Resources for Growth

Resources are required for everything - research, building traps, training, upgrading buildings and crafting hero items. You will need food, stone, wood, ore and silver at all times to support your growth.  This page provides some hints and tips on setting up these resources in your city, and farming outside of your city for resources.

Starting out

Initially, try to have an even amount of resource farms, logging camps, quarries, mines and villas within your city, and upgrade them all before you upgrade your Stronghold to the next level.  Keeping your Storehouse upgraded is also important for increasing your city's resource capacity.  Click on your Stronghold to see an overview of your current resource "income" and resource capacity.

Keep in mind that the troops you train require a certain amount of upkeep, so the more troops you have the more food you need to be producing.  If your food balance starts flashing red, you are not producing enough food to match the upkeep requirements for your troops.  Check the Your Hero pages for information on configuring your hero to boost your city's food capacity and production.

Also make sure you are well researched in the economic skills through your academy, as this will boost your city's production levels.

Resource tiles

As your Stronghold level increases, you will need to send troops to farm resource tiles outside your city to supplement the resources your city is producing.  More troops will be required to clear higher level resource tiles.  Food farms are most common, whereas the other resources are more sparse.

It is important to clear resource tiles that you send your troops to farm, as once they are cleared they disappear, and new ones are respawned on the map.  If you can't clear a resource tile immediately, bookmark its location and try to remember to go back later to finish it off.

Make sure you don't send your troops to a resource tile already claimed by someone else.  It is your responsibility to read the Code - for All Members regarding tile clashes and what is expected of you.

.A4 Food Banks (deposits and withdrawals)

The .A4 alliance has a number of alt accounts that are used as food banks.  The idea is that you no longer have to worry about maintaining a positive food balance, and don't worry, your troops will not die or become weak if your city has no food.  Some people still wish to maintain a positive food balance which is absolutely fine, but the more troops you train, the harder this is to do, especially when you start training tier 3 troops.

If you wish to use the food banks, you must firstly be contributing to the food banks.  So whenever you bring home food from a resource tile, or you have left over food from upgrades, send them to a resource bank.  When you require food for an upgrade, training, research etc., you may request food in Alliance Chat and one of the resource banks will help you.  If you are not contributing to a resource bank, yet you ask for food on a regular basis, you will be asked to contribute just as everyone else does.

Some of the resource banks in .A4 are:

  • Orcamiss
  • Fetch
  • CaiNin9
  • Isfet
  • Noka
  • SomeDudesDog
  • Darkside II, Darkside III and Darkside IV