Fief is a FOUR LETTER WORD!
Fief is a FOUR LETTER WORD!
The only person who “owns” a fief is the one who started the castle in question. If they have left the game it’s FAIR GAME.
If you are strong enough to take it, it’s yours to raid. If you are strong enough to defend it, it’s yours to hold and farm.
There are no “rules” for fiefs other than those you agree to by being a part of a league.
Most large leagues raid the fiefs of those they have embassy relations with (Allied or At Peace), as well as EACH OTHERS within their league. It is simple MATH.
For every 100 hourly resources you can harvest (ASSUMING you can, and do, hold it for 24 hours and 7 days in a week) it is worth 16.8k. 16,800.
Assuming you never spend a single sapphire the max resource raid you will have is 82k or 82,000. (Activating a level 10 Paragon bonus equates to 86k or 86,000.) Buy sapphires, and spend them on sketches, and your max raid will be 100k or 100,000.
So, 82,000 to raid verses 16,800 resources to hold that same fief for a full week.
The maximum resources from any fief I’ve ever encountered in the game is 400/hour and that will be from somebody’s ACTIVE castle. The owner of that active fief is going to want it back*. Either he, or a league member of his, is likely to knock you off of it long before a week is out. If they don’t, someone else will.
From a good Botline, about 305/hour in resources is up there. 51.24k or 51,240 is the maximum worth of that Botline fief to a player TRYING to hold it all week long. A player raiding it will get between 82 to 100k for a single maxed out raid. SEVERAL players can hit that same Botline fief for a maximum amount during the week as it regenerates resources.
In general players at higher levels, and time spent in the game, do NOT hold fiefs EXCLUSIVELY for their resource value. Lower lever players still developing their castles and lost arts do, arguably, need fiefs.
The bottom line is DON’T expect to hold a productive fief full of resources!
*The exception to this is a dirty little secret.