Guidelines for future Events

How about the future?
I'm rewriting this section, if you want the actual manual just scroll down.

I think not many people expected a 21-days event again so soon.

Probably the last Valentine's Event was pushed to prepair for the dungeons in which we need strong decks of the same colour. And the amount of Green cards was thin in comparison to the rest.

Is there a future for events?

The Events might not be repeated with the exact same cards (for the obvious reason that we need new cards to progress through the ladders; just imagine the case that you have levelled and seduced all your cards and get stuck on the first quest: level a card, yet there are no new cards). Anyway it is possible that more 7 or 21-day Events will occur although not as frequently (I hope) as in the last few months.

If Events will occur it might be in the same sequence (Dark, Red, Blue, White, Green) as it did before and since we had all colours now, the next Event might be Dark again, but can in fact be any colour.

Is there a future for us?

What we are supposed to do with more and more and stronger cards? We can win Sands 16 with the 'old' cards. The same goes for getting into Legend League 3. So they might provide a way to actually use these cards in advanced maps or gameplay. Or they were just pushing it and milking all possibilities. The real question is: do the Devs have a plan and does that involve anything nice for us?

With the 21-day Events full sets of one colour and the dungeon sets of one colour, they are changing the gameplay because the normal full sets (that we have been building up till now) get a bit obsolete. Unless they are dividing the gameplay between the dungeon sets and the normal sets. But till now I don't have any proof that the Devs actually have a well thought through plan. It seems they made the dungeons so other cards would be valuable again, yet the same time the normal sets seem to loose valid.

Before discussing how to get new cards we need to rethink why we actually play this game....

How to prepare for the 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 (not sure)

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 it 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.

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 (if you don't have them stacked, forget the chests. Epic chest take too much time, silver chests could be good but take a lot of time especially if you keep in mind there is 80% chance you don't find your Event colour in it. Event Coffer (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, 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. They are better then Epic chests which give only one duplicate. Event Coffer (check the unique cards that should be in it), Silver/bronze/gold boxes are very expensive but if you have enough gold you can use them.

- Legendary duplicates: Small event coffer (best option if you don't have plenty BH coffers), Blessed Hearts Coffer (Event daily win rewards Coffer) if you got them at hand, Legendary chest up till CL2 (20% chance, not really a good option). Gold box (if you got enough of it and if you are in LL3 you 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.

third week: try to win the tournament at least once for the mythic card. It seemed that last time when people tried to win and lost on the first attempt, the second try was a lot more difficult if not impossible. A lot of ppl got stuck and complained about it on the forum. So only try if you have enough resources!

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!

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.

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.

It should be better now. I had some correspondence with my friend Lucy O (Sheila Parker is not my friend anymore since she promised 300 rubies but didn't give it) about this topic. She was friendly, thanked for the detailed feedback and actually forwarded it to the programmers. Soon after she replyed:

Feb 8, 01:39 MSK We've found the issue. There was a misconfiguration for a group of players, so in some cases, several times more points than normal were added for them. The error has been fixed and the excess points removed.

Kind regards,

Lucy O Hooligapps team

I suppose that  'group of players' was the bots...

Anyway soon after the fake players disappeared like many ppl found out. And it's much better now. Things are back to how it was at the Halloween event.

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.