Iām using non-stop Alchemy lab from some months now
Yeah I have tiered as such:
Training camps, barracks and hunting lodge on highest tier closest to stronghold
Farm storage, recruit housing, 1 farm, 1 adv. iron storage and forge on middle tier
Farms, mines and iron storage on lowest tier
Really like that arrangement, except for that one food storeā¦might copy!
I do the very same thing
Some impressive digs you got there
I knowā¦ I justify having the most advanced food and iron store near the keep as a reserve for long sieges when the outer bailey is compromised.
Thanks @Saphirra Iām particularly proud of the interior design - the curtain material is just to die for
Whereās your alchemy lab?
Itās across the bridge to the left.
Speaking of, I have actually watched a peasant as he crossed that bridge and then returned again.
@Elpis, is the Academy Lab worth itās? In YOUR opinion. Iām asking because I saw no reason to build it but now I find that all the unfarmable AMās I get are Compass (40)c Fine Gloves(37) and Orbs(27)
Would it be useful for me? I donāt need hidden blades or sturdy shields. I also donāt wave to pay a load of gems trying for something I do need (tonics, rings)
Itās hard to tell if you post is sarcasm, if it is then just ignore this. But Iām running out of things to build and just refused the AL on principle. Was that a dumb move?
Thereās a bit of sarcasm in it, yes.
I upgraded lab to lv5 and i donāt have any intentions to go any further.
Lab lv5 allow me to do 2 alchemy at the same time, and it is the last level without gems requirements.
Alchemy are painfully long and require a crazy lot amount of ham.
I use it exactly to get rid of my ham surplus and get some more axe and bombs for the monthly event. Thatās it.
After months of alchemy i still have just 6.000 shards, so do not bother for that.
High levels suppose to be more worth it, but thereās much better ways to use gems probably.
I am seeing an awful lot of my quirks on this thread.
I am dreadful for collecting the heroes as soon as they train. Even when I have deliberately stacked a bunch so I can do the train ten at once for a better chance to increase the special, I will still collect and feed them one at a time.
Someone suggested that they moved the camps out of the middle to avoid temptation. I may try that myself, but my OCD is terrible. Each time I unlock a new part of my base I have to rearrange everything to try to keep things evenly together. I am already worried that when the final stage is unlocked (I am currently upgrading to stronghold 18) it will mess up my layout and I will have to start all over again.
I currently have the three training camps and forges on either side of the stronghold, all the farms down the lower left side tier, all the storage on the right side (though having one mine storage on the square that I set for food storage makes me twitch), the barracks in the middle and the houses and mines grouped together on the middle tier on the left.
Items in my inventory (at least the stuff I can craft and have control over) is almost always in multiples of five.
I canāt seem to save any of the energy flasks for more than a few days - though I am behaving with titan flasks as the alliance I am in saves them for rares.
Likewise summon tokens disappear from my inventory as fast as I get them. I canāt stand to see that red free on the icon and just have to run and see what I can pull.
Yep, lots of quirks here, though I am trying to behave better for things that impact upon my alliance.
Oooh ā¦ are we sharing bases? Here is mine today
Managed to get my Food Stores grouped ā¦ nowhere near the Farms though! Thinking about it, thatās a lot of food and iron to go across that little bridge!
Mines and food store on one side
Farm and iron store on the other???
Thatās traffic Armageddon!!
Oh dear, the nine farms and five iron storages are what I feared might happen when I finally reach level 20. I think I will have to do a logical layout to appear that side of my pickiness rather than an even layout to appear my OCD because those odd number are going to drive me crackers.
Yours looks elegantly grouped. Not sure about traffic, but I like how most things fit.
Hereās mine (sorry for the choppy pic):
(All the farms are on the right.)
It drives me nuts that I have one of each located separately from the rest of my farms and mines. I have rearranged it dozens of times trying to find the least offensive layout (for me).
What I have currently was fine for SH21 with one advanced mine and farm unaligned, but now I have TWO of them!.
I think Iām going to have to redecorate again.
Thereās only three groupings of 8 where the farms can go in one fell swoop (if youāve used a farm as troops bldg like I have). The town is divided from top to bottom:
- 6 top
- 8 left / 4 right
- 8 left / 8 right