Unbelievable.
The wheel on my main city had not one, but two coin packages filling up green spaces earlier, one worth 30k the other 60k. I refreshed the wheel in disgust only for the fresh wheel to put both spaces on the wheel AGAIN where I promptly landed on the 30k space, which has only 1 map piece instead of the 2 on the 60k. Yuck. And the Victory Tower I see has been trotted out as silver space filler.
Is Inno trying to discourage players from spinning at all? Okay, I know there needs to be filler prizes to balance things out, but seriously. I already state that I rake in more coins a day with normal city productions, and there's almost nothing to spend it on. I'm cheap with buying FP, and I don't make goods. Plus there's Incidents, aiding my guild and friend list, and GE and DC rewards (though I usually reject the DC coin chests). When I can win extra coins on par with these packages on a near-daily basis, these "rewards" are not appreciated. This isn't 2013 anymore. A once a year event should have prizes that feel special; coins, supplies, and maybe even medals don't these days. Of course the changes introduced last year with 4 common, 2 silver and 1 gold feel even worse this year, especially since the avatar spaces aren't around any more. Now the trash ratio has gone up more.
Luckily, there's nothing I feel a burning need to acquire on the wheel, I have extra SoKs and Rogue Hideouts still in my inventory, I don't do heavy GvG so I don't need several age-locked Champion Retreats, I do fine with the one I keep leveling up, I don't do WWs in my main, and I have a pair of HoFs, which is enough for me. The popular event buildings have become easier to acquire with the DCs, and they usually appear in the big events because Inno knows they make money. If they need wheel filler, there's 5 years worth of summer-related stuff they can trot out, only 5 summer buildings and last year's sets are available in the DC. Boosts, unattached units, FPs, and BPs are fine for filler (though not BPs on the gold) too.
It will be sooner than that. You are in fall event territory by then. Fall is September. Halloween October.
(aka too many freaking events nowadays!)
Agreed, I expect Genghis Khan to drop first week of September at this rate, with the Fall Event closely afterwards. There's three more Historical Events afterwards, William Shakespeare, Marie Curie, and a Chinese woman I'm unfamiliar with. I suspect we'll have one in early October and the other two back-to-back in November. Late October is Halloween and Winter Event through most of December until January 4-5 is how FoE has long done things.
Yeah, this year has been loaded with events. Inno should seriously cut the historicals back to a maximum of 6.