DeletedUser9601
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what a bunch of rude replies a simple intelligent conversation is all i wanted but this hostility is amazing.
the speric stub 4x4 and 6900 culture points! wow that was worth working for way down there.
Trying to do this in a non-hostile way, so apologies if not:
I think you need to keep a few things in mind.
1. You are comparing apples to oranges when looking at "is this event worth it". You need to keep in mind daily prizes as well as grand prizes. Your spheric stub isn't that great anymore. Its 431 culture per square. The first day's prize (Burning Man) gives 4400 culture in 6 squares (733/square) for someone in Elementals. Pick up 2 of those and you've crushed the Stub's output and saved 4 squares.
Even if you don't like/want the grand prizes, you still have to acknowledge that on the path to getting the grand prizes, you are picking up daily buildings (which are hands-down better than anything except the supremely overpowered, and now nerfed, Winter Stars).
If you want seeds and mana, grab the daily prizes that produce that. They'll be better than anything you can build without diamonds (and there aren't any seed buildings you could buy).
2. Inno is rightly getting away from huge buildings that offer everything. You're looking for a large building (which is therefore more efficient) that offers pop/culture, mana and seeds!? Aka the best building in the world. In exchange for an event that you can complete in less than a week if you have 3-4 expansions set aside? That's waaaay too much to ask.
Its a pretty clear development decision, for a few reasons. A. with Royal Restoration, if people only had 3-4 super event buildings, then you'd pretty quickly stop doing events. Because you'd just upgrade your 4 spheric stub equivalents forever, and never need anything else. B. the "super 3rd grand prize" is really bad at creating a dichotomy between payers and free-to-play. We all whine that Inno just wants money, but the event prize structure is much, much fairer than those from say 2 years ago.
3. You can't just wave away the "value" that certain sets provide. I get wanting to see more pop/culture on Grand Prize 1 and 2, but keep in mind that the tier 1 goods given are basically population. Cornucopia gives 3.3K tier 1, which more than a level 26 marble factory produces in 3 hours. So call it worth 20% of a marble factory. Your marble factory costs 5.6K pop, so you're basically getting 1K pop worth of marble production.
I don't personally love this mechanic for my city - I've been wary of relying too much on set buildings. But you can't pretend that its giving you nothing. Cornucopia will be the first building I delete when I need space, but I am not going to ignore its value.
4. Inno needs to realistically offer variety. Right now you might want mana and seeds out of your prizes. But not everyone does. Someone like Soggy, mana and seeds are a waste because he's at the end of the chapter. So let's look at sets from the various events (not including pop/culture in these), and see the variety:
-Winter 2017 - offered supplies, coins, tier 1 goods, orcs and mana
-Spring 2018 - offered tier 1, 2 and 3, and supplies
-Summer 2018 - offered tier 1, coins, mana (and seeds for high levels)
-Fall 2018 - Day Set offers tier 1, coins and supplies; Night Set offers Tier 2 and 3, and mana and seeds.
[Aside: isn't the Night Set offering exactly what you want (albeit its hard to get for free), and if you got really lucky with some of the shrines, you could have a completely overpowered mana/seed production building.]
Conclusion - they can't (and shouldn't) offer the same building over and over again. The first few events, it was get a huge 5x5 pop/culture building that just sits in the corner and does nothing. Its a great building, and without a doubt "worth it," but that gets boring, and as described above, becomes problematic from a game development standpoint. Sometimes an event might not have optimized rewards for you at a particular time in the game. But that doesn't mean "write off the whole event as a waste." That sort of attitude is going to rightly get some hostility back at you.