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Your Elvenar Team
Yes, sadly, the Phoenix Lighthouse is a set building from a much earlier event. In my opinion, that event has some of the most beautiful artwork. I am still using RR spells on them today to keep them just barely justifiably beneficial so they can stay in my city. So pretty.
He's not talking about the prizes, but about the quests, which have fewer roadblocks to stop some people from finishing.
I'm not sure what you are referring to when you say "waiting longer means it's watered down." If they offer a building that gives 1000 coins every 24 hours and another that gives 3000 coins every 72 hours, in the long run most people are better off with the 72 hour collect. The reason is that you have to be so much more diligent about collecting on time for shorter collection periods. If I check my city about every 3 hours I'm going to be 1.5 hour late collecting things on average. Losing 1.5 hours on a 24 hour hour production is a loss of 6.25% of the max production, but 1.5 hours on a 72 hour production is a loss of only 2.08%. Not a huge difference perhaps, but hardly watered down if you typically end up with more.
You're not factoring opportunity cost into the equation. What you say is correct for anyone who does not face a scarcity of the goods in question, but cities in early chapters are facing a hard stop because they lack enough coin or supplies to complete any action. If your factories have to sit idle over night becuase you don't have enough coins to set them, then you've lost goods becuase you can't access the first third of the coins in your building for the next 48 hours.
I still don't like the term "watered down" because it's really just different if not superior. Most people gain for the reasons I gave. That 'hard stop" is really akin to the hard stop we all experience when we upgrade a production building. For some period of time while it upgrades we totally stop producing. There may very well be other upgrades or progress that is delayed because we aren't producing that item, but we upgrade our buildings anyway because in the long run we benefit from increased production. Getting an additional 4% production during the life of that building is probably more beneficial than avoiding a 48 hour delay on some other progress one might be making by collecting from that building sooner.
Same, minus 1. Sort of a slap-in-the-face kinda way to get going I thought
my biggest concern is that it could need pet food, I can't make pet food fast enough to satisfy the hungry pets that I have now
Thanks for letting me know ... dang, I wish they'd bring them back.
