Crop management...

Wondering how people were managing their crop supply as they start to build medium-sized armies. I'm currently level 12 and have around 5.5K inf + 1K calv + 4K cats at this point. I realize this is small compared to many, but I've already gotten to the point of needing most of my available oases slots to keep my crop production above 0.

Do most of you simply use all of your oases slots for crops or do you simply use enough oases slots to get to within a reasonable negative flow so that a 450K supply should last quite a while? Or do you split your army and house them in different cities? Or use some other method?

Just curious as the crop issue has been annoying me for some time now.

Eventually you just use crop oasis, or for awhile I was actually going army-less, and was just selling crops to make $ (they are the only thing consistently selling above .01 on server 4).

If you're going to make your army bigger upgrade your crops to lvl 15 or higher if you're willing to spend coins, upgrade your planting tech to 10, occupy as many crop oases as you can, and enhance your crops. Negative crop output is normal so divide your troops among your cities to make it less.

If you're going to make your army bigger upgrade your crops to lvl 15 or higher if you're willing to spend coins, upgrade your planting tech to 10, occupy as many crop oases as you can, and enhance your crops. Negative crop output is normal so divide your troops among your cities to make it less.

completely agree i usually split my army so my crop output is exactly 0 in my subcities then run extra in my main city from oasises,
if your getting the free coins alot, saving up for enhanced for a month is well worth the wait for it, as you can usually get 20+coins from the free ones per month having your enhanced in your main with your oasises is well worth it

also remember it depends on how often u log on, -40,000 crop per hour will still take over 10 hours to deplete a full 449,300 warehouse
but when u do that u need to make sure u can wake up from notifications when people try and starve u lol

I would advise to upgrade crops to lvl 20, max tech to lvl 10, enhance, and divide troops equally. When getting oases its easiest to just send 4k cavalry to lvl 9s that are at least 20-30 mins away from ur cities. NEVER get oases next to your city it kinda screams "stave me"

i would suggest doing as doing as nathan said to keep subs at +1 exactly and then putting your main negative just like tani said. if you can manage to get on once every 8 hours 50k crop negative is ok. I NEVER get crop oasis i always enhance get plant at 10 then get all wood oasis and enhance so i get 40k wood per hour build up my cats much faster:)

on upgrading to level 20 crop lands, best not to do it in ur sub, and if u do make sure nobody ever finds out u have lol
quickest way to lose a city

At the point im that im at in the game, i have ceased army production. I killed most of my troops, seeing that i dont need them much. I try to keep around 0/25,000/10,000/10,000 just for the rare prestige hit. When i did have a large enough army, i would evenly spread out all my troops so that each city has positive crop or a safe decrease in crop.
Worked pretty well for me. Good luck!
happy haypi hunting

warrior

also what i saw everyone fail to mention is to keep 9 cats in each of ur oasises especially if u have lvl 10 scouting then no everyone will see that you have "several of" troops when in reality u will have 9. If you can i would put 9 archers and 9 cats because they can kill alot lol with out even commanding. Do as everyone else says too. I wont restate it.