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.
Yes, you're assuming a total travel time of 30 mins. Oftentimes pillage targets can be an hour or more travel each way.
Display MoreFact āWhen raiding a target, the total loading time increases as both the number of ships and the capacity of each trade ship increase.ā
I assume the exact relationship between the increase in loading capacity and loading time is unknown; however, if anyone has information regarding this, please kindly inform me.
I asked the AI to estimate the formula based on the data points where a capacity of 500 corresponds to 33 minutes loading time, and a capacity of 700 corresponds to 46 minutes.
Based on this, when the trade ship capacity reaches around 1520 per ship capacity, the marginal returnāthat is, the amount of resources that can be pillaged within 24 hoursābegins to decrease.
I donāt believe this was the intended outcome when they removed the loading time limit...
Therefore, please reconsider the mechanics related to loading time to improve pillaging efficiency. Some suggestions include:
Implementing a maximum loading time limit;
Adjusting the rate at which loading time increases with ship capacity;
Exploring research or upgrades that could reduce loading time during pillaging;
Introducing additional balancing factors to prevent diminishing returns as capacity grows.
Did you forgot to consider the travel time?
I agree with Quartz, here.
If we get to the point where Spartans are weaker than Hoplites (and they will to, if we get Hoplites to 25-30 level upgrades), then Spartans are worthless.
Actually it's more like levels 14-15 when the Forge is activated and it's here now.
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.
But I had no forge with Spartans and fella had hoplites forged around 15/15 and it was almost the same losses
I should have said that the Forge was active on both sides.
Can you post the old stats of +3/3 Hoplites versus Spartans.
Sorry, I cannot. But Spartans used to be useful as an emergency reserve. No longer, it seems. BTW looking at raw stats doesn't tell the whole story
No, thank you.
Why not?
I can tell you that I won't be buying any more Spartans until something is done. That's money Gameforge is missing.
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.
Below are the incorrect spy reports:
The town (blanked) is consistent and I have spies in that town, but I'm not spying on that town.
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.
Display MoreHi, can someone please explain what happened?
A few days ago, I was attacked and pillaged by this player.
Today, I did the same thing to him ā attacked and pillaged ā but then I got this message:
I thought that once a town is attacked and pillaged, the cultural goods are supposed to be gone.
So why did this happen to me?
If you look at the CR then you will find the name of the attacker.
They actually don't care about our opinions.
They care about the revenue generated or lost. Paying players leaving means a loss in revenue.
Something else to consider: if you are about to be pillaged, upgrading one of the reducers will reduce the amount by which you can be pillaged.
I am not paying. I am leaving.
Off you go then. Or you could stay and help Gameforge get it right.
Paralytically slow right now.
Does upgrading the Optician beyond 50% improve the amount of RPs you get from Experiments?
