It is obtained by lighting 20 city buildings. One is obtained for every present opened. You can look at the amount of Stars you currently have over here. The player can open as many presents as they can afford, and win everything over and over again.Īs you can see, the event window contains 6 main elements.

The player uses stars to open the presents and claim what is hidden inside. To access the presents window, click the Winter Event Button at the left side of the screen of your browser (pictured here) or at the right side in the app. Some Incidents in and around your city, will give between 1 Star & 100 Stars (more on a very rare occasion).Īdditional Stars can be bought using diamonds:.The Calendar Kit Tile gives the player 10 Stars and a Master Key Piece if found more than once in a day.The Shuffle Tile gives the player 10 Stars.The Show 2 Tile gives the player 3 Stars.Even if they were reduced by 50%, I'd still feel the pain, but any kind of reduction, or even if the there was a 'pay some supplies OR do something else that doesn't hurt a new guy so much' would be a great improvement.The player will need Stars to open presents - 10 stars for 1 present.Įxpected Stars to receive during the Winter Event Beginning of the EventĪdditional Stars can be collected without using diamonds in the following ways: Which I understand isn't an issue for someone with 5M in the bank, but to anyone with less than 3 months of full-time play invested, it's a long, long, long dark tunnel without any hope of seeing the light at the far end of a 12 upgrade grand prize. that's almost 3 days worth the supply farming for 2 quests. Right out of the gate I need 5200 (which took almost a full day at 15-minute productions) and then 2 days later its double that at 10400 supplies. Maybe it's just because I have less than 30 days in this world, or maybe it's because I only have 22 blacksmiths, or maybe it's because I don't even have all the goods to attempt the negotiations and need supplies to produce them, or maybe it's just that I'm feeling a little whiny today, but man, the 'pay some supplies' quests are super harsh.

Forge of empires winter 2018 event