That attack can't work on 5 Billion hit. It has to be 10 billion overal for him to lose close to nothing. Either that or the defende ractivated a 50% unit doubler. 

I think renzo, like many player are spending this kinda money in hope that Plarium  will import the game to html5. Otherwise its like burning your money on a beach to get warm. 

If you doubt the 5bn calculation I can link you to the spreadsheet calculation. It's correct. Number of troops x base value of troops x bonuses. Not really difficult (and sheet has been tested).

That isn;t the whole defence Oralce. It's just one account that was in the beacon. No way to know total defence. As the defending league is thought to be one person running many accounts I suspect the bonuses on the def weren't that good, although again, no way of knowing for sure.

I think unless you have those words from Renzo himself. (Which I very much doubt) You are making a very wild guess. 

A shot in the dark that's off the mark. 

As far as the danger that legendslady  mentions I don't see it. To me the danger would be in limiting Players and not improving the units in an ever evolving game.  At the whim of those that seem to prefer to "Turn back the Clock" because they have not been able to keep up. And Hobble those that  put  money into Plarium or have put a massive amount time into their games to get ahead thus keeping the lights on and the game going.

While the game  is Free to Play it's also always been Free to Pay  

That's  my take  I know it may not be everyones but I know many that feel the same way.

Another thing that could be a major factor your not accounting for is the amount of lost arts that may or may not of been done.

If a League makes Weak troops and doesn't do all lost arts they will not hold up well against a player that is very savy and know the value of having strong Troops that have all lost arts completed.

I will make a friendly wager of a ham that Renzo's Troops have been upgraded  much more than the ones he attacked.

Seems to me that continuous evolution and change is essential in keeping the game alive and full of eager players.  Those players will welcome changes and new game mechanics.  What drives the players away is boredom and being treated badly by their peers in the game.  This is a game!  People play it to have fun and challenges.  They need respect and a sense of belonging and participating.  Otherwise they leave to play something else and I'm sure Plarium does not want to foster a stagnant, boring game.

Evolution and change is good - but being able to endlessly buy troops - let's be honest, is not a good thing. The most notable thing to me is that the only legacy troops used in the screenshot - green drags - are now considered less valuable than weor occult troops. I guess in another couple of months they'll be replaced by 22k more purchased occult weor troops.

But each to their own. If anyone wants to spend that much money, cool beans. Is it good for the over-all life of the game? Of course it's not.  

I guess the next change will be to update the Paragon levels, which will further widen the distance between players. I suppose we should be mildly grateful that SH troops require too much food to be practical in beacon hits. For now, at least. 

One last thing, I had a look at the top 100 def players from last week on S1 and only 5 from the defending league showed up, so it probably wasn't all that well defended in the first place:-)

It's pretty easy to figure out how big a hammer is, as there are only so many bonuses to unit offense power available in the game and most of the big players already have them all maxed.  So you just look up how much power each type of unit in the screenshot is worth and multiply it by the number of that unit.  I did this and the 5 bil number checks out.  

7/8bil hammers aren't a big deal though, just do what my league does and defend all your beacons at 20bil+  The game is changing, gotta keep up.