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New GE Trials negotiation is completely broken

on January 29, 2025

FoE deleting worlds

on January 28, 2025

Sortable Spreadsheet of all buildings including new GE Trial and St Patty's day event

on January 27, 2025

Guild Expedition Trials is finally here. It starts on Beta Server on Jan 28, 2025

on January 26, 2025

Wildlife Event buildings are getting a boost. The only question is why ignore alpha feedback and beta world feedback and go live with an underwhelming building?

on January 26, 2025

Important Note. Claim your extra progress before it expires tomorrow.

on January 22, 2025

Sortable spreadsheet with every building in the game including St Patty's day 2025

on January 21, 2025

St Patrick's Event 2025

on January 19, 2025

Anniversary 2025 event

on January 12, 2025

Wildlife Event on Live servers

on January 10, 2025

Sortable spreadsheet with all event buildings including the Winter Event 2024 and Wildlife Event 2025

on January 01, 2025

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Guild Expedition Trials is finally here. It starts on Beta Server on Jan 28, 2025

If you've been reading this site over the last two years or Crash Cart's old blog before we took it over we've been talking about GE changes for years and it's finally here. Well the first part is anyways there's more to come. To make it easy what used to be known as levels will now be called trials. Expect to see trials/levels mixed interchangeably for a while as we get used to it. The first thing you do as a player is select your difficulty level. Easier, same as we have now or harder. The harder it is the better prizes. Once you select the difficulty level then you cannot change it until the next GE. Are we really going to call this GET? So once you lock-in that week you can't change. That may mean you select the easy one when a rival quest is on especially if there are a lot of negotiations. The first three levels/trials will be unlocked for all players and have to be completed before opening further levels. Ri...

St Patrick's Event 2025 Live Server Feb 20 to March 13

Event starts on Beta Jan 21 and runs until Feb 11, 2025 Live server Feb 20 to March 13 The event mechanics and strategy is the same as always so we're just going to talk about the prizes. Main building is a nine level Celtic Goldsmith. That lv9 then makes the silver upgrade which then makes the gold upgrade so we're only listing that building. Fabled Celtic Goldsmith lv 11 4x5 and requires road houses a rare historical ally 69-111 red defense 22-43 red attack and attack defense for GbG 46-67 blue attack and defense gain 530 - 35240 pop gain 2910 - 70460 happiness gain 3470 - 584990 coin 3 fragments of whispering fields selection kit random production 70% 121 FP 25% 143 FP 5% 231 FP read that as an average of 132 FP Blueberry Field 3x2 no road required 14-24 blue attack boost 14-24 blue attack and defense GbG 21 FP 9 random next age units Costs 190 - 12810 population Ascended Blueberry Field 3x2 no road required will decay after 30 days 28-49 blue attack 28-49 blue attack an...

St Patrick's Event 2025

Event starts on Beta Jan 21 and runs until Feb 11, 2025 We'll post an update for live server that includes all the quests. The event mechanics and strategy is the same as always so we're just going to talk about the prizes. Main building is a nine level Celtic Goldsmith. That lv9 then makes the silver upgrade which then makes the gold upgrade so we're only listing that building. Fabled Celtic Goldsmith lv 11 4x5 and requires road houses a rare historical ally 69-111 red defense 22-43 red attack and attack defense for GbG 46-67 blue attack and defense gain 530 - 35240 pop gain 2910 - 70460 happiness gain 3470 - 584990 coin 3 fragments of whispering fields selection kit random production 70% 121 FP 25% 143 FP 5% 231 FP read that as an average of 132 FP Blueberry Field 3x2 no road required 14-24 blue attack boost 14-24 blue attack and defense GbG 21 FP 9 random next age units Costs 190 - 12810 population Ascended Blueberry Field 3x2 no road required will decay after 30 days...

Wildlife Event on Live servers

For long-time players this event will be very familiar. The "Candy Crush" mechanic is the same as previous years with a bit of a twist. Event Currencies: Wildlife Coins earned by daily login, quests, incidents and cash shop. Tickets to open boards. You start with 4 tickets and if there are less than 4 tickets in your ticket bar then you will get a new one every 8 hrs. Once the ticket bar is full you stop accumulating tickets so don't let it get full. Pop blocks to move paws down. Make chests when you pop 5 or more boxes at once. 20 boxes gets you the largest chest so trying to match more than 20 is a waste. Frankly making chests is itself a waste if there are paws on the board. The goal is to get as many paws as possible and making chests is just something that happens along the way. While tickets are what you use to open boards; the wildlife coins are what you use to buy boosters. The boosters have reve...

