Talk:Clash of Clones 2014 Event/@comment-12.31.12.104-20140904171819/@comment-25021853-20140905112924

Yeah, I did the math early on too, and quickly determined that sending only 1 Nerd per Castle or House is the best strategy most of the time. I tend to be up late and sometimes come across a random town with a low defense (base time of 12-14 hours for a Castle, 10-12 hours for a House) and clear signs that they are done for the day and will be gone for several hours, then and only then I send enough Nerds to get the wait time down to the minimum. Since it's a random town the winning payout is 14 times the Elixir and 25 times the Gold of losing, sending less than 14 Nerds is a good gamble in those few cases. More and more though, people are getting their town defense up to where sending one Nerd is the better choice, especially as the person who successfully defends gets twice the Elixir and Gold of losing, and when they return the favor you get more Elixir and Gold by having plenty of time to Defend. Especially when visiting neighbors, the winning payout is only about 4-5 times what losing gets you, so even if you win but sent more than 4-5 Nerds, you still come out behind.

The best strategy overall is for us to all play nice and give each other maximum time to defend by spreading our Nerds out at one per building. If you do go all out to win, with Nerds or by using a Cheaters 20, do so against a Castle in a random town via the crossed sword and axe icon so you can get the maximum payout of 140 Elixir and 50 Gold, especially when using the sure thing of a Cheaters 20. When you do lose a building, counterattacking may feel justified, but the payout is lame. If you must take out your frustrations, do so against a random Castle for the reasons aforementioned.

I have used the 1 Nerd tactic since early on and it's paid off. I get my Nerds every 2-3 hours (while I'm awake) and spread them around to as many towns as possible, which leads to more people visiting me, which has given me tons of Elixir and over 2,000 Gold per day. My Castles are Level 20, 19, and 19, and I should get to over 100,000 Gold before this Event ends, especially as I bought a few of the new Treasure Chests and Elixir Mixers. I'm waiting till I get Castle Recycle and Boxingham Palace to Level 20 before I spend Elixir on the new decorations (well, I did buy a tent, but it was only 300 and I'd just spent 8,500 upgrading Boxingham Palace, so I thought "what the heck, I'll earn it back fast enough").