Post by TheMuffin on Sept 7, 2011 0:52:27 GMT -5
Instant Troops
NOTICE: As of a few months ago, this option has been made impossible by the freaking wonderful admins. It now takes 20% of your sest and resources when you cancel a troop build. DO NOT TRY TO DO THIS ANYMORE, please![/b][/size][/color]
Preface:
Need a quick fix of troops?
Looking for a large prestige jump?
Possibly massive hero exp?
There is a strategy that lets players speed up troops to finish instantly. No glitch, no hack. Legit game mechanics. Keep reading to find out how.[/b]
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What You Need:
~Patience (about 100m worth of brain cells or so >.> please don't ask me to trans you some as I do NOT have extra -.-) - You will need lots of this as sometimes the amount of books you have will not be enough and you will have to gain more before continuing. Instants take anywhere from 10 mins to 5 days to complete after the initial queues
~Troop Speed-up books (the 30% ones), about 30-60 of these at least
~A city with a high population cap (or lots of barracks/stables)
~Lots of resources to queue up massive amounts of troops
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Preparing for an Instant:
City: To even think about doing an instant, you need to be able to support the high cost of the troop queues, be able to queue large amounts, and be able to feed these soon-to-be troopers. Make sure the city you choose to perform your instant in has a high population capacity, or several stables, barracks, etc so you can queue several hundred k troops (if that's your goal), and make sure you have a great crop production or the capability to maraud a lot of crops.
Tax: To be honest this doesn't really matter. I leave my tax where it is, just be wary of what you are doing and make sure you read all these steps very carefully.
Speed-up books: You'll be using lots and lots of these unless you are very VERY lucky and get your instant within the first few books or so. Battle a lot of WSC lvl 10s to get these easily. Ask if you need help, there are plenty of people willing to help you get WSC level 10! A typical instant will cost around 40-50 books total. I'll explain how later.
Consul: The hero you set as your consul when your instant happens will get all the experience from the troops being built. Choose a hero you would like to level up very quickly and set him as your consul before doing your instant.
Initial Queues:
This part is the most tedious and time consuming part of doing an instant. Also the most easily screwed up so pay attention.
When creating one "full" troop queue: you use your entire population capacity to queue one large batch of troops. This doesn't mean your current pop, this means your WHOLE population capacity. Easiest way to do this is to set tax to 0% and wait for population to rise to 100%, then set a queue. But if you feel daring, you can simply leave your tax as is, queue half a queue (50% of pop capacity) wait for population to go back up, cancel the current queue (so you'll then have a full population, as canceling a queue returns all resources and population) and then re queue a full batch.
The reason you only queue as much as your pop cap is because that is the maximum amount you are allowed to queue, population-wise. So take advantage of this limit.
Once you use up all your population in one queue....... All you have to do is wait for it to return again and you can queue up another one! Keep doing this until your barracks, stables, and workshops are as full as you want them to be.
See the pics below for examples. Then you're ready to start trying to complete your instant.
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How To Finish an Instant
Once you've got as many queues as you want/need... Your consul appointed, crops on the ready for the impending jump in intake... You're ready to start! This next part is fairly time consuming but much quicker than initially resetting the queues.
Step 1: Speed up once using a troop speed up book (click the green arrow by your troops being built)
Step 2: Cancel one queue at a time, then re queue the same troop build[/b][/color]
~Make sure not to cancel a second build before you re queue the first, as you will lose all the population for one of the queues and will have to wait hours for the population to go back up before re queuing. You WILL get your resources back though.
Step 3: Once all builds have been canceled and re queued, speed it up again.
~Please note that if you get an instant and you forgot to cancel all of the builds before speeding them up again, then the uncanceled ones will NOT finish. So pay attention![/b][/color]
Repeat this process until one of the speed ups performs an instant build like the pic at the top!
Below is a picture of my barracks in the process of canceling the builds and re queuing them.
