Right then.
I may get a lot of hate from this but frankly, watch me outgrow you.
I'm a person very heavy into math, and as such, I calculated almost everything up to this time.
The village I took has 11/11/12 nodes, making it a good farm, yes, but I found another farm. It has 23/21/22 nodes.
So why didn't I take that one?
I have two major reasons.
One- It would have taken me 4 days via noble training, assuming no one in their tribe backed him up after I cleared him. When he'd see a noble he'd panic and ask for help, and hell I might have just lost my noble putting me back quite a bit. The village I took is right next to me, so I have one more target to farm now in my rotation, and as well my market can supply my new village every 12 minutes.
Non stop building is a big part in growth. Both troops and buildings.
Now it was probably more efficient to take the other one, but I stand by my calculations. I hadn't planned to take that 1k village, as I only just cleared it this morning, after scouting it and calculating that his farm was way too low for his other buildings and he had less than 200 troops altogether at max.
My area is pretty populated with allies, and not that I mind, for now. My village is taken, I will grow, and my 2nd noble will take that 1k point village at by which time will be abandoned most likely.
My second reason is less logical and mathematical. I wanted to make the first world noble. : )
Edit:
As well as packets go, I spent no packets yet, so I didn't 'lose' anything.
Furthermore, read the packets thread again. If you build one before they get halved, they double your built packets.