Allies
Allies do provide a stat boost to your kingdom. These stats are known as "Bonus from Allies" or shortened "BFA", and can be located on your profile screen. You have 4 types of bonus from allies or bfa, and they are:
- Attack bonus from allies
- Defense bonus from allies
- Spy attack bonus from allies
- Spy defense bonus from allies
Every time you hire an ally, you get roughly 2% of their total stats for yourself. These stats are not permanent, if the ally is hired away from you, you lose the stats you would receive from them as when you owned the ally. Let's take a quick look at how 2% looks and how to calculate it.
Bonus from allies on profile page looks similar to this:
(note: bonus to allies is your kingdom stats)
So by looking at the above example, hiring an ally that has an attack stat of 1,000,000 gives you 20,000 as a bonus to your stats. So if for example your attack was 120,000 and you hired this ally your overall stats would be 140,000. As you play you your stats will grow as you upgrade in turn making you more gold to hire bigger stat allies, the bigger the players stats are the more valuable they are worth. With this, the bigger the stats your ally has, the bigger your bonus from bonus from allies.
To ensure you make the most gold possible whether hitting and epic battles, or participating in PVP, you need to make sure you are at max plunder. What is max plunder you ask? Max plunder revolves around the amount of gold spent on allies. The more gold you have spent on allies, the more gold you make when attacking or spying on epic battles or battling another player.
The amount of gold you need to have invested in allies increases as your stats or strength increaes.
Throughout the game espically in the beginning, most new players that hire allies, try to sell them off for quick upgrades to grow quicker. This is an option, but once you sell your allies and upgrade if you have no allies, your gold you receive from battling in epic battles or player vs player will dramatically decrease. Always try to keep your allies, and buy lands, or upgrade from the gold you receive from epic battles or player vs player interaction.
To know if you are at max plunder do the following:
- Regen your troops to 100% (Not necessary, but you can to see max first hit payout)
- Hit an epic battle one time with your troops, now look at the amount you made in gold and remember that.
- Regen your troops to 100% again, should not take too long being you only hit once.
- Now hire an ally from the ally market.
- Now hit the same epic battle again, look at the amount. Did it go up? Yes!
Banking is a term used to save your gold incase you are being attacked by other players so you don't lose your gold. There are many ways to bank your gold to keep from losing it including:
- Buying items in the marketplace
- Buying bronze and silver bars
Those mentioned do come with a cost that when you sell you do not get a 100% refund, so the most popular banking system is by hiring allies. Hiring allies to bank your gold in has its' advantages such as:
- Stat boosts (Till you sell the allies)
- Gold profit when ally is sold
This is the only way to bank without any loss of gold. The only way to lose gold on an ally is if you "Drop" the ally from your ally screen. When you drop your ally for whatever reason you only are refunded 60% of the price you purchased the ally for. This 40% loss is only if you keep the ally for 14 days before dropping. When you hire an ally, its refund amount starts at bare minimum, and grows each day till it has reached it max refund of 60% on the 14th day.
Allies also are normally used to bank gold for upgrade reasons. Let's say your next upgrade is $20,000,000,000 and you don't want to keep that gold out in the notion of being hit by a player and losing gold, you can store your gold in allies till you are ready to upgrade and sell them also receiving profit and using that gold to upgrade, or even open up a new land.
