Guidelines for future Events

Smutstone is going for the long term, so must your strategy
They skipped the Dark Event and went straight to the Red Event. Maybe because new players can still do the Darkest Event, this Dark Event could have a special status. We have to see in the future. Both the Dark and Red (and White) color cards would have a first 21-days event.

It's exactly 21 days after the Valentine's Event ended. Is this going to be the normal sequence? A 21 day event, then a 21 day break and a new 21 day event? I wonder how long it will be till ppl get bored or tired of that. Personally I think it's a pretty quick following up from the last XXX-mas Event in the end of December to the White Pussy Event in January, the Valentine Event in February, the Dungeons and 4th worldmap in the beginning of March, to another Event half way March. That is a lot of new action in comparison to last year. Are we going to have 12 Events a year? Will they all be 21-days? Will we all be zombies without sleep (in Holland the clock move during this event and the reset will be 2 am).

The quick spamming of new events and new cards will result in a different strategy for the game.

Since this is the first repeat for an Event we learned 2 things. Firstly the cards in this event are new, so there probably is no repeating of events with old cards thus a renewed possibility to get more duplicates for cards that you didn't get to 5 star. Secondly since this is a new event from a color that already got a turn, there probably will be more events. I am also counting on another 3rd week with the MA, since we find a lot of 'rinse repeat' in Events, that might be a part of the businessplan.

Keep in mind that we have 2 different kind of decks today: One that focusses on `one color only` for the dungeons and one that focusses on a combination of your strongest cards, at least to do River 16 and maybe for a 5th world map to come. And boy was that 4th map a disappointment. Not only did it not offer new possibilities for items and maybe new levels on cards, but it seriously favored experienced players: if you can win Rivers 16 for 8729 gold each win, you can open more Silver boxes (SB), get more gold and energy from those SB, play more Rivers 16 to get up to 2400-2700 mojo each day. And that with only the resources you get daily (if you win each tournament and take into account the spoils of the Duels renew every 10 days). Sure it's good to have more gold, but we need more and more gold for the dungeons, so our life hasn't exactly become easier in respect to digging gold.

All know facts for now give way to new strategies:
 * 1) The more Events we have, the more different cards of the same color you will have in the future. It's very likely that all your one-colored decks will be made of Mythic cards in the future. Investing in Normal, Rare, Epic and Legendary cards will be less interesting. With 'investing' I mean, seducing, levelling and putting stones on it. In case of the Legendary cards, that goes especially for the cards that don't own a good spell. Selection of cards will be based on:

a. The Kind of Spell that is on the card. I.e. a spell that inflicts 3 cards is mostly stronger than a spell that only inflicts one card. The present Mythic deck I use is: Temptress, Zariel, Blade Master, Storm Walker, Lady Butterfly, Bone Walker, XMas Elf. Simply because those cards have a spell that inflict 3 cards.

b. The combination of the cards. There are full sets that get 75% bonus like the Nature Set and have potentially a stronger Deck Power (but not neccesairily a stonger effect Power when you take the spells into account). But you can also think about combinations of cards that work strong together. For instance Vengeance Spirit together with Warlock and Xmas Spirit that both have 'Resurrect' is a powerful combination. Together with 2 healers in your deck and maybe some other Tank cards like Mjandash, it could become a pretty decent deck.

c. The level of the card (Mythic/Legendary/Epic/Rare/Normal). As more cards become available you pick the best ones for your deck. When you use full sets you still can use your lower cards till some point. A very important question:

Must we persue full sets? Is a full set (with 75% set bonus) stronger than a deck made up of all Mythic cards? It's an important question, because you have to decide which cards to get and which ones to develop. My full and 5 star Valentine Deck is stronger in power then my Mythic Deck, BUT.... The deckpower does not include the power of spells. A Healer card can get 3 cards op 40%, that's a pretty strong effect, Zariel gives your cards divine shield, that is one free blow for up to 3 cards. So my Mythic deck can beat an enemy deck that has +2000 power. My Valentine Deck cannot. It has only one spell. It's a bit better for the Nature, Fairy and Passion Decks. Those decks have both the 75% bonus and 2 spells. But still my Mythic Deck that has less power, is more powerfull in effect.

