u/Azedenkae

I enjoy the game. I like having fun. But I am also lazy, and there are things that I just cannot be bothered to do.

So here's my guide to the game, from my perspective.

In terms of purchases, I bought no ads, because I cannot be bothered watching forced ads. Eventually I also bought contracts for my clan, but that's after quite a bit of success already. It was more because I felt bad for my clan mates than anything, cause I was not advertising my clan or anything like that.

1. PVP Raid is the core focus. The reason is simple - your progress is soft-locked by the maps you are on, as the maps dictate the rarity of the gears you can get. Yes you can get higher level gear otherwise, but realistically what makes the bigger difference is eventually replacing your gear with higher level gear. Thus this should always be what you aim to do.

2. Prestige as soon as you can. There are some debate whether you should finish bosses before you prestige, but I find this to not be necessary. None of the rewards from bossing, you cannot get from other sources, and so losing out on progress just to finish bossing is not worth it in my opinion and experience. Prestiging is how the massive spikes in power levels happen. I went from around 150k to 1 mil power level within 2 days of prestiging.

3. When you lose pvp raids constantly, swap to grinding sections. As far as I can tell, pvp raid difficulty is mapped to map level, so the easiest way is to just get a heck of a lot stronger. Often it just means getting a bunch of better gear from grinding sections, and suddenly you are back to being able to beat pvp raids. Gears really do make a big difference.

4. Can't be bothered with ranked. If you really want to, sure, but aside from pet food, time spent doing ranked can probably be better spent elsewhere - grinding sections, pvp raids, or just real life stuff.

5. Matching gears to hero 'main' stats is the easy way forward. Optimizing a character is great, for example the warrior does need some lifesteal. But it can also be time-consuming. The easy way is to just match gear stats to the hero's bonuses, in the order of: 1. gear of just the 'right' stats, 2. gear having one of the 'right' stats, 3. other gear.

6. Raid ads are the ones to watch. I cannot be bothered watching many optional ads, so I almost exclusively only watch raid ads to progress maps faster. Every once in a while I may watch a forging ad to insta-forge a relic gear, but that's about it. I don't want blacksmith upgrade ads. Sure, they can be good, but I can't be bothered. Plus, that time you spend on the blacksmith upgrade ad, you can spend just grinding sections themselves.

7. You don't need a strong clan to do well. Clan wars try to match clans of similar power levels, as far as have been the case for me. So a stronger clan just means all that more effort to win. With lower level clans, there's a good chance the other clan may be inactive, i.e. a free win.

8. You can spend lower rarity materials by mixing a large amount of them (like say 99) with a few amount of the higher rarity materials. In terms of probability, in the long term you'll get the same amount of rarity of gears, but it is nice to have a small chance of obtaining higher rarity gears.

That's it for now. Any questions, feel free to comment.

Howdy folks, see below the list of all events and my recommended selections (in order of the options). If there are multiple numbers separated by a comma, then that’s the priority in my opinion. Otherwise then both or all three options are the same.

The best option will always be either materials or actual gear, if not then the highest amount of gold. As far as I can tell, gear/materials are always of the highest rarity for the map you are currently at, or one level higher. Where there are two recommended options, almost always the first is a gear (or 100 materials) of the highest rarity of the current map, the second will be ten materials one level higher. So depending on your preferences, choose accordingly.

Arrow to the Knee 2,1
Barrel Bandit 1,2
Conspiracy Wizard 2
Crypto Goblin 1
Everything is Fine 3
Free Balloon 1
Glitch in the Kingdom 2
Goblin Influencer 1
Golden Egg 12
Hello Down There 1
Hero Down 2
Just Greg 2
Kiss the Princess 2
Log Trouble 3
Lost Explorer 3
Low Battery 3
Peace was Never an Option 1
Protein Potions 1,2
Ritual Trouble 13
Road Closed 2
Roadside Prophet 2,1
Royal Tax Audit 2
Runaway Princess 2,1
Tiny Fan 2
Treasure Pinata 123
Wagon Trouble 2,1
Wrong Castle, Plumber 2,1
Wrong Dimension, 23,1
Wrong Time Period 1,3
You Shall Not Pass 1,2

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Tried searching everywhere, no concrete information.

So I have been mixing 99 lower tier materials with 1 higher tier material.

The math over the long term is the same - that’s how probability works.

But!

The chances of obtaining different amounts of gears well, differ.

Over the long term, you have a 36.6% of obtaining nothing.

But! You have a 63.4% chance of obtaining at least 1 gear, including a 26.4% chance of obtaining two or more gear.

So it just depends on your risk profile.

But yeah. It is a use for lower tier materials, if you want to be more risky.

I am making a custom map, and for one of the cities I wanted to disable some buildings. However, it seems like it is not simple, there are preset options to choose from. Presumably they reside… somewhere, so I can duplicate and edit them if necessary.

But… where?

Steam, Windows btw.

Thank you!

The great:

• Triumphs. My original belief is that the legacy paths should have had variations to them, or expand out to new lines, but the triumph system works much better. Not only does it give boons to those who decide to focus on one path (the 'firsts'), but they are also flexible, allowing for civs to really develop differently, rather than being shoved into the same development template to try to hit the legacy outcomes.

The good:

• Syncretism. An interesting choice, and is fun. It does provide more variability to the game, and helps with the non-apex ages in a good way.
• UI changes. So far there are a lot of fixes that makes sense - the resource screen is so much more intuitive, for example.

The bad:

• Time-tested civs are kind weird. I played multiple games, and maybe Civ7 has already conditioned me, but it just feels really wrong seeing non-Anquity ages running around. I have ended up reverting to the original civ-selection method, i.e. apex-only civs. But I think over time as I get used to the changes more, probably a combination might be what I'd end up playing - starting with only antiquity civs in that era, then in the exploration age allowing for either to keep the current antiquity civ or change to an apex exploration age civ.

Just my thoughts so far.