ALessonInPointWhoring
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ODA is not inherently bad. It's certainly not inherently good either.
Stunting your growth is bad.
Stunting your growth is often caused by losing all of your troops chasing ODA.
In a truly ideal world I'd have 0 ODA, not because I'd never need to attack, but because I'd never get spiked and none of my neighbors would make troops.
Alas, such a perfect area is likely to never exist, as such some ODA is pretty much inevitable.
The people arguing that you need to clear farms to do well though are for the most part wrong.
You almost never need to do so.
Farms may need to be cleared, but it doesn't mean you need to be the one losing troops in the process.
I typically scout all my neighbors as soon as BP drops. I then clear the ones that have next to no troops (like, quest troops and nothing else, the ones that I lose less than 5% of my total troops to clear).
I then keep an eye on my area via tribalwarsmaps.com and look for people that either stop growing or gain ODD. When they do either of these two things I scout them. This way when other people near me clear farms I am able to quickly notice and farm the farms they cleared.
A typical startup for me is that around the time I reach academy I will be rank 1, and rank 1,000-1,500 ODA.
Learn to play before spouting utter nonsense.
"Clear your area" is one of the most sure-fire ways to stunt your growth - both by losing troops and by making your future noble targets stop growing. I want my neighbors to grow fast, them growing faster means larger conquers for me down the road.
Stunting your growth is bad.
Stunting your growth is often caused by losing all of your troops chasing ODA.
In a truly ideal world I'd have 0 ODA, not because I'd never need to attack, but because I'd never get spiked and none of my neighbors would make troops.
Alas, such a perfect area is likely to never exist, as such some ODA is pretty much inevitable.
The people arguing that you need to clear farms to do well though are for the most part wrong.
You almost never need to do so.
Farms may need to be cleared, but it doesn't mean you need to be the one losing troops in the process.
I typically scout all my neighbors as soon as BP drops. I then clear the ones that have next to no troops (like, quest troops and nothing else, the ones that I lose less than 5% of my total troops to clear).
I then keep an eye on my area via tribalwarsmaps.com and look for people that either stop growing or gain ODD. When they do either of these two things I scout them. This way when other people near me clear farms I am able to quickly notice and farm the farms they cleared.
A typical startup for me is that around the time I reach academy I will be rank 1, and rank 1,000-1,500 ODA.
Learn to play before spouting utter nonsense.
"Clear your area" is one of the most sure-fire ways to stunt your growth - both by losing troops and by making your future noble targets stop growing. I want my neighbors to grow fast, them growing faster means larger conquers for me down the road.
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