Some questions from a relative newbie

Loving the game!!!! only game i play on my iphone

Anyway, some questions, if i may be so bold.

1. Whats that small yellow dot in the top right hand of the screen? whats does it do? whats it for?

2. Why when you hit lvl15 of upgrading to resources does it cost coins!! I dont mind if they were like 1 or 2 coins but 10 coins per upgrade!!! thats 40coins to upgrade a full mine!! I appreciate money has to be made but seriously, can this not be lowered a bit?.....or is it just me??

3. Negative crop output. My crop mines are at lvl15, planting tech is lvl7, and im struggling to get out of negative without resorting to oasis's. How do you guys have such massive armies?!?!? how do you cope? i have roughly 3k inf and about 700cats....and im struggling.....

4. When i attack another player, i scout, see he has lots of resources (goody!) attack, keep scouting, i win, but i sometimes up with 0 resources in all but crops which i get, how come??

5. Do forts have defences? I have farmed the odd fort (lvl2) and some had turrets? is this normal?

6. Scout. Scout is lvl5, some people i scout get full info, and some just a list of army, saying several or alot or stuff like that, how come some i see full info and some i dont.

Appreciate any help guys, thanks!

1. Whats that small yellow dot in the top right hand of the screen? whats does it do? whats it for?
It's an indicator of connection to the server/network. If it is the yellow circle then you are good, but if it changes to a red circle with a slash through it, that means there is something wrong with the connection

2. Why when you hit lvl15 of upgrading to resources does it cost coins!! I dont mind if they were like 1 or 2 coins but 10 coins per upgrade!!! thats 40coins to upgrade a full mine!! I appreciate money has to be made but seriously, can this not be lowered a bit?.....or is it just me??
It can be lowered but I doubt they will. I don't really bother upgrading resources past 15, except occasionally crops. It's a lot easier just to farm forts for resources

3. Negative crop output. My crop mines are at lvl15, planting tech is lvl7, and im struggling to get out of negative without resorting to oasis's. How do you guys have such massive armies?!?!? how do you cope? i have roughly 3k inf and about 700cats....and im struggling.....
Level 9 oases, enhance crop output, dividing your army up between all your cities, filling warehouse every so often to keep starvation from occurring.

4. When i attack another player, i scout, see he has lots of resources (goody!) attack, keep scouting, i win, but i sometimes up with 0 resources in all but crops which i get, how come??
I'm not sure exactly, and I'm sure others will elaborate more, but possibly their other resources are low enough that their cranny protects them but their crops are too high and so all you get is crops.

5. Do forts have defences? I have farmed the odd fort (lvl2) and some had turrets? is this normal?
Yes the higher level forts have defenses. I've had it happen to me as well where a lower level fort had the random turrets. I'm not sure why this happens.

6. Scout. Scout is lvl5, some people i scout get full info, and some just a list of army, saying several or alot or stuff like that, how come some i see full info and some i dont.
If your scout level is higher than the other person's, then you get a detailed scout report. If it is the same or lower, you get a general, vague scout report

Excellent, thank you VERY much, cleared up alot of niggling issues i had.

Level 9 oases, enhance crop output, dividing your army up between all your cities, filling warehouse every so often to keep starvation from occurring.

Dividing your army?? I do have another city, so i could have two sets of armies, one in each city, and when i attack/hunt these 'two' armies become combined?

Dividing your army?? I do have another city, so i could have two sets of armies, one in each city, and when i attack/hunt these 'two' armies become combined?

You can dispatch some of your troops to your other city, but they don't combine when you attack/hunt. They are separate, but you can dispatch them all back to one city (probably your main city) if you would like to use them all at once.

You'll probably end up with negative output when you combine them again, but it's only for the time you are using your troops and not every minute of the day

Loving the game!!!! only game i play on my iphone

Anyway, some questions, if i may be so bold.

1. Whats that small yellow dot in the top right hand of the screen? whats does it do? whats it for?
It shows you if you are connected to the internet. If the game isn't loading you should look at this button. If it's blinking and red, ur disconneted to internet:/
2. Why when you hit lvl15 of upgrading to resources does it cost coins!! I dont mind if they were like 1 or 2 coins but 10 coins per upgrade!!! thats 40coins to upgrade a full mine!! I appreciate money has to be made but seriously, can this not be lowered a bit?.....or is it just me??
Yeah resources cost a lot indeed. To max resource u need about..... for all 16 solts... 3600 coins :0 thts 300$ or 240€!!! But i ever looked at those as a permanent enchance.... nothing u need to waste coins on (unless u get a few through pvp or whatever)

3. Negative crop output. My crop mines are at lvl15, planting tech is lvl7, and im struggling to get out of negative without resorting to oasis's. How do you guys have such massive armies?!?!? how do you cope? i have roughly 3k inf and about 700cats....and im struggling.....
... there are different ways, like 1st enchance and max tech. atm u get 170% of ur crops, with both (enchance and lvl 10 tech)= 300% :0 130% more:0
With lvl 17 u could occupy 9 oasis..... 9*3700*3=99900. Then u can split ur army in ur cities. Also a minus of 30 k crop per h IS managable. all together means VERY big armies..... but ur a big victim of starving then >>
4. When i attack another player, i scout, see he has lots of resources (goody!) attack, keep scouting, i win, but i sometimes up with 0 resources in all but crops which i get, how come??
there are several answers: 1. if u attack someone with 2000/2000/2000/3700 resource and attack with 20 inf u will get 160 crops only.... because u dont carry more than 1700 res (20*80=1600). so attack with more troops and if this dont work: 2. they upraded their cnny (lvl 20 crannyy hides 100k res) and all but crops are UNDER that cranny level so u can only get crops. Break cranny skill helps a lot D

5. Do forts have defences? I have farmed the odd fort (lvl2) and some had turrets? is this normal?
forts got defences when they
a) never were sucessful attacked before
b) the never got successful attacked after a resign..... but the turrets/traps shouldnt be that problem, theyre only 2 on lvl 2 (fort)

6. Scout. Scout is lvl5, some people i scout get full info, and some just a list of army, saying several or alot or stuff like that, how come some i see full info and some i dont.
Ur "victims" u can see whole report got a scout tech lvl of 4 or lower the others got 5 or higher. If u got max scout u never will get scouted anymore;) (well get scouted but only vague results)
Appreciate any help guys, thanks!

I wish u a lot of fun, and good wars;D

Also a happy new year!



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4. When i attack another player, i scout, see he has lots of resources (goody!) attack, keep scouting, i win, but i sometimes up with 0 resources in all but crops which i get, how come??
I'm not sure exactly, and I'm sure others will elaborate more, but possibly their other resources are low enough that their cranny protects them but their crops are too high and so all you get is crops.

When a player has higher amount of one resource then others, when you raid them you will get the amount that is highest first, then when that evens with the second highest, you get first and second, and so on...

4. When i attack another player, i scout, see he has lots of resources (goody!) attack, keep scouting, i win, but i sometimes up with 0 resources in all but crops which i get, how come??
I'm not sure exactly, and I'm sure others will elaborate more, but possibly their other resources are low enough that their cranny protects them but their crops are too high and so all you get is crops.

When a player has higher amount of one resource then others, when you raid them you will get the amount that is highest first, then when that evens with the second highest, you get first and second, and so on...

the cranny is true too tho >> well thats because new player rarely need crops... and to sell them? the market is always (later like now its most important res:0) low if the server is in early - middle stages..... so theres a crop overload in city

Uranos

Wow, thanks for all the replies, irs appreciated