Pauly7
Master of the Elements
Which beacons did you open? If you'd managed to (and it would never happen) always take the 18 beacon, then reaching the final building would be guaranteed, so long as you completed the quests and collected around 15 currency a day from around the city. I haven't calculated all the permutations, but I'm pretty sure you'd still be guaranteed it if you only opened 18 and 45 beacons. Most of the other ones carry with them an element of risk. If you always opened the 80 beacon, but didn't win any bonus scrolls from them, then you'd almost certainly fail to reach the end.I open the game almost every hour a day, that means I collect almost all the SK that falls within my city. I did all the episodic event quests, and even won some extra SKs in some chests, and I not even close to get the last part of the set.
As I say, it's tight. I figured that around 40% of people who do everything right (including opening the right beacons) won't find the final building, unless they use diamonds. That's a pretty huge number.
When this even played out on Beta all the quest rewards were greater, as was the daily bonus. Finishing the set wasn't guaranteed, but if you were sensible you'd probably do it. I thought it was balanced quite nicely that way. Clearly this didn't bring in enough revenue and they nerfed the rewards. They want people to dip into diamond reserves or spend more money.