Ive read a lot of worry about not even getting a lvl 9 spec bldg without diamonds....and I think that is holding true from what I've experienced.
First, I have always tried to collect Paws first, daily chest second.
At this point today there is only 10 days left in event.
I'm lvl 7 spec bldg, with 214 paws collected. To get this far I have purchased 10 tickets with diamonds. Thats 2.5 days of tickets generation, thats a huge deal in these calculations. Easily takes away 1 full upgrade I would not have without spending diamonds.
You have to get to 280 Paws collected to get a Lvl 9 spec bldg. Only 66 paws away but again I spent diamonds once. Forget about the 340 Paws where you start to collect frags, thats an expensive pipe dream.
Now a player will say, I'm forgetting about the League Winnings... well ok, there is 1 upgrade kit there but its Professional, only 5% of players will get that, and to get that what do you need to do.....spend diamonds.
Its not even simple as just spend the $15 either, they is only 1 upgrade in that prize bar, which makes me think, how interesting of a coincidence is that mmmm? Is this calced up actually to "perfection" where players must spend Diamonds and $15 to have a fair shake to get a max spec bldg?
I said it a while back, because of the double portraits in the event chain reward line, it would cause an issue.
Issues that need to looked at:
1. remove Portrait from quest reward line replace with 1 upgrade kit. this is normal for most previous events.
2. Paw 100, rewarding a base level 1 spec bldg is far too close in the prize bar reward. That needs to go somewhere past Paw 340 (ironically a 3rd is at 380....MATH NOT WORKING HERE). Give us another ticket there, or even better move each non sp3c bldg upgrade prize up a level, this way the Golden lvl frags could move up as well. we don't need a 2nd base building until we get the golden frags we need. So a Ticket would be at 100, the 250 goods would be at 140, 10 prints would be at 180....etc.
3. this is event is boring, its fun to play, but its terribly slow ticket regeneration... 4 tickets is over in 4-6 mins. I understand not much you can do this year, but thats a next year fix.