Currency is Wooden Bells. Acquired by completing event quests and incidents. It costs 10 wooden bells to visit a house on the board. Each house earns you 1-2 event pass points.
Winter Memories is the bullshit predatory diamond mechanic. Avoid it at all costs.
Collect three snowman parts to unlock a super board.
Super Boards do not have a shuffle so you need to complete it before the next reset. They will have special items
- two show two
- two double payout
- grand prize boosts. Each house visit gives 2-4 grand prize progress
Winter Booster items can be won in rival quests.
- Snowball blast - can clear filler rewards and shuffle. Show two, double payout, lantern coins, starlight coins and snowman parts cannot be blasted away.
- Toy Radar - reveals all special rewards on the board. (Shuffle, show two and double payout)
- Sleigh Combo - visit one house for free, gain double rewards and reveals two more prizes
Calendar Mechanic is back
You need keys to open the door. You will also need a lot of diamonds to open all the doors. You get one key per day and then key parts after that. You need five key parts to make one key or pay 500 diamonds to open one door. There are 32 doors. If you open all 32 doors you get the Calendar Chest.
Not all boards will have a key so you will need to burn a lot of currency to get to the next one if the board you're on doesn't have a key reward. It will be impossible to predict how much you will have to spend because of the randomness of the board rewards and the nature of the shuffle boards.
Instead of daily prizes you have the Item Store. There are two currencies you can use in the item store.
- Lantern Tokens - acquired in all boards
- Starlight Coins - from super boards and Winter Memories bullshit predatory diamond scam
- Lantern Stall - refreshes daily, one free refresh daily, discount roulette. Only spend currency on discounted items unless you're just a few days from the store closing after the event is over.
- Starlight lounge - refreshes weekly, no manual refresh, no discount roulette. Players get one free item weekly.
Winter Memories - Piggy Bank Mechanic
This is a bullshit predatory mechanic. Do not play this at all.
You can select a prize for free or pay diamonds to select both. You can spend diamonds to re-roll the available prizes. Once the bank is full you then have to pay diamonds to get the prizes in the piggy bank.
Just to make this super clear. YOU DON'T GET ANY OF THE PRIZES UNTIL YOU SPEND THE DIAMONDS. Nothing is free. It's a scam. Avoid it.
50 diamonds adds both prizes
20 diamonds to shuffle and I believe that price goes up every time you use it
2995 diamonds to claim the items you "won"
It's a scam. You were warned.
Rewards:
We posted the rewards here about a week ago.
So we'll copy/paste it and add the pictures.
All the buildings have also been added to the MASTER SPREADSHEET
Main Building
lv 7 Midnight Clock Tower makes the silver upgrade
lv8 Grand Midnight Clock Tower makes the golden upgrade
Royal Midnight Clock Tower
- lv 9
- 4x4 requires road
- houses rare ally
- 39 - 60 % blue attack and defense
- 96 - 180 % blue attack and defense GbG
- 2980 - 7200 happiness
- 2520 - 180,000 supplies
- 180 FP
Random Production:
- 50% 6 fragments Starlight Garden selection kit (100 frag required)
- 25% 12 (of 30) one up kits fragments
- 25% 6 (of 15) store building fragments
Secondary Buildings:
Snowdrop Garden
- 3x3 no road required
- 33 - 54 % red and blue attack and defense
- 1,020 - 180,000 coin
- 90 FP
- costs 810 - 54,000 population
Ascended Snowdrop Garden
- 3x3 no road required
- 87 - 108 % red and blue attack and defense
- 27 % red and blue attack and defense QI
- 24,750 QI coin and supplies
- 2,050 - 360,000 coin
- 270 FP
- costs 810 - 54,000 population
Starlight Boulevard Kiosk
