Fire and Glory - Acropolis Level 22

I didn't think there would ever come a day, but I have found a game that I do not believe is possible to complete in the given time frame without spending more than the game is worth.

Offer Name	Live the age of the ancient Spartan empires
Game Name	Fire and Glory
Offer Wall	None, it's available directly on Swagbucks/Mypoints
Device Used	I use Android. I do not know if it works on iPhones.
Amount	$100 on Swagbucks, ~$117 on Mypoints
Time Limit	30 days
Time Spent	Day 1: 11 - Day 2: 13 - Day 4: 14 - Day 7: 15 - Day 10: 16 - Day 15: 17 - Day 20: 18 - Day 23: 19 - I gave up at this point. I wasn't getting to 22 in the next 7 days.

Fire and Glory is a city builder clone, but it is so horribly resource heavy and the timers are so dreadfully long that it's practically impossible to complete it in time. And before the "it's not worth it!" or the "you could make more money doing something else!" comments come rolling in - I generally enjoy these game offers, and I heard this one was incredibly difficult but for the tempting $100+ prize tag on the offer, I decided to take the challenge. I normally say that worth is subjective... but an offer that cannot be completed definitely isn't worth it.

Even if I were to do it again knowing all I do now, I'm not confident I could finish it. If you want to attempt to beat this game in time, be prepared to give up all of your time, make multiple accounts, and spend a decent chunk of money. I wish I was joking. I spent most of the day online, attempted nearly all of the events, was in one of the top leagues full of heavy spenders, joined during an event that gave a ton of free resources and a 3 day 2nd builder, had multiple farm accounts which I spent no less than 3 hours every day draining, and I even spent $10 on it. I managed to get to level 19 in 23 days after blowing all the gold I had built up since the start. I have been told that upgrading to 20 requires literally every single other building to be upgraded to 19 first, and I certainly believe it. Getting to 22 within 30 days is simply not possible without an absurd amount of effort, so unless you absolutely love these games (and even then...) I highly recommend passing on this one.

 

Since this game is a royal PIA, I will not be writing a full guide for it. If you really want to attempt this against my advice, the following tips will of help to you. These tips are for veteran players - if you are new to these games then don't even attempt this offer, there are plenty of other, easier ones.

1. Build multiple farms accounts. I recommend doing at the bare minimum: 3 rubble, 1 copper, 1 wood, 1 food or half food half wood. You should upgrade the coins on at least one of these, if not two. Honestly though, I would double all of that. If you send out some spare rss to the lowbies in the guild, you can build a rapport which will make it less likely you get kicked out of a bigger alliance due to your low power. Start these farms immediately and stop upgrading them at level 9 or 10. Make sure each farm is specialized and focus research and skills on each individual farm. You will want to drain these farms at least once per day or their resources will cap.

2. Don't waste resources maxing out every resource building on your main account. If you are draining your resources regularly as mentioned in tip #1, you will likely be over your maximum amount most of the time. I got them to level 10 and then stopped except for what was required. In that same sense, don't build more than one dwelling. Build a bunch of wards instead just in case you get attacked.

3. I have been told that building 10 of each resource building type will give you a free shield. I didn't try it, but that would be good to do at the start.

4. Complete every. single. event. that you possibly can. Save your hero energy items for when you can double up on events and complete them entirely. Make sure you are getting to the second tier of the week long events. This is essential. When a building event comes up, make sure to complete those too. An easy way to finish a building event is to make a ward, level it to 8, and then destroy it. Repeat this process a couple times and you'll finish the event easily. You could also do this to resource buildings.

5. When you first start the game (or any farm), check to see how much time is left on the acropolis upgrade event. I recommend having at least 3 hours for the first one, and at least two days for the level 11 upgrade. If you don't have enough time for that, then wait until the reset. Rush to level 9 ASAP, then do all of the quests and train troops and what not to finish them. You should completely finish every single one of these upgrade events. Quests don't credit until you accept the rewards, so you can let the timers run while you're upgrading and then accept the rewards later - preferably when there's an event going on.

6. When doing events, aim to complete them entirely. If you can't complete them entirely, it usually isn't worth doing more than the first part. When you complete an event, you often will rank high enough to get extra gold.

7. Do not touch your gold until you are at least level 20. Seriously, don't waste it. Don't ever use your gold on resources. You should always buy speedups - preferably those for 7 days or longer.

8. Upgrade your research so that you can hunt tier 2 monsters and so that you have tier 2 troops. Cavalry is a good option. This seems like a waste of resources in the beginning, but if you made enough farms like you were told in tip #1, it won't be a problem. The troops will help protect you, and growing faster will let you blend in with a bigger alliance. You will also want to do some of the economy research in order to reduce your building construction speed.

9. Get in the biggest league you can find. This may require chatting with users first. This is absolutely essential. Every time someone spends money, a gift is sent out to the rest of the league. You will get a ton of speedups and gold which is much needed.

10. Start the game around the 15th to 18th if possible. Immediately buy the sign-in login event rewards for $10 each month - this will require you to accept the rewards each day for 10 days. You'll want to save your 2nd builder until you're 100% positive you can utilize them efficiently. It may eventually get fixed, but I was able to build things that took longer than the remaining amount of time on my 2nd builder - so utilize this fact well. There's also a $5 pack that gives like 10k gold - that's one of the most cost efficient ones but it can be only purchased once. The $5 daily resource packs are tempting, but not worth it. Wait for the $20 builders pack. Your main focus should be speedups. I recommend waiting until level 15 to buy packs if possible since at level 15 you will unlock new resource types which you will need a ton of.

11. Focus on the building time reduction hero skills. It's expensive, but the rest of them aren't worth it too much unless you're fighting.

 

Since I was unable to find a wiki for this game, I also noted some of the building requirements. Excuse the poor formatting. Anything in parenthesis was required for the building mentioned before it.

6	5 wall, 3 hero temple, 5 watchtower (4 dwelling)
7	6 wall, 4 embassy, 6 asclepeion (5 barracks, 5 farm, 6 lumberyard)
8	7 wall, 7 academy, 6 camp
9	8 wall, 8 barracks (6 food, 8 mine, 8 dwelling, 8 hero temple), 5 market
10	lv 9 wall, 6 hall of ares, 5 ward
11	10 wall, 10 hero temple (10 dwelling-> 10 market), 6 forge
12	11 wall, 10 warehouse, 6 embassy
13	12 wall, 10 watchtower (10 barracks, 10 farm, 9 camp, 6 ward), 12 forge (10 lumberyard, 11 mine, 12 quarry)
14	13 wall, 13 academy (13 hall of ares, 12 embassy), 11 ward (11 asclepeion)
15	14 wall (14 camp, 14 barracks, 11 watchtower, 12 hero temple, 11 dwelling, 13 farm) 14 market
16	15 wall (15 quarry, 15 forge, 14 lumberyard), 15 hall of ares (14 embassy), 3 prison
17	16 wall (16 warehouse, 15 dwelling, 15 market, 16 quarry), 16 academy, 16 watchtower
18	17 wall (17 quarry, 7 prison) 17 hero temple, 17 embassy
19	18 wall (18 quarry, 13 prison), 18 barracks (17 farm, 15 watchtower, 16 hero tower, 17 camp), 18 market

For reference, the level 19 main building upgrade required 7m rubble (among other things), and over 6 days of time. I have been told most of the level 19 building upgrades require at least 3 days each.

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