If you bought diamonds you had much better odds at winning many palaces but that wasn't the be all end all, I ended up with more palaces spending much much less than others last year just from wheel stalking. In last years event if you wanted multiples you needed to be lucky and be on all the time to stalk the wheels. I don't like how the boats are nothing more than pay to win, 1 you can get with the game but if you want multiples you need to pay.

The changes in beta to the boats certainly made them very worth while to me however summer event as a whole feels like it has been quite downgraded.

There are also no doubloons on the wheels either like tickets were available previous years. I think the dynamic of the game would have been much better had pieces been available on wheels, people would have something to shoot for other than the standard SoK or the very rare sunken treasures. I'll end up with 2, maybe 3 but I won't be putting that 3rd down as one on it's own isn't worth the 3 palaces I'd need to delete to fit it there on it's own. Some of the wheels have more double and triple pieces than others so I've been trying to aim for those but since I know it's not going to make much difference I'm not really paying much attention. I was lucky to get the 3 sunken treasures I wanted, and could fit so now I'm just spinning randomly for pieces. I think part of that is hindering my enjoyment of the game a bit. However I've found even with the extra doubloons and diamonds it still wouldn't be enough, I wish the pieces were available on the wheels even if it were just a few pieces on a few wheels so it would feel like I'm looking for something. Even if I don't always agree with them I'm still playing the game. I put my city into the planner and decided what I could delete to fit in as many as possible (even deleted RaH to do it) I always buy diamonds for the summer event during the sale, not just because it's my favorite event but also I think it's important to support the company.

Forge of empires summer events 2018