Classically a bank would be an account outside of your clan that is holding a lot of cash (it could be open, invested in decent allies that sell, crap allies to drop and in pots/bronze bars). As your bank should be an account that earns gold rather fast, you'd choose an eb build. Guild hansels were very popular as they earned relatively well compared to their cost. Nowadays you'd probably put your bank in a decent SS/TS/AFF clan (or b2b HTE clan if you feel rich) while in the past you'd hit b2b hauntings. In order to keep your bank hidden during your osws, it would ideally buy backside allies from your osw buddies who would then strip your opponent. Risky business against experienced osw clans. Once your bank would be discovered (burned), it would be an easy strip target due to its eb build... In a certain sense, nowadays big LB players like IMF or Woolooloop are banks for their clans while being on the front row. Due to their huge stats, massive BFA, it's very difficult to inflict them significant losses and they are able to ally trade and have gold open in plain sight. Laoda, Redstar and Cella would have been such banks in last year's Zaft vs UC/Apoc osw. As however the huge strip on Harb has shown, such a tactic might still be risky against an opponent able to gather the stripfunds needed.
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You don't want to build banks through EBs because it's easy to spot someone with a lot of wins and a small build. Makes it an obvious bank. Volleying gold to the bank is better and keeping the build small. Although with HTE now build a bank through HTE isn't as obvious as building a bank through old EBs because you earn more gold per wins. Also the whole buying back page allies this no longer exists because now everyone can find your back page allies through a system that may or may not be cheating.. I'm not really sure anymore. There are people in this game that can see the ally's hire history backwards. So basically they can see where I bought my ally from, so buying allies from a bank is not really that great a plan either. The whole old osw bank system is pretty much ruined. You basically gotta keep it in plain sight, make it a castle build, and manipulate it so it's tough to hit
How do build you build them to look nothing banks and how do you block the ally tracker system from finding them?
You do indi wars I'm assu!ing. You're an average warrior I'm assuming. So your shot at winning each time should be 50 percent. Now if we do a binomial CDF to find the chance that you win 8 out of 12 wars, we conclude that there is a 19 percent probability that you did this well merely by chance. So, statistically speaking, its nothing great because the traditional benchmark is 5 percent
2nd party is in this case ATA and 3rd party any other app 1st party is apps of the OS producer (apple, google etc) i believe
Which would give better plunder? Upgrading 24 lvl 2 Vols to lvl 3 at about 52B per upgrade Or Adding about 12 brand trees in HF for about 20B per tree?