Zapper, next time lets try and build minimal, functional and most of all tight defences around the dummy. Maybe add a second layer of walls later on if we have resources to spare. Our castle was so big and had two courtyards that it got inefficient... people spawned in courtyard B and had to walk a bit to get to the dummy. Also, we had too many gates.
I know. The porblem was that it was other people building useless shit.
In the beginning i was basically encircling the dummy and our spawn, so to more easily protect it from attacks. Also putting up the gate right infront of the dummy was to make people naturally go there when they respawn and thus see that it was safe. (herding the randomers ftw!)
After that, when the dummy and spawn was completely encircled, I sent a guy to look for holes (tibberias over TS) while I put up two strategic staircases. It was then that I found out one idiot had made a wall RIGHT infront of the gate. *facepalm*
So I thought, fuck it, and started building workshops, since I now had a good open and safe space to build in (was going for tech rush).
Then, since the enemy kept running around our walls and destroying the back walls and only 4-5 out of 40 dudes actually bothered to go there, I had to quickly build a small palisade. That palisade worked for the rest of the game and kept people away from attacking our back (also helped that our technological superiority had pushed them so far back).
Now I had to go and fix up the frontal courtyard. Mainly because there where still people standing there trying (and failing hard) to expand it. I thought if I finished it up and it was made properly they would stop wasting resources on it and actually do something constructive. This worked as after I finished the outer courtyard everybody stop mucking around adding layers to the castle. You were right, though. It really was a waste of resources, but better that I finish it up than them keep on making it crap and wasting even more.
Finally, I was going to seal of the dummy (my original step after building the workshops) but now nobody seemed to want to help building. The dummy was even on less than 5% help and still people wouldn't donate resources to secure it. I had to wait (with a mighty 70-80ish resources per tick) until I myself had 3k and I STILL couldn't build. Seemed like most people had abandoned helping out building the base. Luckily our tech advantage and some dudes who kept guarding the dummy made us able to not loose it to the enemy. Still, very annoying that I couldn't finish the last piece of defences and start making more workshops (20 stables=free horses
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Then the game ended.
But really, It's better to have a fully encircled spawn+dummy than just encircling the dummy in the beginning. Not in a clan scim, but you kinda have to herd the randomers into defending. Thus making the only exit from spawn go past the dummy was the best idea. I also got the walls up pretty quick because of all the people donating resources (thanks guys!). It was later on that building donations stopped and I didn't manage to make a building in 5 minutes
Still wonder. How did you it?
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