Which building to convert/upgrade after SH21 and SH22?

[Gryphonknight]

Advanced House

@zephyr1

Basically I’m looking at the Advanced Buildings they added and imagining why they maybe thought to add a way to increase Recruit capacity and production

Everyone’s priority is different.

If leveling 5* heroes, and 4* troops, Advanced farm is more useful.

If using lots of battle items, Advanced mine might be more useful.

Like Advanced farm is a better farm, Advanced House appears to be just a better house.

Hoards

I hoard food.

334 recruits storage makes moving recruits around much easier.

Multiple Legendary training

I am running 3x Legendary training.

If I want to stop one and run other training, 300+ recruit storage helps move them around.

For example, I ran Extra fast ( RT19 ) for 2* hero power leveling.

Hero XP

Due to the speed of molasses Extra low cost ( RT19), and the bottle neck of kits/ backpacks ( RT02 ) there is a maximum amount of Hero XP per year.

But it consumes a lot of World energy and Real world time.

Producing recruits from Advanced House lets you complete more quests ( like the rumored Masquerade quests ), farm stages with higher iron, food and ingredient drops, without sacrificing Hero XP.

Also 1.8-7 is very time consuming if you want to use your mobile device for other uses.

Lodge

However I understand, and to an extent share, you uneasy about Advanced House.

Until Lodge, it was possible to optimize a base to your play style without max level buildings.

I am slightly worried by the trend of Lodge to require max level, multiple buildings to access parts of the game.

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Farming
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Iron, Food, Player XP

@Mai

XP, food and Iron is a different matter, they steadily increase as you progress and what level you should farm is directly related to your campaign progression and currently capabilities. That’s why there’s not a single level, but a lot of them.

Loot rolls

@gregschen

• S2N (normal difficulty) provinces 7, 8 and 9 give the most ascension mats rolls, clocking in at 3.5 per 3 WE
• After that, there are a TON of provinces that give 3 ascension mat rolls per 3 WE.

Hero XP

@Gryphonknight

102,372 recruits for Uncommon+
18,250 recruits for Legendary training+
26,280 recruits for 3x Extra Low cost
= 146,902 recruits per year / 3 recruits per world energy = 48,967 world energy per year in 1.8-7

( 48,967 world energy * 1 world energy per 10 minutes ) / ( 24 hours * 60 mintues ) = 340 days of world energy per year.

I would have 25 days of world energy per year for Class quests, Challenge events, class quests.

Device

@Gryphonknight

Mobile Gaming==

I use my smartphone for many things, reading the forum, playing games besides Empires, messaging friends, talking to friends, etc.

While my smartphone is busy farming recruits, I cannot use it for anything else.

Faster recruit farming frees my smartphone for other uses.

==Boredom==

I have to check my smartphone periodically to see if it is ready to autoplay the next stage or replay a stage.

Faster recruit farming frees up my real world time for other uses.

==Memory and Batteries==

Unfortunately my smartphone uses a limited type of memory ( flash memory ) and a high performance, moderate durability battery ( lithium ion film ). While both are rated for two years, heavy use can degrade both the performance, and the maximum capacity, of both. The battery is especially susceptible to degradation due to heat caused by high graphic processes.

Faster recruit farming puts less wear on physical components extending the performance and life of my smartphone.

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