A Second great statement by thanatos this week. Myself: I joined all 3 Easter events, the first one was awesome until the end, but at the second my motivation dropped, and with the 3rd, I was hoping at the finish already after 4 days. Time for summary.
First is that at the Easter 2013 you where able to choose rewards yourself, as main items: Wishing Well, rogue hideout and watchtowers. It was amazing: choose your own rewards, and so many from unique buildings never shown before.
Easter 2014 was different. Another troop was introduced, the champion. But those camps need to be renovated, rogues not. Also the shrine of knowledge was introduced, but they put it in the golden chest. Remembered I wrote my complains about putting such an item behind a fruitmachine, and that some players spend maybe a thousand of euro to get the city full of SoK. And see how many impact this still have a year later. But really going that Easter for shrines, the chance was bigger that after a whole event you did stay without, only by buying you where able to get those by law of big numbers. However, there where other items in that golden chest that where interesting, 30% chance on a king/queen, WW 10%, renokit 10% rogue hideout 20%. Had something against that fruit machine mechanism, but most rewards where at least great.
Easter 2015: A big disappointment. No rogues at all (World M stays rogue free), champ available for gamble, but a worthless drummer school. Drummers instead of rogues... not even worth it to even consider that! Lets look at the other rewards. Renokit and WW stay the same available for pick, watchtowers more expensive: 75 instead of 50 eggs. but... hold on here comes the golden chest, a champions retreat inside: so you need luck if you want one: however if you already have one then you don't need a second. Not many spend 2 renos on 2 champs. Then the SoK, the only awesome reward in the chest, chance dropped from 10% to 5%. Shrine of Awe, not great at all. Gives less coins then kings/queens and just 10% chance to win it. Oasis, either, not great, little coins, and just a few goods. If you need goods it goes faster to produce it with a normal goods building.
A last addition about those coins buildings. I absolutely need more coins and supplies. But the buildings look so much the same: king/SoA, haunted house, oasis, gingerbread. Same can be said about these 3x3 cultural buidlings, and supply buildings. To make new ones of things that look like something else is a waste of development time, do it easy and just put a king inside, and try develop a new WOW (not fruit machine) item instead.
Hope that the negative line will hold and that next year we have an exciting Easter event.
15 minutes to go, before Easter arrives, enjoy your blessing days.