This event should be familiar with most FoE players so if you want to skip to the prizes. This is the famous "shuffle board" mechanic which makes this more luck than skill but not entirely. We'll discuss strategy as we go.
Event currency: Doubloons obtained by completing quests and via incidents in your city. If you are signed up for the newsletter you can get some free event currency there as well. It costs 10 doubloons to reveal a tile. And of course you can buy more with diamonds
Anyone who reads this blog should know that we don't advocate spending money on this game. This blog is mostly geared towards free to play players (FTP) but will show the options if you want to pay to win (PTW). This game has a few predatory game mechanics and we will talk about them so you know to avoid it.There are special tiles on the board.
- Double payout
- show two
- shuffle all
- daily special
- golden dragon - need three to unlock dragon board
- cannon ball - will destroy non-essential tiles. It can destroy the shuffle which can be good or bad depending on strategy. More on that later
- bounty amplifier - doubles the next reward AND reveals two tiles
- spyglass - reveals the hidden special rewards
If you've already obtained the key it will have key parts. It takes four key parts to make one full key.
More on this in the strategy section but if you want the "Queen Anne's Legacy" event building you will need to spend a lot of diamonds to get it. The TLDR is it will be cheaper to just pay diamonds for the missing days than to buy currency and play more boards. But if you want both the gold league prize and the calendar prize then you're better off playing more boards. Just secure a line of credit prior to the event starting.
Whenever you win special prizes on the board you will get a choice of one of two random prizes. Or you can pay diamonds to select both. Your choice or choices will then take up the eight slots seen here as scrolls. Once the eight scrolls are filled you will no longer get the chance to chose between two prizes when you uncover them on the boards. So if you want to continue to accumulate them you need to spend 3k diamonds for them and also get the special building "Enchanted Siren's Treasure Rock".
- Bronze will get you the 100 eternal market fragments.
- Silver gets you the bronze plus the platinum governor's villa upgrade.
- Gold gets you the silver and some golden upgrades, a building that makes fragments for the main event building and has some QI bonus and an ascended level of the governor's villa that lasts 90 days.
Play the boards everyday. When rival quests start wait until the rival is up before playing. It shouldn't matter as you'll end up playing a lot of boards so completing that day's rival quests will be easy but best practice is still best practice and wait until the rival start. I think the first and last day will have no rival quests but all others will. Look at the board before you start. Is there a dragon reward or is there a key on the board. If it's a dragon board then the goal is to find the shuffle. If it's a key board then you want to avoid the shuffle until you find the key.
This event does not have to be played daily and players can hoard event currency and use it all on the last day. If you plan on getting into the gold league and are a FTP player then best to aim for the bronze league and hope to get into silver. If you are in a guild with players that claim to be in silver and gold leagues without spending diamonds just know they are lying. There is still a stigma about people that spend money on this game without acknowledging that the high money spenders are the reason this game is free to everyone else. So understand that FTP players are competing against PTW players for the gold league. You get the most progress by playing dragon boards so it's not keys you are after it's dragon parts. So on boards that have a key you are looking for the shuffle to get a dragon part. On dragon boards you want to avoid the shuffle until you get the dragon part. Be prepared to buy a lot of event currency and watch the league progress move a lot on the last day.