The same will go for the full sets of events (that consist of only one color). The effect of both Krampus and Venus are pretty decent (but unfortunately only inflict one card), but it's only one spell card. Suppose it's the last card you draw in a duel, that's not fortunate. And if you play River 16, you don't want to get your 3 weakest cards opposed to the enemy 1.5x power. In the end a deck made up of only spell cards will be stronger.

'''You can forget about all logic ingame and look at the developers perspective: If a full set is the strongest possibility, than are you going to play more events for weaker cards? Ofcourse not.'''

So my advise is to collect the cards that you need. You need not invest many rubies, gold and sleepless nights in cards that you will never use anymore. Check what spells you allready have, what you need for specific decks and look at the bigger picture: what deck will you have in one year? I am favoring the lazy approach, put the least effort in it to get the maximum effect. This is why I wrote this manual.

I will not be persuing the nr. 1 spot in this marathon, but try something new: be lazy and end around place 400 (on the safe side of 500 at least) with the least resources wasted and the most sleep gained.

Is Calipso a card to collect?
If you are a card collector, sure it is. But how about it's effect: Lucky Spell. So the card itself does not directly inflicts the enemy cards. It gives the maximum of 2 of your cards a spell (could be good or bad). It says: when it appears, so only one time. Could be that it's only one card or no card at all (if all others died and Calipso shows up as the final card). And if you allready got cards with spells and Calipso comes together with them, there is no gain at all.

Question is: do you feel Lucky?

Suppose you have the full deck. With the XXX-mas and Valentine deck you have Krampus and Venus that have a decent power to kill the opposing card. But when you have the full Lucky spring set there isn't this effect. If you are Lucky your Legendary and Epic cards come together with Calipso, but still that is less strong then a Mythic card with a spell. Could be that you end up with 2 'normal' cards that have a spell. Maybe those 'normal' cards already almost died. Suppose you get a spell like resurrection. If you spell card with resurrection dies before another one does, the spell is gone. So again: you must be Lucky.

This card only seems good for fun and for a new player that no spell cards yet. In the long run, we will put Calipso into hiding (like the name suggests) or even as far away as the moon of Saturn that has the same name. It's not worth your sleep, gold and rubies.

Personally I am more interested in the 3 other Mythic cards we get. It seems Officers could be okay if it's 5-star and not 1 star. I pray to Big Smut that we don't get a 3 star Officer in 2nd week and 5 star in 3rd week. There could be all kind of ways the Devs try to elongate the Events attractiveness for the future.

How to prepare for a next event?
There is a difference between the 7-day Events and the 21-day Events. If you are able to get all 7 relevant cards of the 21-days Events, I would recommend to emphasize on the 21-day events, especially if there will be full sets of all colours, since a full set is much stronger (75% bonus) than combined single cards. Then you might even forget about all single cards including the mythic ones at the beginning (Bone Walker, Temptress And Lady Butterfly)

The colours that didn't have a 21-day event yet are: Dark, Red and White.

The preparation for a 7-day and 21-day event is similar. Yet for the 21-day event (with the chapters) I would recomment to save Life Dildo's to level the Mythic cards you get during the weeks. And save more gold to win the tournaments in the 3rd week.

1. Start to collect items. Keeping in mind the next quests (which are probable but not certain):

10 - Level up a event colour card

60 - Level up event colour cards 5 times

170 - Level up event colour cards 10 times

280 - Level up Epic event colour cards 10 times

460 - Level up event colour cards 15 times.

So collect items for normal and epic Event's colour cards. Maybe the 460 quest is not that neccesairy and can be done if you have enough time.

Check what cards you have and what level they are.   If there is no way of knowing what the colour of the next event is: there are items that you always need: necklaces: common, epic and maybe some rare. Since leveling up rare cards costs less items (but is more expensive), rare cards can be a good alternative to level quests if you got enough gold but less time. If you got Mythic cards that you don't need in your deck's keep them at level 1. Keeping a good amount of one and two star Elixirs and some of all the basic items is a good idea. Yet maybe a better idea is just have a big amount of gold. You can convert the gold into Silver Boxes that also give you energy. I found out that 1 million gold is enough for me to get all items for a 7-days event, and as a bonus also win a tournament. To be on the safe side you can keep 1.5M gold.

