Sorry to derail your thread
@Dzesyi9 , but I don't want newer players to have inaccurate info on a topic even if they post it in a different thread.
the favored good will be on the top left of the screen
That's incorrect. The tourney names are
relic based, not goods based. This week's tourney will be Dust. You will have all dust provinces that you have completed available for tourney rounds. As you progress through the chapters and on the world map, your provinces available for a tourney will continue to increase as you complete them. If you were to complete a dust province during a dust tourney, it would immediately be added to your available provinces for that tourney. All of the FS relics received in the chests after the tourney ends will be dust relics. The tourneys do follow the order of goods (that's been the case for both structures of tourneys) as they are listed in the HUD interface at the top your screen.
Before the changes in Oct 2020, the only resources required for catering were coins/supplies (those ended at some chapter, but I can't remember which one) and regular goods. Then, the most required goods for a tourney were the goods that corresponded to the tourney relic type and the goods from the other 2 tiers that were in the same location for their respective tier. So, dust would have been dust, steel, scrolls; marble would have been marble, crystal, elixir, etc. under that system. Those items were required ~80% of the time with all other goods accounting for the remaining ~20%
In the announcement for the
new tourney structure in Oct 2020, here is the quote about the changes for goods:
"Requested Goods in Catering are no longer tied to Tournament types (e.g. previously mostly Planks, Silk and Gems in Planks Tournaments). Instead, a random selection of resources available to players in specific Chapters is made for each Encounter. These resources can now also include Coins, Supplies, Mana and Orcs. The table below indicates in which Chapters certain resources can appear in Tournament Encounters:"
I'm 100% combat in the Spire and know nothing about how the required resources for diplomacy work. The company never tells us these things. The formula for combat in the spire (those things in your city that cause Spire squad size to increase, thus increasing losses that have to be replaced) was determined through crowdsourced data by a brilliant mathematician
MinMax Gamer and remain accessible on his site even though he's no longer here. I've not seen anything like that done for catering/diplomacy.