I intensely dislike this whole event.
Why?
1. It takes a LOT more ingredients/quest completions in order to gain the 20 friendly spirits I need to gain prizes making it harder to evolve the WSC and harder to get many Royal Prizes - my own fault for spending 1500 diamonds for Royal Prizes before I saw how things were going to pan out.
2. I am completely unable to go for a nice number of the building I wanted. I hit empty spaces over and over again which is a waste of all the effort and resources I put into these quests - Where before I got to choose what I wanted to go for.
***IT'S LIKE SPENDING 84 KEYS ON A CHEST ONLY TO OPEN IT AND FIND IT EMPTY!!***
3. Getting 2 KP or 2 broken shards is frankly disgusting for prizes. Yes, I said disgusting. Taking me a long time to get 420 dang ingredients to get cheap prizes is ridiculous.
4. Frankly it just seems that INNO found a way to make sure we don't get as many prizes as previous events possibly trying to force us to spend more. I won't. I will never spend anything on any similar events.
5. When I do hit on a prize I take it, personally I prefer having the three chest option. I have more choices and the choices are on EVERY MOVE I MAKE - not occasionally running into one.
This is my personal experience. Slam me all you want for having harsh criticisms, you cannot change my personal experience with this event.
I'm seriously displeased with it.
Once you get the hang of the mini game, this is a better event for maximising
Grand Prizes vs. just daily prizes... it's also now an easier event to land yourself into Silver league without spending any diamonds, something which is basically all but impossible to do in the brainless '3 rotating chest' events (...as those ones instead rely 100% on being RNG blessed with gak loads of bonus currency!
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It's just a real crap shoot that the grand prizes this year is complete Ork dung!
Now if they were to give us, say a port of the FoE Wildlife event? Hot damn - now THAT'S an event for hauling in the daily prizes!!
(no seriously, this event was hilariously stupid-insane for daily prizes, even after getting heavily nerfed on the beta play through!)
@Darielle: We seem to get 1 really great event prize per year now.
This year's standout prize was the Sorcerer's Set, which not only gives out basically 2CC/day, but also can allow players to remove 1-2+ T1 factories depending on if you went for extra pieces or not!
...I spent more dias than I'd wanted too for a 2nd set, but then, I was getting absolutely RNG-screwed on the bonus currencies like so many others.
However, 2 full sets of that event's main prize is netting me in Ch9 19k+ marble & plank AND 16k+ steel per day. On top of 2CC's + 6 relics to craft 2 more/day... that's enough T1 production to remove all 3 of my current factories if/when I need more space for say, seeds/sentient goods, etc...