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Grand PrizesElvenar
ELVARIAN CARNIVAL

The Grand Prize mechanics are similar to those of recent events.

We can win various expiring buildings and Valentines Artifacts, which can be used to evolve the Valentine Float building to more powerful stages. Learn more about the buildings on the Evolving Buildings page.

WINNING GRAND PRIZES

As Chests are opened, flags begin filling in the Garland. Once the Garland is complete (every 20 flags) a Grand Prize is earned.

You can also see the next couple of prizes queued up; once the first Grand Prize is won, the next available prize will be the first of the two displayed beneath “Next.”

The grand prizes are a mix of Valentines Artifacts and expiring buildings. A Valentine Artifact is offered as every other prize among a rotation of:

Click any building for more details.

The rotation repeats for as many grand prizes as a player can win. Similar to previous events, after enough artifacts are won to fully evovle the evolving building, an additional Valentine Float building will appear in the rotation.

The prize that you receive is based on the chapter you are in when it is placed into your inventory.

You MUST complete the
first research of a chapter
in order to be considered as
being “in” that chapter!

Once you’ve accepted the prize into your inventory, its value will not change. This is still true even if you have not yet placed it in your city.

For more details about benefits offered by each building by stage and by chapter, be sure to check out the Evolving Buildings page.

How many artifacts can be won?

Update 1/31/20: From the forum announcement: “We are making a change to the Elvarian Carnival quests on Beta today: we will, for this event, not use the randomized quests. Instead, we will be using a questline that will be the same for all players, as we have done previously. We are making this change because of both feedback that we’ve received from the community during past events, as well as data that we have for these.”

Update 1/31/20: The information below has now been updated to account for the changes which took place on beta today.

It is never guaranteed or even intended for players to receive all of the rewards available. There are always some elements of strategy and luck involved.

OVERVIEW

The average player with average luck who completes all quests will be able to expect to win about 7 Valentines Artifacts for a stage 8 Valentine Float. More than this will require some or all of the following:

Above average daily collections around the city
Above average luck in winning additional Candies when opening chests
Always choosing the chest with the lowest cost of candy per flag of the options presented
Investing in additional event currencies

The average player who completes
all quests will win approximately
7 Valentines Artifacts

Additional artifacts may be offered in future events. If historical trends continue, we may be able to look forward to an opportunity to win up to 2 more Valentines Artifacts in the next Fellowship Adventure that occurs following the event.

OPPORTUNITY

Adding all of the Candies that will be available in quests and from around the city, we can estimate how many Artifacts we can expect to be able to win if we complete all of the quests.

Modest daily pickup assumption; assumes 18 per day.

COST

The first artifact costs 20 Flags, and then each additional costs 40; 20 for the next expiring building in the rotation, and then 20 for the next artifact.

When we examine the costs of each chest, the Flags paid, and then adjust for the probability of winning some extra Candies as a chest prize, we find the average cost of a single Flag is approximately 22.9 Candies.

From there we can calculate how many grand prizes we can win without any bonus quests, and then estimate how many bonus quests would need to be completed in order to win more.

First, we find how many Flags will be earned on average with the total candies available:

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Then we can divide that number by the cost of each Grand Prize in Flags:

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Last, we divide the total number of Grand Prizes by 2, since only every other Grand Prize is an Artifact, but round up since the first one offered is an Artifact.

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Of course, all of this is based purely on averages and some precision is lost when rounding. It is possible some players could have better or worse luck turning Candies into Artifacts.

CANDY COLLECTION

Once you log in to your city after the event starts, Candies will begin dropping at an average rate of 1 per hour.

6 is the most that can accumulate at once, however. Candies will continue to drop hourly, but only the most recent 6 will remain for collection.

If you are regularly collecting them, and never letting them max out at 6, you can collect quite a lot in a single day.

16-18 is a rather high goal, but not unreasonable. It only takes 3 times per day; Once right away in the morning, and then twice more 6 and 12 hours later.

1, 2, or 3 Candies can be collected from each one, but of course receiving only 1 is far more frequent.

Wishing Well - 3x3
Randomly Awarded - every 12 hours
% chance per			25%	25%	30%	10%	10%
Chapter	/		/12 hr	/12 hr
Chapter	Total	Per Tile	/12 hr	/12 hr
1	300	33	7,290	655	105	3	25
2	350	39	13,455	1,160	150	3	25
Chapter	Total	Per Tile	/12 hr	/12 hr
3	420	47	21,695	1,840	150	3	25
Chapter	Total	Per Tile	/12 hr	/12 hr
4	480	53	33,800	2,730	215	3	25
5	550	61	50,885	3,865	345	3	25
6	680	76	71,990	5,060	440	3	25
7	860	96	91,850	6,460	535	3	25
8	1,040	116	114,000	8,055	675	3	25
9	1,970	219	138,000	9,780	900	3	25
10	2,400	267	165,000	11,650	1,080	3	25
11	2,900	322	195,000	13,785	1,285	3	25
12	3,600	400	229,000	16,165	1,630	3	25
13	4,400	489	266,000	18,810	1,900	3	25
14	5,300	589	308,000	21,760	2,200	3	25
15	6,400	711	325,000	32,500	2,750	3	25
Expires after 100 days.

Monument of Ancient Knowledge - 2x2
Chapter	/		Other
Chapter	Total	Per Tile	/48 hr
1	133	33	1
Chapter	Total	Per Tile	/48 hr
2	154	39	1
3	186	47	1
4	210	53	1
5	240	60	1
6	300	75	1
7	380	95	1
8	460	115	1
9	880	220	1
10	1,070	268	1
11	1,310	328	1
12	1,600	400	1
13	1,950	488	1
14	2,400	600	1
Expires after 100 days.

Carting Library - 2x1
Chapter	/		Other
Chapter	Total	Per Tile	/24 hr
1	67	34	1
2	77	39	1
3	93	47	1
4	107	54	1
5	122	61	1
6	150	75	1
7	192	96	1
8	230	115	1
9	440	220	1
10	530	265	1
11	650	325	1
12	800	400	1
13	980	490	1
14	1,190	595	1
15	1,350	675	1
Expires after 100 days.

Ferris Wheel - 2x3
Chapter	/		Other
Chapter	Total	Per Tile	Other
1	330	55	Choose to produce any of the 4 options. Production takes one day for Knowledge Point or Broken Shard. 2 days for coin or supply instants.
2	380	63
3	460	77
4	530	88
5	600	100
6	740	123
7	950	158
8	1140	190
9	2200	367
10	2,600	433
11	3,200	533
12	4,000	667
13	4,800	800
14	5,900	983
Expires after 50 days.

Trading Outpost - 2x2
Chapter	/		Other
Chapter	Total	Per Tile	/48hr
1	133	33	10% Coin Refill Instant every 2 days.
2	154	39
3	186	47
4	210	53
5	240	60
Chapter	Total	Per Tile	/48hr
6	300	75	5% Portal Profit Instant every 2 days
7	380	95
8	460	115
9	880	220
10	1,070	268
11	1,310	328
12	1,600	400
13	1,950	488
14	2,400	600
Expires after 50 days.