The secrets of Sirroy!

Hi sirroy- I was visiting your island today and was wondering something. I noticed earlier in the morning your copper mines were being upgraded from level 3 to level 4, and I came back a bit ago and there are 5 copper mines being used and all are level 5 and buffed. Do you use cookies or red flying settler drinks to do the 3x buff on them? Also I noticed you don't use coal mines yet have tons of weaponsmiths and smelters- What is your secret here, do you just get all your coal from trades? If you don't want to share your secrets that is fine maybe just give some of us up and coming players some insight as to how you run your economy, I know you sell adventures so you probably have a lot of gold to buy materials to shore up your production lines, but which ones do you have to buy and how many of them each day? Just curious really and Its been amazing to see how your island has improved over the last month and a half I've been watching, thanks in advance :)

Sounds like he's determined to specialize in copper production. Perhaps he refills his copper mines? If you have enough copper, you could trade for coal, and copper mines are cheap to build (but I can't see upgrading them to level 5 each time).

I believe he's a 1% therefore "Occupy SirRoy" when PvP comes out.:D

If you click on a players mine, look at amount left...you can tell if people refill....

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by lowprofile

If you click on a players mine, look at amount left...you can tell if people refill....

---

every one posting here knows this fact :P

I think he may be buying coal or sth. coal is pretty cheap in market place

Well he does have many coking plants- (seems strange because I consider them inefficient, but good if you need to be gone for more than a day) but I was more wondering how much more copper ore you can net from doing this since it takes 1,000 tools to upgrade to level 5 and it probably runs out in under 6 hours.

Coking plants instead of coal mines is an interesting option - with the right amount of fir wood cutters and planters, it never needs to be rebuilt, so it might be a worthwhile use of some licenses.

I ran the numbers. You'd need 3 fir foresters, 2 fir loggers, and 2 coking plants to equal one coal recycling plant - 7 licenses. And ten licenses are cheaper than 1 coal recycling plant.

Well SirRoy has mysterious ways. Has me on ignore because I "annoy" him in some way. Thing is when I want to buy advens from him he doesnt answer, so im forced to spend my gold elsewhere. :-P

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by bombcar

I ran the numbers. You'd need 3 fir foresters, 2 fir loggers, and 2 coking plants to equal one coal recycling plant - 7 licenses. And ten licenses are cheaper than 1 coal recycling plant.

---

Well the thing with those recycling plants though is that they wouldn't take up someone like sirroy's maximum building count (since I'm assuming he is close to having as many building licenses as you can buy) and once they are upgraded it is worry free coal production which is super nice. Also if you were upgrading it to level 5 its the cost of one building vs 7 in that respect. Coal recycling plants are one of the best buildings in the game I think because of how much coal some important end-production chain buildings use (i.e. steel weaponsmith).

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Jethro702

Well SirRoy has mysterious ways. Has me on ignore because I "annoy" him in some way. Thing is when I want to buy advens from him he doesnt answer, so im forced to spend my gold elsewhere. :-P

---

Sorry, oversight.
My New Years resolution is to take all non-trolls off the iggy list. You most likely got on there by continually talking to(feeding) a troll. I ignore them because they bring out the worst in me. If others keep engaging trolls, I tend to ignore them too.
So please accept the hand of peaceful coexistence. I have removed you from the list. It is my sincere hope you will send lots of coins and good wishes my way as we play the game together Jethro702.

If I told you my secret it would not be a secret. :P
No, really, my secret is 3 foresters to 2 cutters.
I have a very strong wood production, both fir and hw.
I covert a lot of stones and fir planks into tools.
I make the rest(2 Level 4 tools) and upgrade my copper mines to 5 and run them basket buffed.
No, I do not refill the copper mines. I rebuild them over and over.
Running adventures eats up a lot of recruits.
Plus I sell surplus bronze swords for 35 coins a stack.
I have 2 iron mines at level 5 and only run them buffed. They are refilled with the iron deposits I get from adventures.
I have all the coke plants from early on in the game, one recycler and probably not paying 950 gems for any more, but who knows?
I buy a lot of iron ore when I want to build a bunch of iron and steel swords.
Prior to doing a big iron purchase(25 coins per 400), (4 map frags per 400), or (400 horses per 400), i buy 20-30k of coal at 10 coins per 400 to augment my coal production.
I make a lot of hw planks and marble which I can sell.I have slowly been upgrading everything to 5, starting with foresters and farms.
My guild is an awesome group of active players who buff, buff, buff.
Oh, I do have 10 savage scouts to find lots of exotic logs for me to make planks with. They also find me a fair amount of adventure of which I sell many.
My provisions house was the first major upgrade I focused on.
My plan was never to chase XP.
My goal has been, and is, to get all my buildings up to level 5.
I honestly do not know how many of each type of building I have. I am looking forward to being able to move them so they can be grouped.
So, no real secrets.
Just 3 foresters to 2 cutters.

Ok, first thanks for replying and letting us in on your tricks of the trade. Awesome to know some of the details here, since i'm currently in the process of upgrading buildings (since i'm close to the maximum until I purchase more building licenses) and any insight of how a later-game player's city is run is helpful. I am at 4 savage scouts and 2 normal explorers atm, do you think I should forgo buying another coal recycling plant in favor of buying more building licenses (level 35, 165 building licenses currently) or buy another savage scout with my gems? My thinking was that the recycling plant was going to be the best long term investment but now i'm wondering if that's true!

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Jethro702
Well SirRoy has mysterious ways. Has me on ignore because I "annoy" him in some way. Thing is when I want to buy advens from him he doesnt answer, so im forced to spend my gold elsewhere. :-P
Sorry, oversight.
My New Years resolution is to take all non-trolls off the iggy list. You most likely got on there by continually talking to(feeding) a troll. I ignore them because they bring out the worst in me. If others keep engaging trolls, I tend to ignore them too.
So please accept the hand of peaceful coexistence. I have removed you from the list. It is my sincere hope you will send lots of coins and good wishes my way as we play the game together Jethro702.

---

Thank You SirRoy, I will have to come to you for Adventures now. Since my explorers are slacking and dont bring any home....

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Jethro702

Thank You SirRoy, I will have to come to you for Adventures now. Since my explorers are slacking and dont bring any home....

---

We need a new building, a whipmaker!

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Jethro702

Thank You SirRoy, I will have to come to you for Adventures now. Since my explorers are slacking and dont bring any home....

---

OMG! All 10 came back with mapfrags recently.

There is no better gems investment than building licences, savage scout is second.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Jethro702

Thank You SirRoy, I will have to come to you for Adventures now. Since my explorers are slacking and dont bring any home....

---

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by SirRoy

OMG! All 10 came back with mapfrags recently.

---

Mine have slack and brought back all frags for a whole week :(

At least we can look forward to an increased amount of options for fragments with the mystery box and more purchasable adventures!

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Bobj

At least we can look forward to an increased amount of options for fragments with the mystery box and more purchasable adventures!

---

Yeah lol..... Ill save them up, cause outlaw adventure is terrible :P

Wow, the game has come a long way.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by EpsilonSilver

Wow, the game has come a long way.

---

I read your answers and wondered why you grouped your trade in 400, then remembered Trade used to be just a tab that allowed for max trade of 400 each stack.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by EpsilonSilver

Wow, the game has come a long way.

---

Lol. yeah. So funny to read over these old posts