Strategy & Note to Neighbors

cdepast wrote:
Juliet -I will definitely attack your town today. LOL. So fun :)

lol :D

I think I'm going to just keep going as I am for now, attacking and defending my neighbours and doing the odd bit of revenge! At the end of the day we have a long time to complete this event, so I'm sure we'll all do ok!

Surfcitygal wrote:

sandwedgeking wrote:
I'm playing under the assumption that I won't ever "win" against either a rando or a neighbor unless I'm very lucky. As the levels increase, so will the time it takes for the nerds to defeat a building. Therefore, I'm sharing the wealth with my neighbors in hopes that they return the favor.

You're banking on one nerd per building in a rando town and hoping someone doesn't log in for 10+ hours? I just don't see how that' strategy will work in the long run. Slow and steady wins the race as far as I'm concerned.

Maybe I'm way off base here and you can tell me I am, but I'm doing just fine thus far. Are you getting all kinds of "wins" against these randos?

edit: I'm assuming the majority or our acquisition of gold and elixir will be coming from defending, not attacking

I've come to much the same conclusion - I've yet to win a random castle without the red dice bomb. Like cdepast I'm in California, but I probably don't stay up late enough. I'd be in worse shape if neighbors stopped visiting me so I can defend against them. Random invader attacks are relatively rare - and I have 5 towns (one hasn't been visited at all today even though it's well-developed level 41). So I can't abandon neighbors

I'm with you two. There's plenty of time and I'm happy to send all of my nerds to neighbors to be slaughtered for our mutual benefit. The random castle win payouts are so big I may have to save the dropped cheaters for those attacks.

I'm getting gold & elixir more regularly from defending. I get the feeling that the nicest thing to do for your neighbors is attack them instead of random strangers!

Yay! Some like-minded thinking! I felt like I was making the mistake by not following the herd and focusing on the randos - people seem overly concerned about attacking and trying to win the big prize. Utilizing your neighbors is the way to go.

Essentially, every tap in a neighborino's town is a gift: you aren't attacking for your sake, you're giving away 20 elixir and 10 gold for each tap.

If we defend 80-85 attacks per day for the next 45 days, we will easily reach the final prize. Depending on rando attacks & friend taps in your town; your cheater attacks on rando's castles, and your (minor) attacks on neighbors, this event will be a walk in the park! :wink:

Everybody's entitled to their opinions on how to play the game, but: screw the randos! Be a good neighborino and send your nerds (and gold) to your friends.

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sandwedgeking wrote:
I'm playing under the assumption that I won't ever "win" against either a rando or a neighbor unless I'm very lucky. As the levels increase, so will the time it takes for the nerds to defeat a building. Therefore, I'm sharing the wealth with my neighbors in hopes that they return the favor.

You're banking on one nerd per building in a rando town and hoping someone doesn't log in for 10+ hours? I just don't see how that' strategy will work in the long run. Slow and steady wins the race as far as I'm concerned.

Maybe I'm way off base here and you can tell me I am, but I'm doing just fine thus far. Are you getting all kinds of "wins" against these randos?

edit: I'm assuming the majority or our acquisition of gold and elixir will be coming from defending, not attacking

This is how I'm playing as well. The thing is I'd rather enjoy myself helping out neighbors than rush though the event.

Thanks to the OP especially for the opening list of payouts. One thing to add: while sending cheaters to random towns gives the biggest payout, sending nerds to feeder towns is the next best thing. You're guaranteed a victory every time. I've got 12 feeder towns, which have attacked me 120 times in the last two days. I realize I could send nerds to each of those towns, but I'd rather send them out one by one to my neighbors. I realize that decision is a bad strategy, but it's always more fun to play with others than it is to play with yourself. (I think that last sentence came out the wrong way.)

madfish86 wrote:
I had purchased a bag of red dice earlier and got 1,000 gold coins out of it thanks to this great tip. I think I'll save up my max amount of nerds and send them out pillaging before going to bed kind of like what we did the gremlins at Halloween.

I'm on to you, and don't think I didn't notice that you targeted my isolated beachfront houses yesterday! I'm brandishing my battle axe at you!

If the person you are attacking stops the attack before you destroy their building, do you get any gold/elixir? If so, do you get more if you made more progress in tearing the place apart before you were stopped?

I'm trying to figure out if there is any reason to put more than one nerd on a building. Obviously putting 10 nerds/building gives you the best chance of actually destroying it. But if they get back and stop you, have you just thrown away 10x as many nerds as you needed to?

I hope that made sense...

I use my Nerds on neighbours, and cheaters on random strangers' castles for the big payout.

I have to say I was afraid that our gold and elixir would be stolen by successful invaders - glad EA didn't incorporate that feature of CofC!

cdepast wrote:
2) 1 nerd per random town. By spreading your nerds out, you will have a better chance at one of the players not logging in and defending. If you put 5 per town, you'll lose all 5 if/when that player logs in.

maybe

BUT sometimes a random town can clearly look like the guy doesn't play much...so maybe its worth dropping 5 nerds on these

frogmommy15 wrote:
I use my Nerds on neighbours, and cheaters on random strangers' castles for the big payout.

Exactly!