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Henroo
Oh Wise One
I had been considering the idea of starting a new city for awhile because I had never played the early chapters under the current tech tree. When the AW update hit, my first reaction was that I will never do it. But after further thought, I decided to try it. Mainly as an experiment. We are all pretty sure it will now be harder for new players to build and level AWs. How much harder? I understand the game very well, know in advance what it will take to build and level AWs, play daily, and I also have 3 chapter 21 cities on the same account winning diamonds weekly in the spire. As a test case for a brand new city, I am basically the best possible case. To put it bluntly: if *I* severely struggle to build and level AWs in a totally new city then it will be nearly impossible for a totally new, inexperienced player to do so. In addition to the AW question, I am curious how quickly I can advance through chapters. So I am also making a speed run.
I started my new city on the night of Jan 19th, so as of right now it is one week old. I hit chapter 3 about a day ago. Ch 1 took roughly 36 hours (I started at night. I think if I started in the morning I could have done it in a single day). Ch 2 took roughly 4 days. I already had 2 human cities and 1 elven city. So I chose elves for the new city. This will give me 2 of each. My new city is in Sinya Arda.
So far I have not been outrageous in my diamond spending for the new city. I did go ahead and buy 1* premium expansions. It was just so cheap compared to the ones in my big, established cities that I could not resist. And I bought a 3rd builder. But so far, that is it. If I see a sale for premium expansions I probably will splurge. But until then I'll be patient.
Perhaps my biggest strategic decision so far in the new city is to delay building the magic academy. You unlock it near the end of chapter 1. And the questline steers you toward building it. But honestly, I consider it useless until you have the tournament as a weekly source of relics. Without the tournament, you can't make CCs or other enchantments constantly in the MA. You will run out of relics. As far as crafting, that does not even unlock until ch 3. But crafting really does not become a very good option until you unlock the Spire in ch 5. If it were up to me, I would not build the Magic Academy until I had unlocked the spire in ch 5. Given all this and considering how big it is (5x5) it did not make much sense to plop down a huge building which occupies an entire expansion in my brand new baby city!
However, a new season has just started. And a new event is going to start fairly soon. It is very possible that these might force me to build the magic academy sooner than I would prefer. For example: if you get a quest that wants you to gain spell fragments you are dead in the water if you do not have the magic academy. I mean, a ch 5 player with the spire might be able to do the quest by winning frags in the spire. I won't be that far along when the event starts. So disenchanting will be my only possible option to do a spell fragment quest. And that requires you to have a magic academy.
That is about all for now. I do plan to post regular updates to this thread about how my new city is doing and how it is progressing if you want to follow along.
*edit: When I first wrote this I said I had purchased 2 premium expansions. I rechecked it and my next premium expansion only costs 750 diamonds. Which is the cost of premium expansion #2. Therefore, I was wrong. I only bought 1 premium expansion. I have changed the text to reflect this.
I started my new city on the night of Jan 19th, so as of right now it is one week old. I hit chapter 3 about a day ago. Ch 1 took roughly 36 hours (I started at night. I think if I started in the morning I could have done it in a single day). Ch 2 took roughly 4 days. I already had 2 human cities and 1 elven city. So I chose elves for the new city. This will give me 2 of each. My new city is in Sinya Arda.
So far I have not been outrageous in my diamond spending for the new city. I did go ahead and buy 1* premium expansions. It was just so cheap compared to the ones in my big, established cities that I could not resist. And I bought a 3rd builder. But so far, that is it. If I see a sale for premium expansions I probably will splurge. But until then I'll be patient.
Perhaps my biggest strategic decision so far in the new city is to delay building the magic academy. You unlock it near the end of chapter 1. And the questline steers you toward building it. But honestly, I consider it useless until you have the tournament as a weekly source of relics. Without the tournament, you can't make CCs or other enchantments constantly in the MA. You will run out of relics. As far as crafting, that does not even unlock until ch 3. But crafting really does not become a very good option until you unlock the Spire in ch 5. If it were up to me, I would not build the Magic Academy until I had unlocked the spire in ch 5. Given all this and considering how big it is (5x5) it did not make much sense to plop down a huge building which occupies an entire expansion in my brand new baby city!
However, a new season has just started. And a new event is going to start fairly soon. It is very possible that these might force me to build the magic academy sooner than I would prefer. For example: if you get a quest that wants you to gain spell fragments you are dead in the water if you do not have the magic academy. I mean, a ch 5 player with the spire might be able to do the quest by winning frags in the spire. I won't be that far along when the event starts. So disenchanting will be my only possible option to do a spell fragment quest. And that requires you to have a magic academy.
That is about all for now. I do plan to post regular updates to this thread about how my new city is doing and how it is progressing if you want to follow along.
*edit: When I first wrote this I said I had purchased 2 premium expansions. I rechecked it and my next premium expansion only costs 750 diamonds. Which is the cost of premium expansion #2. Therefore, I was wrong. I only bought 1 premium expansion. I have changed the text to reflect this.
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(but all worlds would be flooded by new abandoned cities).