Nice try. Sorry, but picking up extra fragments doesn't change the fact that the boosts are only good for 28 days. I don't know how you fit 5 GE seasons into 28 days. Even leaving out the off day, 5 GE seasons is 30 active days. Maybe your calendar works different from mine?
Another nice try, but...When I was a kid we had a dog that really liked my Mother's vegetable soup. Fix him a bowl and he'd just lap it up. He ate everything except the lima beans. Licked them clean but left them in the bowl. Me, I cleaned my bowl. To each their own.
Same calendar. Put on your thinking cap. Hint: activate the FT mid-season.
Most of those GB are on the list I am making for goods GBs. I mostly fite GE5, but only negotiate the last few and it has torn up my goods considerably. I need to generate way more goods. So far, LOA looks like my best bet, but I like the small 3x3 footprint of GT. Almost nobody ever plunders me, but now I need goods. What GBs/other prizes do y'all favor for sub-space age players?
I didn't expect for you to get the metaphor. You choose to leave the lima beans. Others relish them.
A problem with good producing GBs is that they start producing "unrefined goods" in Modern Era. Except for trading, they won't be useful for GE. Levelling up the CF and doing RQs is an option. As is GBG.
Oh, I got it, it just didn't fit. There's no extra effort or preparation to eating the lima beans, as I explained in my reply.
So it's active for 3 full seasons and parts of two others. Not the same as being active for 5 seasons.
Those GBs won't help you with goods for GE if you're in Modern Age or above. Most of those on my friends list (and all of those I had looked at when I wrote that post) are past Modern, so having those GBs at all is kind of foolish for them, especially at low levels.
I figured this out BEFORE I got to your post. It requires some determination to make it work. You start your 28 days on the last day or day-and-a-half of the first GE season and rush hard to finish GE5 that day. Then the 5th season, you rush the whole GE so as to finish GE5 before the boost runs out. That is going to be extra work--and extra fun. I would not have thought of this one myself Pericles. Thank you very very much.
3 full seasons and part of 2 is enough for L5 for 5 seasons.
I can't take credit for this idea. I got it from @CDmark.
Erm...the bonus is in the fact that the Serpent is actually a 30% bonus (along with the 30% offensive bonus from the head) and the GRF is actually 14%. These buildings don't only boost defense, nor should that be the only thing players look for when boosting their defensive stats. I mean, that'd be like only building Sentinel Outposts for GBG. You don't do that, right? No, you build attack as well, probably to a higher number than defense. It's the same deal here. Watchfires are nice and all, but things like Tactician's Towers and these new GE5 buildings are going to be much more effective.
You still have to slog through GE5 every single week to keep it going. And if you get a new one every 4 weeks when doing GE5, and you get extra fragments like you stated, what's the sense of bothering with trying to make one last through 5 weeks? That's just extra work for nothing. But you do you.
Combining attack and defense boosts into one number just muddies the water. The Serpent is 15/15 after getting it to level 3, which is decent for its size, but not enough better than other buildings to do the work to get it. And the GRF is 7/7, but as @Sharmon the Impaler pointed out, the regular Ritual Flame at level 2 is a 12 for defense. Much less work to get and pretty much a wash on the boost level. Not to mention that chain buildings limit your options when arranging your city.
LOL. Watchfires are useless, as are Tactician's Towers. These new GE5 buildings are, too, except when doing GE5. I can't believe you all don't see the ridiculous hoops Inno has you going through to get buildings that only help with the feature that provides them! Would you do GBG if you only got rewards that help do GBG? No. Would you do Cultural Settlements if they only gave rewards that helped with Cultural Settlements? No. So why do GE5 only to get rewards that help with GE5? It's madness, I tell you. Pure madness.
It's the same amount of effort but the reward is 20% more fragments during the 28-day life of the Temple.
