Crop management...

as long as you dont have a very large negative crop you should be fine, ive heard of people being 200k negative and thats not very good. all the guys above pretty much summed it up great, do all of the above and you shouldnt have many dramas.

if u wanna be a top player u will have to deal with a negative out put of crop.

Anyone know the output of lvl 20 resource?is it adviseable to lvi in order to feed the troops?

2695, if you are willing to spend the coins to get it, yes its worth it to help feed your troops. But it isnt neccessary if you would prefer not to spend so many coins

A level 20 resource brings in 2695 while a level 9 oasis brings in 2700, both are affected by enhance. So upgrade the crop resources if you can but oases are much more important. I have level 20 crops, enhance, and 8 level 9 crop oases which gives me 112k crops per hour in my main. I then run -8k per hour in each of my branches to hold 5k cavs each. Nothing severe, I can log on just once a day to update oases and all my cities are fine.

During war, it changes of course.

level 9 oasis is 3700 output

It is hard when there is no lev 10 oasis .......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=il36JOXNSGk

I made a video on this

Best things to do to manage your crops are:

1. Occupy crop oasises
2. Spread your troops
3. Upgrade planting tech
4. Upgrade crop building (past 15 if you are willing to buy coins)
5. Set timers for when you need to buy more crop

Being negative in crop is part of the game, you just have to deal with it lol. Be sure to not go too negative, or you will start loosing sleep haha

All the points above are great, but I would like to add farming. The way I do it is to find people around my level with no alliance. Chances are they are inactive and wont ever notice you stealing their crops. If you keep running into turrets and traps though, thats a pretty good clue they know whats going on. Its your decision where to go from there.