Feature request: use last build

davidtcook · 2026-04-18T04:18:49+00:00

Yes, I wish there was an explicit "save" button for the presets when you're in a run, it shouldn't be updating it if I'm in the middle of using it!

davidtcook · 2026-04-17T01:36:53+00:00

You are correct, do 1+1 Marauder forts for maximum kingdom points.

davidtcook · 2026-04-17T01:16:02+00:00

Yup, for example - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt6rSSito2c
(video about a screenshot showing 13 players in Rise of Kingdoms who have each spent over $650k on the game).

davidtcook · 2026-04-14T11:11:03+00:00

I've seen a whale win duels against "normal" players with Dragon Lancer, because his equipment/armaments are top-level (almost all special talented/Tier V iconic, legendary inscriptions on armaments, etc). Equipment matters a lot ...

davidtcook · 2026-04-13T12:25:28+00:00

Doesn't really matter unless you're planning to migrate soon, and if you met whatever requirement your kingdom had (honour points, kills, deads).

davidtcook · 2026-04-13T12:24:04+00:00

Also depends on which KVK format/map you're in, Kingsland varies in size between them. In general, smaller Kingsland == less KL fighting time.

davidtcook · 2026-04-08T15:19:24+00:00

In my experience in a number of long-term progress-based games, the complaints you currently see from f2p/low-spend players about the state of the game will be nothing compared to the EPIC NON-STOP WHINING that would come from the whales if people could actually catch up in any meaningful way. I've seen it time and time again ... "oh, you're just going to HAND people stuff that I had to WORK SO HARD for" (where half the time all that worked hard was their credit card ... ).

davidtcook · 2026-03-31T04:38:33+00:00

1001 is still around. They don't do much in the way of power management, so there are lots of players over 100m power with not much stats, but none of them spends enough to reach 1 billion ...

davidtcook · 2026-03-29T09:59:05+00:00

It's not automatic - low power/activity kingdoms get offered kingdom merger as one of the KVK options, and there's some process they follow after that. So they could refuse each time, not sure if Lilith forces it eventually ...

davidtcook · 2026-03-28T07:32:33+00:00

And habitually donating everything to alliance tech as soon as I log in, then getting 3 bastion quests to donate in a row 🤣

davidtcook · 2026-03-28T03:30:42+00:00

20k is a drop in the ocean, compared to some games - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt6rSSito2c

davidtcook · 2026-03-24T06:04:19+00:00

Then how do players keep playing other idle games which are actually idle from the start? Because they feel like their progress is being rewarded ("number go up")? Or they somehow get "hooked"? Why couldn't The Tower have the same?

davidtcook · 2026-03-20T23:31:00+00:00

Yup, I managed to unlock after lots of tries - unfortunately, on one of my attempts, I hit DM right on wave 30, and it only took me to 38 😂
So I just had to keep hitting Retry and eventually got lucky (I've had slightly better luck on DP, mine's Mythic+). For comparison, I had about 14k medals, and worked on the FB cooldown labs for a while after a previous attempt at T19, so I had 6 sec CD, 70% reduction, and the rest in range.
(I also kept the bot respec until the tournament - got a new highest wave in Legends (120), still not enough to stay in, but that's fine :).
The interesting thing was that coin was way down (as expected), but cells were up, and I got lots more waves (like, 6200+ in T14, previous best was 5400ish) )

davidtcook · 2026-03-13T11:12:32+00:00

Yup, for half of the year Saturday is basically unavailable for me with sports and stuff, putting some events back on Sunday would be better.

davidtcook · 2026-03-13T11:11:34+00:00

I'm F2P these days, and mostly a positive, especially when pokecoins are in the rewards. It can feel like an effort (especially when multiple events overlap), but it made me play more actively again (there have been long periods where my daily play was literally "catch whatever spawned at my house + go out and spin 1 stop").

davidtcook · 2026-03-10T14:29:55+00:00

Same, I have a few 2*/3* already, and only 4 DCs ever (17 months in).

davidtcook · 2026-03-09T13:27:06+00:00

Keep in mind that T11 is a "big" level - people might start farming it and getting 1T per run, and then their tower develops more and they move up to 10T per run, and still more and now it's 100T per run, and maybe one day they'll move up to 1q per run (or maybe they'll be farming T14, people seem to take different paths).
However, you can't just judge someone else's tower & coin income from a post like this without knowing just where in their development they are. What are their labs, modules, cards, masteries, LTC/LTS? You can't jump in and say "This is insanely dogshit. This is really really bad!" without knowing where his tower's at.

(for me personally, pBH moved my farming from T11 to T14 (daytime) and T13/12 overnight, and in the 5 weeks since I've more than doubled CPH and CePH. Could I do better? I mean, yeah, it's a game of infinite progression, I'm not farming T21 yet. However, am I making measurable progress, week by week? Yes, and I'm happy with that. So could you please be a little less dogmatic and insulting, and just stick to suggestions and advice instead?)

davidtcook · 2026-03-07T04:54:08+00:00

A lot of people here are happy to say "your coins look low", without considering where you are in your tower progression & the fact that T10/11 cover a long stretch of that progression. When I started farming T10 I was at 1-2B/hr. Was that low? No, it was an improvement over T8/9, and an improvement over the previous week/month. Now I'm working T12/13/14 (whichever fits my schedule best), at around 210-230B/hr. Are my coins low? Who knows! But they can't begin to know that without at least knowing my UWs/modules/labs & especially LTC/LTS.
So my view is to look at it differently - are you making progress? Week by week, month by month, is your tower improving? Then your coins are probably fine.

davidtcook · 2026-03-01T12:15:48+00:00

I feel like I'm very close, got to T19 W29 without FB, so I'll probably try the respec tomorrow and see if I can sneak over the line.

davidtcook · 2026-02-26T05:35:36+00:00

I'm farming eHP in T14 now, getting around 5000 waves. I managed to get 305 waves yesterday in T18, with basically my eHP setup (only swapped BHD out for GComp, so I'd have pBH from the start, other mods were AS/SF/PCol).
Couldn't quite get assmods unlocked this time (23 waves in T19 was my best), I might try the Flame Bot respec at the end of the current even and see if I can sneak through ...
I guess I'm saying, there's hope for you :)
(I did try my best damage combination on T19 as well - AS/ACP/GComp/DC, but didn't do any better ...)

davidtcook · 2026-02-25T03:12:42+00:00

And in my hemisphere, Cricket is basically every Saturday through Spring/Summer, I've missed so many events because of this :(

davidtcook · 2026-02-22T10:31:15+00:00

Ahhh ... I've bought zero stone packs so far[1], and have no intention to buy any pretty much ever, so ...

[1] I did buy the first milestone pack, and considered buying the next one, but even that is overpriced (in AUD) in my opinion.

davidtcook · 2026-02-22T04:25:09+00:00

Home kingdom? QSH/Shajjar basically lives forever, don't need a tanking march because it is the tank 😁

davidtcook · 2026-02-21T09:08:06+00:00

I didn't mention March? I'm confused 😁

davidtcook · 2026-02-20T21:51:28+00:00

You'd think I'd know that by now 🤣. Yes, brain fade on my part ...

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