Talk:Wizard Marge/@comment-21519-20140826163759/@comment-25021853-20140902183504

I agree, I've done the math and we all come out ahead if we just send one Nerd per House or Castle. It's tempting to send enough to get the big payout for winning, especially when attacking random towns, but if you use too many you wind up behind even if you win, and if they defend in time then you wasted all the Nerds past the first one. Especially as we all get our Town Defense numbers up to 10-15, it will get harder and harder to win, and it's better to send 40 Nerds against 40 targets and lose than to send them against 2 Castles and win, you wind up with more Gold and Elixir by spreading them out. Plus, by successfully defending you get more Elixir and Gold than if you lose, so by giving everyone plenty of time to defend we all wind up with more Elixir and Gold than by being greedy and aggressive. By following this tactic I have all 3 Castles to Level 18 and I get over 2000 Gold per day and am at 45,000 Gold right now and close to getting my first batch of bonus Elixir, and I've finished all the relevant quests and have Wizard Marge to Level 12 and Barbarian Homer in the 30's.

The other big thing I've done is to be consistent and play every 2-3 hours for 10 minutes or so, just long enough to collect my Nerds, defend my Castles and any Houses under attack and rebuild the few destroyed ones, then I visit my neighbors and some random towns and send one and only one Nerd per building 90% of the time (I will occasionally send a few if it's late at night and there are clear signs that the person has been gone from the game for awhile already, and even then I only send a few against one of the buildings, then one each against 4 other castles or houses). I will lose most of the time, but 90 times 10 Elixir beats 9 times 25 Elixir, or 4 times 140.