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Oh, I understand the situation in your city and FS. I've looked at it and copied the fantastic way you have arranged your 3 training building to prevent early collections while getting ready to use the bear and I've upped my armories to 10. I can't perform as well as you can in the tourneys, but do get around 600 KP in most tourneys and have a lot of extra KP producing buildings, so get around another 300 to 400 KP a week from that. @KarlD's comment has a lot of merit for where I'm at in the game though. You are in an entirely different league then me - for now.
I have a feeling Inno has decided they're giving out too many diamonds. I placed 2 genies and 2 wishing wells and do all three levels of the spire and because of the spire I craft more and win some diamonds in the magical object and suddenly I find myself with a ton of diamonds. It's like enough in 2 to 3 months to buy 2 magic workshops and an expansion with a few hundred left over. Maybe that doesn't seem like much to some folks, but I'm accumulating diamonds much faster than I imagined. I originally placed the Wishing Wells just to win enough diamonds to be able to get through the Spire without having to buy diamonds, but then found I was accumulating them much faster than I was spending them in the Spire. I have 2 magic workshops and 3 regular workshops and I have more supplies than I know what to do with. I'm thinking of replacing 2 regular workshops with a magic one to gain an expansion worth of space. I don't even know what people do with like 10 magic workshops. I'm running out of things to buy with my diamonds.
I did a spreadsheet which shows which shows 5 magic workshops produce as much as 9 regular ones once you reach the guest race chapters. With the savings in land, population, and culture, they are a great deal for all those diamonds. I have 5 and go to the trader far too often, but when I feed the bear, it's good to produce a lot of supplies that half day.
Holy Cow!! 700KP per tornament is over 60 provinces to at least the 5th round every week. I feel like such a slacker by comparison even given that I don't have that many provinces. I can't imagine doing all my provinces every week. But now I see what one might do with 10 magic workshops. It's gotta take a huge amount of troops, especially using autofight, and a huge amount of supplies to make those troops. I guess I really hafta up my game if I ever want to play with the big dawgs. Lately I'm doing around 20-30 provinces, but I can certainly do more. I'll hafta push harder.
Okay, 15%/day accumulation, not production. That's less confusing.
What is the fantastic way you and @CrazyWizard arrange training buildings?
It used to frustrate me no end accidentally collecting from my training buildings.
64 on average for the last 9 weeks, I expect the average to rise in the comming 2 weeks as the crystal tournament will be a lot easier this time with the damage bug fixed and frogs getting a nerf.
Thank you for the incredible details.
Yeah, I will need more armories and a higher Shrooms. My queue is 12-13 hrs which is nice, but not as good if I want to maximize brown bear efficiency,
Thank you for your much-needed advice. The main reason I scout provinces is to gain land expansions, because on the tech tree they are few and far between.
My feeling is that we only have one scout and it's best to keep it busy. Getting those expansions through completing encounters is the fastest way to grow your city in area and more area gives you all kinds of growth options. I don't think you want to strive for easy provinces, but for reasonably doable provinces. Provinces that you've already scouted will become easier as you do more squadsize upgrades so the worst case is that you have scouted them and wait for a while until you grow into your scouted provinces. Also remember that you can craft things like UUU and MM and ELR or win a DA in the Spire and various Wonders can help that will make you significantly more powerful. If you have a level 10 fire phoenix and place a DA you will essentially have increased your squadsize by 50% so those Hard or even Extremely Hard provinces are not so hard anymore. The only time I've regretted my scouting practices is when I have stopped scouting cuz I can't get that scouting time back. In fact I greatly slowed my scouting in Chapter 15 because I could no longer get expansions from solving provinces so what's the point, But now I'm thinking I will never be able to compete with some people in tournaments simply because I don't have enough provinces. I've lost many days of scouting now. With it taking over 60 hours to scout a province now it's not very practical to use time boosts. So that's scouting time that's just gone. If I want to play with the big dawgs I need more provinces. So don't fear overscouting. All you have to fear is fear itself.
Thank you KarlD. I think I'll take your advice. Trying to solve encounters on the World Map is getting to be a wee bit extreme right now with the cost of goods to negotiate. I'll hold off a while scouting, hoping some Very Hard provinces turn into Hard or Easy provinces. I've just started the Woodelves chapter and noticed there are 3 expansions to research so that should help me expand my city. I wish some of the event buildings were smaller than what they are. I would have to demolish some of my event buildings to make room for the floats. And guess what? Most of my event buildings give population, and my high-level goods and supply buildings need population. You have to admit, this game is quite challenging.
Now that you're in Woodelves, keep an eye out for mana-producing event buildings. Nearly all of them will be smaller and more efficient than the weeping willows. And I don't see them in this event, but if some magical mana huts come around someday soon, those are amazingly efficient and worth grabbing. That alone would solve much of the expansion issues for Woodelves and S&D.
I agree with what Risen said about mana-producing buildings. Ones from events are generally much more productive that what you can build from the build menu. I'd also recommend keeping a lookout for the Mana Sawmill and Festival Merchant recipes in your Magic Academy. They both produce substantially more mana per square than Willows. You'll probably need 10 or more CC spells to craft them if you do get one of the recipes.