- 1x1 no road required
- 3 - 6 % red and blue attack and defense
- 110 - 20,000 coins
- 10 FP
- costs 90 - 6,000 population
Ascended Starlight Boulevard Kiosk
- 1x1 no road required
- 7 - 12 % red and blue attack and defense
- 3 % red and blue attack and defense QI
- 2,750 QI coin and supplies
- 230 - 40,000 coins
- 30 FP
- costs 90 - 6,000 population
Toymaker's Atelier of Little Wonders
- 3x3 road required (
for now expect this to change) it's coming to beta requiring a road - 84% red and blue attack and defense
- 25% red and blue attack and defense QI
- 25% medals boost
- 105 FP
- 20 (of 150) Midnight Clock Tower Golden selection kits
Penelope's Northstar Nursery
- 5x5 no road required
- 110% red and blue attack and defense
- 240% red and blue attack and defense GbG
- 25% red and blue attack and defense QI
- 495 FP
- 12 (of 1,000) Yukitomo Imperial Sky upgrade kit
Northwind Courrier
- 3x2 requires road
- 98% red and blue attack GbG
- 98 FP
- 80 goods
- 10% 51 frag of finish special productions
- 10% 5 (of 150) frag of Winter Train Golden selection kit
- 80% 3 (of 100) frag of Winter Train Carriage Series II (these are the train cars)
Yukitomo Imperial
- platinum upgrade
- lv 13
- 4x4 no road required
- houses ANY ally
- 61 - 82 % red and blue attack
- 15% red attack and defense QI
- 200 QA per recharge
- 580 - 38,440 population
- 540 - 49,660 medals
- 88 - 109 FP
- 22 rogues
- 3 (of 100) frag of puppy hauler selection kit
- 3 (of 100) frag of sleigh builder selection kit
- 20% 10 self-aid kits
- 80% 1 self-aid kit
Yukitomo Imperial Sky Residence
- lv 14
- 4x4 no road required
- houses ANY ally
141 - 162 % red and blue attackchanged to 82 % red and blue attack30 % red attack and defense QIchanged to 15 % red and blue attack and defense- 200 QA per recharge
- 4,000 QA capacity increase
- 580 - 38,440 population
- 540 - 49,660 medals
171 - 192 FPchanged to 218 FP- 26 rogues
- 3 (of 100) frag of puppy hauler selection kit
- 3 (of 100) frag of sleigh builder selection kit
- 20% 10 self-aid kits
- 80% 1 self-aid kit
Charcoal Limited Express
- lv 10
- 7x3 requires road
- houses rare ally
- 108 - 140 red and blue attack and defense
- 300 - 20,000 population
- 1,030 - 25,000 happiness
- 1,710 - 300,000 coin
- 3,500 - 250,000 supplies
- 220 - 20,000 medals
- 180 FP
- 290 goods
Evergreen Limited Express
- lv 10
- 7x3 requires road
- houses rare ally
- 68 - 100 % blue attack and defense
68 - 100 % blue attack and defense GbGchanged to 168 - 200 % blue attack and defense GbG- 24 % coin boost
- 300 - 20,000 population
- 1,030 - 25,000 happiness
- 1,710 - 300,000 coin
- 3,500 - 250,000 supplies
- 220 - 20,000 medals
- 225 FP
- 215 goods
Sleighride Limited Express
- lv 10
- 7x3 requires road
- houses rare ally
- 68 - 100 % red attack and defense
- 168 - 200 % red attack and defense GbG
- 24 % supply boost
- 300 - 20,000 population
- 1,030 - 25,000 happiness
- 1,710 - 300,000 coin
- 3,500 - 250,000 supplies
- 220 - 20,000 medals
- 135 FP
- 360 goods
Dining Car Series II
- 2x3 no road required
- 410 - 10,000 happiness
18% red attackchanged to 18 % red and blue attack- 1 (of 30) mass self-aid frag
Sleeping Car Series II
- 2x3 no road required
- 410 - 10,000 happiness
- 35 FP
- 1 (of 30) mass self-aid frag
Freight Car Series II
- 2x3 no road required
- 410 - 10,000 happiness
- 55 goods
- 1 (of 30) mass self-aid frag
Parlor Car Series II
- 2x3 no road required
- 410 - 10,000 happiness
23% red defensechanged to 23 % red and blue defense- 1 (of 30) mass self-aid frag
Eternal Market - Galactic Horizon (Ascended level)
- 6x6 no road required
- will decay into Lunar Horizon in 30d
- when you collect you get three charges to give 100% boost of other buildings (works like a BG charge but with 100% boost and in testing it stacked.)
