Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-25280252-20160111183303/@comment-25280252-20160114234350

There's several ways but to power level, you've got to be well established in the game. Or at least you should be.

Tribal, at least as I understood it, was developed primarily because the veteran players were complaining that they had nothing to do & these coffers full of food, coins & shards accumulating with nothing to spend them on. It was never intended for low to mid-level players to deplete their resources when they had other goals in the primary game to accomplish.


 * Your* strength in the primary game (level, islands opened, monsters fed & happy, Etheral maximized for shard production, etc) is the backbone for Tribal. If you are just starting or even a low mid-leveler, focus on the essentials first.  It will make Tribal much less frustrating.  There are plenty of Tribes out there that level to 1 or 2 per player.

But to directly answer your question, after 2+ years, some even longer, there is a ton of food, coins & shards just sitting around waiting to be spent. I think it's called extreme addiction. ;)