Lately, I’ve been testing the effects of delaying green prize collection (huge shout-out to Blues for the tip!). I knew prizes stacked if you didn’t collect them with the coins, but had no idea to what extent.
The video shows a collection after 7 days and 6 hours, confirming that waiting more than 5 days is essential for accelerated rewards.
Note:
Holding off on green prize collection does not affect City Ranking. Rewards count immediately when available.
Collecting coins does not affect this strategy; coins can be collected as usual without interrupting the green prize stacking.
Keeping the coins collected seems to reset the green prize logic; meaning once you collect, the green prizes are determined and another green prize will stack on that building if it happens to have one.
The Results: The counter displayed 208 prizes, yet the actual collection totaled 1,029 rewards!
56,202 Party Passes
5,480 Gems
761 Charms
Evidence suggests that rewards accelerate from the 5th or 6th day onwards. Additionally, it appears likely that L4 monuments possess a much steeper 5+ day reward acceleration curve compared to non-L4s, making them even more valuable for this strategy.
For comparison, a previous 5-day collection yielded significantly fewer rewards: 189 prizes were shown, resulting in a total of only 521.
In comparison, here is the 5-day collection video:
Hey, good info as always. Ty. Is this strategy specific to L4 Monuments? Or, in general do you think it will be more profitable in the long term to collect coins every 6 hours while giving green prizes several days to accrue?
@Rendar I’ve updated the post with a second video for comparison. While the stacking mechanic should work for any building, the payoff is likely tied to the tier. Higher-tiered buildings (like L4s) probably have a much steeper ‘reward curve’ after day 5, meaning they get the most benefit from the wait.
Hi Night Guy, i sent you a message about this roughly 2 years ago but you never got back to me, whether you missed it don’t know. I know you do get a lot of questions off other players so you probably don’t get the time to reply to every message or you might have thought what the heck is this mad old woman going on about lol !!!
I have been doing this for about 3 years now and get lots of stacked prizes out of the green boxes, i clear them every 7 days on a Sunday. I have only got 30 L4 monuments at the moment so not getting as much as you regarding PP’s and Gems.
I have noticed though, to get more green prize boxes you do have to empty your city coins every 6 hours if you can i empty my city coins 3 times per day.
I have been doing lots of observations over the last few years.
Thank you for all the useful information you post on the forum, it is appreciated by lots of players on CW.
@01_JetI am so sorry about that! Please don’t think you were being ignored! I honestly get flooded with messages sometimes. I usually read them, plan to reply later when I have time, and then completely forget as new ones pile up. It happens way more than I’d like. That’s why I often mention on my profile: if I don’t answer, please re-send it, as I try to answer all messages.
Glad to hear you’ve been using the 7-day strategy for so long! And yes, keeping the coins collected seems to reset the green prize logic; meaning once you collect, the green prizes are determined and another green prize will stack on that building if it happens to have one. Thanks for the support!
Change of subject but in the part of your first video which shows your charms I noticed that you have Dyson Sphere and Jade Army which I also have. However, yours are both 6 clover but my Dyson Sphere is 9 clover and my Jade Army is 8 clover. How can that be?
Yes @CURLS_N_PEARLS, they actually changed the stored value of the Crown Charms and increased the Clover about 1.5 years ago. That happened right when party passes were removed from the Crown prize pool. The Dyson Sphere you see in my video was a reward obtained before that update, so it has the older stats.
@Night_Guy Hey NG. I have to pose this question. Is this really paying out additional prizes or is it just that by not collecting say every 24 hours you are just holding off in collecting those prizes that had already been available? For instance, on the 7 day collection you ended up with 1029 prizes. Divide that by 7 and it comes out to 147 prizes per day. My guess is if you collect every 24 hours you will get that amount or more. So it doesn’t seem this is rewarding the player with bonus prizes, rather just accumulating what you could have already collected if done daily.
Yeah but in the 5 day video he only had 521 prizes and in the 7 day video (only 2 days later) that number doubled to 1029? Looks to me like something going on during days 6 & 7 no??
@PB234 Good question. I am strictly basing the assumption on the difference between the 5-day and 7-day results. If it were just linear accumulation, the 5-day total should have been much higher.
That said, I do need to run a control test. I can’t use my old data (35-50 prizes/6 hours) because I’ve added too many Chromatic Monuments since then. My plan is to finish upgrading everything to L4 and then keep my city static for a few months to run a proper collection test for comparison.
The thing is collecting coins seem to effect the green prize determination, that is another variable I need to keep constant till I am ready to test it.
Just a thought… if collecting coins is what triggers the green prize determination, does that mean the building’s ‘green prize power progress bar’ is being cut short? If so, that would explain why it produces a smaller prize than it normally would.
What i do is i have all my monuments on display in my city and all the rest of my buildings in storage.
On the 7th day i will individually collect the green boxes from my monuments, say for example on a L4 i will click on each one and sometimes i get 6 prizes out of it so if i get 1k PP’s i will get 6k PP’s or if there is gems in it whatever gems you get say for example you get 150 gems and if at the top it says 5 prizes you will get 5 x 150 gems and is the same with gold cards & holiday wine.
I have tested emptying my city coins after 2 days which i will empty my city coins 3 to 4 times per week and i get nowhere near the prizes after 7 days. Just last week i tested this and there where only 6 of my L4’s with green boxes on them and less than 200 green boxes on all monuments and buildings altogether after 7 days and i didn’t even get 100 gems for the full week.
I currently am on a 24 hour collection for both coins and green prizes. As you have noted in Help topics, if you get a green box the coin total is less. Sometimes you do get double prizes from a green box, but I am not sure when or what triggers that bonus. That is one aspect I don’t track but will begin doing so. I know when you open your city the first time in the day it shows how many rewards you have. But I only open L4 prizes first to see what I get from those (I am trying to see if certain L4’s payout better prizes over other L4’s), then collect all remaining. But I don’t write that number down which would tell me how many extra prizes were rewarded. I just thought of this during this topic and your reply. It will be interesting to see more results. Maybe others will comment on what their experience is? Thanks as always for the insight.
I’m going to give this a try with my not very valuable, mainly buildings city and see what happens. What have I got to lose?
I intend to record the number of prizes offered each time I ignore them (whether I remember every time is an entirely different matter) and also how many it eventually awards me
Very interesting findings team, a couple of questions:
Does the effect top out at 7 days, what happens after even longer periods?
Does holding off coin collection then only collecting after 7 days have a similar acceleration in coin amount? This is potentially hard to measure due to new buildings and HMP.
I assume it is preferable to refresh the site than wait minutes for the green box animation of >1000+ prizes.
Hi cw2988, sorry i have never tested leaving collecting coins for 7 days so not to sure, i have only left the green boxes for a maximum of 7 days due to creating new monuments, evolving monuments & buying new buildings.
My strategy has always been to collect my coins every 24 hours and my green prize amounts at the same time. Given what is being said here, I am going to to a test myself and see if my green box prizes increase in numbers as the week goes on and collect them after 7 full days. Only issue i have is that I add and evolve every 3 days in order to keep my HMP active.
