I don't know what the hate on OD. Sure you lose some troops. By why is that a problem? If you do it right, it shouldn't be.
Clearing your 13x13 is actually a legitimate strategy. Reducing the competition for farming (and also creating more farms) should mean that you get less empty hauls, potentially increasing your income despite some troop loss. It also means that the players you cleared are no longer a threat in any way, providing that you can keep them from rebuilding.
So can everyone please get off the 'minimal OD' bandwagon?
Reduaram, everyone who knows you knows that you intentionally play devil's advocate. Knock it off, it's annoying, and unproductive. If you really disagree, cool, but disagreeing just to be contrary is obnoxious. And since you almost always have very low OD, it's quite clear that you agree in practice, but are disagreeing for the sake of disagreeing.
You almost always play D startup in fact largely for that reason.
You know for a fact that you can run all queus 24/7 off of purely farming barbs, as it's what you're forced to do when doing your usual D startup, which makes clearing farms (and active farmers in your area) entirely unnecessary.
Reduaram said:
On a regular world, maybe, on a world with no morale, absolutely not. Quit taking whatever stance is against public consensus just for the sake of being contrary.
Clearing someones 15x15 when their area is dominated by someone else is legitmate if you want to stay there.
No. clearing an area dominated by someone else means you're just making more farms for the player that's dominating the area.
I love nothing more than an ODA whore for a neighbor. They make me farms.