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Rival 1:
- complete 1 task get one overseer upgrade
- upgrade any overseer to level 2 get 25 event currency
- pay 50 goods get 1 time skip
- use time skip once get 25 event currency and a flower maiden
- finish 5min production 5 times get 25 event currency
- win 12 fights or 4 negs without losing get 2 overseer upgrades
- upgrade any overseer to level 3 get 25 event currency
- complete 3 tasks get Monarch's Edict of Provisions and a summerhold manor selection kit
- spend 100 FP on a GB get 2 time skips
- use a time skip get 50 event currency
- buy 5 FP get 2 overseer upgrades
- upgrade coachman to level 3
- 15 min productions 10 times get 50 event currency
- win 18 fights or 6 negs without losing get 2 time skips
- use time skip get 50 event currency
- complete 5 tasks get Edict of Provision and a grilling grove
- recruit 5 units from your age get 3 overseer upgrades
- upgrade any overseer to level 4 get 75 event currency
- pay 50 goods get 3 time skips
- use time skip twice get 75 event currency and a knight's pavilion
- 1hr production 15 times get event currency
- win 24 fights or 8 negotiations without losing get 3 overseer upgrades
- upgrade banquet steward to level 4 get 75 event currency
- complete 7 tasks get Edict of Provision and a hero tavern selection kit
- pay 200 goods get 3 time skips
- use time skips twice get 100 event currency
- recruit 5 units from previous age get 4 overseer upgrades
- upgrade any overseer to level 5 get 100 event currency and a golden upgrade to hero tavern
- finish 20 current age or 25 previous age productions of 4 hrs get 100 event currency
- win 30 fights or 10 negotiations without losing get 4 time skips
- use time skip 4 times get 100 currency
- complete 9 tasks AND finish 4hr production in any goods building get 2 Edict of Provisions and a jester's stage.
Strategy:
Have a town that is almost complete ready when Rival starts. Make sure there are 4 tasks that can be completed quickly and coachman is lv3. Why? Because you have to use 3 time skip to get to quest 16 and using them early in a city is a waste.
At quest 16 it is ideal to have started a new city. Upgrade banquet steward to lv5 right away. Now you can use the time skips when needed and easily to the 12 tasks from quest 16 and 24.
Quest 27 requires prev age troops so it's easy to plant a military building and use your traz if you have one.
quest 32 requires you to build a goods building and do a 4 hr production. Or if you have a production building that makes goods for a 4hr production you can use that. Space age players can just use colony. If you have to have a goods building in your city then you can finally use those goods productions speed-ups that aren't good for anything and just take up inventory space.
Rival 2:
- complete 1 task AND pay 50 goods get an overseer upgrade
- complete 1 task AND spend 100 FP on a GB get 25 event currency
- complete 1 task AND recruit 10 units from your age get a time skip
- upgrade an overseer to lv 3 AND upgrade spice merchant to lv 3 get 25 event currency and an epic fellowship selection kit
- complete 1 task AND 8hr productions 10 times of any age
- complete 1 task AND win 10 battles without losing get 2 overseer upgrades
- complete 1 task AND solve 6 negs without losing OR donate goods get 25 event currency
- use 4hr time skip OR 4 2hr time skip AND finish 4hr production in a goods building get Edict of Provisions and a royal oink selection kit
- complete 1 task AND pay 200 goods get 2 time skips
- complete 1 task AND buy 5 FP get 50 event currency
- complete 2 tasks AND recruit 20 units of your age get 2 overseer upgrades
- upgrade beverage and farm merchants to lv 4 get 50 event currency get fellowship selection kit
- complete 2 tasks AND finish 8hr productions from your age 15 times get 50 event currency
- complete 2 tasks AND win 15 fights without losing get 50 event currency
- complete 2 tasks AND solve 8 negs without losing OR donate 3500 current age goods get 50 currency and hero fragments
- use 4hr time skip OR 4 2 hr time skips AND finish two 4hr productions in goods building get Edict of Provisions and a finish all special production
