You fought because its who you were and how you roll. A/D was low and city defenses were high so you had to actually know how to fight. When two or more real fighters ended up in the same hood all out wars would go down in hoods to see who was top dog. Breaking 1000 battles in a week was seriously respectable. The real fighters with legitimately high numbers stood out. It was a badge of honor because they were earned and took a long time to acquire a significant amount and everyone would talk crap to anyone who was caught farming battles in GvG just ro pad their numbers. Before that battle numbers used to mean something. I get it I've done it too so I'm not knocking you but innogames killed what it meant to be a fighter with the way they did GBG. That's talking advantage of being in a strong guild who swaps sectors.

If I build Traz and get it to a moderate level, what am I supposed to be doing with the hundreds of units I will soon have? I do not plunder unless I have a quest to do so, since it is a lot of work for what seems like minimal rewards. After that, the units I am attacking would have higher A/D bonuses than I do, so I am likely to be losing even if I am fighting manually. At that point, I could probably play another 5-10 fights if I had enough units to not worry about winning the fight while losing 3-4 units. My attack/defense bonuses are in the 200-300 range, so I can get to an attrition of about 20-30 in GbG before I start losing units. I would not even notice another 300 units in the list of units. However, once I have been in an age for a week or two, I have accumulated enough units from other sources (GE, GbG, timeless dojo, royal bathhouse, emissaries) that I never run out of healthy units. I can see that being useful the first few days after I enter a new age.

With a level 30 Traz, I would be getting 28 units a day.

Traz is 10x7, so it is huge, and it requires another barracks to produce something. I have something like 5x the happiness that I need for an enthusiastic population, so that is effectively worthless. I am having trouble understanding why people think that Alcatraz is so great.

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