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Polish, Motivate or ?

Christoph do Alcaide

Christoph do Alcaide

Corporal
Around three times a day I scroll through my 'friends ' list.
I always visit those that show an AID star and choose a building to motivate or polish.
What would happen if I just chose the AID button?E
Just wondering
 

Uncivilized Bastidge

Private
The Aid button is way faster, and whatever algorithm they use to choose what building gets aided is reasonable. GBs and special buildings seem to get priority over residential buildings, supply buildings, cultural buildings, and decorations. Also, even if there are no buildings to aid, you still get the coin reward for aiding. I can't recall, but don't think you get it when you physically visit the town and choose a building. About the only reason I can see for spending the time on visits is to be able to choose the age of the building you want to aid, since that determines the age of the GB BP you get (on the off chance you actually get one). If I remember correctly, there's only about a 1%-2% chance of getting a BP, so you've got to be more than a little OCD to spend so much time on such a minor reward, IMHO.
 
Agent327

Agent327

Overlord
Uncivilized Bastidge said:
The Aid button is way faster, and whatever algorithm they use to choose what building gets aided is reasonable. GBs and special buildings seem to get priority over residential buildings, supply buildings, cultural buildings, and decorations. Also, even if there are no buildings to aid, you still get the coin reward for aiding. I can't recall, but don't think you get it when you physically visit the town and choose a building. About the only reason I can see for spending the time on visits is to be able to choose the age of the building you want to aid, since that determines the age of the GB BP you get (on the off chance you actually get one). If I remember correctly, there's only about a 1%-2% chance of getting a BP, so you've got to be more than a little OCD to spend so much time on such a minor reward, IMHO.
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Motivating GB's?????

Coins you always get. Priority is based on the number of fp's given by a building.
 
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Uncivilized Bastidge

Private
Agent327 said:
Motivating GB's?????

Coins you always get. Priority is based on the number of fp's given by a building.
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Right you are. You can't motivate GBs. Sleep deprivation caused cerebral flatulence. :D My apologies. But you might want to move out of your glass house before throwing stones, dude. Priority is based on the number of fp's [sic] given by a building? Seriously? Since when do residential buildings, supply buildings, cultural buildings, and decorations give FPs? Hmmm ... let's see ... since about NEVER! :lol: So by your claim they would receive zero priority and therefore never be aided. Yet they somehow are.

Now about the coins. When you visit a player's city and there isn't a building you can polish or motivate, how is it possible to "always" get coins? This is an honest question; I'm not asking just to be a jerk. I could be wrong, because it's been years since I've manually motivated or polished, but I don't recall ever getting coins in that situation. Yet when I click the Aid button, I do get coins, even when I get a message saying there were no buildings in that city to motivate or polish. This is why I said you should always click the Aid button rather than motivating and polishing by hand. That seemed to be the point of the original question. If I made another mistake, I'm happy to apologize again. If you ignore my offer of peace and flame me again, you're welcome to the last word. I freely admit my intelligence is not as good as my intentions are. :)
 
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SilverFoxes

Master Corporal
Uncivilized Bastidge said:
Right you are. You can't motivate GBs. Sleep deprivation caused cerebral flatulence. :D My apologies. But you might want to move out of your glass house before throwing stones, dude. Priority is based on the number of fp's [sic] given by a building? Seriously? Since when do residential buildings, supply buildings, cultural buildings, and decorations give FPs? Hmmm ... let's see ... since about NEVER! :lol: So by your claim they would receive zero priority and therefore never be aided. Yet they somehow are.
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Indeed, the priority for those buildings is 0. If there are no buildings left with any priority, the game first determines whether it will motivate or polish a building (50% chance for either of those). After that a building is chosen that can be either motivated or polished, based on their age (higher age first).

Priority is given to special buildings based on what they will additionally produce when motivated. First it will motivate buildings which will produce forge points when motivated, ordered by the amount of forge points. Then goods, medals, blueprints and lastly guild power.
 

Leafbiter

Corporal
Also if you are aiding advanced players you can get BP's for higher ages than you are in. I'm in Modern but have 8 BP's of The Arc for example.
 
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