idavis has a video for how to play this event
Thank you for your recommendations. I've just watched them both. I didn't participate in the previous event involving a merging game because I was absent from Elvenar for about 4 months.
One of my Season daily tasks today was to prepare an order for a customer in the event. This is how I noticed the Daily Prize was a building I could use. My city can handle the Tournament both militarily and through catering. I have accumulated a lot of military instants and military buildings, so I think I could use some buildings that produce goods too. The Simmering Soup building looked like something I could benefit from. So I tried to get it.
I was not able to obtain the Daily Prize in my first city, and I did my best. On the other hand, I was happy to get the first artifact for the event main building, which I want to keep for its military production. I'm pretty sure I did not play this very well, but I don't think I played it very badly either. It took me about 400 event currency to reach the milestone that gave me the artifact, which happened in my next two cities as well. However, I was able to secure one Daily Prize in each of the other two cities.
My chief objective is to obtain artifacts for the event main building. I'm not sure I used my event currency very well.
1. I followed idavis's advice to keep the preparation table free and organized.
2. I didn't discard anything. I did my best to match the ingredients I spawned or merged with the existing orders.
3. I didn't discard any order, especially because I didn't know which were the best for my goal.
So now my question is: What orders should I keep and/or handle so that I will be able to get as many artifacts as possible?
Has anybody figured that out?