Annoying Hero salary and gold production bug…

Posted on March 16, 2014 by beardmonkey

I have recently noticed a very annoying bug in the game concerning both the Hero salary and gold production, and would like to know if this is a more common bug or if there are solutions…I know for sure that more people in my alliance are experiencing the same.

I know a lot of you will probably not be dependent on gold production (instead farming it), or on resource production (instead farming it), but I am, as I do not have mountains of time to spent on the game, so here goes. Three bugs:

In my first city, when I assign my 223 Hero to production, he uses up MUCH MUCH more than 4k gold/h. From what I’ve gathered, it’s more in the order of 20-30k/h, as if ALL positions are assigned which is NOT the case.
In another city, which has a lot of homes, I SHOULD produce around 20k/h, but in reality, it produces MUCH MUCH LESS than that. That, is 20k with ONE hero assigned.
Hero’s un-assign before gold reaches zero. Im usually left wit 10-30k…without production of gold in those cities (taxes 0%)

I figured this could have two reasons: (A) Battle reports are being missed/lost, so someone takes the gold but I do not see their attacks, or (B) there is a bug with the production and salaries.

I tried to eliminate (A) by training some wall troops, which HAVE to be destroyed in an attack for anyone to take resources or gold to be taken. Today the gold producing city, after around 12 hours of not logging on, had a meager 9.5k gold, with no attack reports and wall troops still there. And mind you, EVEN IF I would assign ALL FOUR positions in Great Hall, it still should produce more gold than salary.

So, what is going on, does anyone else have this bug, and what can be done about it? Thanks in advance!

Tauriels Circle of Fate and more: Update 9.2.0!

Posted on March 14, 2014 by beardmonkey

Update(1): Keys and timer clear, chest prizes

A new update has hit the servers. The update delivers several very exciting additions to the game, which I will detail below.

Immediately noticeable is the VAST decrease in lag, to levels similar to before the last update, which made the game painfully slow. Good job KABAM.

Other additions on gear and Tauriels Circle of Fate are described below. Information will be added as its coming in, as not all features seem to be fully enabled yet.
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KoM 101: All Elven en Dwarven troops

Posted on February 26, 2014 by beardmonkey

When you’ve played Kingdoms of Middle Earth for a couple of months, sit on millions of might, maxed out your four cities and are comfortably inside a big supporting alliance, it is easy to lose perspective on how things were when you started playing this game. I was reminded of this fact by a new player in our alliance, who I am helping out on growing as fast as possible. This inspired me to write some articles on the basics of the game, starting with this one.

For new players, it might be difficult to recognize all troops that are available in the game. What troops are what Tier and what do the troops of the other faction look like? Below are two images which contain all currently available troops for both the Dwarven and Elven race, Tier 1 to 5. Time to keep these warriors apart (click for larger version):

Forge runes: All you need to know

Posted on February 15, 2014 by beardmonkey

With the new update to the game, 4th cities can be runecrafted, and runecrafting up to level *11 is finally possible, although a pain in the ass. Just think about the number of Hobbit Runecrafters you need to to be able to train all Tier 4 units and then think about how available these things are to get your hands on. But I think it is a great time to go over the topic of forging runes, the runes you need to get to level *10 in the first place.

So where do you get these runes? What do you use them for, and how? Which trade from the Sage tower is most profitable? And how many do you need to upgrade your buildings. In this post, I will try to combine all available information on the topic.