What shape is your base?

[Ryan5100]

Mines a rectangle 7x5 right now next expansion is 8m

[SeqWins]

http://i47.tinypic.com/28lxf69.png

Pretty big base you have...

How do you guys do this?

[Ryans67]

Expansions cost $30m when you see the size of WP's base. Very spacious indeed.

My last expansion was $14m, and I do not have enough room for all the buildings. I think I will need another 5 squares or so for the rest of the defensive buildings. I really need to rearrange, but that would require selling buildings or waiting until I have a couple empty squares to maneuver.

[War Priest]

Expansions cost $30m when you see the size of WP's base. Very spacious indeed.

My last expansion was $14m, and I do not have enough room for all the buildings. I think I will need another 5 squares or so for the rest of the defensive buildings. I really need to rearrange, but that would require selling buildings or waiting until I have a couple empty squares to maneuver.

Yeah, my buildings are nicely spaced out.

In the future I want to add one more row of expansions to space them out even more.

[Olly1]

Currently mine is a symmetrical + shape which is pretty tricky to make use of. I thought having a square/rectangle would just be boring but that pic above is def the best looking base I've seen. Mind you all the bases at my level suck anyway!

WP I'd like to see yours, can you post a pic?

[Matt Thornton]

Yeah, haha. Once you get to 10M, it's just an additional 2M each expansion. My last one I finished not to long ago cost me 30M. (Which I did manage to get for free because of a server error!)

after 10 million it is 1 million per expansion. i'm at 18 mill per square now.

[JMC]

http://i47.tinypic.com/28lxf69.png

Pretty big base you have...

That's an old picture.

[JMC]

I would definitely say rectangular gives you the maximum use of space when trying to squeeze buildings in tight.

JMC - you base looks tidy - but I have to wonder if your defense buildings being lined up and away from your high cash buildings isn't the max use of their effective range - that is IF it has ever been really determined if their blue sphere of coverage actually makes a difference in protecting against raids. I have multiple defense building overlapping my Nanos & Oil rigs - I hope they're actually doing something.

Oh yeah - how did you mange to get such a broad shot of your base? Is that one pic or a bunch pieced together?

Thanks!

Defense buildings do little to nothing in my experience especially in the high levels and high stat battles. Yesterday someone with 73K raw attack stat successfully raided my brother's level 3 nanotech 3 times in a row without failure. He has over 140K defense and i'm pretty sure there are some defence buildings in range of his nano. If they do anything, they do little enough that it's not even worth it to disorganize your base by trying to get everything in range of them.

[War Priest]

Currently mine is a symmetrical + shape which is pretty tricky to make use of. I thought having a square/rectangle would just be boring but that pic above is def the best looking base I've seen. Mind you all the bases at my level suck anyway!

WP I'd like to see yours, can you post a pic?

I can't. It's to to big and to much of a hassle to take mulitshots. You can visit my base though.

[War Priest]

after 10 million it is 1 million per expansion. i'm at 18 mill per square now.

That's right, then it goes by 2M after 20.

[SeqWins]

JMC do you want to share how you did the composites picture of your base?

[bigflan]

My base is some really weird shape with random buildings

[James_mac]

JMC do you want to share how you did the composites picture of your base?

I believe he took loads of screen shots and the just combined them all together on a photo editing software maybe photoshop or fireworks or even paint. It takes forever to do tho, especially to get it lined up properly.

[Mackdaddy]

Rectangle for me. My base looks strange right now. I have expanded the perimeter on each end but haven't moved anything on the vacant squares. Going for a make over after two more expansions.

[Ashmw]

Rectangle on the land, the sea part is more of an odd shape. Next expension gonna cost me $4.6mil only.