Harvesting
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Harvesting is one of the most rudimentary techniques used in online play. It allows a player to increase their wood surplus, by carefully controlling/monitoring the cutting process of the trees in the immediate proximity to their base.
How It's done
Mainly used on Craters, Two on Two and sometimes Face off. Farming is taking a certain amount braves, depending on the size of the tree (E.G: If the tree has three wood you'd take 2 braves, if it has 4 wood [maximum] you would take 3 braves) and hold ctrl, click on the tree then to the wear the ground, repeat this until you have done the same routine 4 times (maximum you can do). Farming a tree with 2 pieces of wood is recommended as there's no point in doing so. That is the basics of farming. Another option could be, after ctrl clicking the tree, ctrl click it to a plan. That way the wood is already at the plan, speeding up the building process. And decreasing the risk of cutting a tree down fully. Of course there is no point farming on maps which have vast amounts of trees (Pressure Point, Dead sea) and other maps.