Getting the gold seems a lot of work, but you can use the gold for levelling mythic and some legendary cards (Dildo's) and collecting all the items will also be a lot of work. It depends how you can handle and keep the gold. Are you the type of guy that keeps the given cookie or eats it right away?

2. Don´t seduce any cards unless you need them for a specific deck!

40 - Seduce ... cards 3 times (they can be three different cards)

250 - Seduce ... cards 5 times

There is plenty other cards to seduce, and you don't need to seduce most cards for your deck. For the normal tournament don't level nor seduce any card. I know that in the first stages of your game you can win a tournament if you seduce all your 1 and 2 star cards, so if you really need to do it, just save some Earth cards. Otherwise opening Silver boxes with the bonus of 25/50 energy or up to 8000 gold, will be a much better option then seducing/levelling cards.

Only level or secude a card if you are planning to win a tournament. If you just started your game, do it before you open silver boxes, because you might be able to win more of your map and get a lot of extra points. This way you can (depending on other variables like other players) get to 5 star Temptress in 3 weeks, but you need to save your items and choose them strategically, and save your silver boxes and map as much as possible (only talking about the first weeks after you begun the game). In the beginning the silver boxes don't give 8000 gold but far less, also the energy doesn't give you too much gold, so the focus in the beginning of your game should be to reach a higher place on the map asap. Sands 16 will be a bridge too far, but Sands 6 is doable. Make your advance on the map also part of winning your tournaments. Make sure you have extra resources (aim at 2200 points at least), if you don't get to the 1-3 spot in the early stages of your game it will trow you back weeks.

One more thing about the early weeks. I know I wrote that you had better only open silver boxes after you seduced/levelled your cards, but....If you can manage to win by only opening silver boxes (you need a lot of gold), that will give you a vast amount of 'free' items of low star level. That will come in handy anytime.

3. Stack your legendary and epic chests. Leave them for the duplicate quests

100 - Get 10 Rare ...card duplicates

130 - Get 20 Common ... card duplicates

160 - Get 2 Epic ... Card duplicates

230 - Get 2 Legendary ...card duplicates

240 - Get 20 Rare ... card duplicates

320 - get 5 epic ... card duplicates

360 - Get 7 Legendary ... card duplicates

470 - Get 10 Legendary green card Duplicates

For the Legendary Duplicate quests, it might be better to just open the small coffers of the event. If you decide to leave the legendary chests for the 2 legendary green card duplicates, it can be chests from Champions league 1 or 2, since otherwise you get a white (CL3) or either dark or light (LL1) legendary. But beware that the higher league you are in, the more duplicates all boxes give (also Bronze, Silver and Gold boxes). For the epic duplicate quests it's always better to have a LL3 chest also because you get more Rare and Common cards that might finish that quests in one shot. With many thanks to the guy who posted it below and took a lot of time to figure out a pattern in chests you get. It seems that if you keep winning with 3 stars, or either forfeit a match, the pattern keeps repeating itself. I made a table in Word and also pfd, but it seems it cannot be uploaded on this page. So the printscreen has to do. You just put a cross every time you play. And see the box you get. I tried it and it works. If anybody has an idea how to upload a document here, drop me a line.

I include the original text of the guy who came up with it, only changed 'boxes' in 'chests':

"A little help for the chests be advised that most efficient way to locate yourself is the legendary chest! The numbers are from your very first round everybody has this but if you dont like them change it to whatever you want it to the pattern will still be the same." "Silver Chests - 1,3,7,19,24,26,31,39,44,47,55,59,66,71,79,87,92,95,99,104,107""Gold Chests - 15,36,52,64""Legendary Chests - 12,84,112""All not numbered Chests are Bronze and the best way to get additional energy points !""Once you done your first round 112 becomes 12 and you can go with this till you are fat on every single card you need. The league you are in has no effect on this so choose wisely which one you take ! IMPORTANT !!! Always win with at least 3 cards intact ( 9 point ) and if you reached a league where you cant win with 9 points forfeit the match at the beginning do not go to battle! My deck power is 7829 so not important which league I take but if YOU bite off more then you can chew then the game can teleport you somewhere and need to relocate yourself ! Given the numbers the easiest way is on a legendary Chestt. After you get it fight 2 more and if the next one is gold then you are 15 if silver then 87. Can do it with gold boxes as well but its more difficult !""Hope this will be helpful for many players !"So thanks again for adding this!