- 324% red and blue attack and defense
- 432 %red and blue attack and defense GbG and GE
- 100 % red and blue attack and defense QI
- 400 QA per recharge
- 8000 QA capacity boost
- 30% FP boost
- 30% goods boost
- 4,810 - 320,320 population
- 90 of each special good up to the player's current age
- 7,200 guild goods
Historical Allies
Nebuchadnezzar II rare
- 75% red attack and defense GbG
Melisende, Queen of Jerusalem rare
- 75% blue attack and defense GbG
Strategy
Before you play this event you should decide what strategy you intend to use and then stick to that strategy.
1) Go for main event building
2) Go for gold league so you can make lots of main buildings
3) complete calendar
4) maximize item shop currency to get the equivalent of daily prizes in the item shop
Strategy 1:
Play the event casually. Complete the rush quests and do the rivals. Play for free (don't spend diamonds) and save all your boosters for the super boards. You need to push the prize line a little to get enough to make a lv7 of the main prize so you can then make silver and then gold levels. Just casually play the event and pick up whatever you can. Once you unlock the snowman on a board stop playing until the next day. Your goal is to play as many super boards as possible as that pushes the prize line faster.
Strategy 2:
Going for the gold league and minimizing the amount of diamonds you have to spend means a very specific strategy of going for snowman parts and not keys. You want to do as many super boards as possible. That means on boards that have a key and not a snowman part you want to find the shuffle ASAP. Every turn cost currency and you will be buying currency to get into gold league but now it's a matter of how much. Use all your boosters when in super board as it gives the most advance on the prize line. You will be using your diamonds on currency to play more boards.
Strategy 3:
Completing the calendar will cost you diamonds but the question is how to bring that cost down. You use the opposite strategy of strategy 2. When you play boards you are looking for a key. Once you have a key for that day you stop. You do not finish the board you are on. You are not looking for snowman parts and if the board you are playing has that then you are looking for the shuffle ASAP. You are not buying currency trying to get keys. You get as many as you can and then pay diamonds to open the rest of the doors you did not have a key for. Use your boosters on superboards. Reveal special tiles to see special items. So the x2 and reveal 2 are shown. Once you find the key or key parts use the x2, then the x2 booster, then select the key tile for 4x bonus.
Strategy 4:
You are not going for gold league or intend to complete calendar. Instead you want to maximize purchase ability in the item shop. You want to play as many super boards as possible so you are not looking for keys you are looking for snowman parts. However you want to play on days that have a good calendar prize. That will maximize the rewards of the calendar by earning keys on those days and just use the key fragments at the end on the specific doors you want. Use all your boosters on the super board on starlight coins.
For new players we'd suggest strategy 1. Events are a great way to get good fast.
For established players this is another stinky event. The main prize isn't good enough to place in advanced cities. That means the gold league prize that makes more main prizes isn't worth chasing.
The calendar chest is pretty good but not great. If you're close to having all doors open then it may be worthwhile to spend some diamonds to open the rest of them.
Of the five of us that contribute to this site one is going for the calendar chest and the rest of us are playing strategy 4. We're going to just target the eternal market fragments in the calendar and then maximize the shop while playing casually. Eternal market fragments were removed as daily calendar rewards and players will the the 100 fragments if completing the all calendar doors.
Diamond City Players
For people who play this event in diamond cities we have some very bad news for you. Inno has removed the wishing wells, wishing well shrink kits and little wishing wells from this event.
