Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-17706575-20130924161525/@comment-82.168.125.187-20131024105527

First off, most hard core players always have about 5 Armorsmiths.

In my experience that is not really true. When you upgrade higher levels money will be a bigger problem than crafting. I have 3 armouries now and upgrading over level 50 takes a lot of waiting until the money supply is high enough. At this moment I have like 20 snakeskins waiting for deployment and only 10,000 gold left. Upgrading my knight at level 57 will cost 16,500 per slot (4 slots = 66,000). That means I can only upgrade at most 3 or 4 times a day at this level.

First upgrading snakeskins with snakeskins is only a partial solution since that will cost (at plus level) a snakeskin (= 3000 + 150 gold) for level 3, gaining me only 2 EP. The higher you try to go with that the more it will cost per EP. More Armorsmiths will mean less space to get gold from and therefore lower upgrade speed.

Be aware that the 2 hours you need to craft a snakeskin in an Armorsmith will consume 2 hours of time the slot could have gained you gold from (for instance) a training field. An idle Armorsmith (at night or at school) will still cost you a lot of gold for that reason. It is better to restrict the number of Armorsmiths to 3 (in my opinion) and keep them busy as much as you can.