And how about getting more slots for Chests? It is good to have a headstart with more chests if you can afford it.

I believe the table for the extra slots is:

1-4: free (everybody has 4 slots at the beginning)

5: 150 rubies

6: 250 rubies

7: 450 rubies

8: 800 rubies

9: 1500 rubies

10: 2500 rubies

11: 4000 rubies

I think till 7 slots it's really worth the rubies. On my free accounts I stopped there. In the first few Events it was a great advantage to have many slots. In the previous 2 (exept for the first week XXX-mas) it was a bit dissappointing. Yet more slots is always an advantage. Suppose you have 11 Legendary chests at the beginning. That is 352 points.

'''4. Get gold, gold and more gold. '''Once you got your inventory stacked with items for levelling up cards, you just save gold. Sands 16 (the lower one of the two) gives 5358 gold for 17 energy. That's the best rate you get for your energy.

5. Save your Rubies. If there is a promotion (2x rubies) maybe in advance buy some, that is if you like to spend real money.

6. Thanks to Pana133, we could prepaire to have a 4-star Epic card, or even a 1 star epic card with enough duplicates and gold in stock to seduce to 4 stars. In the last event this was the 210 quest (before 320).

7. If it is a 21-day event: safe Life Dildo's. If you want to do all the chapters you need high level Mythic's from the event. Keeping 12 Life Dildo's will make it possible to level the first two mythics to level 14 (2+4 per card). Then in the 3rd week you need to win the tournament a few times, so you can have some more Life Dildo's. Also during the Event you might win a tournament or two just by finishing the quests. So those you can use to level your 3rd Mythic card. In the XXX-mas event I had 25 Life Dildo's and used them all. It got me to chapter 89.

During the 7 day Event (added a bit for 21-day Events)
1. Don't start running. The sooner and faster you get points, the more fake players are added and the more points they have. Start to play later on the day and hope the real ppl in your group act likewise.

2. Be patient and open Heavenly Coffers not right away in the first days. Wait also for the quests in which you need duplicates. The 2nd exclusive card out the Heavenly Coffer is the one that counts. It's usually only available and more available later on in the Event.

3. Check all the quests before you decide what to level and what to open. Probably the questline will be the same as before.

You can avoid getting stuck on specific quests if you carefully apply your resources. Some important quests:

Level quests: keep in mind these quests require you to level specific cards. Keep the levelling of the Epic cards for later, unless in a 21-day event you really need it to progress on the chapters, but even then you don't want to get stuck having levelled them in the beginning.

Same goes for the seduction quests: check if you have enough resources and cards left especially in the 3rd week of the 21-day event there is still a 'seduce 10 cards' quest. Also you actually want to seduce specific cards, because '''sometimes there is a 'have a event colour card at 3/4/5 star' quest. If there is a quest like 'have a 3 star card of this' and you have already seduced it to 4 stars, don't worry, it will pass automatically.'''

Duplicate quests: You need some luck to get the right duplicates. Especially the Legendary duplicates can be a hold up on your ladder. The best way to get duplicates is listed below. Keep in mind that if you are in a high league, you get more duplicates, be carefull with the 'Renew' button.

- Common duplicates: Common chests, Rare chests, Epic, legendary LL3 chests. The fastest and cheapest way is opening Common chests. Event Coffers (check the unique cards that should be in it), Silver/bronze boxes are also a way to get common duplicates.

- Rare duplicates: Rare chests, Epic, Legendary LL3 chests. Opening Rare Chests is the cheapest way (it takes 3 hours to open one, if you are in a hurry you should go for silver boxes (they give rare duplicates in amounts of 3 if you are in a high enough league). Epic chests take too much time. Event Coffers (check the unique cards that should be in it), Silver/bronze boxes or even Gold boxes can be an option if you want to keep your Hearts/Snowflakes etc.

