Sir Derf
Adept
Let's face it, Sacks of Coins badges previously weren't worth the Coins in their Sack. We never paid particular attention to collecting them, and despite this we all ended up with plenty of Sack of Coin Badges.
INNO showed their intention to address this. Abruptly, without warning, and to a level that many feel was an unnecessary overcompensating increase to 4x the previous costs. INNO might keep it at this new level. INNO might reduce it to a smaller increase. But, I think it's safe to say, it's not going to fall back to the original levels.
So, what can you do to prepare? Yes, I discussed this in other threads, but I felt this take was important enough to lift out into it's own thread, to hopefully bring it better visibility. As I thought on this, I realized a couple of things... Most of these suggestions represent things you probably were going to do in your city anyway; this just suggests prioritizing them higher than you might have previously because you might not have thought it mattered. Most of these suggestions won't be done at the expense of producing other badges in the FA. And, most of these suggestions don't have negative consequences.
INNO showed their intention to address this. Abruptly, without warning, and to a level that many feel was an unnecessary overcompensating increase to 4x the previous costs. INNO might keep it at this new level. INNO might reduce it to a smaller increase. But, I think it's safe to say, it's not going to fall back to the original levels.
So, what can you do to prepare? Yes, I discussed this in other threads, but I felt this take was important enough to lift out into it's own thread, to hopefully bring it better visibility. As I thought on this, I realized a couple of things... Most of these suggestions represent things you probably were going to do in your city anyway; this just suggests prioritizing them higher than you might have previously because you might not have thought it mattered. Most of these suggestions won't be done at the expense of producing other badges in the FA. And, most of these suggestions don't have negative consequences.
- Things to do in the time between FAs
- Upgrade your Residences within your current Chapter.
- Upgrade your Golden Abyss. (I find this to be the most useful AW in existence. It's one of the first ones you get, so is available for dumping KP into from an early point, and thus really easy to get to a high Level. It's got a tiny footprint. It quickly becomes more efficient at Population than a Residence, and at the top it is massively more efficient.) (Yes, increased AW Levels causes increased difficulty in some aspects of the game, so consider well, but I think this one is worth it)
- Build up an inventory of EE spells.
- Things to do before an FA
- Wait to collect Coins from Residences immediately before the FA
- Wait to perform Neighborly Help immediately before the FA
- Things to do during the FA
- Perform Neighborly help immediately upon the start of the FA, and continue Neighborly Help in a timely matter to accomplish a 7th round of Neighborly Help during the FA.
- Use EE spells during the FA to increase your Culture Production Bonus.
- Coordinate with your Fellowship to Neighborly Help all members during the FA by buffing Culture buildings, further increasing your Culture Production Bonus.