I have been getting plundered a lot lately. If not a goods or production buildings but a house. I know my army isn't the greatest but its hard to save up supplies to upgrade your army when someone is plundering. Is there any other way to keep people from plundering?
A few options
1 - city shield from the tavern. I'd only use the 3 day shield. The 1 day shield isn't necessarily going up do much as the attackers are already on a 1 day cycle
2 - have a 24 hr collection cycle. Make sure you collect on time. Plunderers can only take what's finished
3 - have a collection cycle of two 8 hr cycles (or smaller more often). Each plunderer can only take once per 24 hrs. So if you have smaller amounts more often then they can only take smaller amounts then if you do a large amount and mistime collecting
Defending Army
4 - use unattached troops. This is much easier to find out in Desktop as there's a setting you can activate on Desktop to show which are which. However if you haven't got the setting activated you an use the filter to show only unattached troops. Make these your defending army and try to make sure you have current age as much as possible
Where do you get unattached? Spending event currency, Guild Expedition, Daiky Challenges and Quests (in general)
Once you've got unattached defending you won't have to worry about running out of troops as they don't take up space in your city. Just don't use the blue (defending) troops to attack
5 - just before collecting activate a tavern boost. I'd mostly recommend using your tavern once already fully upgraded, but if it's a peaceful neighbourhood that'd be a good time to use the 4 hr supply boost
6 - send a friend request to your plunderer. You can't attack friends or guildmates
7 - Great Buildings and event buildings will be a great friend of yours. The following cannot be plundered:
- Any Age buildings
- Great Buildings
- Motivated Buildings
- Not yet finished productions
I'd recommend building the Lighthouse of Alexandria Great Building. It will boost your supplies and give current age goods.
8 - aid often. Especially your friends list. Most players will only aid those that aid them back. This'll protect your supply buildings, housing and event buildings. Use the filter in your event history (top left dropdown menu to show filter) to go through Friends and Social Interactions. Aid from there. Anyone in your friends list with the aid option still available hasn't aided within the last week and can be culled if you feel you need to make room for more friends