- Epic duplicates: Epic chests and Legendary LL3 chests (I found a lot of Forest Spirit inside. In case of a green event these chests are the best, keep them for the epic duplicate quests). Opening Epic chests is the fastest and cheapest way (unless you have Legendary chests). Event Coffers (check the unique cards that should be in it), Silver/gold boxes can be an option if you have a lot of gold/rubies.

- Legendary duplicates: Blessed Coffers, Small coffers (one may give 1-2 duplicates, best option if you need just 1-3 duplicates), Medium Coffers (may give 4-6 duplicates). Legendary chests up to CL2 (20% chance, not a very good option), Gold box (worst option, if you are in LL3 you may get possibly 2 dulplicates).

"Spend xxxx Hearts" quests: (Thanks EarlOfBug for this contribution)

Before spending your hearts, keep in mind that these tasks will probably be in the quests path: 

505 - Spend 4000 Hearts

750 - Spend 12000 Hearts

In the XXX-Mas event, the count of the spent hearts for these quests started from the 2nd phase (2nd week) of the event. The quests in the path before them yields less hearts than the ammount needed to spend in the task. So in order to pass these tasks, you have a couple of options:

a. Have a very strong deck that can reach Valentine Chapter 30+ in order to get hearts.

b. This is the recommended option for most players - Save some (at least 2000) hearts from the first week to the 2nd phase. After you already got all of the 7 cards, Don't waste your hearts! Save them for the quests path.

c. Convert rubies to hearts. If you have a lot of rubies, you will be able to convert rubies to hearts, in order to pass these quests. This option is for players who have a lot of rubies, or that are willing to spend money on this game.

4. Opening chests gives you extra points. 4 for Bronze Chests, 8 for Silver, 16 for Epic and 32 for Legendary Chest. Since the more expensive Chests also take proportionally much more time to open, it's best to save Legendary Chests before the Event and Bronze Chests during the Event. Except when you got to sleep, it's better to have a Silver or Epic chests. You choose your Chests by using the above table. In the first 2 Events having more slots and hence opening more chests was a big advantage. I got to 20-50 place a couple of times at the end of the Event just because I had 7 slots at the time. But today it's not a very big advantage. That might change ofcourse.

What benefit is there to gain from opening Chests? In the next table I put the points that you might get, depending on how many slots you have. Each slot could get you 128 points (24 hours devided by 0.75 multiplied by 4 points). The Bronze Chests gives 4 points in 45 minutes, that's the best rate. So 128 points, that is if you need no time to win a duel and get the next chest (and skip the duels that give you silver/epic/legendary chests) and if you pay somebody that will keep doing this while you sleep (or sleep 15 minutes every 45 minutes, which will make you either suicidal or psychotic, so I advice against it). The actual limit would be 124 points, since losing only 45 minutes in a day between opening the chest, skip fights that you don't want and selecting the fight you do want, would be a world record anyway. If you take into account that you need some sleep, say 8 hours. The 16 hours you are awake could give you 84 points. At night you can have a silver chest or an epic chest. In case of the silver chests you get 8 points, in case of the epic chests, you get 16 points, but you loose 4 hours which is a potential 20 points. Besides getting to the epic chests takes a lot of time (my record to move through the list to get 4 Legendary chests is 32 minutes for the 129 duels, so depending on your place on the list it takes up to 14 minutes if you are at spot 65, to get to the next Epic chest. If you got a slow computer or connection it could take longer). So stay with the silver chests, unless you sleep 12 hours or go to work 12 hours. Maximum would be 92 points a slot. Let's make that for sanity's sake 70 points. And if you need to work or do other things, I suppose 52 points is very good already (I am aware this is totally fictive). During the last Event I was able to get about 300-500 points for 10 slots, depending on if I had to work or do a lot of social things.

So during the Event: if you get 105 cups from 200 rubies and you are still with 4, 5 or maybe even 6 slots, then you should always invest your rubies into slots. Unless you really need that cups in the last seconds of the day. That one extra slot will give you about 52 cups extra every day. If you really put your time in it maybe 70 or even more. Besides if you have more slots, you can stack more chests. As I wrote before: 11 legendary chests equals 352 points. Imagine you get >1000 points on the first day only from opening chests! (but then you have to open all your chests at the beginning, the fake accounts go crazy and you need 7700 points for place 50, not a good idea...)

