Free-to-Play or "be competitive"? Do I play chess just to move pieces around on board, or to defeat opponent?
I am founder and leader of the Alcatraz, 3-member guild
This is a mass-multiplayer size game, therefore the most important resource is playing alongside other players on the same team. No amount of money would help that small of a Guild win. It just wouldn’t change how fast you can hit a sector enough to provide a win against a competitive opponent.
To be competitive you’re going to want a
minimum of
20 players online each time you’re taking a tile. Ideally you want as close to
80 active players as possible, but 20 is a starting point. That’s going to create a ton of lag, but you’ll capture the province fairly quick.
If you are in SAT, city need offensive boost of 5400/5200 min (1.4 X rate). Can you achieve this boost in Free-to-Pay mode
Yes. Absolutely. I’m confident given enough time and strategy I could reach 6k / 8k in red, and 4k / 11k in blue for SAT using only what’s currently in the game without spending any money. That’s only going to increase as new buildings get released with more effective stats
The fastest way to get there will be through any building that generates offspring buildings and ensuring you keep updating your town with whatever you can get your hands on. The more you can diversify that strategy with each coming Event the faster it’ll become.
When Fellowship Event comes back round, if you can get yourself Sunhaven Palaces, or the Jester Stage, get those. That will help speed things up exponentially in the long run due to the
Finish Special.
Same sort of deal with the
Soccer Event. If you can get the
Aegeon Resort when that comes back round, that’ll speed up your growth with the Finish Special.
Any Event that offers an opportunity to spawn a building that provides Finish Special is a building you ”should” be going after. Granted only 1% of players will be able to get into Gold League. So if you were after Gold League buildings you’d want to make sure you‘ve saved up enough diamonds before dumping it all in trying to reach Gold.
Even without the Gold League spawner, just
1 Sunhaven Palace coupled with the
Blue Galaxy at lvl 91 will net you 18 Jesters Stage over the course of a year, providing two Finish Specials per day that can be used on anything to increase your overall rate of growth
Chateau Frontenac is probably the most effective tool a Free-to-Play player has for generating diamonds prior to reaching Titan. It’s unclear what Space Age Hub will bring, so if you’re already in Titan (and not starting any other worlds just to go through Quests) the next best thing is probably the
Seed Vault for Diamond generation.
If you’re able to reach the top 500 of your world in
PvP Arena and stay there that would provide a weekly chance at some diamonds. That will definitely take a bunch of Medals to achieve, and be dependent on how active your world is for how easy or difficult that is to obtain.