The PoH got attention because the highest level one gives 3 FP for a 3x3 building, that comes out to 1 FP/3 squares, which is more effective than the SoK and offers several items at once. The bridge is okay, but it's basically a bigger Pillar of Heroes.

I did not enjoy last year's Carnival, and I'm not enthusiastic about the prizes. The map will require me to open the next age's map, which will mess up my side/recurring quests.

I don't know, I'm seriously considering skipping this one. Interesting: Vitruvian Man appears here again as a potential prize after a long absence, as well as the Tree of Love (but not the bigger trees). Gathering resources also varies by age which might not be too bad in the long run, and again helps the noobs who can't gather large amounts of stuff while providing a reasonable challenge to established players. This helps the new players, but it's ugly because I have no idea how much to stockpile. More ugly: guild treasury donations vary by age. If you don't this event could very well eat up your map.Īt least research is optional and only appears once at the very end of the daily quests. I strongly suggest to anyone who is actively doing DCs to finish up your current Challenger's Chest and then let the DCs rest until finishing all the map requirements or until you deceide to stop progressing on the event since the DCs will give you map requirements if you have an open province. The daily also has unavoidable map requirements. Not wowed by the questlines either, the main requires taking one province on the map, with required sector infiltration and negotiation. The costs for direct prizes are ugly high again like it was last year, I think an analysis of the chests that have upgrades in them to see which once is the most florin effective by probability will be useful. Only difference is that that the 15% awards less and the 5% awards more this year. Looks like it's exactly like last year's event, just swap roses for tickets and hearts for florins.

Forge of empires carnival 2018