

The thing is the makers of the game gave us all these armies full of different fighters along with maps and advisers for a reason. I am certain you have made more friends playing the game than I have. Your trading along with manufacturing supplies method may be far superior to all this fighting and plundering for all I know.

Not only that I haven't even gotten one full set of blueprints yet. It seems to be effective and I am making decent headway but I am also spending a lot of time, coins and supplies training lost archers all the time. In all honesty I haven't even figured out if all this fighting and plundering is even worthwhile and the best way foreword. I really hate advocating this, but perhaps you should focus more on M/P'ing until you obtain full BPs for GBs that provide an attack bonus (Statue of Zeus, Cathedral of Aachen, Castel del Monte, etc.), and then switch back to attacking/plundering.urgh do I hate suggesting that, but there you go.

I find it odd that you had the idea that to aid neighbors was bad for me it's been very beneficial (at least in terms of return aid and BPs, not points obviously). It all depends on which you want most and what you wish to do to obtain it, though. That way, alternating between the two (attacking and M/P'ing), you can get points on the one hand, and greater chances for BPs and neighbor assistance on the other hand. I'm one such user who will not aid a plunderer, but I will aid an attacker. Some users include in their profile that they attack "only for points" and do not plunder many users who refuse to aid those who attack them will make exceptions for those who attack only for the points and do not steal their goods. Many users take a middle-of-the-road approach and will attack neighbors one day, then M/P them the next, and alternate between doing the two. Not too bad an idea, you could post it in the Proposals forum (properly formatted, of course).
