I think the fastest way to get a diamond farm up and running would be to start in BA, RQ the helmets for a few weeks while self leveling Zeus and saving inventory fp's from the RQ's. Either way though the diamond farm that is building here is a one off and while it could be duplicated, wouldn't be efficient to play on multiple worlds. That being said I still wouldn't bother with an Arc for a diamond farm as it takes too much time to get it rolling and diamond farms, imho, should self level for time sake. I think Arc could work with a diamond farm, but I would have it be the last GB to build after everything else is setup to the point of finishing GE each week, at that point Arc is the most effective GB for increasing city space through medal expansions. I have friends who have converted cities to farms, some who do hybrid, where they have GBs to do GE and such, that was more effort than I was willing, so you have to find what works for you.I don't think you can get any higher aged troops when in IA or HMA. So as I don’t have to put work into those anymore, I’ve just started another 1, and thinking of adding 1 or 2 more new ones, as that’s what’s manageable to me. I have 5 like this, 2 more I started have about 30WW out and 10 in storage, I just need 1 more good event, get to 50ish total and then those to will be transferred to collect only mode. Then I cleared my city of pretty much everything else, put the rest of the wells down, and all I have to do is log in collect, leave. I repeated this (so 5/6 events) until I have about 50WW between whats built and in storage. The least I’ve gotten in one go cashing in this way is 6, the most 14 in one city. When the events roll around, I check to see when/if they had WW on the beta list of daily prizes, if they i did that event and crossed my fingers I’d get a bunch from the event.

I stayed in IA as the events are quick and easy to do here.

So I had everything on 24hr productions, logged in once a day, did the storyline, and tech tree to the end of Iron Age.

Now obviously getting things up and going does take effort, as you have to have a city capable of doing an event.

The way I went about things, is I wanted to spend the least amount of time possible there. I started my farms as such, and have had 5 of them about 18mth 2 are newer, and 1 I just started.

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