is that the mobile has been removed.

    I've fielded some Spartans against Hoplites upgraded to 14/14 and looking at the combat report graphic, I can easily see that the Hoplites are their near equal. This means it's no longer worth buying Spartans.



    So I suggest that Hoplite upgrades apply to Spartans too.

    Right now I can tell you that Hoplites upgraded to Level 14 kick butt against Spartans. So much so that it's not really worth fielding them.


    This, of course, means it's not worth buying them.

    I am trying to spy an enemy mobile. When I try to spy the resources or garrison I get the message 'Your spy has successfully arrived in X' (where X is the name of another town) or the resources in town X or the garrison of town X, never the mobile.


    I know you can use Ambrosia to give a false garrison strength, but it's not that.


    If you look at the CR then you will find the name of the attacker.