Forum: empire-en
Board: [589] Strategy & Tactics Discussion
Topic: [287408] STOP criticizing samurai event
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cfisher76180 (US1) [None]
:: Oct. 16, 2015, 9:51 p.m.
I was curious about the chances of winning, so I programmed a quick basic program. I simulated 50,000 games and won a little over 11,000 games which came out to about a 22% chance of winning. So it is somewhere between a 1 in 4 chance of winning and a 1 in 5. I prefer Nomads over Sami's because I was getting a one set of terra cotta soldiers per Nomad event.
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jimmyg123 (US1) [None]
:: Oct. 17, 2015, 2:05 a.m.
I'll criticize whatever I want & who are you to tell anyone not too ? I just played the high end card game for the 3rd time & promptly got 3 X's straight in a row. A terrible event & continues to acually get worse as I play it. One may ask why do I keep at it then ? Because I want to see the mew low GGE has stooped to. In 3 high end card games I've received 600 charcoal & 10 horrors. in over 20 hrs playing time easily. AWFUL AWFUL AWFUL jimmyg123
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jimmyg123 (US1) [None]
:: Oct. 17, 2015, 2:05 a.m.
mem=new
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jema3 (US1) [US1]
:: Oct. 17, 2015, 3:33 a.m.
It's awesome, I'm getting great stuff.
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Asteria (AU1) [AU1]
:: Oct. 17, 2015, 5:22 a.m.
The samurai event is bad considering we could be doing WOTR or Nomads at this point in time... At least they give good rewards and regarding the first few posts in fact one that mentions that the camps give good loot and coins... Um id go attack RBC's or towers if I wanted coins and loot. Just an all round bad event id say.
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ccknoeppel (US1) [None]
:: Oct. 17, 2015, 6:33 a.m.
Don't like the event that much, don't like how the troops look, and don't like how you have to spend your samurai tokens. I have done about 10 cards so far. 9 of them were the lowest cards and 1 was the medium. I got very little loot from them. I have gotten one jackpot of 120 veteran crossbows. I easily used twice that many troops in attacking samurai camps if not more.
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adam101 (GB1) [None]
:: Oct. 17, 2015, 11:18 a.m.
yep garbage
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Petyr Baelish (IN1) [None]
:: Oct. 17, 2015, 8:48 p.m.
YES!Xsoteria (INT1) said:So I'm a newb and low level, and the fact that the event seems not that great aside, I'm still cleaning camps cos the resources are good. I do wanna use the tokens though and I was saving for the most expensive card game. But now... Idk. Should I just roll on the cheapest game whatever I get
The rewards aren't higher enough to justify spending it for the 40.
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InsaneDuckling (GB1) [None]
:: Oct. 17, 2015, 11:28 p.m.
I think it's okay. There's a couple of things we can diss, but then again, we diss a lot of things. I like the fact that you get rewards based on chance and intuition, unlike the Nomads and the Foreigners where you get specific things based on the rank, and in the Nomad's case, by buying them. Sure it makes you want to bash your head against a table when you don't get the 'Ultimate' reward, but you end up with more than you have to start with in any case.
And there's always the fact that you get quite a decent haul of food for your level if you set it to 'Search for food' mode.
AND THIS IS THE ONLY MINI-GAME I'VE EVER PLAYED IN GGE THAT USES CHANCE OTHER THAN THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE BUT YOU NEED A TON OF TOKENS FOR THAT SO IT DOESN'T COUNT.
And there's always the fact that you get quite a decent haul of food for your level if you set it to 'Search for food' mode.
AND THIS IS THE ONLY MINI-GAME I'VE EVER PLAYED IN GGE THAT USES CHANCE OTHER THAN THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE BUT YOU NEED A TON OF TOKENS FOR THAT SO IT DOESN'T COUNT.
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PurpleNinja (US1) [None]
:: Oct. 18, 2015, 6:06 a.m.
I think this event is ok. the card game is the only bad thing about it. How are you losing “tons of troops”? you hardly use any. I’m a none ruby buyer and I’m hitting camps with 200+ troops and only losing 20-30 soldiers each using mud tools and a 90 melee 70 ranged commander.
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Phoenix Fire (AU1) [None]
:: Oct. 18, 2015, 6:17 a.m.
