HailToTheViper
Mortal
posted 11 August 2009 05:25 AM EDT (US)
Name a few minor god specific upgrades that are usually overlooked but still are very very good. Name the god/upgrade/what the upgrade does and why its good
I shall start.
God- Hathor- upgrade - mudbrick- cost 300 wood 20 favour. Gives your buildings more hit points and reduces thier cost by 10%.
god- ptah, upgrade- shaduf, cost is 200 wood 10 favour. Makes your farms cost aprox 45 gold and they build alot faster. This is a great upgrade imo for set, once you finish your hunt you need a solid eco quickly, do the upgrade and make more farms quicker and cheaper.
ich_bin_n00b
Mortal
posted 11 August 2009 10:07 AM
EDT (US)
5 / 25
I LOVE LOVE LOVE Heroic Fleet 11
It's so cheatp and if it gets to Titan wars and there's available water, Siege Ships with Heroic Fleet and Burning Pitch combined with that Oxebelly upgrade for siege ships do a whopping whole lot of damage!
HailToTheViper
Mortal
posted 11 August 2009 11:46 AM
EDT (US)
6 / 25
@ death and pain, your post is the only thing that is useless. I see this site where people are trying to learn the game. Sure you could read up 1000 pages of crap which gives details on everything, why? So much easier to hear from other peoples experiences. I can say, alot of the minor god specific upgrades are just ignored by people 1600-1700. By says ' this upgrade is very good you should use it' they may learn something.
Another one. Aphrodite - divine blood- aprox 250 food and 35 favour, upgraded in TC. Makes villies faster, build faster and carry more resources. It is however difficult to muster 35 favour early in heroic. But it is a worth hile upgrade.
buppy
Mortal
(id: pubby8)
posted 11 August 2009 01:21 PM
EDT (US)
10 / 25
That one heimdall one that gives you good walls. Not that norse walls a lot, but it's still ownage.
Levy/conscript are good too.
woodswolf
Mortal
posted 11 August 2009 07:48 PM
EDT (US)
14 / 25
Lance of Stone is nice. Sometimes, 5 building raiders is all that is needed to end a game. :P
On a side note: Aren't FU Camels actually normal/GOOD? I mean, Fully upgraded they have a massive HP and SPEED bonus...
Marclo40
Mortal
posted 11 August 2009 09:34 PM
EDT (US)
16 / 25
I love Olympic parentage
more hitpoints for Zeus heroes is OP
HailToTheViper
Mortal
posted 11 August 2009 09:38 PM
EDT (US)
17 / 25
@ death and pain. I dont understand why someone would want to read these pages and then what? They are an intermediate player, they may not know if the upgrade is good or not in real game situations. Once again, you could read X amount of pages, but you are never going to get every minor god specific upgrade are you? Becuase you need to know the good ones, and the ones that can give you the best advantage with your low reasources.
If you have nothing to contribute to this topic but criticism, i will ask you knidly to leave.
@ oboe, yes! Lone wanderer, i found myself getting that upgrade a few times the other day i played odin. Once on svanah, so i had upber fast ulf to run and wall every thing haha.
ich bin noob, has a good point. Ring giver is seriously OP for jarls. I never knew it gave so much hit points, but it really is a worthwhile upgrade.
Arus_II
Mortal
posted 12 August 2009 07:36 AM
EDT (US)
21 / 25
I agree with Dap here, me thinks this is just an egoboosting thread for who names the most (not "overlooked") upgrades.
eXcess_petrol
Mortal
posted 12 August 2009 07:47 AM
EDT (US)
22 / 25
Yes, I already feel my ego boosting
ich_bin_n00b
Mortal
posted 12 August 2009 09:33 AM
EDT (US)
23 / 25
Nah, this is a good thread. DaP's just been around longer than anyone else here and has seen all these threads so you can't blame him that he's tired of the same discussion over and over again even if the discussion is somewhat new to us 11
HailToTheViper
Mortal
posted 12 August 2009 10:23 AM
EDT (US)
24 / 25
@ dudis, this is about minor god specific upgrades such as ones which you only get when advancing with a specific minor god.
@arus, ego posting in this thread 11. PLease tell me that was a joke lol
I dare say you havent seen ego posting if you think naming upgrades is ego posting.
Anyway, i come to this website, i see people posting questions, what i would consider very basic questions from begginers. And to be honest, a beginer does not know much about general upgrades such as hunting dogs, husbandry and the like , let alone some seriously good upgrades that come with minor gods. When you play the game and care little about statistics and all the specific data you rather not use the 250 food to make this upgrade but rather use it to make an army. BUT had they known that this upgrade will seriousy benifit them they may have upgraded it earlier.
All i am trying to do is make new players aware of these upgrades, share experience with other players why these upgrades are good and when they are useful.
Fact of the matter is, by being exposed to this you can become better a whole lot faster than just going theough the game doing the same old thing all the time.
I can say i played with a guy called scottje, you may know him, he played when i started, years ago. He was around 1650, and he beat me all the time. Well now he is still 1650 and i am alot better. You wonder why people dont improve. He has over 4k rated games and over 10k adv games.
Anyway, keep the upgrades you find useful coming.