Yes ... Thank You!!!I am sorry I need more info. What information are you looking for?
This is a link to the page with the tournament/spire difficulty spreed sheet. Often called the tournament formula. Is this what your after?
It would be nice to know the relative importance of the different city advancement components, but as you say, Inno isn't talking. The information on this page is greatly appreciated and thanks to the authors of min-max.
Pre Tournament changes, there was a clear cut way to be fight/cater only, now you have to be good at both. If you don't have 5 Fire Phoenixes and 5 Brown Bears.Overall, my opinion: Players either maximize their manufactories to convince and negotiate their way through the Spire and Tournies or they establish military cities that can produce squads that can battle their way through. Some, like me, in the middle game, do both, depending on the level of troops and the level of resources.
The larger accounts with whom I am familiar tend to all battle their way through both; this may be because new resources are constantly being introduced into the catering. First comes T1 goods, then T2, T3, Orcs, Mana, seeds, then sentient goods and one is always short in supply of a new good that has just been introduced. Battling with troops tends to be more even with lesser jumps in demand.
What has not worked for me is to be free with every expansion as soon as I am able to get it. The Spire and Tourney difficulties become quite apparent. What seems to work better is to upgrade all buildings to make the best use of all tiles available and to respect the building suggestions regarding building and road arrangements https://elvengems.com/city-layout-space-optimization/ and use expansions when there is a clearcut advantage to developing your military or resource city.
We cant quote you to respond to specific points if you post in your text in images.So, my understanding is the following ... in general ... I welcome any and all corrections of my misinterpretations.
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ok, thx for letting me know.te you to respond to specific points if you post in your text in images.
Good points! Thank you@KonTiki one thing to remember with all this: the formula only tells you how big your squad size will be in the Spire and tournament fights. The actual difficulty of the fights has nothing to do with it. The percent difference between your squads and the enemy squads is a set number and the same for everyone. So for a fighter, the big issue is being able to make enough troops to fight as far into the tournament or Spire as you want. For a caterer, it is a whole different story, because the higher your formula value, the higher the goods costs are to cater an encounter. And that can be much harder to cover than troops are for a fighter. Especially in higher chapters when a caterer needs mana and seeds and orcs and sentient goods, at least for the Spire.
Also important would be your tail. You do 9×6.....do you go out for KP farther than 9 on the first star? The tail will wrap around and kill lots of troops and demolish goods stockpiles.