=================================rrevan's guide to succesful

farming ==============================

First thing you have to understand, is that farms have only one role: to generate rss for
your main account. That is all. So, there are some things you can skip or ignore, and some
you dont need while developing them.

Before you create a new account, make sure you BIND your current account,
otherwise you will lose it!!!! You can bind 2 accounts per facebook or gmail
account.

After you created your farms, read your messages, you will find there an elite teleport. Use
that to port near your main account.

1. Location
- farms should be located near your main account, to be able to clean them up fast. If you
have 5 farms and you need a 5 minutes march for each trip, you will spend hours trying to
clean them out. Thats a mood killer.

2. Buildings
- castle - maximum level you need for castle is 15. At that level you unlock iron farms and
iron gathering, and there is really no point in developing your farm castle level any further.
You should hurry up castle up to level 12, build college level 12 and research the 3rd army
march, then take your time and save some shields to protect your farms in the last stages
of upgrading, especially from 14 to 15 - you need 4,5 mil rss food/wood, so you will need to
shield your farms while you gather these rss, in order to avoid losing them.

- barracks - maximum level you need is 4. You will need one barrack level 6 for for
upgrading castle, rest you can leave them to 4.

- depot - maximum level you need is 7, to upgrade castle. You do not want to maximize
depot, because you dont want to protect your rss, you need to plunder as much as you can
from your farms.

- drill ground - you will need lvl 14 to upgrade castle to level 15

- hospital - you need lvl 11 to upgrade castle. I recomand that you upgrade it to maximum
level, to protect your troops, because even troops t2 take time to rebuild
- embassy - you need lvl 13 for castle upgrade

- college - this is one building i recomand you upgrade it to maximum level allowed by your
castle. You should make a priority from upgrading castle to level 12, then upgrading
college to level 12, because you can then research 3rd army march. Having a 3rd
gathering army makes a HUGE difference

You dont have to build hall of war, blacksmith, war temple. These are useless building
considering you only gathers rss with your farms.

3. Troops

Only troops you need are level 2 cavalery. DISMISS ALL THE REST, including those
freebies you get in begining.

YOU SHOULD HAVE ONLY T2 cavalery in your farms!!!

Optimal ammount is 40.000 cavalery t2. This number will allow you to send 3 marches to
clear 3 level 5 farms.

T2 cavalery is optimal because of many reasons:

- they have lost cost of producing,
- doesnt require much time to recruit,
- they have a very good loading capacity
- THEY DO NOT GIVE POINTS FOR KILLING THEM IN kill event, and that makes your
farm very very uninteresting for the enemies during the event.

TIP: when you send armies to gather, server by default selects the necessary amount of
your troops depending on the level of the farm. WHEN YOU SEND YOUR LAST AVAILABLE
MARCH, SELECT AND SEND ALL REMAINING TROOPS FROM YOUR CASTLE, even if its much
more then needed for that farm. You do not want to keep troops inside the castle, some
players will atack you even for 1 k troops.

4. College research

DEVELOPMENT tree - from here you want to research only the first Medical Facilities hub.
Rest are not interesting for your farm. When you have dome with whats important, you can
research Tax Reduction.
CITY DEFENSE tree - from here you need only Sturdy Defense, first hub. Research this to
maximum, as it raises your wall defense, allowing your castle to burn longer. Wall Defense
is important because you will hit your farms constantly, and that will cause them to burn,
reducing wall defense. First attack sets your walls on fire for an hour. Following attacks add
one more hour per attack to the total burning time of your walls, and also reduce defense
points for a small value, depending on the power of the attacking army. And when defense
reaches zero, as a safety measure generated by the server, your castle is ported to a
random location of the map, which is very annoying.
MILITARY tree - you want to reasearch here ASAP Legion 1 and Legion 2. Each unlocks
another marching army for you. You can also research here Leadership - it raises your
maximum army capacity. Rest of the techs here are of no real use for farms
RESOURCES tree - this is your main area of focus. research ALL to maximum level, except
Depot hub. Rest, maximize them to boost your farm rss output
These indications take in consideration the fact that you stop with the castle at lvl 15.
There are other usefull techs, but since you require a higher then 15 lvl college, i did not
take those in consideration.

5. Farming
Plan ahead!!! Think of what you want to upgrade, what rss you need for it, and gather
that!! If you plan to upgrade wall to level 20, and need 15 million wood, then gather only
wood with all your farms. This way you minimize time you need to raise the necesary
amount of rss and time you spent sitting in castle with a huge load of rss.
I am using a plan, to make sure i maximize my rss output: i activate VIP option on
one account, then use it to find mines level 5 for the rest of my farms, and send 3 marches
to lvl 5 only! (Ofc, this is functional and easier if you have two devices to acces the game.)
That makes a HUGE difference: from lvl 4 farm to a lvl 5 farm you gain extra 60 k rss. If you
send 3 marches, thats 180 k rss. If you send them 3 times a day, thats 540 k more rss just
for one farm in a day!! If you have 5 farms - thats 2,7 MILIONS more rss in a day!!!!!! So,
save your VIP cards and use them wisely, in turns, from each account, to find mines for all .

6. other buildings
keep unlocking ground area as you upgrade your castle. Build 1 training ground, as you will
need it for castle upgrade, and as many medic tents as you consider fit. I prefer to build
maximum medic tents instead of wood/food farms, to protect my troops in case i ever get
hit.
In rest build wood/food farms and upgrade them to maximul level. BUT remember that you
will also need room for iron and stone mines later on.

DO not keep too much rss in your farms, especially when you go off, try to clean them out
before you go to sleep.
If you are saving for farms upgrade, make sure you use a shield when you go off. Farms are
harder to protect because of the time needed to jump with your main account in the farm
alliance. Also, by doing that, you wont be able to participate in alliance events like elite
wars or adventures for next 7 days, so, its best not to give enemies reason to attack your
farm.
DO not keep troops in the castle. Try as much as posible to log in when your troops return
and send them out again. If you will be off for a longer period of time, just send your troops
to alliance fort. It takes time to rebuild 40 k army.
Over the night, troops will return with rss, leaving your farm full with both rss and army,
which makes it a nice target. That is why, during your sleep period, send armies to gather:
stone, iron, or gems. For stone and iron, make sure you send them to lvl 5 farms. That
takes 6-7 hours, so you should be awake by the time they return.