Big Spender Leaderboard: the Market Trick

 “Spend the most coins within the time period.”

There’s about 6 days left on the Big Spender Leaderboard.  The prizes are:

Elite Horten Bomber – requires 5,000,000 Coins

Horten Bomber – requires 100,000 Coins

SU-122 Tank – requires 10,000 Coins

These unit prizes aren’t noteworthy if you’re a high-level player.  They might have some value if you’re a low-level player.  However, most low-level players would have a difficult time spending 5 million Coins within a week to claim the Elite Horten Bomber.  Some high-level players may be interested in taking one of the 3 top spots on this Leaderboard in order to earn one of the trophies.  Or if you’re a competitive player, you may just want to outspend your neighbors to flex your wealth. 

In any case, here’s a trick to racking up your score on this Leaderboard.  It relies on a loophole: trading via the Market building.  Just find a trustworthy neighbor to do back-and-forth trading.  Put up as much of your most plentiful resource as your neighbor can afford.  Your neighbor buys all of it.  You take your Coins profit and buy back all that your neighbor just bought.  Repeat as many times as desired.

Be careful of other neighbors who might swoop in and clean your market!

You’ll be limited in how much you can spend per round of trading by how many Coins each of you start out with.  Back-and-forth trading won’t generate any total net profit between the traders, but the amounts you spend will count towards the Big Spender Leaderboard.

Invasions - The World Embassy Trick

It used to be that you could come back to an invaded neighbor every 4 hours to collect loot.  In January 2012, Zynga changed the looting time to once every 12 hours.  If you miss being able to loot more often or want to finish quests that require invasions or looting more quickly, read on.

Here’s the trick to get more invasions and looting.  The key lies in the World Embassy, a building that players get early in the game but that many decide to not use.  If you activate the World Embassy, all your occupations on invaded neighbors are cancelled.  This allows you to invade those same neighbors again almost immediately.  Invading deactivates the World Embassy.  Furthermore, you can reuse the World Embassy in another 6 hours, rather than wait to loot in another 12 hours. 

Essentially, this trick cuts in half the invasion loot timer.  The cost is that you have to fight more often, which takes up energy and possibly units and power-ups.  This could be a good thing if you are using invasion battles to farm resources.