Rush Quests:
- Collect coins
- Spend FP
- Defeat small army OR solve simple neg AND collect supplies
- Build 2 residential of your age OR 3 previous age AND pay supplies
- 15 min productions AND inspire population
- Recruit 4 units of your age OR 5 previous age AND pay supplies
- Build 5 decorations of your age OR 6 previous age AND collect coins
- collect goods OR donate to treasury AND spend FP
- 8hr productions
- donate to treasury OR solve simple neg AND 4hr productions
- conquer 2 sectors on continent map (fight or trade, auto completed if continent map is done) OR 24hr productions AND collect supplies
- win X fights OR spend FP AND pay coins
- build 2 culture buildings of your age OR 3 age previous AND gain population
- defeat med army OR solve moderate neg AND pay FP
- collect good OR donate to treasury AND pay coins
- 2 items AD OR defeat small army AND buy 5 FP
- collect 750 tavern silver OR win 4 fights without lose
- build 1 production from your age OR 2 previous age AND pay supplies
- pay FP to GB OR solve complex neg AND gain happiness
- visit 15 friends in tavern OR defeat X units AND collect supplies
- build 7 decorations of any age AND 1hr productions
- collect 5 incidents OR 10 productions of your age AND pay coins
- 2 boosts in tavern OR win 6 fights AND collect supplies
- solve moderate neg OR 5 encounters in GE (for live server the GE won't start for a day) AND 15min prod
- 4hr productions OR 4 items AD AND collect coins
- build 1 culture building of your age OR 2 previous age AND buy 5 FP
- collect goods OR donate to treasury
- spend 400 tavern silver OR infiltrate 4 sectors AND pay supplies
- defeat med army OR solve moderate neg AND 5min productions
- collect 3 events OR contribute FP to GB AND collect coins
- donate 150 goods from your age or prev age to treasury OR 24hr productions
- visit 20 friends in tavern OR defeat X units AND pay coins
- build 3 residential buildings of your age OR collect supplies
- defeat small army OR solve moderate neg AND 1hr productions
- collect goods OR donate to treasury AND spend FP
- defeat X units OR solve complex neg
- collect 750 tavern OR win 6 fights without lose AND pay supplies
- 3 items AD OR 8hr productions AND spend FP
- build culture of your age OR 2 age prev AND collect supplies
- recruit 5 units of your age OR collect goods AND collect coins
- defeat med army OR solve complex neg
- collect goods OR donate to treasury
- 15 productions your age OR 18 prev age AND spend FP
- win X fights without lose OR gain happiness
- 2 boosts in tavern OR solve moderate net AND 5min productions
- 3 incidents OR motivate/polish 25 buildings AND pay supplies
- complete 1st level GE OR defeat great army
- 3 residential buildings of your age OR 4 prev age AND 15min productions
- defeat med army OR solve complex neg AND buy 5 FP
- 10 productions your age OR 12 prev age
- build production your age OR 2 prev age AND gain happiness
- defeat med army OR solve moderate neg AND spend FP
- collect goods OR donate to treasury
- spend 450 tavern silver OR 15min productions AND collect coins
- defeat units OR solve complex neg AND spend FP
- 10 productions your age OR 14 prev age AND collect coins
- defeat small army OR 2 items AD
- build goods building your age OR collect goods AND there is an error code to complete this quest trigger. It will be a production quest so we suggest set productions for 5min, 15min, 1hr, 4hr, 8hr and 24hr. It will most likely be either finish one of each or finish x of any so set as above to be safe.
