Major revision on 8/31/22 to:
- Include Runes, at 15KPs, in the contribution price for an Award Chest, for a total of 2/3rds Owner 1/3rd Others for leveling
- Explain that higher level players can use the Award Chests to convert Single AW Runes into Anywhere AW Instants
- Encourage folks to be proactive about ASKING for an Award Chest that they need:
- ASK the Owner if they can dump in KPs equivalents for 2/3rds of the Resources for the Level, within a day or so
- Claim the Top Chest (or the highest available Award Chest) for X Runes@15 + Y Instants@20 + Z Instants@5
- Provide the promotional services that will be needed to ensure that the Owner receives a full 1/3 discount
- Explain that contributors are to WAIT for a cheaper Award Chest if they can't afford the full price of the current Top Award Chest
(Preliminary Heads-Up for your Fellowship)
BUILD UP YOUR STASH
After the next tournament we will be switching to a NetZero system for leveling our Ancient Wonders.
Short Version: The Owner contributes 2/3rds of the KPs needed to level their OWN Ancient Wonder. An Award Chest is claimed by contributing EXACTLY the amount of KPs (Runes@15 + AW Instants at face value + raw KPs) that will be rewarded as AW Instants when the AW levels.
CONVERSION to an AW NetZero System
Shortly after the completion of the current Tournament, we'll be converting to a NetZero system for helping each other level our Ancient Wonders.
This message thread will address:
- NetZero Basics
- Drama Avoidance
- Some Details
- Implementation
NetZero Basics
1. Each participant (any Fellowship member or Neighbor) who wants to level an Ancient Wonder should ACCUMULATE enough AW KP Instant Spells to cover at least 2/3rds of the research points for their next level.
2. When you are ready to level your AW during the next 24 hours, or when somebody jogs your elbow and VOLUNTEERS to do the advertising in exchange for permission to claim the Top Award Chest, use a Fellowship Message (and perhaps include a few participating Neighbors)
3. In the AW message thread, ANNOUNCE that you will soon be leveling your AW. For example:
-- Katwick's level 17 Golden Abyss will be leveling in a day or so.
-- Reward Chests may now be claimed for: xx 45 35 30 10 5 5, including 3 Runes (The details are helpful, but optional)
4. Other participants may then claim an Award Chest by LOANING the owner
EXACTLY the number of points that the chest will award, in less than 24 hours.
-- AW KP Instant Spells, regular KPs, Free Daily Perks, and excess Runes (worth 15 KPs) all count equally.
--- (Note that your own AW will consume around 25 Runes every fifth level.)
-- Smaller cities will have a dearth of Runes, so they'll want the Rune Award Chests
-- Larger cities will have a surfeit of SINGLE AW Runes that they'll want to convert to ANYWHERE AW Instants, so likewise
-- ALWAYS pay the FULL AMOUNT for the Top Chest. If you can't afford it, then wait a few hours for a cheaper chest
5. Whoever claims the final open chest should post that the chests have all been claimed, whereupon the Owner should contribute the remaining 2/3rds of the KPs to level the AW. If there are still unclaimed Runes after 24 hours, and there's no immediate interest, the Owner will cover the missing KPs, and the Runes will be lost.
DRAMA AVOIDANCE
Most of the AW KPs sharing systems are vulnerable to sniping and "math errors," and you will tie up (or even lose) a LOT of KPs if an AW takes a while to level.
- Sniping is an attempt to "steal" a Reward Chest by out-bidding the current holder.
-- An AW with only a few KPs is an unattractive target for outside snipers.
-- A 24 hour window, at less than 40%, isn't very attractive either.
- If someone contributes MORE than they will get back as a reward, and thereby bumps the EXACT contributors and snarls up the NetZero paradigm, the owner has two options:
- 1. Distribute the difference to the EXACT Contributors who were bumped, and absorb the losses.
- 2. Distribute some extra KPs to each of the bumped Contributors, and ask them to juice up their contribution by that same amount. You can thereby bump the sniper out of the running for any of the Reward Chests.
Some Details
An Ancient Wonder has up to eight Reward Chests: that, taken together, contain:
- Instant AW KP Spells and Runes@15 worth 1/3rd of the KPs needed to level the AW
- The Owner of the AW is not eligible to win a chest
- The Reward Chests are fully detailed at
https://elvengems.com/ancient-wonders/reward-charts/
- A Google Sheets percentage value workup for a Thermal Spring of Youth is available at
Katwick AW Awards
-- The award percentages settle down to approximately 12% 8% 6% 4% 3% 2% 0.5% 0.5% = 36% of the leveling KPs
IMPLEMENTATION
Katwick's Golden Abyss will be our guinea pig. Other folks can jump on the bandwagon once they've accumulated enough AW Instants to cover 2/3rds of the research for their next level, and the idea of leveling in just 24 hours, at a 1/3 discount, starts to look pretty attractive.
Even better, if someone needs an Award Chest, they can volunteer to do all of the promotional work in exchange for claiming the Top Chest.
So they post: "
Katwick's Level 17 Golden Abyss has Award Chests for XX 45 35 30 10 5 5, including 3 Runes."
-- Folks can then claim the chests TOP DOWN by paying
EXACTLY the value of the chest,
--- Award Chest Value = X Runes@15 + Y AW Instants@20 + Z AW Instants@5
--- The Payment can be any combination of Runes@15, Free (Brown) AW Instants at face value, AW Instants at face value, and raw KPs
An occasional NetZero Status Fellowship Message (plus perhaps a few neighbors) can help things along:
"Katwick's Level 17 Golden Abyss needs more NetZero loans for the remaining 30 10 5 5 Award Chests, with 0 Runes.
The Owner needs 580-145-50=385 out of pocket."
We'll use a pretty soft sell during the conversion, as folks will soon realize that:
- They can level their own AWs in hours, rather than weeks, at a 1/3rd discount, with precise control over their AW Instants and Runes
- Smaller cities are now getting the AW Runes that they desperately need
- Larger cities are converting dedicated AW Runes to frangible AW Instants, at 15 KPs each
- Other AW systems are starving, because the experienced player are ACCUMULATING their AW Instants, and using NetZero.