kingrobert111
Major
I can only speak for myself, but here's my reasoning for staying in IA: you don't need to spend too many FPs on attack GBs, you can spend those FPs on FP-producing GBs. This means that by the time you do want to level the attack GBs, you'll have a lot more FPs to do so and thus you're saving a lot of time overall. Being in a higher age would require attack GBs to be higher, drawing FPs away, slowing the progress down. In the same amount of time, you can get your GBs up much higher staying in a lower era than by rushing through the ages.
And you could even do that by not allowing others to attack you (not unlocking the "allow others to attack me" tech). So basically, you could get stronger than 99,9% of all players without ever getting attacked.
I personally allow others to attack me, but since they can't plunder anything, who cares if they do?
you dont need to spend that much on att GBs if you go higher up,my zeus/aachen/monte were all level5 when entering FE on rugnir,that was good enough to do maps upto a certain point then you go back with hovers,also good enough to do GE1/2,being attacked is all in the mind i dont give a sod,by the time you get to FE your fp income would have shot up
CE is a good place to camp for awhile with the troop called AAV you can get into GE4 with that on low att boost
you are wasting time as youll get held up in tha later ages doing techs giving plenty of time to level up GBs and youll have more fp to do it with