Talk:Promotion/@comment-9619486-20130801024849

Strategies to Increase Rank Faster

To maximize SP for one type of unit always have that unit shoot in every battle and use as few different types of units as possible (e.g fight with 5 Tanks and 1 Wimp... or 6 Machine Turrents and 1 Wimp).

Temporally increase your SP gains by buying Boosts with merits and nanopods.

Units Ready-For-Promotion, Promoting, and Rank 6 units consume but don't keep their share of SP (thus wasting them). Only rarely use these unit or add many other types of units to decrease the lost SP amount.

Experiment. Optimize and repeat easy battles using the above techniques. For example, Legobear007 posted a nicely produced 'how to lvl up your wimps' video using this technique, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZaIbhGdqksT Occupy others so that they can kill your guys quickly and easily for high SP... and they do the same for you. This is basic form of trade in BN. These can be any units but its best to use easily healed, mass-produced, high SP, low offensive power units. The two best ways are water attacks and Wimp Farm.

Wimps are the best occupiers since they heal quickly/cheaply and at rank 5+ give very high SP. Place r6 juiced Wimps on the second row centered, 2x r6 Sandbags on the front line on the edges, and 3x r6 Troopers behind. Juiced Wimps must be kept in the second row to render them harmless, so do not kill all the front Units first. Or, drop all unjuiced Wimps anywhere. With a Friend, you can occupy each other many times. As a default, occupy the water at the bottom of their land so your intention is obvious. The downside is you'll spend a good bit of time shuffling them in/out of the hospital so consider the longer queues available in the Level 10 Hospital and higher-level Advanced Hospitals. You can find other players and coordinate occupations athttp://forums.z2.com/viewforum.php?f=114.

Kill the Wimp-for-SP-occupations water attacks on others' land. Although they were placed there for the benefit of that Friend, the owner can simply Reject the offer to help and kill them himself. Thus, the community gets double SP.

The Wimp Farm is an advanced technique. Wimp Farms are the ultimate trading resource in BN, giving a fast ~1k SP unboosted per attack. alexd15680 offered this in a Z2 forum: High rank Wimps without the researched attacks provide high SP but can't do much harm. Without a researched attack you can put up to 30 Wimps in the garrison and fight half of them by raiding it. If you (try to) occupy, as long as the garrisons are not empty, it won't result in an occupation and you'll fight the full force. The defender can then counter the retreating forces a sandbag (or other ignorable) and send them home bypassing the 2hr wait. Alternatively the defender can counter with a normal unit and retreat before making their first attack.