Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24208224-20131215070328/@comment-24108228-20131215101919

I understand, don't worry. And I also lose tons of work to glitches on my browser, it's horrible.

If I was to place it on the wall I'm destroying, (or right next next to it), that would render the slowness rather pointless, and it is like the cannons. You pay about 20 iron, and you can destroy a castle. You have to think about the people on the other side of the fight. If you are away getting mithril, and one person is left to guard your castle, a normal situation, they could get hit by a crossbow and someone could just go around your castle with the ram, and take out most, if not all, of the castle with only 20 iron.

Castles take time to prepare, and 10 smithing is not hard to achieve on spire or rockma, using gold jugs. For engeneering, simply move to a mainland forest and mass produce catapults or quarrys. This does not take long, especially for a determined freedom fighter against an evil raiding castle. Now you can simply mine 20 iron, a task easily done, and wait for most of the members to be out mithril mining. Hit the remaining guards with a crossbow, and place your ram next to a wall. Go around the perimeter of the castle, and the entire castle is destroyed. You can also just mine 20 iron again, and destroy the replacement, if they make one. Or you could mine 20 iron and destroy a village with no problems.

My point is, you should not be able to destroy things that easily. Bombs or ladders, not cannons and battering rams. Do you remember the first time you got raided? It was utterly dreadful. All your stuff, destroyed. Nowadays, it doesn't seem like much, you only lost a few huts. But there needs to be a safe wall to hide behind, no matter what level everyone else is, and if someone can destroy it easily, then its just as bad as your first raid. An expensive time consuming structure crumbling, with nothing you can do as they have a better weapon (crossbow).