Sortable Spreadsheet of all buildings including new GE Trial and St Patty's day event

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Anniversary Event 2025

Embargo until Feb 16, 2025 For the 13th Anniversary the merge mechanic is back. We'll go over the broad strokes as this is a well-known mechanic at this point. Gems: The board is filled with gems locked behind glass and a free gem that can be moved. You can match the free gem with a locked gem of the same color and level. You can create more free gems by using the spawner button. It takes event currency "energy" to spawn a moveable gem. Once you match a gem it breaks the glass and levels up. (You can also match free gems to level up and free higher level gems behind glass.) Unlocking gems advance the prize bar. Locked gems have a key part. There are only two variables. If you match gems with complementary key parts (color, level and type all match) it creates a full key. Feed the keys into the converter. The higher level gems provide more keys. Keys are then used to unlock treasure chests. Keys can also be obtained ...

Higher Age Units the easy guide

There are plenty of guides out there and most are good. Some are hard to follow and there are a few that are flat-out wrong. I'm putting this out because despite all the guides available (including one already on this blog) people still ask how to do it and there is a need for a hand-holding version. That's not a pejorative it's just the reality that there is a need for a simple and accurate guide. Getting troops of a higher age involves pushing the campaign map in a very specific way. Negotiate some sectors, fight others and completely ignore some. The other aspect is the tech tree. Deciding to go for higher age troops means you will leave certain techs unresearched because you will need them later. Lastly, the third leg of this adventure is working the story quests and side-quests correctly so you do not get blocked. If you mess up any of these three legs it may be somewhat correctable by forgoing some advanced age troops or by moving to the n...

Rival Quest live server Feb 11, 2025 between events version.

To me the only thing of value is the silver and gold Yukitomo Tower upgrades because the base building doesn't produce them. Milestones 8 – 25 fragments of Eerie Thrill Coaster silver upgrade 16 – 25 fragments of Yukitomo Tower silver upgrade 24 – 50 fragments of Eerie Thrill coaster golden upgrade 32 – 75 fragments of Yukitomo Tower golden upgrade Only one of us have completed the rival on Japan server so the values may vary by age. For example 1hr production 5 times may be 1hr production 12 times for your age. We normally don't put that value as it may be age dependent but people asked for it so here we go. Age specific quests are highlighted. Production quests are bold, italic and underlined. Goods are highlighted in grey. Quests: From Beta, will update and mark complete as it's finished. Pay 200 goods Recruit 10 current age units Finish 1 hr production s 5 times and gain 1000 happiness Complete 2 encounters fight or neg Buy 5 FP Spend 100 FP on GB AND...

New GE Trials negotiation is completely broken

The new Guild Expedition launched on Beta server Jan 28, 2025. Read about it here . We've been getting some feedback about how negotiations in the new GE Trials have seen a significant difficulty spike and it's now confirmed. The first encounter of level 1 on the easiest difficulty level only had a 32% chance of completion as opposed to the 100% currently on live servers. The above is encounter 28 on trial 1 the easiest difficulty. So on level 2 there are 8 good variables giving it a completion percentage of 13%. I don't negotiate and most of us don't that have established cities but there are people that do and if this is the easiest difficulty then that's ridiculous.

Has power creep made GE and GbG obsolete?

If you open the sortable spreadsheet and to to the "value" tab you'll notice the top buildings in the game are as follows. Stellar Warship Tourney Grounds Frontier Citadel Forgotten Temple Royal Bathhouse - Lv. 6 Neo Sentinel Neo Tactician's Tower Hydra Pegasus Frontier Citadel Tower of Champions Frontier Watch Shamrock Garden of Luck Starbell Reserve Roastery Ascended Royal Carriage Ascended Earth's Eden Lindwood Keep Orchard of Orange Dreams Glimmdrake Tower Golden Terrace Farm Centaurus Wyverntide Spire of Victory Captain Bao's Warehouse Thunderdrake Citadel woodland wager retreat Hut of the Sacred Instruments Inari Grand Shrine Neo Colossus Tower of Champions The Neo Queen Jade Booty Bar Neo Marble Gateway So you can see the top SAT and SASH GB's are still excellent. The new Frontier Citadel in GbG is excellent and is far superior to the older GbG towers. The level 1 is better than the level 2 Tower of Champions. The Tourney Grounds is still excel...

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