Great news my workers have built so much in Dry Steeps that now there are cobble stone roads in the village! Darn guys they need a holiday or something. Thanks to four villages and all the resources I am producing now I was able to specialize almost all my units. till have two more to go. This time around I went almost exclusively with "strong" which give you more damage points. Except with the catapults. I made those "fast" so that I can take them with me on my expeditions. Oh yeah and my boars I made "tough" cause I wanted them to last longer since they are kinda more expensive to train. Haha okay okay so I guess it's like split 50-50 between strong and the others.
Auction just closed and guess what? I won 4 bids! I bid basically on all the stuff that no one wanted haha. I did it so I could get closer to the "true bidder" achievement. So I really like the achievements in Aloriah cause during the more dull times they give me stuff to do. Plus they are totally bragging rights.
It seems that the animals in MA are attacking about once every 24 hours. Which I think means that I will be attacked tonight again. I have been almost exclusively building defenses in order to try and protect my village and win against these guys. We'll see how it goes.
The inner workings and life of RiosJosh on Aloriah
Saturday, July 30, 2011
Friday, July 29, 2011
Days 33 & 34
So I was off Aloriah for a bit, crazy I know. But yet my civilization has survived :)
My MM village was attack again by emerald dragons. Because I took with me a big army to MA I had about half the troops that I normally defend with plus no hero (so no +60% life and damage). Yet I was still able to defend now that the dragons are so weak plus my defenses being pretty high now. I have been able to concentrate on buildings more like resources, item shop, marketplace, etc. It is very nice not to have to worry only about defending.
I am in the process of developing an army to go search ruins in MM. I figure this is the best place right now for me cause MA is too difficult but dry steeps you have to look to hard to find higher ruins (i.e. medium and hard). This is kinda scary cause the animals in MM are a lot more powerful. But hopefully I'll be able to upgrade and specialize a bunch of my units in the next few days. We shall see.
Good news! My workers in MA have been working so hard that I now have clay roads in MA! Which is kinda funny since there is lava every where around my village...
Got my armies back to their normal duties. Two on DOs, one on hunting dragons, one protecting my MA village, and the last is out in MA claiming a mine for me.
My MM village was attack again by emerald dragons. Because I took with me a big army to MA I had about half the troops that I normally defend with plus no hero (so no +60% life and damage). Yet I was still able to defend now that the dragons are so weak plus my defenses being pretty high now. I have been able to concentrate on buildings more like resources, item shop, marketplace, etc. It is very nice not to have to worry only about defending.
I am in the process of developing an army to go search ruins in MM. I figure this is the best place right now for me cause MA is too difficult but dry steeps you have to look to hard to find higher ruins (i.e. medium and hard). This is kinda scary cause the animals in MM are a lot more powerful. But hopefully I'll be able to upgrade and specialize a bunch of my units in the next few days. We shall see.
Good news! My workers in MA have been working so hard that I now have clay roads in MA! Which is kinda funny since there is lava every where around my village...
Got my armies back to their normal duties. Two on DOs, one on hunting dragons, one protecting my MA village, and the last is out in MA claiming a mine for me.
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Day 32 End
Well alas I was close but not close enough... Draak came out of left field and settled about two hours and eight minutes before me. So close it is kinda disheartening. I work so hard for it yet no. Oh well that is the game. I am disappointed I didn't prepare for it more. Had I just prepared with one step I would have been ahead of everyone by about 12 plus hours. Let that be a lesson to all. Be prepared! But congrats to Draak for getting there before me.
Having said all that I am quite happy with my performance. Once I did receive the glyph I reduced the original time by more than 3/4 of the original time that was required. I was a little more than 4 days out when I got my glyph but reduced that to just under 1 and 1/2 days. So that is an impressive feat to do.
So it is back to work and building up my new MA village is number one priority.
Having said all that I am quite happy with my performance. Once I did receive the glyph I reduced the original time by more than 3/4 of the original time that was required. I was a little more than 4 days out when I got my glyph but reduced that to just under 1 and 1/2 days. So that is an impressive feat to do.
So it is back to work and building up my new MA village is number one priority.
Day 32 Mid-day
Search search search that is the command! All my armies are running around searching as many knowledge obelisks as they can. I basically sacrificed all my resources to be able to queue up the level 10 council hall and then the rest of them to give 10k wood to the gods so I could get +70% on building. Research though is far ahead of my construction which will still take 1 day 2 hours. But thanks to my armies efforts I am now down to 16.5 hours for the research CP. Things are looking good. Still no word on how close the other are... sitting at the edge of my seat right now. Are you?
Day 32 Morning
Through the night I was able to reduce my research to 1 day 8 hours. My council halls should be finishing up here in just a couple of hours. This will leave me 1 CP short however still. I got to get this either through research, upgrading one of my council halls to level 10, or finding an item. Still a coupld of thousand off in resources to upgrade to level 10 but I do have surpluses in gold and iron so maybe I can trade some to get enough. I also tried searching a couple of ruins but to no avail in finding an item with CP in it.
