Let's do the math again, this time I will use town 3 as a base (that's what I used in-game), and add all additional costs beyond the standard town strategy following my town 3 guide.
Upgrading all the managers will cost an additional 2200 pots. However, this time around we can use Quick Promotions to skip most of these. If you complete the 2nd D task early on and you have 1 Quick Promotion from event start / previous rivals, you can use 7 Quick promotions on factory managers as you progress, so you can use them on flower 4, cake 4, drinks 3+4, and fireworks 2+3+4. Later on in the town you can use a further 4 Quick Promotions on Festival + Shipyard manager levels 4+5. This makes the total manager cost 860, compared to 630 with my strategy, for only an additional 230 pots of gold.
For the time skips, we need 7x400 + 2x700 + 1x1200 = 5400 pots. This time around we can use Time Warps for all the 2-hour skips, so we "only" need to spend 2x700+1x1200 = 2600 pots of gold.
We get 1000 pots back from quests.
Total cost: 230 + 2600 - 1000 = 1830 additional pots of gold.
It's worth keeping in mind that if you skip the two final D-quests you save 2600 pots of gold, so you actually gain 770 pots of gold from the rivals quests. If you do this you lose out on 5 Quick Promotions, 1 Finish All Special Production, 1 Celtic Glassworks Selection Kit, and 1 Sacred Archdruid Hut Platinum Upgrade Kit.
This is much, much better than it was before. The rewards are worth going for, and they actually help you during the rivals as well. I will have to work a bit more on strategy, but playing now I was able to complete all rivals and a full town in 30-40 minutes (completing 4 GE levels), I believe it should be possible to finish a town without doing the 2 final D quests as well, saving you 2600 pots at the expense of a few rewards.
So my recommendation is now to complete all A, B, and C questlines, and either complete 6/8 D quests, or the full thing if you want those final few rewards for an extra 2600 pots of gold.
Upgrading all the managers will cost an additional 2200 pots. However, this time around we can use Quick Promotions to skip most of these. If you complete the 2nd D task early on and you have 1 Quick Promotion from event start / previous rivals, you can use 7 Quick promotions on factory managers as you progress, so you can use them on flower 4, cake 4, drinks 3+4, and fireworks 2+3+4. Later on in the town you can use a further 4 Quick Promotions on Festival + Shipyard manager levels 4+5. This makes the total manager cost 860, compared to 630 with my strategy, for only an additional 230 pots of gold.
For the time skips, we need 7x400 + 2x700 + 1x1200 = 5400 pots. This time around we can use Time Warps for all the 2-hour skips, so we "only" need to spend 2x700+1x1200 = 2600 pots of gold.
We get 1000 pots back from quests.
Total cost: 230 + 2600 - 1000 = 1830 additional pots of gold.
It's worth keeping in mind that if you skip the two final D-quests you save 2600 pots of gold, so you actually gain 770 pots of gold from the rivals quests. If you do this you lose out on 5 Quick Promotions, 1 Finish All Special Production, 1 Celtic Glassworks Selection Kit, and 1 Sacred Archdruid Hut Platinum Upgrade Kit.
This is much, much better than it was before. The rewards are worth going for, and they actually help you during the rivals as well. I will have to work a bit more on strategy, but playing now I was able to complete all rivals and a full town in 30-40 minutes (completing 4 GE levels), I believe it should be possible to finish a town without doing the 2 final D quests as well, saving you 2600 pots at the expense of a few rewards.
So my recommendation is now to complete all A, B, and C questlines, and either complete 6/8 D quests, or the full thing if you want those final few rewards for an extra 2600 pots of gold.
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