Beri's lost its touch
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afen (US1) [None]
:: Oct. 21, 2015, 8:12 a.m.
my loot 300000 coins 500 units 900 tools 60000 resourses
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vampire empire (GB1) [None]
:: Oct. 23, 2015, 7:48 a.m.
well, the card game as a mini game at least gets rid of the boredom in this game...tho it depends on the system what prizes you get.
as an analogy, do you always hit the jackpot (or the consolation prize) every time you buy the lottery? So don't moan, it's just a gambling event which adds some fun.
for the chance of getting 5 not-cross cards, this is the probability of it
X~B(20,0.5)
P(X=5)=(20C5)[(0.5)^5][(0.5)^15]
chance of getting 2 cross cards
Y~B(20,0.5)
P(Y=2)=(20C2)[(0.5)^2][(0.5)^18]
thus, the chance of getting the jackpot with 2 crosses is P(X=5)+P(Y=2), 1 cross is P(X=5)+P(Y=1) and no cross is P(X=5)
as an analogy, do you always hit the jackpot (or the consolation prize) every time you buy the lottery? So don't moan, it's just a gambling event which adds some fun.
for the chance of getting 5 not-cross cards, this is the probability of it
X~B(20,0.5)
P(X=5)=(20C5)[(0.5)^5][(0.5)^15]
chance of getting 2 cross cards
Y~B(20,0.5)
P(Y=2)=(20C2)[(0.5)^2][(0.5)^18]
thus, the chance of getting the jackpot with 2 crosses is P(X=5)+P(Y=2), 1 cross is P(X=5)+P(Y=1) and no cross is P(X=5)
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WarrenPeace (US1) [None]
:: Nov. 21, 2015, 12:17 p.m.
I've made over 400k in coins, won over 350 high end soldiers, well over 20k of each resource and literally hundreds of free tools in two days of the Samurai event. Not to mention oodles of equipment and gems.
The trick is to pump out tons of basic macemen and crossbow men. Dirt cheap and lightning fast to recruit. I can recruit hundreds of them ( and resource tools) in the amount of time it takes for the Samurais to cool off. I'm winning three times what it's costing me to fight. Never spent the first ruby.
It would be nice to be winning glory and time skips, but who cares? With the coin and resources I've won in the past two days, once I start winning time skips from RBCs again, I'll be able to build super fast.
All my storehouses are full and I'm loaded with coin to hit the mercenary outpost to load up on free VIP time.
I've won over 4k rubies in the card game over two the past days of playing,too. How could you complain?
EDIT: oh yeah, and due to pumping out resource tools for the event, and winning oodles of equipment, I've been able to kill it in the nobility contests that were going on at the same time. I've won 4 decos through that. One of them a park.Decos are nice, especially when you dont have to wait for them to be built. Instant decos= instant boost in resource production. I like this event
The trick is to pump out tons of basic macemen and crossbow men. Dirt cheap and lightning fast to recruit. I can recruit hundreds of them ( and resource tools) in the amount of time it takes for the Samurais to cool off. I'm winning three times what it's costing me to fight. Never spent the first ruby.
It would be nice to be winning glory and time skips, but who cares? With the coin and resources I've won in the past two days, once I start winning time skips from RBCs again, I'll be able to build super fast.
All my storehouses are full and I'm loaded with coin to hit the mercenary outpost to load up on free VIP time.
I've won over 4k rubies in the card game over two the past days of playing,too. How could you complain?
EDIT: oh yeah, and due to pumping out resource tools for the event, and winning oodles of equipment, I've been able to kill it in the nobility contests that were going on at the same time. I've won 4 decos through that. One of them a park.Decos are nice, especially when you dont have to wait for them to be built. Instant decos= instant boost in resource production. I like this event
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Revolc (GB1) [None]
:: Nov. 21, 2015, 4:40 p.m.
That's nice, but which one of the card games do you play? The 1st, 2nd or the 3rd?WarrenPeace (US1) said:I've won over 4k rubies in the card game over two the past days of playing,too.
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WarrenPeace (US1) [None]
:: Nov. 21, 2015, 8:16 p.m.
The 1st one for 20 tokens per try.
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Solmar (US1) [None]
:: Nov. 22, 2015, 4:21 a.m.
It takes lots of tokens to win equipment rewards, but it is good that it is possible to win each equipment piece more than once.
http://snag.gy/NWOZ4.jpg
I won the helmet of the horned beast during this event, and also another cat artefact. Next I'll try to win the weapon but that would probably cost 20,000 tokens of tries. Cat artefat comes after about 4000 tokens, the helmet after about 10,000 tokens, and the weapon probably after 20 or more tries at the 1000 card.
The previous time I won the cat artefact, and lots of demon horrors. You can't get the good stuff without lots of tokens. I prefer to wait until the final day, and have a blast with a game of luck.
http://snag.gy/NWOZ4.jpg
I won the helmet of the horned beast during this event, and also another cat artefact. Next I'll try to win the weapon but that would probably cost 20,000 tokens of tries. Cat artefat comes after about 4000 tokens, the helmet after about 10,000 tokens, and the weapon probably after 20 or more tries at the 1000 card.
The previous time I won the cat artefact, and lots of demon horrors. You can't get the good stuff without lots of tokens. I prefer to wait until the final day, and have a blast with a game of luck.