Sun Mar 27, 2011 11:24 am
The Art Of Cropping
The art of cropping
A PVP and new server guide.
High lvl break cranny comes in really useful here!
The enemy needs to have a lower scout than you!
1. Find a target.
Scout around for someone who has several high lvl crop oases.
2. Work out the negative.
For example, the first scout shows you that the enemy has 600 crops, the second scout (1 min apart) shows you he has 550 crops, crop loss 50 per min.
50 crops x 60 minutes = 3000 crop loss per hour.
600 crops/50 crops = 12 minutes
600 crops will reach 0 in 12 mins.
3. Work out the distance.
This depends on what sort of army you are using, but let's base it on a cat army.
For instance if it's 3 mins inf time it may be 8 mins cat time (depends on your stats+tech).
Send 1 cat to an oases/fort/city next to your target (not your target oasis/fort/city, otherwise they will get notification) so that you know the exact travel time.
4. Timing your attack.
So from the above calculations you know that your enemies crops will hit 0 in 12 mins and that your cats will take 8 mins to reach the target. So you need to send your army when the enemies crops hit 400 (50 crops x 8 minutes = 400 crops), this way your army will hit just as the enemies troops are called back due to lack of crop.
5. Stack attack.
(doesn't match up with the above calculations as it is purely for info)
Less chance of success because this give your target notification and enough time to buy crops and hunt. The benefit of stacking is that no one else will be able to steal the hit from you as their army will receive a greater time penalty.
You may want to stack your attack as other ppl will be scouting your target. To stack an attack you need to work out the time for crops to hit 0, and how long your army will take to reach the opponent.
So if your opponent is 12 mins away (cat time) you need to wait for there to be 22mins left of crops in their city.
When there is 22mins left you send a single cat followed straight away by your attacking army, this way your attacking army will receive a 10 min time penalty, so your single cat will take 12 mins and your attacking army will take 22 mins.
A PVP and new server guide.
High lvl break cranny comes in really useful here!
The enemy needs to have a lower scout than you!
1. Find a target.
Scout around for someone who has several high lvl crop oases.
2. Work out the negative.
For example, the first scout shows you that the enemy has 600 crops, the second scout (1 min apart) shows you he has 550 crops, crop loss 50 per min.
50 crops x 60 minutes = 3000 crop loss per hour.
600 crops/50 crops = 12 minutes
600 crops will reach 0 in 12 mins.
3. Work out the distance.
This depends on what sort of army you are using, but let's base it on a cat army.
For instance if it's 3 mins inf time it may be 8 mins cat time (depends on your stats+tech).
Send 1 cat to an oases/fort/city next to your target (not your target oasis/fort/city, otherwise they will get notification) so that you know the exact travel time.
4. Timing your attack.
So from the above calculations you know that your enemies crops will hit 0 in 12 mins and that your cats will take 8 mins to reach the target. So you need to send your army when the enemies crops hit 400 (50 crops x 8 minutes = 400 crops), this way your army will hit just as the enemies troops are called back due to lack of crop.
5. Stack attack.
(doesn't match up with the above calculations as it is purely for info)
Less chance of success because this give your target notification and enough time to buy crops and hunt. The benefit of stacking is that no one else will be able to steal the hit from you as their army will receive a greater time penalty.
You may want to stack your attack as other ppl will be scouting your target. To stack an attack you need to work out the time for crops to hit 0, and how long your army will take to reach the opponent.
So if your opponent is 12 mins away (cat time) you need to wait for there to be 22mins left of crops in their city.
When there is 22mins left you send a single cat followed straight away by your attacking army, this way your attacking army will receive a 10 min time penalty, so your single cat will take 12 mins and your attacking army will take 22 mins.
Last edited by Donzelli on Mon Apr 04, 2011 8:02 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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