It appears it may be worse than that. According to the beta forum the summer event has great buildings to meet our new needs for city defence but they'll pretty much cost you plenty of money. They appear to have created a game feature for the sole purpose of getting players to part with their cash and if what people say on beta is true, not even the event building will be for f2p players unless they're lucky. So reality is, many people are paying real money and lots of goods to get rewards which take weeks to complete, which in the end wont make your city any better then if you hadn't done it UNLESS they really do come out with more features that use city defense. If i was a gambling person though, i would lean more to the idea that once they got all the money they could, they'd end the game. Probably a good thing I'm not a gambler. Yet, i can't seem to shake the thought.
Ummm, well, for the last few years I've been harvesting Diamonds from all 4 levels of GE. And plenty of AD fodder to buy the stuff I really want. Now I have to get through at least 3/4 of GE4 to have a chance at half the Diamonds I had a chance at before (which realistically translates to getting less than half what I used to get). And I get fragments. Lots and lots of fragments. Pages and pages of fragments. It was bad enough when the event buildings started producing them, now most of my cities have at least 3 pages of fragments, some of them 5 or more. Mostly for stuff I would sell the AD anyway. So now I have to wait until I get enough fragments, and then assemble the selection kits, and sell those to the AD, because I'm pretty sure it won't let you convert the selection kit to the building without building it in your city and then wasting a Store Building on it to then sell it to the AD.
No, it's not the same amount of effort. If you just build it at the start of a GE season, you don't have to worry about timing your efforts to fit the building's timeline. That is extra effort. And you're trying to stretch its useful life to an extra GE season...so you can get an extra one every once in a while????? So every 5th or 6th week I suppose you can then have two of them simultaneously. Dude, that's a lot of extra effort for not much benefit. Not to mention that the space you use for that building is pretty much wasted the week you don't have one up. And if you are going for the occasional two at once (the only reason your plan makes any sense) then you have to have twice the available space that week. I'm guessing you know what I think of that kind of a plan.
In reply: I get it, you want to play level 5. Good for you. However, many players don't want to play it and your twisting things around trying to make it look sensible won't change that.
What I hear you saying here is that if I don't like the new feature I should stay out of the feedback thread so only those who want to do it can be heard. I'm sure that's not what you intended, but it's what that sounds like.
Pretty much all of what you said is both irrelevant because the GE5 buildings are still better than most other options in the game, and invalidated by the fact that I'm already clearing GE5 without any of these buildings (and without negotiating). However, they're still better than a lot of what I have placed in my city, so I'll be adding them in as I get them which is only going to keep making things easier for me over time. Besides, the GE5 rewards don't 'only help with GE5'. There's still plenty of FP rewards and red military bonuses as well, along with GE5 being an extra 16 encounters' worth of relic attempts with the ToR. I'm already able to reap these rewards (in SAV, mind you), so the only 'madness' here would be not going after them!
Um, no, they're not. Just repeating that over and over doesn't make it true. There are plenty of buildings that provide permanent benefits comparable to or better than the Forgotten Temple without having to re-win them every 4 weeks. If I can have comparable or better buildings without bothering with GE5, why should I?
You keep saying that as if it were true of most players. Why don't you share what your defense boosts are? If you're not negotiating, the only way you're clearing GE5 without using Diamonds (which you've claimed in a previous post), is if you have either insane defense boosts already (or are using up the bottle boosts we got in the last event) or you're using higher age units (would SAJM units be that much better than SAV units?). So tell us, which is it?
Out of all the posting about GE5, this is the only valid positive point. Unfortunately, not enough on its own.
Comparing all but GBs. The Forgotten Temple provides 40% red attack (2.96/sq) which, iirc, is second only to Yggdrasil. The FT provides 50% blue attack which, iirc, is second only to Tactician's Tower L2. The value of the FT's 20% forge point boost is city-dependent but can make it the #1 FP producing building. Taken in their entirety, the benefits of the Forgotten Temple seem superior to any other buildings (excluding GBs) in the game.