5. Avoid the first day. This is possible. You need 2 accounts, or you check the forums all days before you open your browsergame. The first 2 Events had a counter in hours from the start. When you devide that by 24 you can check whether your event is over before or after 1 am (West-European winter time) or 2 am (West-European summer time). What you want is that it's after the reset time (with an extra hour or so for playing). So you will have an extra day at the end. Ofcourse you loose the first day, but that's mostly a crazy day. In the X-mas event this was not the case, it was fixed. When I saw '6 days till end' in the Light Event I assumed they abandoned this but in the end it turned up that my 3 accounts all had diffferent ending times (depending on when I started). So you can change the beginning and thus end. It depends on when you open your browser. Probably the last day is much better then the first day, maybe you can even wait a few days, but I haven't tested that. The later you start, the less players are running (not taken into account the bots).

To do so you either park an account when you expect the Event to start and check with another account if it's opened. Then you open your parked account after the reset at 1 or 2 am, but make sure you wait another hour just so you have a chance to open your coffers before the tournament is really over. If you have only one account, just check if the forum talk about the event. It's a bit tricky because you need to park an account so only do it if you got enough resources, or do it if you want some weaker accounts to get the mythic cards.

6. Be prepaired or pay. You can have all cards without investing real money if you play smart and are well prepaired, and you need a little luck. In the first 2 Events my 2nd and 3rd account were still in forest and without Temptress. They never had any Mythic Event cards. Only now one of them got Zariel. The account where I pay a litte every now and then gets all cards. I even got the Bone Talker on my first account that was just in the 2nd week of playing. That makes you wonder, doesn't it? In the X-mas event I could stay in top 20 overall with the account I pay for, but the other 2 didn't make top 500 and couldn't have done so even with 1m gold and about 800 rubies. Even though our deck level is also important, in the X-mas event even more because of the chapters, I still think that unpaid accounts are somehow discriminated.

So if you are a beginner and don't have a high deck level, probably the only way to get the Mythics is to pay a little.

During the 21 day Event (only)
All points from above (7-day event) count. Yet now you also have chapters to win, and in the 3rd week a tournament.

7. Keep your Life Dildo's for only levelling the new Mythics you get in the 1st and 2nd week. If you level cards with 200% bonus, the Attack and Health gain of the cards by levelling also has 200% bonus (only during the Event).

8. The points are earned in the 3rd week. It will be very unwise to spend more resources or advance high in the chapters after you allready got the Mythic of that week. In the last week you need to win the normal tournament. The difference is that you now get a Legendary and Epic (so not a Mythic) card from the tournament as a reward for ending in place 1-3. So use your ladder and chapters wisely. The points in the last week will count to get into the top 500 of the marathon, you can get them in the last week.

first week: only advance on the chapters if you still need to get the Mythic card.

second week: use only resources you need and advance on the chapters as far as you need to get your Mythic card. Save gold and resources for the 3rd week.

Very important: after you get your mythic card in that specific week, there is no point getting more wins in the daily Event. The Heavenly cups or Blessed hearts you collect will be less valuable. In the first week a Blessed Coffer costs 20 BH. In the second week it's 100 BH. If you collect a lot, you just wasted a lot of good resources for 1/5 of the value. So you can keep 25 or 50 (75 or even 100) BH's to the second week, so it will match the amounts you get then (top 50: 50 bh's, top 20: 100 bh's, top 3: 175 bh's). It you have 35 bh's at the end of the first week, you are throwing away the surplus. You can never use that 10 bh's that are left anymore.

New third week for Valentines Event:
This is the plan (feel free to edit when more info becomes available)

1. Stack all legendary chests in the beginning. They can be opened for free in 2 days. If you like to start earlier you can also stack epic chests. The legendary chests are the best ones, because you can just leave them working for you while you sleep. The Bronze chests give a little bit better rate but are much more work.

If you are paying with rubies for chests, you can work with Bronze chests: you can do a lot the same time, and wait 5 minutes to open them, that makes a difference of 20% (4 instead of 5 rubies per chest).

