It's sadly addicting. And I'll tell you why.
It's the kind of game that makes you want to set an alarm next to your bed in two hour intervals so you can be sure to be the first to pillage your neighbors of their freshly generated gold.
I haven't quite resorted to this yet, as my work schedule pretty much has me awake and at a computer about 16 hours a day anyway.
I'd say, right now, it's myself and Rovewin doing most of the pwning. I think between the two of us I'd say Rove is winning as I haven't been able to successfully attack him in the last few attempts. He has been able to attack me successfully, but luckily I've usually managed to "deposit" my gold by then.
This brings up one of the game's flaws, and that's that saving money is too easy. The dagger is a weapon that costs 2 gold to buy, and the sell back price is also 2 gold. So it's essentially an interest free bank to help you save up your mula. This shouldn't be the intention as it just makes investment into your defenses unnecessary.
Speaking of defenses, and offense as well, I just don't get them. The upgrades don't seem to make hardly any difference. Hopefully we can get an exact percentage amount of how much they help. It seems odd to me that I keep losing to an attacking force when I have a great defense, and more troops in leather armor than Rovewin even has in his army. Granted I don't know exactly what Rovewin's troops are using, but I still think something is amiss. Specially when my heavily armed offense force attacks him and he still beats me. Is he trading his offense and defense back and forth, or does he just have a good amount of more money coming in than I do that he can split it up evenly between the two?
What are your current upgrades, Rove? I send spies, but the numbers are always so weird it's hard to even know for sure if they are accurate. I had you at about 8k in both last time I checked. Which is crazy. I hate you. :finger:
I don't see much of an "end game" to this. Eventually even when we get our armies to a mystical "cap" which I don't even know exists for certain, we're just going to be hitting each other back and forth. We never do enough army damage to knock someone down a notch, so it's mostly just a race to see who can get all the upgrades first and then it's stalemate for the rest of eternity.
It's the kind of game that makes you want to set an alarm next to your bed in two hour intervals so you can be sure to be the first to pillage your neighbors of their freshly generated gold.
I haven't quite resorted to this yet, as my work schedule pretty much has me awake and at a computer about 16 hours a day anyway.
I'd say, right now, it's myself and Rovewin doing most of the pwning. I think between the two of us I'd say Rove is winning as I haven't been able to successfully attack him in the last few attempts. He has been able to attack me successfully, but luckily I've usually managed to "deposit" my gold by then.
This brings up one of the game's flaws, and that's that saving money is too easy. The dagger is a weapon that costs 2 gold to buy, and the sell back price is also 2 gold. So it's essentially an interest free bank to help you save up your mula. This shouldn't be the intention as it just makes investment into your defenses unnecessary.
Speaking of defenses, and offense as well, I just don't get them. The upgrades don't seem to make hardly any difference. Hopefully we can get an exact percentage amount of how much they help. It seems odd to me that I keep losing to an attacking force when I have a great defense, and more troops in leather armor than Rovewin even has in his army. Granted I don't know exactly what Rovewin's troops are using, but I still think something is amiss. Specially when my heavily armed offense force attacks him and he still beats me. Is he trading his offense and defense back and forth, or does he just have a good amount of more money coming in than I do that he can split it up evenly between the two?
What are your current upgrades, Rove? I send spies, but the numbers are always so weird it's hard to even know for sure if they are accurate. I had you at about 8k in both last time I checked. Which is crazy. I hate you. :finger:
I don't see much of an "end game" to this. Eventually even when we get our armies to a mystical "cap" which I don't even know exists for certain, we're just going to be hitting each other back and forth. We never do enough army damage to knock someone down a notch, so it's mostly just a race to see who can get all the upgrades first and then it's stalemate for the rest of eternity.
I have most soldiers with shortswords with a force of spearmen leading the charge being backed up by a brigade of archers. For defense I have a bit invested in the heavier up stuff then sell a bunch of shortswords for heavy clothes when I am done attacking and vice versa. Although how did you afford a shark moat? 
