In Top Lords, spend your worker tokens on construction speed and technology research speed before upgrading any other category. Do not spend worker tokens on passive resource production. Worker tokens are a scarce progression currency capped behind daily milestones, kingdom events, and progression achievements, making real-time queue reductions far more valuable than small yield increases.
Why Construction and Research Take Priority
Progression bottlenecks in Top Lords stem from timer lengths rather than raw building costs. As your Town Hall, military buildings, and Academy advance, upgrade durations quickly scale to multiple days. Upgrading workers that reduce base construction and research timers creates compounding returns:
- Construction speed workers: Shorter build times allow you to unlock higher building tiers and Town Hall thresholds faster, preventing auxiliary building requirements from stalling your primary queue.
- Research speed workers: Academy technologies feature extensive timers that restrict military strength and economic buffs. Leveling research workers compresses these timers and amplifies the impact of speedup items used during kingdom events.
Why You Should Avoid Passive Resource Workers
Upgrading workers assigned to internal resource plots (such as wood, food, or stone production) yields a poor return on scarce tokens:
- Negligible output: Internal plots generate only a small fraction of the materials required for high-level upgrades.
- Superior alternative sources: The vast majority of resources come from world map tile farming, alliance territory deposits, barbarian camps, and inventory reward crates.
- Permanent opportunity cost: Tokens locked into passive gathering cannot be recovered to shorten multi-day construction and research gates.
Recommended Worker Token Priority Order
Allocate your worker tokens following this order whenever new upgrades become available:
| Priority | Worker Focus | Strategic Value | Recommended Action |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Crucial | Construction Speed | Reduces building timers and accelerates milestone progress | Maximize first to push Town Hall and prerequisite structures. |
| 2. High | Academy Research | Shortens long military and economic research timers | Level alongside construction to avoid technology bottlenecks. |
| 3. Situational | Troop Training | Increases unit output and training queue speeds | Invest tokens only when preparing for combat pushes. |
| 4. Skip | Resource Production | Adds small flat bonuses to internal resource plots | Leave at base levels; hoard surplus tokens for core roles. |
Focus your initial token investments on your primary construction workers until early efficiency gains taper off, then distribute remaining tokens into research specialists. If you are not actively pushing troop replenishment for combat, save unspent tokens for newly unlocked administrative milestones rather than putting them into passive resource nodes.
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Emily Johnson
Emily writes practical mobile strategy guides with a focus on resource planning, base progression, and the early decisions that shape a long-term account.
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