Plundering Part 1: For Resources


Plundering can sometimes seem like it's a complicated process when really it's quite simple. When you get a victory you get to take the resources from the city you plundered. But when you plunder you won't always get the resources you were hoping to get. Sometimes you get a little of each resource but every time you'll get at least a little gold. Why is that?

The reason for this is because of storage buildings and their protection limits. When you plunder a city you can't collect any amount of resource that is lower than the city's protection limit. Let's say you scout a city and you see that the city has 100,000 gold, 50,00 food, 50,000 wood and 50,000 stone. You decide on an attack because this is a nice haul and the city has a low power level but your troops come back with 100,000 gold and nothing else. What your scouts didn't report back is that the city has 100,000 protection on each resource. If you had sent more scouts you would have seen the resource report that looks something like this.

Gold 100,000                 Food 50,000(100,000)
Stone 50,000(100,000) Wood 50,000(100,000)

The numbers in the parenthesis is the protection limit on the said resource. if the city had 110,000 of each resource you would have only received 10,000 of each resource plundered.

Scouting is a helpful way to see if sending your troops out will actually be worth your time. Personally I tend to only really target other players that have 100k power minimum though.

34 comments:

  1. Is there a chart somewhere that tells you how many resources each troop can carry?

    I'm encountering weird results trying to find this out..

    I plundered a city with 100 swordsman, and I got back 4k gold. I followed that up with 1000 swordsman and also only got 4k gold.

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  2. Theres no chart but its possible that the city only had 8k gold and your 100 swordsman could only take 4k. Troops can carry 2 times their power in resources. So since you used 100 swordsman and they have 20 power each their total power is 2000. Multiplied by 2 and you get 4000.

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  3. how to win from somewone hoe haves lots of defense unit

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    1. You need to build lots and lots of rams. You can build them from your wall. They count as defense units but attack like attack units.

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  4. when can I start plundering? When I select the city, the plundering button is disabled. the only thing I can do is visit the city. What are the pre-requisits for plundering?

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    1. You should be able to start plundering right away. Make sure that the city you are plundering isn't allied with your alliance or in fact part of your alliance.

      One thing to note is that your alliance may have an allied status with another but it may not be reciprocated. The other alliance can be neutral or even hostile with yours but you may not know it and cannot attack them because of the allied status on your alliance's diplomacy. If this is the case and you are being attacked you may want to inform your leader of the situation so you can begin plundering your attacker as well.

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  5. why i can plund only gold and not food or wood?

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    1. Usually its because the city you're attacking has too few resources and is has all of it under protection. Gold doesn't have a protection because there's no storage building. Keep try to plunder different cities and you'll eventually find one with other resources too.

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  6. It would be great to be able to plunder pearls. Please consider adding this feature.

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    1. That would be great but I can't implement any changes because I don't work for Tap4fun. Maybe if many of us ask them they might though!

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  7. Not sure why, but I'm unable to plunder! I used to be in alliance, but dropped it to see if I could just do plundering. Nothing. All I can do is attack quarries, which is quite pathetic.

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    1. Yeah I've yet to join an alliance, and I've never been able to attack anything but resources. Ive built up an army to attack another city, but like you I can't. Any input would be greatly appreciated.

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    2. I have no idea why. It may be a bug that you guys might have found.

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    3. U need to have Battle Ram (Lv 10 Wall) only u can attack other city.

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    4. so I can't tell you why this is happening, but I can tell you how to fix it. I was having same issue as you can see, my comment is the second one. I sent them an email, explainimg the issue. Within 12 hours they replied, asking me if it was all cities, or just a specific one. They also asked me to take a screenshot of what the options looked like. After I sent them that email, a couple hours later I was able to use the options. So I think like the other person said, it's just a bug that happens when you initially download it. It is fixable though.

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  8. I can never see the scout repor, is it in a menu?

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    1. Scout reports are in mail after you scouted.

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  9. Whenever I look at my stone,food and wood storages it says Food/Wood/Stone Capacity 7.1million But Right Now I Have 8.4mil Wood/Stone/Food. Why is that happening?

    Thanks.

    P.S If You Could Tell Me What It Means By "Capacity" That Would Be Great Thanks.

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    1. I was wondering the same thing someone plz answer this question

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    2. If the amount of rss exceeds your storage limit it wont increase anymore from your rss productions but the rss you gain from attacking still counts towards your total rss

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  10. How do you send someone resources?

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    1. Army --> March --> Transport

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    2. must be level 7 or it wont let u transport

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  11. i got two gold teritory ,how do i cancel it,i need to have food teritory,but maximum just two,can u tell me how can i cancel .

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    1. Select your City Hall -> Conquests tab -> Abandon

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  12. how can i find cities to plunder - i'am lokkingo to each areas,one by one, see no citie

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  13. how to search for the area and position of a city?

    clicking city always give me 1 selection and that's the "visit"

    what i do is army>>march>>plunder(then i dont know how to locate the area and position)

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  14. The reason for not being able to plunder other cities is because your under a grace period. You can't attack or be attacked I'm not sure for how long but it is somewhere between 2 to 3 days after you can. The bubbles above the cities are under protection and you can't plunder them

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    1. thanks...
      So nothing to do with "U need to have Battle Ram (Lv 10 Wall) only u can attack other city."

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  15. What is best way to attack thorns?

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  16. Does anyone know how to change the diplomacy settings.Im being hammered by some guys that are friendly in my diplomacy and as a result I cant scout them.

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  17. What is the best strategy for someone attacking you with large force of RAMS.

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    1. when u click the circle thing in the bottom right hand corner ull see a thing that says army click it and then click on each troop type and it will show u what that troop is strong agenst

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  18. some players that are tagged friendly and some sort of friend from my alliance but constantly attacking me. piss me off

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