- lv 18 - yes you read that correctly
- 5x5 requires road
- houses a rare historical ally
- gives 950 - 63,250 population
- 265 - 370 red attack defense GE
- 265 - 370 blue attack defense GbG
- 3,080 - 220,000 supplies
- 170 FP
- 3 fragments of pirate's paradise selection kit
- Captain's coconut paradise
- pirate parrot perch
- 1x3 no road required
- 1 - 5 % red attack and defense
- 4 - 25% red attack and defense GE
- costs 90 - 6,000 population
- 340 - 60,000 coins
- 12 FP
- 18 goods
- 1x3 no road required
- 3 - 10 % red attack and defense10
- 6 - 40% red attack and defense GE
- 15% red attack and defense QI
- 20,000 quantum supplies at incursion start
- costs 90 - 6,000 population
- 680 - 120,000 coins
- 12 FP
- 18 goods
- 5 fragments of 2h mass supply rush
- 1x3 no road required
- 1 - 6% blue attack and attack defense
- 5 - 18% blue attack and attack defense GbG (the tool tip amount is not correct, it shows 30% - 18%)
- costs 90 - 6000 population
- 70 - 6000 medals
- 12 FP
- 9 goods of prev age
- 1x3 no road required
- 1 - 6% blue attack and attack defense (may be rebalanced before live server)
- 5 - 18% blue attack and attack defense GbG (may be rebalanced before live server)
- 15% blue attack and attack defense QI
- 20,000 quantum coins at incursion start
- costs 90 - 6000 population
- 130 - 12,000 medals
- 18 FP
- 21 goods of prev age
- 5 fragments of finish goods production
- 5x5 no road required
- 110% red and blue attack and defense
- 375% red and blue attack and defense GE
- 25% red and blue attack and defense QI
- 250 FP
- 20 fragments of golden lagoon stronghold selection kit
- 6x4 no road required
- 60% red and blue attack and defense
- 180% red and blue attack and defense GbG
- 25% red and blue attack and defense QI
- 5% goods boost
- 400 FP
- 12 fragments of pirate king's conquest villa upgrade kit (needs 1,000)
- 2x5 and requires road
- gives 210 - 14,000 population
- 8 - 14% red attack and defense GbG
- 29 - 50% red attack and defense GE
- 850 - 150,000 coin
- 40 goods
- 40 goods next age
- 20% 10 fragments of finish special production
- 80% 2 fragments of Lagoon Hideout Selection Kit
- 2x5 and requires road
- gives 240 - 16,000 population
- 10 - 16% red attack and defense GbG
- 39 - 60% red attack and defense GE
- 1,140 - 200,000 coin
- 50 goods
- 50 goods next age
- 20% 20 fragments of finish special production
- 80% 3 fragments of Lagoon Hideout Selection Kit
- 2x5 and requires road
- gives 270 - 18,000 population
- 12 - 18% red attack and defense GbG
- 49 - 70% red attack and defense GE
- 1,420 - 250,000 coin
- 60 goods
- 60 goods next age
- 20% 30 fragments of finish special production
- 80% 4 fragments of Lagoon Hideout Selection Kit
- 2x5 and requires road
- gives 300 - 20,000 population
- 14 - 20% red attack and defense GbG
- 59 - 80% red attack and defense GE
- 1,710 - 300,000 coin
- 70 goods
- 70 goods next age
- 20% 40 fragments of finish special production
- 80% 5 fragments of Lagoon Hideout Selection Kit
- 5x6 no road required
- 30% blue defense QI
- 36 - 120% red and blue attack and defense
- gives 450 - 30,000 population
- gives 2,480 - 60,000 happiness
- 2,560 - 450,000 coin
- 100 FP
- 250 goods
- 20% 25 light
- 20% 25 heavy
- 20% 25 fast
- 20% 50 ranged
- 20% 50 artillery
- 5x6 no road required
- decays in 90 days
- 30% blue defense QI
- 72 - 240% red and blue attack and defense
- gives 450 - 30,000 population
- gives 2,480 - 60,000 happiness
- 2,480 - 900,000 coin
- 100 FP
- 250 goods
- 1% goods boost
- 3% FP boost
- 20% 50 light
- 20% 50 heavy
- 20% 50 fast
- 20% 100 ranged
- 20% 100 artillery
- 800 grand prize lane
- 100 calendar
- 100 questline
- 100 league
- 6x6 no road required
- 108% red attack and defense GE
- 108% blue attack and defense GbG
- 208% red and blue attack and defense
- 15% red and blue attack and defense QI
- gives 3,210 - 213,550 population
- 432 FP
- 510 goods
- 510 prev age goods
- 900 fragments from grand prize lane
- 200 fragments from calendar
- 25% red attack
- 25% red defense GE
- 25% red attack GbG
- 25% blue attack
- 25% blue defense GE
- 25% blue attack GbG