Rane Khan
Chieftain
Can i know which macro program you used? I mean did you write it yourself or you donwload it from somewhere?
Can i have it?
No. Its cheating.
Can i know which macro program you used? I mean did you write it yourself or you donwload it from somewhere?
Can i have it?
No. Its cheating.
And to the other person that said "macroing" is cheating. It isn't. That is why I'm posting here. Macroing should fixed, but 2k games is doing nothing about it. If you aren't willing to take advantage of something that won't make you banned, fine. I put the data here to show the obvious disparities in hopes that they will take a strong stance on it.
However, I noticed in the beginning that my macro was getting a lot more resources, so to test this out, I made another account to compare the rates. After the first few hours, my main account had 8 population, while the alternate account had 4.
The 4 population account was much faster. I ran some tests, and I decided that I would macro both of my screens on the 4 population account. I could keep increasing the population of my main account to gain more harvest/trickle, but maintain the same bonus bubble rate.
Nice post, thanks for all the hard data! I tried to reproduce your results with my 7-person city. It was still early in the game, and another player's city still had a population of 4. I viewed it and popped all the resource bubbles that came up for a half-hour. Then I went back to my city view and found that although I was popping food and production bubbles at a maddening pace, I'd only added about 50 of each type of resource. This is about what one might expect through trickle income for 30 min for a size 7 city.
Popping bubbles in someone else's city gives the city OWNER the resource, not you. You did him/her a massive favour.
Question: did the bug in the update that makes you actually CLICK on bubbles that are over houses because of interference with the house popup coincidentally create issues for the macroers? Just curious.
I haven't played for a week, but I doubt that "clicking" a bubble would cause any issue for a veteran macro/script writer. I have made plenty of macros that have required clicking, and it just takes a little intelligence and creative script writing.