Off to work in a few so I'm posting early since I won't be around again till well after the era has ended.

Decided to get farming 5 and lumber 3 just for kicks this tick ut the rest was had for awhile now. (Had farming 4)

The current game (era) will last for 0.2 more day(s) (5h).

Production & Resources

Forsaken Dream

Choose army	Commander	Morale	Exp.	Located	Upkeep
	Sir Yarlin	100%	0	on mission	4728771

Twisted Reality

Choose army	Commander	Morale	Exp.	Located	Upkeep
	Sir Yarlin	100%	0	on mission	4728491

Living Nightmare

Choose army	Commander	Morale	Exp.	Located	Upkeep
	Sir Yarlin	100%	0	on mission	4727837

Military Science Level 7 Currently using: Magic weapons and mithril armor that gives +70% defensive and offensive power. Upgrading costs 3825690000 gold, 382569000 stone and 382569000 tree.

Farming Level 5 Upgrading costs 116575000 gold and 11657500 food.

Mining Level 11 Upgrading costs 63211936500 gold and 6321193650 stone.

Forestry Level 3 Upgrading costs 40468000 gold and 4046800 tree.

Medicine Level 6 Upgrading costs 670270800 gold.

Magic Level Level 3 Upgrading costs 1493055000 gold, 132716000 stone, 132716000 tree and 132716000 food.

One word, Efficiency

Because i pooled them all to the same place to get the top 3 HoH armies. duh

Someone is sure to ask so here it is.

Axemen Cost = 4249 gold

Was 3900 before I took a few worthless cities and built 20k MTs for EitS and Freeze on the intruders. Thats a big drop in output when your income stays the same. =P (Efficiency droped)

I'll explain the answer to that after work Osiris.

Psh. My axemen = 4503 gold

omg, it was my first era as dwarf and I knew that :o

worked no.. because if he did it right he would have been far infront

none. clearly his armies suck, he didnt pump to try to stay first and his build set up sucks :P its amazing he even got to first

This is not efficient :)

And with L3 magic, good thing you never attacked!

he knows all i know more ;)

Too bad those armies never saw battle.

lol i havent seen such a rainbow sci in a while..especially for a dwarf:))

why? he had no intention to put his troops in danger, so he might as well have had 0 magic... except for stg i guess...

Im gonna post mine in a different thread, I need some room to stretch out.

Ok first things first, the question why i had farms instead of buying food.

#1 Reason - When you wake up a few days in a row and there is ZERO food for sale and have to go to work, that sucks.

#2 - with farming science it really wasn't that great of a loss as you think for what food prices were at when i was buying vs having farming science and farms. lets say 500k income lost per tick from having farms instead of mines BUT selling 350k food a tick at 1.5 yet not having to buy the 600k+ food a tick to feed myself.

My setup? Whats wrong with Mines built to caver ratios? The only 2 Mines that were not fully to ratio were my Feeders and they had 17420 homes (caver ratio) and 50k Mines with 50k cavers. The last 3 cities on that list were the ones i took from someone that spawned by us and i never touched them other then building 2k GT's to get LoS on the south edge of the map.

If your talking city placement, well someone took the 3 other key spots i picked out to have the ability to pump enough "score" troops so i made due with what i had.

Yes i do realize i should have farmed a few more mill before starting to pump troops but it's a bit late for that now isn't it?

Sciences... some of you call them a rainbow but i had 11 mining and 0 to the rest (was going to get mining 12 then Med but got forced to do others) for the reason already stated. i never planed to fight, it just happened. When Cobra showed up with his #1 HoH army the same day i started pumping i had to get a few sciences quick so i took only my nightly income and got Military 7, magic 3 then med 5 all at the same time. Magic only so i could do my own EitS and freezes. Glad i did since a few guys from DB got brave and had to fight them off to.

Efficiency - it was at 24.45 before i took any cities or built them MT's (food was selling at 1.5) and dropped to 21.35 after the taken cities. (food was selling at 1.0-0.9) Anyone that knows what those numbers mean knows it was actually pretty good. Yes it could have been better if i destroyed some farms to keep it close to no food lost or gained and burned those 3 cities instead of taking them but that's not what happened.

Just so everyone knows, i didn't start the era planning to go for era win. i started out testing an econ build with plans to play core defense because of my activity. 2 ticks 2 times a day at most wasn't good enough to me for an attacker.

Agree on the farms. Building one 90k for food is more safe than relying on the market, and not too costly.

how can you work out those efficiency numbers?

That would be a pretty elementary way of doing it.

There are ways to use the info; it's quite useful, you just have to know what to do with it is all.