- win X fights OR solve moderate neg AND spend FP
- spend 400 tavern silver OR build 3 residential of your age AND buy 5 FP
- collect 3 incidents OR visit 15 friend tavern AND pay supplies
- collect goods OR donate to treasury AND spend FP
- defeat med army OR solve moderate neg
- 5 encounters GE OR conquer X sectors on map
- 4 items AD OR defeat small army AND collect coins
- win X fights OR collect goods
- spend 600 tavern silver OR infiltrate 3 sectors AND gain population
- build 2 cultural buildings of your age OR 4 prev age AND collect coins
- collect goods OR donate to treasury AND 1hr productions
- HAPPY NEW YEAR win X fights in a row OR conquer (fight or neg) 2 sectors on map AND spend FP
- open 2 houses
- open 4 houses and shuffle
- 6 houses and find lantern coin
- 8 houses AND key OR snowman
- 10 houses AND lantern coin
- 10 houses AND shuffle
- 10 houses AND key OR snowman
- 10 houses AND lantern OR starlight coins
- 10 houses AND reveal 2 OR 2x boost
- 10 houses AND key OR snowman
- 10 houses AND lantern OR starlight coins
- 10 house AND reveal 2 OR 2x boost
- 10 houses AND key OR snowman
- 10 houses AND lantern OR starlight coins
- 10 houses AND reveal 2
- 10 houses AND key
- 10 houses AND starlight coins (these are only found on super boards so cue up a superboard before this rival starts)
- 10 houses AND snowman
- 10 houses AND key
- 10 houses AND starlight coins (these are only found on super boards so cue up a superboard before this rival starts)
- 10 houses AND shuffle
- 10 houses AND 2x boost
- 10 houses AND starlight coins (these are only found on super boards so cue up a superboard before this rival starts)
- 10 houses AND key
- 10 houses AND starlight coins (these are only found on super boards so cue up a superboard before this rival starts)
- 10 houses AND snowman
- 10 houses AND key
- 10 houses AND lantern OR starlight coins
- 10 houses AND reveal 2 OR 2x boost
- 10 houses AND key OR snowman
‘ Of the five of us that contribute to this site one is going for the calendar chest and the rest of us are playing strategy 4. We're going to just target the eternal market fragments in the calendar and then maximize the shop while playing casually.’
ReplyDeleteHowever, there are no eternal market fragments on the calendar.
You are absolutely correct and we will change it now so people don't get bad advice.
DeleteWhen we make these guides they're normally done as testing is ending and we will wait for an embargo to publish which is typically a few days before the event is announced on Beta server.
In this case we waited until Oct 26 to publish. It was announced on October 28 and went to Beta on October 29.
Here is our post from the 26th
https://forgeaddicts.blogspot.com/2024/10/winter-event-starting-on-beta-server.html
Somewhere from testing to launch on the Beta server the four doors that rewarded eternal market fragments were changed. I don't remember the actual door numbers but it was 10frag, 20, frag, 30 frag and 40 frag of eternal market. Those were removed and instead players can get the 100 frag only from completing the calendar, not from individual days.
When we make the live server version of the event we typically mark the changes showing a strike-through and give the update. In this case we missed it and we apologize.
Thank you for letting us know and helping other FoE players.
Siii il mio proposito per il nuovo anno è smettere con questa droga rubatempo! 😂 Purtroppo l'anno scorso mi ero posta lo stesso obiettivo 🤦🏻♀️
DeleteGrazie per vostro lavoro, per i consigli e per la simpatia
The translation for non-Italian speakers is.."Be my New Year's resolution is to quit this time-stolen drug! 😂 Unfortunately last year I set myself the same goal"
DeleteMany people have stepped away only to feed the addiction again. Give yourself permission to miss events. Or maybe drop to a casual guild and just collect daily and putter around in GbG, QI and GE with no demands or requirements to do anything. For me personally that's what I did to find out if I liked the game or if I was just doing guild activities out of obligation.
Molte persone si sono allontanate solo per alimentare nuovamente la dipendenza. Concediti il permesso di perdere gli eventi. O magari passare a una gilda informale e semplicemente raccogliere quotidianamente e putter in giro in GbG, QI e GE senza richieste o requisiti per fare nulla. Per me personalmente è quello che ho fatto per scoprire se mi piaceva il gioco o se stavo solo facendo attività di gilda per obbligo.
"...Winter Memories bullshit predatory diamond scam." You hit that nail smack dab on the head.
ReplyDeleteThank you. We don't have a financial relationship with Inno Games so we will give you our honest opinions at all time. We enjoy the game, we all play it but the predatory monetization is getting worse and we have to call it out when we see it. The positive feedback is appreciated as we have gotten a lot of negative feedback for "talking bad about the game".
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