Strategy & Note to Neighbors

So, to throw this out there. Maybe this deserves its own topic but let's start the discussion here.

Since the benefits of a succesful attack vs unsuccesfull attack are WAY larger than successfull defense vs unsuccessful defense (a destroyed building), wouldn't it be best if the general consensus would be to NOT DEFEND YOUR BUILDINGS UNTIL IT IS DESTROYED. If everyone does this, the net gain would be much larger than when everyone would hurry to defend their buildings. However, it would require the large majority of players to do this for this to work.

How I would see it is as follows:

-Everyone can attack as many neighbours as they can with 1 nerd per attack. The neighbours let this one nerd succeed, resulting in bonuses for himself. Since we can now send just 1 nerd we can attack more buildings. Say I attack my neighbours 5 buildings with 1 nerd each. If he lets my attacks succeed he collects 5* 10 elixer and 5* 5 gold. By not defending he loses 10 elixer and 5 gold per building, so that would be a total of 50 elixer and 25 gold won out of a maximum of 100 elixer and 50 gold, therefore equating to a 'loss' of 50 elixer and 25 gold.

I myself however will gain 18 elixer and 8 gold from a successful attack. If my neighbour defends I only get 5 elixer and 1 gold. Therefore, by allowing my attacks to succeed my neighbours make sure I 'win' 65 elixer and 35 gold.

Ergo, by allowing the attacks to succeed the defender 'loses' less than the attacker 'wins' (a difference of 15 elixer and 10 gold per neighbour/attacker per day).

If everyone would do this it would benefit the community as a whole! It does however obviously require you to resist the urge of tapping your buildings under attack.

Am I missing something in this strategy?

I think i'll play the random stranger strategy and then when I've finished the event I'll go help neighbours :D

or hopefully they give an incentive to keep playing once finished the event

I'm trying to get at least one nerd sent to every one of my neighbors each day. I'll use the red dice on randoms for an easy win, but not on my neighbors. At its core, this is a co-op game, and I agree that we're going to receive a lot more by defending than attacking by the event's end. If I see a neighbor that has sent multiple nerds to my town or has attacked several times per day, I'll try to return the favor.

I have a strategy that seems to be working fairly well. Since I get 35 nerds/two hours, I try to return attacks from neighbours. With the remaining nerds I then go to random towns. If the castle is already being destroyed and has say, 9 hours left I'll send 5 nerds in the hope the succeed. If the castle hasn't been attacked I'll attack it but send only 1-2 nerds and move on. So far it's been working.

The key is to check how long the castle has left, it's a good indicator as to if that person is asleep or at work.

My user name begins with 't' so I am not getting attacked by my neighbors. I am only getting handshakes even though I've sent nerds their way. As a result I am using the random the majority of the time. If I see an attack from a neighbor, I will recipriate.

revenge attacks is a good way to be fair to the neighbours who visit

I might stick strictly to revenge attacks


2 things i'd love to see this game incorporate is?:
1) a random neighbour button so that we can be fair to everyone no matter where they are on the alphabet
2) a "priority neighbours" list...where we can create a list of 10-20 neighbours that we want to prioritise and easily visit first - eg ppl from forum, ppl we know in real life..etc

yesterday, I did the random town attack. I would only send 1 nerd per building, and would only do as many buildings as were on the landing screen.

I woke up to almost 3,986 elixir this morning (sorry I don't know how much gold).

That's pretty good, and means that a lot of my attacks were successful. Now part of the reason for that was because my neighbor lists for visits is all messed up from figuring out a strategy for myself, so I'm letting them all reset, and then I will start helping my neighbors out.

It's clear to me that the best personal approach is random attacks, however there is plenty of time for the event so I'm going to do what I can to help friends. If I'm wanting more castle walls / hay bales / etc when the time starts to wind down, I will switch to randoms again so I can boost my elixir.

I wish the neighbor screen showed how many attacks I have left for a town, that's frustrating.


@WS_7 - the problem with your strategy is the length of time for attacks to be successful. A level 1 house takes 9 hours with 1 nerd. if you have even a half full neighbor list, that's 250 attacks, per day that you need to allow to complete and clear. Even if all you do is play this game, you would probably need close to 75 attack-able buildings, and for your friends to attack in a staggered enough pattern that those 75 aren't all being attacked at the same time.


