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[fena]

Alright. We'll have a battle one day.

[Trice]

Nah, we'll beef up our armies, then the 2 of us will pick out some targets to bully and war :d

no point weakening each other when we can weaken others.

Also, im about 10 days away from having gyros ^__^

[fena]

Nice, nice. I'm working on economy right now instead of science or anything else. My reasoning (and question was this).

Say you had a gyro with an attack of 100 and a defense of 100. (Those probably aren't the real values. It's just an example).
And then you had two 50/50 archers.
Would the both be equal?

[Trice]

Lets find out.

Ok, I ran a battle sim of 2 archers with silver upgrades V 1 Gyro with no upgrades, and assumed there was no town hall and no town wall, so pur unit V unit:

2x Archer (with silver upgrades) = Offensive 120, Defensive 120, Endurance 24
1x Gyro = Offensive 112, Defensive 112, Endurance 12

In rd 1, all 3 units die and the battle is a draw (every time the sim is run)

If the archers have gold upgrades, its 140/140, rather than 120/120, and again, the battle is a draw everytime

So i guess so Fena yeah. But the way i look at it, you'll never had pure unit V unit, youll use mixed combat. mixing in some gyros with an attack force of archers/gunsmen/swords will be :d

[fena]

No, what I mean is this:
I'm going up to the economy tree right now. I could definitely research military if I wanted to. But I figured that instead of researching military, I could just make more archers instead of building gyros and steam giants and whatever else - provided that they're in overwhelming numbers, heh.

[Trice]

I guess, have a read on the forums, im sure itll mention it there :d

[fena]

Why have a hundred steam giants if you can have two thousand archers?

[Gemini]

Why have a hundred steam giants if you can have two thousand archers?

smart , except when you attack i think it costs more to upkeep them

[fena]

Why have a hundred steam giants if you can have two thousand archers?

smart , except when you attack i think it costs more to upkeep them

Yeah, that's the only problem.

[Trice]

Why have a hundred steam giants if you can have two thousand archers?

upkeep + replacement cost + population used.

[fena]

Why have a hundred steam giants if you can have two thousand archers?

upkeep + replacement cost + population used.

Ooooh, the population. Yeah, I totally forgot about that. That's probably the most important thing, since with a big army you can pillage out the upkeep and replacement cost anyway. The only thing you can't pillage is the population.

[Trice]

Just hit a 15boat pillage.

[Gemini]

if someone has a u next to there name what does it mean?

[fena]

if someone has a u next to there name what does it mean?

They're on vacation mode.

[Gemini]

how do you get into vacation mode?

[adorable]

how do you get into vacation mode?

i think vacation mean banned*

[fena]

how do you get into vacation mode?

i think vacation mean banned*

No, vacation mode doesn't mean banned, lol.
Go to your options at the top.

It says...

Here you can activate the vacation mode if no fleets or armies are on their way to or from your towns.
Your player´s account will not be deleted if you are inactive for too long and your towns can´t be attacked. Your workers and scientists, though, are on vacation themselves and won´t work. In order to prevent abuse of the vacation mode, your vacation mode must take at least 48 hours. In this time you can´t play Ikariam.
After two days your vacation mode ends automatically when you log on to the game the next time.

[adorable]

o ~~ lol
i m such a big noob >.<''

[mahumps]

I need lots of crystals. Anyone can sell me some? around 4k units trading wine or gold.

[Zypher]

was just checking my email and saw this

Ikariam MilkBags - Play the ancient world!‏ 6/18/08

:booh:

[fena]

Gemini, you have a coward spy.

[Trice]

I want the co-ords to Big Baby Stone.

[MrBow]

I want the co-ords to Big Baby Stone.

+1

[fena]

Hah, yeah. I bet you do.
Probably along with Bigbaby Wine and Bigbaby Crystal and Bigbaby Sulfur, don't you?

[Gemini]

fena just wanted to see your resources

[Trice]

Meh, looking at it, my farms seem to similar resources, coz fenfen and my total resources are pretty similar :d

i hate that you are in a more populated area though, all mine are like 5hrs away :|

[fena]

Yah, Trice.
But I still got tons more gold than you.


I seriously don't know what to use it for.

[Gemini]

buy more ships/resources

[fena]

buy more ships/resources

Yeah, I really need some more, but they cost more than 350k per ship now. What a pain. :(

[Trice]

Give me some of your gold. I need more ships.

Gt tonnes of crytals and just glas your way through research