I don’t agree with many of the sentiments in this thread at all (regarding difficultly). I finished my first Egyptian settlement in 14 days without spending any diamonds. And using all the tricks I picked up the first time around I’m set to finish the second in 15 days LMAO.
Im sure that once people think about it a bit more they’ll work it out, or someone will write a detailed walk though and then it’s by the numbers. Either way I’m confident that once the % of 4* gets high enough it will be trivial to complete in 14 days well before the max reward actually requires it.
Comparing the settlements IMHO:
* Japan is the easiest of all; rinse and repeat to finish in 6 days once you max it, 6-7 before that, if you race market.
* Vikings I found more challenging to finish on time but that’s mainly cos it’s so dull and I hate it - plus the time reward isn’t good so there’s little incentive.
But getting back to complaining about Egypt some of the quests truly suck
* sell half your base to get enough diplomacy for the next tech
* sell most of those pots you just planted to get 2*1 thingies to get the tech after that (and that’s assuming you planned ahead and didn’t get the tech advancement until you could get both, otherwise repeat complaint 1 above
* get 30 of each resource by selling everything except pop buildings so you can fit 3* of each good building, wait 4h for those to finish and do the required productions, and then sell all that to fit 4 pyramids to get an insane amount of coins and spend a day clicking buttons to get across the line
* there’s more I could rant about but those are highlights
Seriously someone needs to look at the inane clickfest caused by this trash and change it to not be a complete waste of time. Selling everything to build 50+ pots and wait 1m for them to build only to sell them and replace them with some other trash just to sell those - OMG...