You can use the table (picture above) to keep track of your score: win = 9 points, your score should be dividable by 90 every 10th cell. Make a line downwards from this 10th cell and you can easily keep track.

With this extra way to keep track, you can do duels, watch the formula 1 wintertests, poke your nose and whatnot, play guitar and talk to your girlfriend the same time without losing track! I would recommend talking to your girlfriend or wife, since they don't naturally understand the necessity of playing cardgames till 1am at night, especially and let me stress that, especially if that cardgame evolves around pictures of nude girls!

I have uploaded this table as a Word file in the discord chat: https://discord.gg/5F6U7rs

To have a lot of slots really helps. If you got 11 slots (maximum) it's possible to stay at level 6 of the MA for a long time. At the higher level you need 2 legendary chests for gears and a bit more. Level 6 is the level you want to aim for, since it gives more dupes and loads of points that you might need to end in the top 500.

If you begin your run to advance in levels, it's good if one of the chests is within 20 hours of opening. You can make good use of the cooldown time to let the other chests be ready. Level 1 cooldown time is 20 hours. You need 300 gears for level 2, so 50 more then the 250 you get from the legendary chest. If you have 50 or more gears you need only one Legendary Chest, Level 2 is 18 hours. Together with level 1 that is 38 hours, almost the time a legendary chest needs (with level 3, 15 hours, you allready pass that time). Keep as much legendary chests working for you. If a chest is ready, you're loosing points! Sometimes it's better to open a legendary chest for a bit rubies, so you keep them all ticking.

2. Be careful to open the chests in an interval that will get you to a higher level and prepair for the next level. The slots you have available can be filled with different chests to get to the amount of Gears that you need (level 1; 260, level 2:300, level 3:350, level 4: 410(?), level 5: 480. Beware that the time that the MA cools down is a bit shorter the higher the level (20 hours level 1 till; 12 hours level 5).

3. Spend your rubies on the highest possible level of the MA, not on the first. Keep 100+125+150 (375) rubies for 3 extra chances. Or 550 rubies for 4 extra chances.

If you really want the top 500 win, you can actually buy yourself into it, in the 3rd week you get 25 times the normal cups from rubies. I personally think that's a sad concept for everybody that just invests a lot of time getting a decent rank at the end of week 2. At the XXX-mas event, the amount of points of the nr. 1 at the end of the 2nd week was not enough to get into the top 500 at the end of the Marathon. Keep in mind that the points are earned in the last week!

Forget the above alinea. You get so much points from level 5 MA wins. One extra win is 100 rubies and gives the same amount. So getting points in this third week is ridiculously easy if you have the rubies. Don't buy the 25x deal, just make extra runs.

So apparently they fixed the points for the extra runs (runs you pay for with rubies, 100, 125, 150 etc). I would wait for the highest possible level till you spend your rubies. I got Shadow and Bedouin at MA level 3 for 100 and 125 rubies, total waist of rubies. And you can still get Shadow if you allready seduced her to 5 star wich makes it even worse.

How about the bots?
The sad thing about this game is there seem not enough players to fill the groups. That is both sad but also good. They are adding a lot of fake players to fill the group.

Why is it good? If all players were real, you wouldn't stand a chance to win the daily tournament. So no need to complain since we are actually having a better chance to win.

Why is it bad? There is some bad algorithm in this adding of fake players. They seem to match your score but sometimes a bit higher.hat This was the biggest problem in the White Pussy Event. Sometimes the bots got a score so high, that playing for a good rank was totally impossible. 

How to deal with the bots

There is a way to keep them small. If you open your account late at the day and if you don't collect a lot of points from the start (but say you start at 9 am), they will be small and don't bother you. Take this advice to good use, it's a way to beat the system. The bots are still there (which is good, they are much better then real players) but they don't bite anymore.

What are your thoughts?
If you can add anything, please contribute. The devs are plotting against us and planning all nasty tricks. But we are human beings, we can outsmart them because human beings adapt. We just need to know the rules.

It's possible that I am wrong and that the devs come up with something new and something very enjoyable. We can never be sure. I just wrote this article observing how the game functions now and everything I wrote is what I expect to happen. There are no guarantees but it's good to be prepaired.