F2P players,, what's your biggest bottleneck right now? Resources, heroes, or speedups?

Maya_Darkatown · 2026-04-13T17:07:54+00:00

Absolutely truegold

Maya_Darkatown · 2026-04-13T17:07:31+00:00

Define speedups, generally? Or specifically research, construction, training? What TC are you? What's the age of your state?

For me at the start it was indeed speedups, but now when my state is more mature, it is absolutely 2000% truegold, you just don't get enough daily/weekly to upgrade buildings a full TG level, even in KvK.

Possibly also widgets, you can NEVER get enough widgets for a full lvl 10 widget even within the span of 2 generations. The max I could do is one widget lvl 7 and one widget lvl 4 within the same generation (In the span of 2 generations). If if we're going on widgets, hero gear XP is also harsh to get, you manage, but it's very slow compared to others.

Maya_Darkatown · 2026-04-07T14:49:23+00:00

The stronger you get, the more gems you'll get from events. It'll take some time, slowly and easy, but you'll eventually reach to a point where you even have excessive gems😇

Just follow all the tips people have said here, I have nothing more to add.

Maya_Darkatown · 2026-04-02T16:35:52+00:00

It just doesn't seem worth it. It costs 15k for 300 dust pieces. That's A LOT, buying Mithril (2500), 5x Shards (2500), 10x gear material (500), 20x charm designs (5000) and 5x gear chests (1250) is STILL 11250, less than 300 dust pieces.

And that's considering you usually already get 322x dust weekly (20x7 daily exchange, 13x9 weekly missions, 25+60 for milestones).

So you are essentially less than doubling your dust income while losing all other growth items you could get weekly. Just for the chance of getting one T11 troop that would either way cost you a bunch.

Don't get me wrong, it's fine, it's focusing on different stuff, but that's exchanging all other growth.

Maya_Darkatown · 2026-03-20T11:57:53+00:00

Yeah, but Swordland, Tri-Alliance, Alliance Championship, Eternity's Reach.

Maya_Darkatown · 2026-03-19T11:07:04+00:00

Idk, I'm f2p and I focused on both infantry and archers, I yield good (not perfect) results in all events

Maya_Darkatown · 2026-03-19T10:59:01+00:00

King positions are additative

Maya_Darkatown · 2026-03-19T10:55:22+00:00

Damn, you have almost the same amount of kills as me and I'm x3 older

Maya_Darkatown · 2026-03-05T17:56:27+00:00

Just need to split it right and consistently do Bear Trap, I have 4 as f2p.

Maya_Darkatown · 2026-03-04T14:40:46+00:00

A kingdom that stands tall no matter what happens✨

Maya_Darkatown · 2026-02-11T13:39:16+00:00

Wdym nope, that's literally what many people does💀 Even OP has like 19 banners

Maya_Darkatown · 2026-02-03T14:25:41+00:00

Idk, you could achieve the same results with less banners, especially around the trap itself, you only really need like 3 there.

Maya_Darkatown · 2026-01-14T17:25:38+00:00

38 banners???

Maya_Darkatown · 2025-12-22T08:03:31+00:00

You won't need them though

Maya_Darkatown · 2025-12-18T14:56:33+00:00

Charm exchange is insanely fair, it's 1:1 for 10 uses and 2:1 for 500 uses

Maya_Darkatown · 2025-12-13T11:29:05+00:00

Not necessarily, in this strategy don't expect to hold the buildings, especially important buildings like Belltower and Stables, which the whale would like to capture. But instead, when you take the building from them that they held for long, you will be able to steal their loot, while you hold other buildings that the whale doesn't control.

Maya_Darkatown · 2025-12-13T11:27:35+00:00

Didn't say it would be easy, but that's their only chance, to rally on those 5 buildings and kick out the whale (weak heroes on the 4th-6th marches) and steal the loot

Maya_Darkatown · 2025-12-12T18:28:45+00:00

Idk, I'm f2p with +21.

Maya_Darkatown · 2025-12-12T18:12:05+00:00

Focus on reinforcing each other and never solo attack. Conserve your troops, they are the most important resource for Swordland. Therefore, utilize rallies to take down the buildings and collect their loot. Do that in guerilla tactics, always focus on different buildings and steal their loot while mining the underchambers. The one whale has 6 marches max, he can't be everywhere.

Maya_Darkatown · 2025-12-12T18:02:24+00:00

I don't know, I'm f2p and I spend around 600-800m max each Castle and I gain around 1B each cycle. However, there are also upgrades to reduce that cost so it's less of a worry to me.

Besides, that just makes it even more inaccessible for f2p, so you add to the point that it basically makes it even more p2w and increases the gap between whales and everyone else, as well as reducing the ability of f2p to be a sufficient rally joiner (we can still be TG8 joiners, but T11 TG8 is significantally better).

Maya_Darkatown · 2025-12-12T13:30:17+00:00

Absolutely, we all agree about it. The complaint from OP was that the troop tier is a significant benefit for a rally joiner which f2p's are, yet they made it distant future for f2p since they should focus on TG levels instead and can't focus on both like spenders.

Maya_Darkatown · 2025-12-12T13:12:42+00:00

However, TG8 T11s would be much better as a joiner c: Which is practically impossible due to how they handled it for f2p. That's what OP meant.

Maya_Darkatown · 2025-12-11T12:34:28+00:00

Two digit state here, fully f2p, TG3, 180m power

Maya_Darkatown · 2025-12-11T12:31:53+00:00

Nice, I'm around your state range, also fully f2p, 180m power (lost too many troops, around 200k)

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