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Your Elvenar Team
Yes, I clarified my comment that it was a grand prize. Sorry for the confusion. I also got today's "daily prize" the one boost of 8 hours. Boy that seems like a letdown all right, particularly since I got the 4 boosts a few days ago. I wonder why they would do that.
It does appear in grand prizes, more than once, but was also offered as the daily on day one, and on no other day, apparently.
I just hope enough players read these posts are avoiding trying to go for the daily prize. It's not worth it. Wait for the 4x 8hr boost, then it's worth going for it.
I've been hearing a lot of chatter about needing a major amount of sentient goods in the latest chapter, and time boosts being one of the only ways to acquire them...pehaps these time boost prizes are more targetted to the advanced cities. although, as they can be crafted and won in the spire quite regularly, I do agree they are not as valuable as when they first appeared in the game.
I recently completed Chapter 15. I didn't use too many time instants, but when I did I used 1 and 2 hour instants on 3hr productions rather than 1 and 8 hour instants on 9 hour productions because 3hr productions give you so much more goods per hour. Although it's too late now I would say that the best prize to go for to get through chapter 15 would have been 10x MM spells. A MM spell gives 50% more goods for 13hours. That's like getting 6 more hours of goods per spell if you did 3hr productions. Ten of them would be like 60 hours of goods. That will give you more goods than 4x8hr time instants which is basically 24 hours of goods. (I know that's weird math, but if you use 8hr instants you need to do 9hr productions. 9hr production produce as much goods as 2x 3hr productions so each 8hr instant gives only about 6 hours of goods so 4x6=24 hours of goods). If you build and upgrade the Elvenar Trading Center the MM spells become even more productive. It should also be noted that using time instants requires that you have the necessary seeds to run the factories for those hours. Increasing production using MM spells does not require additional seeds. I only mention this as something to keep in mind for future events or perhaps if you have the choice between crafting time instants and MM spells.
Wow, this is all great info and I now have a game plan. Thank you! I'm not so nervous heading into that chapter anymore. I've been building a good stock of mm spells and will now focus on advancing my ETC. The portal profit suggestion is huge...I have so many of those and have never really given them much attention.
I agree. It was pretty great being able to sell off my entire settlement except my level 4 portal pretty early on. I think I needed about 2300% worth of Portal Profits to do that once I got my portal to level 4. Of course you're going to want to be super duper extra sure you won't need anything except Portal Profit goods before selling your settlement. Also check mandatory storyline quests to make sure you can complete the remaining ones without having a settlement. I don't know if it saved me any time, it still took me about 4 months to finish the chapter, but like you said it was nice to only have to deal with accumulating the ginormous amounts of T6 goods and not have to deal with the settlement and its multiple generations of goods.I would think that late-game players would prefer the 20% PP's vs. the 4x 8hr time boosters for quickly progressing through the guest race chapters myself...
Skipping out entirely on the whole 'collect A -> makes B/C/D -> refines into X/Y/Z' and instead just going strait to the 'X/Y/Z' is just so much easier, and allows the city instead to just focus on the main goods production required for the researches vs. having to balance BOTH the giganormous guest race buildings + added manufactory requirements.
I believe it is a lot less than that. The whole chapter is about 1600% PP IIRC.
Only if you don't have enough already. Once you have required amounts of PP, the rest is useless. With Spire, and permanent PP producers my average PP production is > 15% a day without any expiring PP producers. At least timeboosters can be used for troop production.
What am I missing? I've got 5 from the Fire phoenix, but that's it
5% /2d from fire feniks and icebear
There are 21 techs that take portal goods. Unless you pay a lot of attention, you will need to almost fill the portal each time. Maybe you save a 5% every now and then. So there is a lot of waste as some of the portal goods overflow - big deal. Just think of it as needing 21 fills. Since there are various ways to get PPs from the spire, Trading Outpost and Station, and a few event building you don't need to have all 21 of them ready and waiting. I only built 1 vault to level 2 because I like doing the questlines. Using PPs gave the added bonus of being able to use the adv. vault and improved academy techs for event quests. I also used the two early optional techs, the Flow of Magic Statue and Dolphin Fountain for event quests. However, I did not touch the optional squad upgrade techs.
I think you're right. I probably had 2300% but needed only 1600%. I know I had significantly more than I needed. In any case folks can count for themselves. I just counted 100% for every tech that needed PP goods even though some required less.
Just out of curiosity how many permanent PP producers do you have? 15% a day sounds high, but I've never actually tried to keep track of how fast I accumulate PPs. I think my Fire Phoenix is my only permanent PP producer. I didn't evolve my Polar Bear enough to get them.
Good idea. I already have 42 fills of the portal. I'll just have to start upgrading the vortex, though I doubt I'll be able to get it to level 30's 50% increase. Too many others to work on too. With 237 AW levels, I've got a long way to go to get near your count.
You are right I just looked in the wiki. Upgrading the vortex cost more KP than upgrading the Maze, which had been the most expensive one.