Amazingly my wolf army that I sent to MA with a scroll of recall made it through the night without fighting at all. So they are only an hour away from MA then it's on to the village spot. But first I got to aviod hellhounds, spiders, burning pincers, and ruby dragons!
Traded a bunch of resources (with a crappy market value) around and now I am only 1.5 hours from having enough resources to build a level 10 council hall. But I still need to get that down some cause my level 9 finishes in 1 hour 7 mins. No time to waste!
Amazingly my wolf army that I sent to MA with a scroll of recall made it through the night without fighting at all. So they are only an hour away from MA then it's on to the village spot. But first I got to aviod hellhounds, spiders, burning pincers, and ruby dragons!
Traded a bunch of resources (with a crappy market value) around and now I am only 1.5 hours from having enough resources to build a level 10 council hall. But I still need to get that down some cause my level 9 finishes in 1 hour 7 mins. No time to waste!
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Day 31
CAUGHT WITH MY PANTS DOWN! So last night I got a magic glyph, good right? It even came with a village spot that is only 12 cells away from my ideal spot. Yeah except I wasn't prepared for it. Now I am rushing to get the needed CP to settle in Molten Ashlands. Geeze I can't believe I was this unprepared. Not enough CP, no settlers, no army in MA. So now it is a race. One that I think I will lose cause Holophobia says in the chat that he is ready to settle in MA. Already has 50 CP?? Crazy! I am struggling to find my 35 CP I need to settle there (being on a 4 village strategy so far). Well I am doing my best to get there. Either way I need to get there asap cause I need the extra resources etc. So I canceled all my construction and queued up my council halls. But they were all already at level 8 so to get to level 9 takes a day to do. I sent a wolf army with a scroll of recall to MA. That'll take 20 hours assuming they don't get in a fight to which they will lose so that will add like 2-3 hours more on to the trip. Then I re-assigned two of my hero armies to just go and claim knowledge obelisks. My next CP award in research will take 3 days 20 hours to get. Right now I have to build one council hall to level 10 so that is an additional 1 day 12 hours on top of 23 hours (level 9). So my goal is to try and get enough research to reduce my CP reward below the amount of time it would take to get to level 10 council hall. We'll see if it works. I also just bought a scroll of stone portal and I am waiting to get a scroll of recall so I can send my hero there and then call out my settlers. So for both CP and getting to my village I have multiple ways to achieve these we'll see which of them ends up being the fastest. Also retasked one of my dragon obelisk armies to go and search ruins in the hopes that I find an item with CP or research boost.
Mid-day: Found a research parchment +10% on research. Sacrificed gold +28% on research. Now my reward is down to 3 days and a couple minutes out.
Day's end: Re-tasked all my armies to search knowledge obelisks. Got next CP down to 2days 10 hours now. By next morning it should be down even further. Looking good so far. Only problem is that I have no idea where anyone else is in settling. Had to re-route my wolf army so that added +4 hours but that shouldn't effect the end time so long as they don't get in a fight tonight. See you tomorrow!
Mid-day: Found a research parchment +10% on research. Sacrificed gold +28% on research. Now my reward is down to 3 days and a couple minutes out.
Day's end: Re-tasked all my armies to search knowledge obelisks. Got next CP down to 2days 10 hours now. By next morning it should be down even further. Looking good so far. Only problem is that I have no idea where anyone else is in settling. Had to re-route my wolf army so that added +4 hours but that shouldn't effect the end time so long as they don't get in a fight tonight. See you tomorrow!
Day 30
Well nothing too special to report today. Though it is always heart pounding when you sign on after only 10 hours of being off and there are 51 notifications! It was like man is it good or bad? But hey I guess that means your doing stuff.
Fought a bunch of black dragons today but I forgot that I was already over on my diamond capacity so they were all for nought. Oh and sealed my first dragon gate as well! That is always nice to get that +12 SP bonus.
Bought a "Keg and Ale" plus upgraded some barracks, animal circles, and taverns so I am finally out of the overpopulation problem. So now I am able to queue up a bunch more troops. Did that mostly in MM cause in DS there really is no point in killing dragons right now. I already have too many diamonds with not enough capacity. So I want to try and hunt down some emerald dragons tomorrow and see if I can get a magic glyph.
Fought a bunch of black dragons today but I forgot that I was already over on my diamond capacity so they were all for nought. Oh and sealed my first dragon gate as well! That is always nice to get that +12 SP bonus.
Bought a "Keg and Ale" plus upgraded some barracks, animal circles, and taverns so I am finally out of the overpopulation problem. So now I am able to queue up a bunch more troops. Did that mostly in MM cause in DS there really is no point in killing dragons right now. I already have too many diamonds with not enough capacity. So I want to try and hunt down some emerald dragons tomorrow and see if I can get a magic glyph.
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