Closed Week #36 2018-01-08

[DeletedUser96901]

I hope next week's prize is a full set of goods to build any Great Building.

then it would be: up to your era not higher

 

[Emberguard]

D: that'd be just plain sad (*re-reads* oh right, goods not BPs. Yeah that makes sense)

 

[Prinza the Hunter]

how much diamonds will a level 7 pillar cost ?

Someone calulated a L7 PoH at US$45 if buying diamonds. For that, I can buy the latest uograde to Civ IV and have much more fun.

 

[DeletedUser111866]

I hope next week's prize is a full set of goods to build any Great Building.

Ha ha, if so it'll be SOOO overpowered to get... imagine a fresh into IA kid acquiring full set of goods for Arc for free... at least 500FP boost at once, saving a tremendous amount of time to arrange those trades AND local age goods (which are expensive for that person to get!). So I think they'd count this boost as unfair and not do that.

Hahaha and we'll get the bonus of one premium production building.

A bunch of premium roads, more likely

 

[DeletedUser]

then it would be: up to your era not higher

That'd certainly be a bummer.

 

[DeletedUser110179]

how much diamonds will a level 7 pillar cost ?

Someone calulated a L7 PoH at US$45 if buying diamonds.

If you always choose the 80, 60, 65 and 135 cooler (in that order) ...

you'll get 6 DS + 1 TD Upgrade (or 5 DS + 2 TD Upgrades) ... making 1 Pillar.
1 DS should cost 600 FB ... making 6 cost 3600 FB (optimistically).

1 Pillar could cost 6,000 Diamonds or 8,000 (going badly) ... given that 1200 FB cost 1,995 Diamonds.
That's pretty much $40 - $45 USD for one Pillar ... if you bought the 11,000 diamond package (with FB on Top) ... and got 2 extra Pillars.

 

[vikingraider]

I spent 2000 diamonds on beta for 1 fully upgraded pillar but I was considered lucky

 

[DeletedUser110179]

Someone calulated a L7 PoH at US$45 if buying diamonds.

If you received an offer like this ... you could probably buy 1 Pillar for $30 USD ... 7 in total.
That must give a little push closer to the Top 10 rankings ... Mmmm ... smile and wave ... smile and wave.

 

[LadyHecate]

And for those that want to purely buy multiple PoHs, I'm sure that there'll be a Diamonds offer during the event offering free footballs that will reduce the overall cost of doing so!

 

[DeletedUser110179]

I spent 2,000 diamonds on beta for 1 fully upgraded pillar but I was considered lucky

There are a lot of horror stories out there ... and many unhappy souls ... so it's nice to meet a ray of sunshine.
At 2,000 diamonds per Pillar ... it's only 12,000 diamonds for the magical Seven @ One Blow.

Someone calulated a L7 PoH at US$45 if buying diamonds.
For that, I can buy the latest uograde to Civ IV and have much more fun.

More fun ... less Status.

With multiple pillars of greatness ... everyone can hail you "King of Disney World" ... how kewl is that.
Nobody will be there to applaud when you play (and win) Civ IV in single-player mode.

You travel a lonely road ... on the single-player route.

 

[DeletedUser]

Good afternoon.

 

[LadyHecate]

I can't believe there's this much traffic on a "Closed" thread!
Perhaps we need to start this week's thread ourselves and the Mods can join in later with what this week's roll over prize is?!!!

 

[DeletedUser104719]

https://forum.beta.forgeofempires.c...dback-forge-bowl-2018.8321/page-13#post-57272

Thanks @LadyHecate for the ref, that's a really good analysis!

xivarmy posted this analysis on the beta forum; for strategy 4 (some way down) he calculates a ~4% chance to fail to get a lvl 7 pillar for free. I know there are a couple of questions raised lower down the page, but for the most part that's the strategy I intend to attempt

 

[LadyHecate]

for strategy 4 (some way down) he calculates a ~4% chance to fail to get a lvl 7 pillar for free.

I just know that I'll be in that 4%!
Although I tend to find that I get lucky on these events; but then, to misquote a better person than I, those that play smarter tend to be luckier than others.

 

[DeletedUser104719]

You make your own luck ... or borrow other's

 

[AussieAlex]

Good afternoon.

Good evening! This is what I love about connectivity. Just waiting for a FP to come through, then shut down for the night.

 

[DeletedUser]

I love it. There's a player in my neighbourhood whose defence consists of two Rogues.

 

[DeletedUser110179]

Was the Winner's Plaza put to 4% for all ages?

According to the Changelog on Beta, people got too many of them.
Perhaps they should reduce the chances of getting one from 10% ... downto 5% (rather than reducing their value).

 

[DeletedUser]

Wow, that makes it hardly worth the space.

 

[DeletedUser96901]

exactly