position spreadsheet doesn't do not much else for than track your resources spend, which can be done with pen and paper, its great tool but not magic tool

you have to understand fundamentals.

you need to know your last big payout resource value.

New big payout should come at around 10% higher value than previous big payout, so you need to bank bit more.

getting positions to 1 bar is no different than actually killing them, your can have to subtract partial payouts from invested troops, same as you have to do with your big partial payout and continue

also there are limit how much troops position of certain level can pay. look up one of tab near end of your spreadsheet, if its there u have bit old version.

so for example if u banked 20mil resources, you can expect to get big payout out of lvl 25 position where maximum for example it could pay its lets say 1mil. you have to subtract it from your bank and move on.

if you feel u reached or passed extra 10% above last payout value, hit second highest position for payout, if nothing, invest more and try again.

also you might want to have full resource buildings when you do Persians, you do not want to getting resources back, it is really bad. because every 24k resources you get as reward is actually 1 agema horse worth of resources, and u want units not resources back,

you don't want to put units into Persians to get back resoruces, you want to change low tier units for high tier units.

Persians are a black hole, a fools bet.  The supposed trading up of troops is quantitative B.S.  The original PP setup was best and anyone telling you otherwise are guilty of coercion.  PP are like hedge funds, so diluted and complex that only those who invented them understand it and therefore those who invest are the real losers.

Nuno Paiva said:

your msg means you got payout BRAVO...but if you spended a lot more then get, it is still pointless :)

Not 50 times. Well, at least not 50 high level positions : you mostly have to pay back what you earned, no more.

Reduced partial payouts has become a problem for me, as I was counting on them to grow fast.

The good news (mostly for those level 125 hitting players) is banks will become smaller now, meaning even less positions to clear out before earning the big one.

Still not easy at level 125, though.