- complete 2 tasks AND pay 100 goods get 3 overseer upgrades
- complete 2 tasks AND spend 400 FP on a GB get 75 event currency
- complete 3 tasks AND recruit 5 previous age units
- upgrade baker and butcher to lv 4 get 75 event currency and a ascended jolly oink pigsty
- complete 3 tasks AND finish 24hr productions of any age 20 times get 75 event currency
- complete 3 tasks AND win 20 battles without losing get 3 overseer upgrades
- complete 3 tasks AND solve 10 negotiations without losing OR donate 5000 previous age goods get 75 event currency
- use 8hr time skip or 8 2hr time skips AND finish 8hr productions in goods building 3 times get Edict of Provisions and a ascended royal carriage
- complete 3 tasks AND pay 400 goods get 3 time skips
- complete 3 tasks AND buy 10 FP get 100 event currency
- complete 3 tasks AND recruit 10 previous age units get 4 overseer upgrades
- upgrade coachman and banquet steward to lv 5 get 100 event currency and an knights pavilion selection kit
- complete 3 tasks AND 24hr productions from your age 25 times get 100 event currency
- complete 3 tasks AND win 25 fights without losing get 4 time skips
- complete 3 tasks AND solve 12 negs without losing OR donate 6500 Prev age goods get 100 event currency
- use 8hr time skip OR 8 2hr time skips AND 8hr productions in a goods building 4 times get 2 Edict of Provisions and Escutcheon Estate
Milestone rewards at 8, 16, 24 give 250 fragments of Arminius
Milestone 32 gives trailside smithy.
So obviously Rival 2 is a lot more challenging. 70 fights and 36 negotiations all without losing. We recommend not doing any fights on GE and just do the negotiations as the quests come up on GE. Why? Because with tavern bonus it's easy to do 36 negotiations and only have to buy an extra turn with diamonds if you're really stuck. You have GbG, continent map and PvP tower for fights.
There are 50 tasks that need to be completed. If you plan ahead and are able to rush supply quests it's very manageable just by spreading it out over two towns. What worked well on Beta was finishing off a town as long quests were completed and only accepting the reward for completing a task when there was a quest for it. Then starting a new town or you can just start from a new town as it's only a 3 task difference. The first 20-ish tasks are fast. A town will give 32-34 tasks depending on your overseer level so picking up the rest of the tasks on a new town is easy.
The quest to upgrade coachman and banquet steward to lv 5 will most likely be on the second town so there's no point in using those upgrades right away. If you start a new town when rival starts you'll have to complete 41 tasks so it's not possible to do it on your first town. However
Spice merchant lv3 (3
tasks in)
Beverage lv 4 (13 tasks in)
Farm lv4 (13 tasks in)
Baker lv4 (26 tasks in)
Butcher lv4 (26 tasks in)
Set the overseer levels as soon as you can to take full advantage.
Quest 16 and 24 require time skips which require event currency so make sure you have some banked or you'll have to spend diamonds. If you do this right you'll be using those time skips on the long quests so it will help you. The rivals provide time skips as rewards so you'll only have to buy 2-2hr if you have been saving them. Sure those cost event currency but you'll earn more event currency playing this rival than it costs so you'll still come out ahead.
So is it worth it to do the rivals? Maybe. The heroes are an upgrade but way, way, way better heroes are coming in future events that make these two obsolete in the very near future.
The rival quest rewards are kind of garbage considering how much you have to do to get them. So is it worth it?
If you're going for the top 1% league prize then yes it is because of all the overseer upgrades and time skips. If going for the gold league you will need to do about one town per day. Using the overseer upgrades to get steward and coachman from lv4 to lv 5 saves a lot of currency. The other special currency is good too if you can time it right.
Just remember when doing rivals to set your overseers to the quest levels right away so you get the benefit of a lv5 from the beginning instead of having it lv 3 then upgrading as the quest comes.
Good luck