Closed Week #12 2017-07-24

[Prinza the Hunter]

Seed Vault seems good to me. It has high rewards, too, so shouldn't take too much to gain levels.

Hey, I can play again, now!

 

[vikingraider]

There doesn't seem to be many seed vaults about.

 

[DeletedUser110195]

Seed vault is basically a wishing well GB, but the WW output isn't guaranteed because you get a shot at it with every polivate you do, so potentially every time you aid someone, and actually motivate or polish something, there's a chance at 50 diamonds with this. Higher levels increase the shot at that.

 

[vikingraider]

On the worlds I play I only have 1 bp across all of them for it.

 

[DeletedUser110195]

Well it IS an arctic future GB, unless you've specifically added people at or above AF, progress on that blueprint may be very slow.

 

[vikingraider]

I have 46 arctic orangery blueprints if that helps.

 

[DeletedUser110195]

Actually it doesn't, there's no age limit on building GBs, so a bunch of very dedicated players could've built that ahead of AF, and you could've contributed to their AO's.

 

[vikingraider]

I don't remember contributing to anyone's AO. If this rate of BP's from Arctic future GB's is the same for others through pol/mot it could explain why there doesn't seem many about.

 

[DeletedUser110195]

I was just theorizing why you might have a bunch of AO prints but almost no SV prints, but yeah it makes it awfully hard to build something if you have to go off of strictly polivating.

 

[vikingraider]

It takes some time to search others cities for age specific buildings to pol/mot.

 

[joesoap]

AO came out before SV

 

[DeletedUser110179]

Seed vault a decent GB?

Might have been if it gave fps ... it's like a giant Wishing Well or Fountain of Youth (but without the chance of fps).
I guess it could work well in a farming city as a means to collect diamonds.

Only one Top-10 player on EN7 (#10 jayamos) has a Seed Vault and then it's only levelled to 8.

 

[DeletedUser110195]

For the ambitious player working a low age city, seed vault could be very helpful on its supplies alone, but I do agree, FPs should have been one of the things it can give, instead of supplies, which it already does guaranteed.

 

[vikingraider]

So not really worth it then?

 

[DeletedUser110195]

It's a chance GB, you could get crap and shoved in it, you could have a day where you have ungodly amounts of luck and wind up with 10k diamonds. Every motivate, every polish, has a chance to give you 50 diamonds. Even if you get goods once that makes it equal to any goods producing GB. I think it is very worth building.

 

[DeletedUser109510]

so - I just need to collect the other 6 blueprints and then the goods

 

[DeletedUser110179]

It's a chance GB, you could get crap and shoved in it, you could have a day where you have ungodly amounts of luck and wind up with 10k diamonds. Every motivate, every polish, has a chance to give you 50 diamonds.

Some players have 20 or 30 Wishing Wells aimed primarily at diamonds ... so I would have thought that the Seed Vault would work in that situation.

Using diamonds in an event to buy extra tickets or apples certainly gives your city a great boost. Some people have propagated the use of diamonds on "the last bluprint" or maybe a land extension ... but if you really want to kick-start your civilization then events are key to your success.

So, the real choice is between farming diamonds within the FoE framework ... or buying diamonds with hard cash.

 

[DeletedUser110195]

I choose to farm diamonds within FoE, it would just take the enjoyment out of it to buy my way through with cash...and if I was at that point...I might as well just move on to a game without premium anything.

 

[vikingraider]

Different strokes for different folks

 

[Prinza the Hunter]

Different strokes for different folks

Thank goodness, since someone has to keep Inno in business!

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