The true best of both worlds (to me). Is to have a handful of neighbors that you can alternate revenge on.

neighbor attacks castle
you defend and revenge

rinse and repeat until your daily maximum is hit. You get defend rewards, neighbor gets max non-destroy rewards. and your castles are still available for others.

Since everyone is posting their strategy, I guess I will too :)

I too stick to nerds to friends houses, cheaters to randoms castles. I never attack someones castle because the odd them not logging in to collect nerds is pretty low at the moment.

I don't clear my building until they have been destroyed. I place a brown house farm at the new bit of land, so I should not have any problem having enough available houses for players.

To my friends on here, all 5 or 6 of you :) I would suggest not clicking my castle and attacking the brown house farm on the new land. If you attack my normal, decorated house I may have to clear them due to characters being on tasks.

I have side towns as well, but after I have exhausted those options I attack my neighbors. I start at the front of the list and work my way through. I collect from houses to mark my spot. I eventually will get to all my neighbors.

I've been getting such a low response rate from neighbors I've attacked that I've actually starting keeping a list of attacks and payoffs, something I really didn't want to do. I get 50 nerds every 2 hours, plus I've been buying extra though I'm not going to be doing that in the future. I send a nerd to every neighbor as long as I can, and move backwards through the alphabet after the nerds are recharged.

Last night, I sent out all but 10 nerds to random towns and woke up to 300~ elixir and some gold (can't remember the exact amount, but nothing close to the numbers others are reporting).

Neighbors who attack are immediately revenged, but like I said, there hasn't been much of that. Most of the gold and leveling I've done happened the first day I downloaded the update and went kinda nuts buying nerds, an update-fueled donut-fest I won't repeat.

ws_7 wrote:
So, to throw this out there. Maybe this deserves its own topic but let's start the discussion here.

Since the benefits of a succesful attack vs unsuccesfull attack are WAY larger than successfull defense vs unsuccessful defense (a destroyed building), wouldn't it be best if the general consensus would be to NOT DEFEND YOUR BUILDINGS UNTIL IT IS DESTROYED. If everyone does this, the net gain would be much larger than when everyone would hurry to defend their buildings. However, it would require the large majority of players to do this for this to work.

How I would see it is as follows:

-Everyone can attack as many neighbours as they can with 1 nerd per attack. The neighbours let this one nerd succeed, resulting in bonuses for himself. Since we can now send just 1 nerd we can attack more buildings. Say I attack my neighbours 5 buildings with 1 nerd each. If he lets my attacks succeed he collects 5* 10 elixer and 5* 5 gold. By not defending he loses 10 elixer and 5 gold per building, so that would be a total of 50 elixer and 25 gold won out of a maximum of 100 elixer and 50 gold, therefore equating to a 'loss' of 50 elixer and 25 gold.

I myself however will gain 18 elixer and 8 gold from a successful attack. If my neighbour defends I only get 5 elixer and 1 gold. Therefore, by allowing my attacks to succeed my neighbours make sure I 'win' 65 elixer and 35 gold.

Ergo, by allowing the attacks to succeed the defender 'loses' less than the attacker 'wins' (a difference of 15 elixer and 10 gold per neighbour/attacker per day).

If everyone would do this it would benefit the community as a whole! It does however obviously require you to resist the urge of tapping your buildings under attack.

Am I missing something in this strategy?

I was thinking along the same lines, but with random towns instead of neighbors. The payout is then huge for a win in comparison. (70e,25g) versus (18e,8g). But there are issues...

- How to get enough people to do this? Even if we have a consensus on, say, brown houses being attacked and marked in some way, it would take a long time to keep hitting the attack button until a town loads that is part of the plan.
- Some people will not want to set up the required houses.
- The KL bug would have to be fixed. I'm not going to ignore my KL because the shields disappear if I go there.

Numbers? If each person used 60 nerds to attack 60 brown houses and won those attacks, and set up 60 brown houses in their own town and lost on those then

60*25=1500 G won 60 attacks.
60*5= 300 G Failed defense.

1800 G per day for 60 nerds spent.

It just seems too complex when simple defending and attacking friends who defend is currently easily keeping me on schedule to get all the prizes by event end.