"Collect on time" s having all City bits at 24 hrs. then you collect everything all at once. usually using the Five Diamond collect button.
Unfortunately, the 24 hour timer generally results in slippage. That is, I collect today at 8am, but tomorrow it's 8:10am or 8:30am. Then the next day it slips again. Eventually it slips to where I can't collect "on time" since the time is no longer near the time when I play.
Yes they are meaning collect immediately when they are ready, I cant do that
The time slip is true.Over the span of one year my time has slipped from 10AM to 10PM usually a minute or so every two days. bu a few lapses now and then jerk it around even more. I agree a shorter than 24 hours would be nice. But I would only cut it say.. 5 minutes. So a 23hr 55m day for collections. there are 4hr (6 a day) and 8 hr (3 a day) so maybe tweve minutes would be the best: 23hr 48m day so 8hr would shave 4m each. 4hr shave 2m?
We all know the easy solution is put up a city shield (if you're worried about plunders) and postpone collecting until your preferred time. This really doesn't need INNO's involvement.
Except that the shield costs 9000 tavern silver for a day (or 24000 for 3 days). This is more than most of us can generate and/or collect in a day even with a full up Friends Tavern and 140 friends.
Presuming that a player has a robust friend list another option is to use a Self-Aid kit on the plunderable buildings that cannot be polivated. Or, just postpone collection and roll the dice hoping that you won't get plundered. During a total of six game years, I've been plundered fewer than a dozen times.
You’re not requiring it daily, neither should the shield be expected to be a unlimited immunity. Realistically it’s a single tool at your disposal alongside other tools that can also be used in conjunction
Once out of Iron Age it gets to be a non issue, it seems some like to camp in IA just to piss off new players and try to get them to quit the game,
I'm 99.9% certain that you can't use a Self-Aid on a building that can't be polivated.
You are correct. My bad.
That is not always the case. some IA campers park there because they know the game is long term and want to get as strong as possible BEFORE moving up. But yes there are some who stay in IA simply because they want to be bullies. But being a bully is as old as the game itself. When I first started playing this game Hoods were not age specific like they are now. You could be in BA or IA and have the top players in your world in the top 5 places in your hood. And they ALL attacked and plundered you unless you paid protection money in the form of FPs on their GBs. Back then the top age was Colonial and there were none of the bells and whistles available to new players like there are now. And you did not have the option to stay protected behind the military tactic tech like you have now. So your IA soldiers had to face musketeers and field guns. Then when Indy opened it was Jeagers and howitzers. attacking you But it did not make me want to quit, or wail in a corner or come sobbing to the Forum about the game being unfair, It made me (and those I was playing with) mad enough to want to get up there so we could knock the snot out of those bullies. And I have had the pleasure (still am) of doing just that. but I have also become friends with some of those bullies. If you are so thin skinned and wimpish that you cannot make the effort to overcome basic fighting in a game that requires you to fight. You should not be playing it.
I'm talking about the guys with all 150 lvl GBs in IA, the ones that like to send messages to the little guys every time the neighborhood changes letting them know how bad its going to be.
