Why bother with friends?

I guess it depends on your perspective.

I attack my friends with Nerds and random castles only when I have a Cheater. I do that to help my neighbours, and they help me back, and not just during events.

Yes the payout for a win from a random is much better, but the payout for a loss is the same as a loss to a neighbour. I'm not much of a gambler and not much of a strategist so I prefer to go for the guaranteed payout that helps a friend.

Deverz85 wrote:
So I've just noticed that attacking a random is far more profitable than attacking my friends

So why would I bother attacking my friends and not just visit them normally?

Seems like a strange move considering so far all events have been about neighbour interaction

I attack friends as well as random towns because friend attacks are more likely to earn additional awards in the form of revenge attacks. I've been using about half my nerds for random attacks and half for friend attacks.

In this instance attacking friends helps them more than it does you so I attack my friends every night! If they attack you back you also get the same benefit as a random attacker!

lee67628 wrote:
Other than one personal friend of mind, I don't bother to visit my neighborhood anymore.

I just chose random towns to whack, it's much more profitable... Don't blame me, blame the programmers of this game. :wink:

+1 :lol: :lol:

I attack friends because I would like to help them and hopefully they'll do the same for me. In the long run I think this will be the most beneficial play.

Random town pillaging will start to pay less and less as the game progresses since attack times will steadily increase.

A successful defense gives a good 10 gold while a failed attack gives 2 at most. You attack neighbors so they can defend and gain more gold. If they do the same you get more gold from defending than from attacking, with all the castles upgrading

madfish86 wrote:
I'm getting 50 nerds every 2 hours now which is more than enough to do both for me. I attack a combination of random and friends during the day and just random at night.

Lol that was a fun fight yesterday mad where i blew up your 3 castles

I been doing the same thing using half and half of my nerds in random attacks and friends attacks. I think we benefit from doing it this way. not sure if I am right just saying :?:

Deverz85 wrote:
So I've just noticed that attacking a random is far more profitable than attacking my friends

So why would I bother attacking my friends and not just visit them normally?

Seems like a strange move considering so far all events have been about neighbour interaction

Never go to war with friends. Be friends with friends.

They made it harder to visit friends, and it takes to long new with all the scrolling. I keep random attacking 1 nerd a building. I almost have 9 k gold.

I almost exclusively attack friends (have some neighbor spots open as well) because I go for the xp and cash too. Woke up this morning to 1990 elixir, so it does pay off too.