Ta 152H
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Ah event quests. From my point of view the diamonds won from event quests are rather insignificant. A 5% chance at 60 diamonds is piddling compared to GE. Additionally, most diamond farms are camped, of which a popular age is IA due to ease of completing GE. Considering that, it becomes more difficult and time consuming to complete event quests due to the progression objectives (where alternatives to progression objectives are often exceedingly cumbersome).
The purpose of the attack GBs/Alcatraz is indeed to auto-battle through GE. For me the most important aspects of a diamond farm are minimal time and maximum diamonds. The diamonds from a CF will never out perform those obtained from GE (unless you've stratosphered the CF, which isn't realistic for a diamond farm IMO). However, you've convinced me that it's probably worth it to build a CF in place of whatever WW I'd have. It'd probably be after I'm capable of auto-battling the entirety of GE though.
In any case I agree on the excessive time consuming nature of diamonds farms. That's why I place the importance of the 4 GBs in question significantly higher than the Seed Vault and Chateau. I don't want to spend more than a couple of minutes on each farm.
The point is not instead of, it's in addition to. After you can do L4 GE, attack buildings aren't going to increase your diamond production. You may as well get a Chat, because it's going to help. How much depends on how many quests you do, and how much you level it, and 7% multiplied by a good sized event, and a very high level Chat can be quite considerable. And let's say you just stop and jack that thing up and up, and reach Level 100 (many have passed this), you're getting 140 per hit. If you go to Level 150, which is admittedly not easy, you're getting 190. So, if you just stop advancing, there's no reason you can't jack this up a lot provided you find a way to get blueprints, which shouldn't be too hard.
I think getting a CF is easy on a DF, since where are you putting your FP anyway? If you're not advancing, you probably have FP you don't need anywhere else after a period of time, and where better to put it than the CF? Maybe the Seed Vault, but you don't like it either. On a city you're advancing with, the FPs have other sources.
I actually advanced past IA though, because I wanted space for more buildings. But, it's all about how much time you want to spend, and obviously mine was too much since I deleted the account because I was spending too much time. You have to measure the increased difficulty of GE versus the benefits, and since I don't have much experience using auto deep into GE, I can't comment on whether it's worth it or not.