It seems like they are doing all they can to force us (especially the newbies like me) to have to spend our diamonds to participate in the events. Hey INNO, be nicer to us, ok? Think about the little guys.
As an example: I got this 'thing' in the Spire. I had no idea what is was. My Archmage said it was used to evolve the "Boblin" (what the H**l is that?! haha).
My point is, why couldn't Inno give me the "BOBLIN"? I would have been far more excited about that than getting something I can't even use!!
I see it from another perspective, esp for early game/new players. The Spire and MA allows new players the ability to obtain old buildings (base and artifacts). That is NOT a bad thing! There was a time when if you missed the original event, then wah wah, no main event building for you, and this included powerful buildings like Brown Bear and Fire Phoenix. It also means if you didn’t do well enough on current event to evolve something fully, even after FAs, you still have the ability to complete it later. Also not a bad thing! As an Archmage, giving new and weaker players the opportunity to catch up would only help my fellowship be stronger. Wait, but there’s more…if you succeeded
so well in the event that you got TWO bases or extra set pieces, you now can have multiple sets of that building. Still not a bad thing! I accidentally deleted a Witch Hut. Used my support undo to reclaim it, but I feel more at ease now that I have two of them. Didn’t need to spend a single dime. If you don’t need any of it, then don’t worry about it and frag away or ignore the event completely. Eventually, you will play long enough to not have room for every event building anyway so the FOMO is lessened about events. But for early players, the constantly need junk to frag is real. The Excavation event is difficult to obtain daily exclusives so it’s hard to acquire buildings to frag. Then you have an idle MA for a few weeks. The events do feel like a lot, but you can ignore them. If you have the keeping up with the Joneses syndrome, then the FOMO would stress you out. Who cares what other people are doing to their cities though. Like even people that acquired 10 Twilights…yeah, good luck with the sustainable pet food management. They got the bills paid though.