Silverlake wrote: Aurordan wrote: Interesting.  So we can start discussion threads deliberately excluding a player, and any post they make will be deleted?  Not sure how I feel about that.    It was a joke lighten up, and no one deletes other's posts

Mogul wrote: dunnoob wrote: It's okay, my guess certainly didn't match one VICtorious army I'm aware of, getting a kobold legion back to its full size is fast.  GM SC reported the tournament ouchies for alliances:  EE 630K, H? 590K, and VIC 500K.    So if you have 75 players building 288 units in 8 towns it's 172,800 units per day, oops...  I think your guess is about 4 times bigger then reality. 12 units p/h is too much, 5-6 p/h would be more realistic and also 75 players with 8 towns average is too much... only around 30 VIC players where part of war until now. Also I don't know why, but that "tournament ouchies" post has incorrect numbers. For [Druids] it has 4,329 + 8,045 casualties which is less then 50% my casualties alone. Looking here at bottom http://elgea.illyriad.co.uk/#/World/TournamentSquare/37 there are fights with 32k , 25k , 17k , ... casualties so for sure not 8k together when defending. gameplayer wrote: this is one of the best war games i have ever played This is at least 6th post from you where you repeat how great "war game" this is... you might be surprised how many players think this is "browser based strategy game" or as massively.com or wikipedia says "city building game".

Mogul, hourly unit production is dependent on Sov use.  100% production bonus is common so that would be 9 Knights/hr.  A player could boost that more if he/she wanted.

dunnoob wrote: One lean and mean (huge) town at 147% still can do 12.68 stalwarts or 14.81 axmen, with two reserve squares, when troops are more important than cows, or when Illy's winter starting in less than two weeks kills the seasonal food bonus.

monkeyfeather wrote: dunnoob wrote: One lean and mean (huge) town at 147% still can do 12.68 stalwarts or 14.81 axmen, with two reserve squares, when troops are more important than cows, or when Illy's winter starting in less than two weeks kills the seasonal food bonus. A minor point, and somewhat off-topic, but it's one of my personal bugbears, which I continually push in AC, so I'll reiterate it here. Troops are always more important than cows. Cows, horses, swords etc., all can be sourced from many places, whereas the only source for troops is your barracks, and the only way to make it more efficient is troop sov. In my view, using your limited number of sov squares for anything other than troop sov (or the food/basic res sov required to run so much troop sov) is not using them to their best potential, regardless of any bonuses to adv res production. Sorry to be picking at such a small part of your post dunnoob, but it's an opinion I just can't seem to keep quiet about

Well, my formula is quite simple build cows during peace and troops during war..... a 25k knights army can be made in 3 months(assuming you can procure the saddles) and that will cost 47.5k gold/hr even with 3 cav grounds and if you aren't involved in a war(which is normally the case in illy) all that gold goes to waste.Thus my suggestion is to build cows during peace time as they don't require an upkeep(you can still build ~10k knights in 3 months) which will require 40k cows for which you require a production rate of 18 cows/hr which requires ~145% prod bonus.This way you will be self sufficient and efficient.
I accept this post has nothing to do with the topic of this thread but thats the case with many others in this thread. 

The topic is pret-ty clear epidemic. if you dont wish to comment then perhaps you shoudl go and put comment on other thread.