Most city-building games like Rise of Kingdoms allow you to create farm accounts. A farm account is basically an alt account that is used for farming resources and sending them to the main account. The reason why players are creating farm accounts is that games are not optimized in terms of the amount of resources that you need to build, upgrade, and heal your troops. So players, especially active ones, do not have enough resources on the main account. So they create farm amounts and send resources to the main account.
In the Age of Empire Mobile, you can not create farm accounts. You can create new accounts, but there is no point when there is no option to send resources from one account to another, and there is a limit to how many resources you can loot by attacking a city.
A lot of new players will be shocked by this because they are used to having farm accounts in other city-building games. That is why we will explain why it is great that you can not create farm accounts in Age of Empire Mobile and potential problems in the future.
Why you cannot create a farm account in Age of Empire Mobile
You can not create a farm account in Age of Empire Mobile because there is no option for sending resources. In the majority of city-building games, you have the option to send resources to other players, but in Age of Empire Mobile, you can not.
Now you are thinking if there is no trading option, I will simply attack my farm account and take all resources. You can, but there is a daily limit on how many resources you can loot by attacking a city. That limit depends on the level of your war hall. On max level, that limit is 20 m, which is not that big a number when you get to the end-game.
Farm Account Problems
I have been playing mobile games, especially city-building games, for over 10 years, and I can with 100% confidence tell you that not being able to create farm accounts in Age of Empire Mobile is a great thing. When you can create a farm account in the game, it creates a lot of problems like resource selling, having to play too much, advantage, botting, etc. So let me explain.
The first problem with farm accounts is wasting your time managing farm accounts. So in order to be competitive, do PVP, and have resources all the time, you have to manage a farm account. I know that that is not a problem with some players, but a lot of players simply do not have time to gather on 10+ accounts all the time, like you have to do in Rise of Kingdoms. It is boring and really a waste of time.
When you are able to transfer resources and when players really need them, you will get botting and selling services. A lot of players use them and eventually get banned and lose all their progression. Also, this is a waste of development resources because developers must waste time on hunting botting and resource-selling services instead of focusing on making a good game.
The amount of resources that you can gather daily will be more than enough. Also, you will get a lot of resources from events, quests, and overall by playing the game. You will more likely run out of speedups, not resources. The game is relatively new, so I will update this guide as developers implement new changes.