10 things you should do when someone tries to farm you!!

I get almost one mail daily from active players who are farmed by a bigger fish. All have almost same content. Player XYZ is farming me for no reason, I don’t even have troops out, can you help me!

I thought I will write down some suggestion here on how to avoid farming. Please add in your comments

1. First of all, it’s a war game and people don’t have to be nice to you. You have to "manage" your neighbors and other powerful players. You can’t assume they would be nice to you

2. If ever attacked (for farming), you should send a polite mail to that players, asking him not to farm you. If they know you are active and you have asked nicely, most players will leave you alone and won’t bother you. Don’t use abusive language. It doesn’t work (just like in real life).

3. Having said that, not all players are nice and I have many personal experiences with not only few players but even the whole alliance which was rouge and just wanted to farm people. There are few ways to deal with it. First of all, join and alliance. If you can’t find any, create your own alliance.

4. Increase your cranny to max, and make sure you always sell any excess recourses (more than 70K of any resource can anytime be looted by an attacking player)

5. Some experienced attackers will try to pin you (ie, send a cat from a long distance to prevent you from selling your resources). That’s where having an alliance is useful. You should donate all your excess resource to the alliance.

6. Build traps! An attacker cannot clean the traps without sustaining some losses. If you keep on building traps, you get pp too! So win-win situation for you.

7. If you cannot do point 4 & 5, train your troops when attacked. This will put some of your resources to use.

8. The idea is, do not let your attacker get any resource or any pp.

9. Last two points, first, dont ever give up. Fight back. Use your cav (just one) to attack on the oasis or forts of your opponent. If he belong to an alliance, attack the oasis or forts of that alliance. Once you win the oasis or fort, don't keep it, resign it!! and go for next oasis and fort. Bring him some pain!

10. Haypi, many times mimics real life. There is always a bigger fish in the pond. If someone is harassing you continuously, ask for help. May be the king of the kings, may be the leader of strongest ally, may be just some friends on world chat. Don’t keep quiet, fight back!


These are just some random thoughts I could collect. There are of course more strategies. Please feel free to add more, or correct me if I mis stated anything. Thanks for reading!!

Very much yes to point 10. Not only can I then feel like a night in shining armor I also gets lots of prestige, plus sending a letter afterwards describing their crimes is way fun. Really makes the whole thing worthwhile.

Good points amit. You want a visitor ? Lol

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Those suggestions are really useful. Do you mind I borrow some of yours to help other guys, especially new players?

To your point 5.

If somebody does try that all you need to do is have more units in the city and you can still sell in the market all you want. (That was the case when I was still actively playing a few months ago)

Point 2 - How do you know the farmer is a male? you should send a polite mail to that players, asking him not to farm you. It could be a woman/girl/alien/parasite/insect/non-human thing that is farming you.

Point 3 - Make sure to join a GOOD alliance (or at least an alliance that can back you up if you have trouble). And creating your own alliance sometimes gives the impression that you're a noob.

Point 6 - Turrets > Traps (If you have level 9 or above traps) because cavalry with high speed and defence can wipe a full field of traps taking almost no loss at all. If you build traps, the attacker will mow them over (most likely) and you won't get prestige. You only get prestige if you WIN the battle.

Point 9 - Again, you don't know if it's a female or a male. AND if s/he belongs to a big, strong alliance, it'll only bring more pain.

Mintos, Point 6 was valid. Unless you have level 9 or 10 turrets they cab be cleared without a loss by cats. And if you're being farmed there is no way you have a full wall. Traps however ALWAYS kill something. So build those until they give up, then switch to turrets. Also, while you only gain prestige in battle from winning, you gain it also from building. Building traps gives you some, albiet not much. You could also invest in the convince skill, turning his cav into your own.

Yeah and you're going to spend your points into convince. Let's watch this:
You: OH, I'm going to put all my points in convince and build traps! Then his cav will become mine!
*later on when the farmer stops*
You: Yay, I can finally build my level 10 turrets!
*finishes building turrets*
You: Now I can start battling other people! Oh wait, ALL my points are in convince and none are in Hidden Attack, Cure or Break Cranny...

Besides, you have to remember there's a 5 attack per player per day (not inc. oases and forts of course). Assuming you have the necessary resources, it only takes 3 and a bit hours to build level 10 turrets. One day is 24 hours.
Let's do the math!

Also, although traps kill SOMETHING, the amount you kill can be easily rebuilt by the farmer. Unless you bother getting level 10 traps. Follow the scenario above:

You: Time to put my money in level 10 traps!
*after farmer stops*
You: No more money left for turrets and other techs! Yay for me!

Its easy to reset points set on one thing to switch them. And since one achievement is to convince 5000 soldiers, maybe you should try it. Next, 3 hours for turrets? You run out of people building turrets that fast. I've tried it. Also, if you have the resources to build a full wall several times a day, as you seem to be implying, build an army instead. It wouldn't take you long. Finally, you last point that spending money on traps takes away from money for other techs. Yes, you are correct. But again, if you can afford to build a full wall in just a couple hours, money isn't a concern.

Turrets Kill/Per Turret/Per Rpund

1 3/1/3.6/.9
2 4.9/1.48/5.92/1.64
3 8.06/2.42/9.68/2.68
4 13.2/3.96/15.84/4.4
5 21.6/6.48/25.92/7.2
6 35.4/10.62/42.48/11.8
7 58/17.4/69.6/19.3
8 95.06/28.52/114.08/31.68
9 155.8/46.74/186.96/51.93
10 255.2/76.56/306.24/85.06

Traps Kill/Per Trap/Per Round

1 1.3/.4/1.6/.44
2 13.3/4/16/4.4
3 26.6/8/32/8.8
4 40/12/48/13.3
5 53.3/16/64/17.7
6 66.6/20/80/22.2
7 80/24/96/26.6
8 93.3/28/112/31.3
9 106.6/32/128/35.5
10 120/36/144/40

Now math time. A wall with turrets will kill 15x their number R1, 5x R2, battle ends next round (normally, field length can be low enough with low level turrets you hit them right off. We'll ignore that.) Traps simply kill 15x their number. So at level 1, turrets would kill 20 cav. Not very many. Traps kill 15. Okay, turrets win. Level 3-turrets kill 48. Traps kill 120. Level 5-130 cav from turrets, 240 from traps. Level 9-935 from turrets, an only 480 from traps. No disagreement that level 9 or 10 turrets are best. But at lower levels traps win, and if you're being farmed then lower levels are what you can do.

Side note-these numbers were given to me a long long time ago, and while for the most part they seem to be accurate I simply can't verify all of them. If any are wrong, please tell me so that A) I can fix this post and B) I can fix my notes.