City planning after the GB changes

 

We've been getting a lot of questions about which GB's to build, which to level and which to delete.  The only honest answer is it depends on how you play.  That sounds like a cop-out but it's honest.  This game isn't one-size fits all.

A casual Bob the builder type of player that logs-in, collects, takes spots on the 1.9 threads, adds to their own and posts their own GB's, maybe chat a bit, possibly do some GE, GbG and QI but just a token amount then comes back the next day.  This player will have different needs than a hard core, hyper competitive 1000 attrition fighter.  Yes they're playing the same game but they have vastly different needs so one size does not fit all.

So given that there will be exceptions to everything that follows here is the general view of the GB's as they appear on Beta right now.  There will be minor tweaks before coming to live server but nothing major in terms of boosts.

Disclosing our bias.  We value buildings and boosts based on scarcity.  You see it in how we talk about buildings and how the master spreadsheet values buildings.  

So with the first round of GB upgrades what should be apparent is there are a lot of ways to get GB boosts.  Now with GE so long as you're completing 80 encounters in trial 6 or higher you are getting all the diamonds and all the fragments for Forgotten Temple.  If you play trial 55 you will get fragments for Ancient Temple but not enough to place one continuously and it's not near as good as the Forgotten Temple.

We're eventually going to get Rival quests between events to get us more but that's for another day.  For now it should be easy to see why we don't really value GE boosts on par with base boosts, QI boosts and GbG boosts.  They're just not as valuable even if they were scarce.  And they're not.

*Note we are talking about main worlds here.  There will be a note about diamond worlds at the end as they have entirely different priorities.

GE boosts

Statue of Zeus - multiplies blue defense GE - multiplies blue attack GE *This is not just a addition like plus 24 blue defense this is take your blue GE defense and multiply by 1.6 type of thing.  So the stronger you already are the larger the bonus you receive

Colosseum - blue defense GE - blue attack GE

St. Mark's Basilica - red defense GE - red attack GE

Deal Castle - red and blue defense GE - red and blue attack GE

Alcatraz - multiplies red defense GE - multiplies red attack GE *This is not just a addition like plus 24 blue defense this is take your blue GE defense and multiply by 1.6 type of thing.  So the stronger you already are the larger the bonus you receive

Château Frontenac - red defense GE and previous era goods - red attack (base attack)

Arctic Orangery - red attack GE AND current era goods - red defense (base defense)

Seed Vault - blue defense GE AND guild goods - red attack and defense (base attack) 

The Blue Galaxy - blue attack GE AND FP's - blue attack and defense (base)

So if you have any of these GB's and like them for their base levels like the BG then the extra GE bonus is....fine.  No reason to level it past what the base bonus gives you now.  If your AO is lv 201 then your crit chance is capped at 50.  Levels 300-400 give base red defense which is good but are you going to spend millions of FP on that?  I would hope not.

CF if you can get it to level 400 now is ok.  If you're in SASH those previous era goods are valuable and from lv 300-400 you get base red attack.  That's good.  What's not good is the cost to do that.

No if you want base attack or GbG boosts which are more valuable than the GE boosts then we're looking elsewhere for GB's to level.

QI boosts

Castel del Monte - blue defense QI - blue attack QI

The Virgo Project - red defense QI - red attack QI

If you looking to boost your QI fighting stats then you have a red and blue option.

CdM at lv 201 gives a red attack and defense boost (base) of 730% and 600 FP.  That's solid.  

At lv 400 it gives the same 730% base red fight boost plus 600 FP as before and now adds 200 blue attack and defense.  For blue fighters this is well worth building and levelling to 400.

Virgo Project on the other hand is garbage.  It will offer the QI boosts but for red fighters but the base boosts are garbage.  There's no way to justify paying the cost to level this building when you can just put in some ascended side-buildings or gold league buildings instead.  You are better off if you're red QI fighter just getting those boosts elsewhere.

GbG boosts

Cathedral of Aachen - multiplies blue defense GbG- multiplies blue attack GbG  *This is not just a addition like plus 24 blue defense this is take your blue GbG defense and multiply by 1.6 type of thing.  So the stronger you already are the larger the bonus you receive

Lotus Temple - red defense GbG - red attack GbG

The Arc - blue attack GbG AND FP's - blue defense (base defense)

The Kraken - multiplies red defense GbG- multiplies red attack GbG  *This is not just a addition like plus 24 blue defense this is take your blue GbG defense and multiply by 1.6 type of thing.  So the stronger you already are the larger the bonus you receive

Terracotta Army - blue defense GbG - blue attack GbG

Himeji Castle - red and blue defense GbG - red and blue attack GbG

Observatory - blue defense GbG - blue attack (base)

Now we get to the meat of the discussion.  There are a lot of options for GbG boosts but not a lot of red base and/or GbG boosts.  Lots of blue though.

So we favor CoA and Kraken.  If you play GbG then build both and level to 400.  Both of these buildings multiply base numbers so they are the only future-proof GB's (along with BG).  We will continue to see fight boost inflation and these GB's will be better over time.

Arc is obviously good and it gets better as it gets bigger but that doesn't mean you should level it past 180 or past 201.

TA and Observatory.  Both good.  

TA lv 400 red and blue attack and defense 500%, blue attack GbG 6900%, blue defense GbG 3750%

obs lv 400 blue attack and defense 250%, guild goods, blue attack base 2300%, blue defense GbG 1000%, 2.5M coins

Obviously the TA is better but also a lot more expensive.

HC got a lot better.  First 10 victories have a 50% chance of giving spoils of war.  The reward has been increased.  Not enough to build it normally but if you go to lv 400 you get 10.2M supplies, 2800% red and blue GbG defense, 5200 % red and blue GbG attack.

Now the Lotus Temple.  First 200 levels are complete garbage.  150k happiness and 2.7M coins.  Then if you level to 400 you get 10400% red attack GbG and 5600% red GbG defense.  Obviously that's really good but you have to walk through sewage to get to that final destination.

So as you know this game limits city space so you are forced to make choices.  That's part of everything we do and it's no different now.  If you have the resources to build and level all of them go ahead but if choices have to be made I suggest the following.

Build the CoA and Kraken.  Then be selective if you want a third GbG GB.  You already have an Arc and Obs so you may just want to level them higher as it won't take up any more city space.  HC and TA are both good.

But what about red?  This is where you become strategically selective.  

You target buildings like Boo'lean Masquerade and ignore buildings that give blue attack.  You shape your city in such a way where you get all the boosts but the GB's do the heavy lifting on blue boosts while event buildings lean towards red.  A lot of buildings will provide both red and blue but when it's just blue, if you follow the above strategy maybe pass on that event building or the event entirely.  Just a thought.

Hope this answers the variety of questions we've received about what to build but in the end it's just an opinion.  Happy to hear yours or how we're wrong.