Eddie F1
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I've been playing since mid April 2015, now at 175 Global. I was sat at ~2500 medals for months, nice place to be, but as I had a max global army thought I'd meander up to 3200 medals, tick that achievement box, collect my 2000 crowns. Wherever you are in this game, you have your own personal target, 3200 was mine.
There seems to be 2 ways of climbing, TC sniping with a Training Blessing or take a full war army and search out a nice 25+ medal opponent. You have to get over 25 each session because the second you log off, you will lose around 15 on average, so snipe 20+ bases or hit one. I went with the latter.
It's slow going but up to 3000 not much problem. You can Next through 10 bases a minute, within 10 minutes you find that 20-30 medal base. 'No Opponent Found' crops up occasionally, depending on time of day, crashing out of the game back to the iPad home screen, not so funny. Freezing and having to restart. But on we go and get the medals - took about 6 weeks to get from 2400 to 3000.
Above 3000 it starts getting bad. I got as far as 3126. First the number of high medal bases are rare; pressing ‘Next’ for 40 minutes or 400 bases, 400k in gold was the worst. At 3100 you can press 'Next' for 20 minutes and not actually find any base worth more than 5 medals - waste of an army attacking, especially in Flammpanzers.
While nexting past all these bases you notice patterns, the same faces keep appearing. Sometimes the buffer of available opponents is so short it loops round so you see the same bod twice in 20 seconds. With 'No Opponent' you just wait 15 seconds and then it finds a few. I've gone past most of the folk on the forum (if you're above 2100 medals) but didn't attack because you were only worth 1 medal. It's like a very small town, you see the same faces, sometime the same person 3 times in one day. I must of got in sync with USA Elite JAG for a couple of days - got him 3 times (lost one as I had to take a phone call just as I placed the first tank and just had leave my army to get on with it - work & this game don't mix).
There are 86400 seconds in a day, and I reckon from what I see that on average somebody logs out once every 10 seconds and is available to attack, which makes the Dominations population above 2100 medals about 10,000, about small town size.
But it could be less; this is related to The Birthday Paradox https://betterexplained.com/articles/understanding-the-birthday-paradox/ - you only need 23 people in a room to stand a 50/50 chance of having the same birthday, or 75 to get 99% chance. If 23 of you view this topic, chances are one of you has the same birthday as me. November 4th
The other weirdness you've probably all noticed is being attacked by names you recognise. GoldDS got me yesterday, Farmer Bob was round a couple of weeks ago. S_How lifted a few medals a while back. I've been attack by Gabo of Tercio Viejo twice in the past 6 days. The leader of an alliance we were at war with last week attack me this morning.
So the Dominations population above 2100 medals could be a lot less than 10,000. 75/365 is around 20% so there is me & 1999 others above 2100 medals.
There seems to be 2 ways of climbing, TC sniping with a Training Blessing or take a full war army and search out a nice 25+ medal opponent. You have to get over 25 each session because the second you log off, you will lose around 15 on average, so snipe 20+ bases or hit one. I went with the latter.
It's slow going but up to 3000 not much problem. You can Next through 10 bases a minute, within 10 minutes you find that 20-30 medal base. 'No Opponent Found' crops up occasionally, depending on time of day, crashing out of the game back to the iPad home screen, not so funny. Freezing and having to restart. But on we go and get the medals - took about 6 weeks to get from 2400 to 3000.
Above 3000 it starts getting bad. I got as far as 3126. First the number of high medal bases are rare; pressing ‘Next’ for 40 minutes or 400 bases, 400k in gold was the worst. At 3100 you can press 'Next' for 20 minutes and not actually find any base worth more than 5 medals - waste of an army attacking, especially in Flammpanzers.
While nexting past all these bases you notice patterns, the same faces keep appearing. Sometimes the buffer of available opponents is so short it loops round so you see the same bod twice in 20 seconds. With 'No Opponent' you just wait 15 seconds and then it finds a few. I've gone past most of the folk on the forum (if you're above 2100 medals) but didn't attack because you were only worth 1 medal. It's like a very small town, you see the same faces, sometime the same person 3 times in one day. I must of got in sync with USA Elite JAG for a couple of days - got him 3 times (lost one as I had to take a phone call just as I placed the first tank and just had leave my army to get on with it - work & this game don't mix).
There are 86400 seconds in a day, and I reckon from what I see that on average somebody logs out once every 10 seconds and is available to attack, which makes the Dominations population above 2100 medals about 10,000, about small town size.
But it could be less; this is related to The Birthday Paradox https://betterexplained.com/articles/understanding-the-birthday-paradox/ - you only need 23 people in a room to stand a 50/50 chance of having the same birthday, or 75 to get 99% chance. If 23 of you view this topic, chances are one of you has the same birthday as me. November 4th
The other weirdness you've probably all noticed is being attacked by names you recognise. GoldDS got me yesterday, Farmer Bob was round a couple of weeks ago. S_How lifted a few medals a while back. I've been attack by Gabo of Tercio Viejo twice in the past 6 days. The leader of an alliance we were at war with last week attack me this morning.
So the Dominations population above 2100 medals could be a lot less than 10,000. 75/365 is around 20% so there is me & 1999 others above 2100 medals.
It's coming up so don't forget to wave to me on my special day 
