Thinking it twice, I would say the 2nd method is better if your looking only at the cashouts, since less small cashouts involved - you'll cash out faster.

The first method will be better at maxing amount of points for tournaments (prizes and exp wise), but will be a bit less efficient in the end result looking at the cashout only, but the tourny prizes should cover for that. 

Thinking it twice, I would say the 2nd method is better if your looking only at the cashouts, since less small cashouts involved - you'll cash out faster.

The first method will be better at maxing amount of points for tournaments (prizes and exp wise), but will be a bit less efficient in the end result looking at the cashout only, but the tourny prizes should cover for that. 

The  first  method has a fault to it. 

Icy said:

The  first  method has a fault to it. 

Going for the small payouts just for beating a prize really isn't worth it but if you go in on low levels 50's your payouts aren't as great as the 90s plus but you risk less and can hoard more and not have to keep throwing the kitchen sink at prizes. But this method also requires time and patience, to a mass a large fleet. The plus side though to the tournaments is when you play hard it pays off with the additional troops you win from the tournys.

1. It takes a lot of time to scout, calculate and send a force to a prize to drop it to less than 10%. Is it really worth the effort considering the small payouts probably balance the additional lost troops banked on completing the prize, thus leaving the bank amount approximately the same?

2. If payouts are solely based on how much you have banked and not the amount of times its previously paid, I don't see the logic in not completing them. Math is math and algorithms are absolute so if this is true I still can't see a difference in completing vs not completing.

3. Also, I don't quite understand what the method has to do with what prize level you can do. Isn't that just a question on how many troops you can commit to prizes/banking? Seems like you could push to higher levels using smaller payouts to help bolster your fleet or am I still missing something?

4. Do you run attack and defense prizes separate? Meaning you do them simultaneously but working on separate prize levels?

halfgodz said:

Icy said:

The  first  method has a fault to it. 

Going for the small payouts just for beating a prize really isn't worth it but if you go in on low levels 50's your payouts aren't as great as the 90s plus but you risk less and can hoard more and not have to keep throwing the kitchen sink at prizes. But this method also requires time and patience, to a mass a large fleet. The plus side though to the tournaments is when you play hard it pays off with the additional troops you win from the tournys.

1. It takes a lot of time to scout, calculate and send a force to a prize to drop it to less than 10%. Is it really worth the effort considering the small payouts probably balance the additional lost troops banked on completing the prize, thus leaving the bank amount approximately the same?

2. If payouts are solely based on how much you have banked and not the amount of times its previously paid, I don't see the logic in not completing them. Math is math and algorithms are absolute so if this is true I still can't see a difference in completing vs not completing.

3. Also, I don't quite understand what the method has to do with what prize level you can do. Isn't that just a question on how many troops you can commit to prizes/banking? Seems like you could push to higher levels using smaller payouts to help bolster your fleet or am I still missing something?

4. Do you run attack and defense prizes separate? Meaning you do them simultaneously but working on separate prize levels?

I guess you really want to know, have fun reading. Don't get confused by the name, Plarium likes to make same games with different looks, everything applies to Pirates.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/spartatroopcalculator/

Figuring and analyzing prizes is a full time job. you don't get paid tho 

Well there actually is a difference in methods and levels. Even though I'm able to do high levels I also have to deal with the banks these levels create. For instance my current bank with interest is roughly 175 million. So those small payouts actually do hurt when trying to repay this crazy bank or getting 90k in gold and 5 gunboats because the system now pays you every time. 

From what I can see you're doing the yellow bar method which is great when trying to avoid the pay everytime issue. But the math you're doing is unnecessary. A bit of google would of helped you out a lot or a BH that already did that homework for you. But this is link is bit old so the info is slightly off. But if you follow this as a guide to the yellow barring. Following it should actually give you that result without  the math you're doing. http://roguesbh.weebly.com/lighthouse.html

My suggestion is never do multiple prizes at the same time unless you expect the first one to fail. Its best to wait for 2 mins between prizes. 1 minute out 1 minute for troops to return. 

And yes check out the other games. other names for lighthouse is Bg - battlegrounds;  infests/infestations - radar.