Day 42

1000 SP reward!  30k resources!  Exciting stuff :)  So this was really good for me cause I have been trying to get to the point where I could upgrade my Blacksmith to a level 10.  Normally however I don't have the capacity in iron to get the needed amount.  But since the rewards go above and beyond your capacity I now have enough to make it!  So upgrade I did.  Little over 20 hrs and I will be able to get all my troops up to level 3.

I love my new income on my resources!  With 4 mines now in all my climate zones this equates to ~1200 wood/stone 500 iron and 300 gold with 20 diamonds.  This is more than enough to keep me going thus far.

So since I have never attack the MD before I was thinking this round would be a good one to try it on for size.  If I could get her down by just 1% that is an achievement!  But since I don't think I have the population, about 13k, to right now I don't believe that I will be able to.  But I still think it'll be fun to take a stab at her.

I got one of my armies fishing in MM right now and have been able to catch 3 fish so far, pretty exciting.  I did catch one very uncommon fish so far which sold for quite a bit.

So I have been considering getting my fifth village and settling in TI. This would be to help my population and also to be able to hire an additional 5 heros.  However there is a bug currently with hiring the 5 heros so I don't think I will do it yet.  I think too I might also attack the MD to see what kind of forces it will take to do some damage on her.

Day 29

500 SP reward!  Oh how I love those rewards.  Huge amounts of resources that pretty much let me upgrade the rest of my troops to level two and fill up my building queues in my villages.  I chose the pouch of diamonds for my second reward cause the other option was 750 diamonds and some quick math revealed that with +4 diamond income that is less than 8 days worth of diamonds.  Since I don't need diamonds for anything special right now the pouch seemed like a no brainer.  On top of that after the pouch went into my village thanks to my fountain of fortune I got +1 diamond income for a grand total of 5 income per hour.  Not too much but hey I'll take it.  Also with the reward I got a bronze dragon egg which I found kinda of amusing since the mother dragon hasn't flown once yet to drop them.

Fought some more emerald and black dragons beat them without a problem.  The annoying thing is that even with my thief fighting I didn't steal anything from them.  I was really hoping for a magic glyph to go to MA.  Funny thing about that real quick is that I spent like 4 days of farsight plus two armies scouting out to find the perfect village spot in MA.  It was only then that I realized that where I would settle would be based on luck (magic glyph only opens like 3 village spots to you).

Also now I am dealing with a player who is in the same area as me claiming DOs and keeps taking them from me.  No message or peace request nothing just takes a bunch of my DOs.  Well my solution is I broke off a part of my army and circled around behind him and am reclaiming all the ones he stole from me!

Couple days ago I suggested in the forums that alliance pinpoints should be able to be placed by anyone in the alliance and not just the alliance leader.  Just got word that they are going to try and implement it later this week!  Always exciting to know you contribute to the development of the game.

Day 27

So I got 350 SP today which means rewards!!  Course they give you a bunch of resources upfront which is nice, but then you get a choice more resources, or different items to choose from.  Mine were 2 bronze chests or a silver chest or 3750 wood/stone, 2000 iron, 1000 gold, and 62 diamonds.  Since I already had a pretty significant amount of resources I decided to see how the chests would compare to the resources.  I chose the two bronze chests cause I didn't have a hero with lock picking at secondary and didn't plan to for a while.  So from my two bronze chests I received 1311 wood, 1843 stone, 515 iron, and 393 gold plus I chose the items ornamental dagger (+20% sacrifices) and saddle (+7% land movement).  So by far it is much better to choose the resources upfront if that is what you need.  However if you have a good income of resources then by choosing chests you have the opportunity to can items that you otherwise would not have had the opportunity for.  The ornamental dagger will translate into faster building/training/research.  Thought that was an interesting experiment.

Was able to upgrade my zerkers and axe throwers to level 2 today!  This is exciting cause it means I should be able to defend with less units and not keep running into the population problems that I do.

Beat emerald army number 3 today.  It seems I am doing fine in this area now!  Plus the constant attacks provide a nice income of diamonds.  The only thing I am worried about now is when I leave with my hero to go settle in Molten Ashlands.  Because when I do I'll be taking a lot of power with him.  For one he has the protective skill so as it stands right now that is +60% life and damage when defending a village.  I'll need to make sure my troops can survive without him when he leaves.

Black dragons will be attacking me tonight but I got no problems defending my village in DS.  I have noticed though that it seems they are attacking more villages this game round than last.

Nothing else to exciting to report.  Claimed some DO and found some treasure chests.

Oh one last interesting note!  It seems the game map is the same as last round.  I have found some mines lookout towers, etc in the exact same places as the last map.  So if you can remember where any of those secret places you once had were I think they'll still be there.