u/Real_Temporary_922

Hi everyone,

I’m not a developer, but I messaged Rusty to see if I could get any insight into the upcoming clan wars feature. Got permission from them to leak this, so here’s what was said:

“So our clan wars will have different days with different goals. In the first iteration, some days will include earning points by forging, among other things. And f.e. on other days, there will be battles between clan members where hammers aren't involved - just pure, fair PvP.”

He also mentioned that the goal is 1-2 weeks from now, so if you aren’t stockpiling your hammers, I highly recommend you do. Use just enough to complete your battlepasses and always have your forge upgrading, then stop there.

Now “among other things” can mean a lot. This might mean hatching eggs, starting tech upgrades, etc. However, saving these items in mass will hinder your growth, and unless you have thousands of gems to use, you can’t hatch enough / research enough in a day to make saving worth it. For skill cards, those are so important to growth that until we know the exact day it releases, I wouldn’t save too many of those either.

Good luck!

I did some math to determine the tradeoff of merging and it essentially comes down to what you value more. The short answer is that f2p and low spenders shouldn’t merge while high spenders absolutely should.

This isn’t the exact same since chest rewards differ per kingdom progress, so I’ll share mine to give you all a reference.

1 common chest = 500 gems, 400 gear xp, 80 mins speedups
1 tidal chest = 6 gear chests, 600 gear xp, 240 mins speedup
1 premium chest:
75% chance: 12 hammers, 8 gear chests, 2 mythic shard
25% chance: 36 hammers, 24 gear chests, 6 mythic shards

In my math, I averaged the premium chests into a single chest, but good or bad luck can affect your outcome.

Here’s what I calculated in my kingdom. The numbers may change for yours but I imagine the ratios are going to be roughly similar? I haven’t seen other kingdom rewards.

When you merge, you lose:

- 4500 gems

- 2,772 xp

- 12 hours of speedups

To gain:

- 18 hammers

- 3 mythic shards

- 0.12 expected mythics

Ignoring the value of hammers and mythic shards, one expected mythic requires sacrificing about 37.5k gems, 23k XP, and 100 hours of speedups. In addition, you receive approximately 150 hammers and 25 mythic shards per expected mythic.

I was driving on a bypass in the rain earlier, trying to get to a CT scan, and got beautifully reminded why I hate driving.

I was already in the right lane because I had a right turn coming up in a couple of miles and hate having to merge right before a turn. But there were two massive slow-moving vehicles with warning lights in that lane, so everyone had to pass them on the left. A lot of people immediately cut back in front of the trucks, but we were approaching a red light and I wasn’t about to squeeze in and risk getting rear-ended, so I stayed left a little longer.

About a mile from my turn, I started trying to get back over. The right lane was bumper-to-bumper, I had someone close ahead of me, a line of cars behind me, and no time to sit around waiting for traffic to possibly open up. So I put my blinker on and paced between two cars, figuring the rear driver would eventually leave a gap.

Forty seconds later, my signal had been on the entire time, and instead of making room, the guy just kept inching closer while the person behind him tailgated him. I couldn’t get in.

I spotted a pickup farther ahead with a little space in front of him, so with about half a mile left before my turn, I moved ahead and stayed there for a moment to make it obvious I intended to merge. He also started closing the gap, apparently assuming I was trying to “cut him off.”

Another 15 seconds passed. My light was coming up, and the pickup finally drifted back just enough to leave a usable opening, so I said screw it and merged in. We were all maintaining speed the whole time, so it’s not like I forced him to slam on his brakes. At most, he had to ease off and give up a couple of feet of following distance.

The pickup driver who was so determined to defend his spot IMMEDIATELY merged left without a blinker and sped ahead of me, presumably because I had the audacity to get in front of him.

I wonder how idiotic he felt when, two seconds later, I entered the right-turn lane at the red light. Maybe someone trying to merge ahead of you isn’t doing it to save two car lengths, genius.

Then we both got to sit at the red light two lanes apart while he had no way to exact his vengeance because he could no longer get into the right lane.

I do wonder how far he would’ve taken it if I had been going straight.

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Edit: Two clarifications. These two “slow moving vehicles” were massive construction vehicles with yellow flashing lights, a huge “DANGER” yellow sign, and they were driving 20 in a 55. Everyone in my lane was passing them because they physically couldn’t keep up with traffic.

And I didn’t pass a bunch of people and race into my lane last second. I had about 2 minutes or so from when I passed that truck until my turn. I didn’t even see the red was coming when I started passing, it was around a bend, so I assumed I could just immediately reenter in front of these trucks. Instead I kept
pace with the right lane to try and reenter, but my spot was gone and no one made me a new one. Only time I sped up was when I saw a gap ahead, which is where the pickup truck comes in.

Edit #2: I said it before but I need to make it clearer. I didn’t force the truck to slow down. He was close enough to me that I would prefer he coast and make some breathing room, but there was enough gap that he could’ve maintained speed and not hit me. In fact, there was enough of a gap that he was able to speed up as he merged out of that lane to pass me, he never slowed down at all.