CR I was wondering, and if I missed it I apologise. how many "scouting territories" are available per age? Why I ask is because with this recent even, I'm on the 2nd wave of it, and i am at the part asking me to scout a territory and I have no more available to do so.
I don't have a count on this. You can study the different
C Maps Revealed, and compare where you are to what is left.
IMO, I would not waste a tech or a province trying to chase down the complete Cherry Garden set, it is rare to score the entire set, and as individual buildings, they all suck. None of the set buildings are very efficient with their base benefits, and they must be arranged in a specific layout of 5 unique set buildings in a 5 x 5 plot of land that requires 2 different 1-lane road connections on either side, in order for the buildings to achieve their maximum efficiency, which still isn't very remarkable for the land they consume compared to other options we have in the game. And on top of all of this, none of them can be motivated or polished, which means we cannot buff their efficiency that way, nor can we protect them from plunder. They are just
Plunder Bait.
Even the entire set isn't very valuable to a Heavy Quester, because we can produce a comparable total value per tile of land consumed, through CF-enhanced quest rewards in an age like CA or HMA. And our Quest rewards have a 0% chance of being plundered.
The set would only be valuable to a higher era player who either has a very good city defense, or who always collects their city on time, and thus never gets plundered. And even then, for that player to keep the set around in their city, would mean we would need to spend 5 renovation or 1-up kits to keep the entire set relatively efficient, compared to other current period building options as that player progressed through the game. No thank you.
The most important thing for lower age players (LMA and below) to score in this event are 2 Champ Retreats: 1 you can lock to HMA and 1 to lock to LMA. And in order to do that, you must score them in the correct age, or you can score them in an earlier age and then use a 1-up kit or a Reno kit to lock them to the correct age as you move up. However once you progress past either age, then you cannot score a retreat locked to an earlier age.
The other prizes worth scoring: Rogue Hideouts, 1-Up/Reno/Storage Kits, and Wishing Wells, and SoKs, will all appear again in the Summer Event. This game has 4 seasonal events per year, plus smaller events in between, plus GE. So while we want to score many of these prizes, we will have many opportunities to do so. And between now and the Summer event, your situation is likely to change.
