My fellowship started a message thread titled "50kp Thread" and people are posting "Player done, favourite please".
I get that it has something to do with being given 50kp to their ancient wonders, but how does it more specifically work, and what do their posts mean?
Posted Jul 31, 2022, 10:12 AM UTC
It's a way for fellowships to keep track of points given to another player's ancient wonder. "Done" means the player who wrote the message gave the amount of points in the thread to the previous poster's wonder. "Favourite" means the next player should give the points to the wonder they have marked with a heart. Players sometimes write the name of the wonder ("Mountain Halls") or abbreviation ("MH") instead.
Why would you ask here and not your FS?
Just embarrassing - I already participated in this, I just had no idea the specifics eg was I giving kp to the right person
So with that particular post, that player has done the player above and wants their favourite ancient wonder to be the next target. The idea behind these threads is that it's a chain; you donate to the last poster and post so you are next and you're supposed to specify a wonder otherwise people may choose something you don't want.
It's good in that there is little or no management involved and active posters will get more donated to their wonders, but it can often end up being a select few just donating to each other repeatedly and you may end up losing chests depending on the size. All good in an active fellowship though if everyone gets involved!
If the fellowship is active and the donations turn over regularly, they should break even. If you give 15 points to someone else instead of using them yourself, you should soon have them returned by another player. The chest rewards are a bonus. I usually try to get a decent reward but will sometimes donate without earning a good chest if I have recently gotten a good chest for cheap. One way to do that is to look for neighbors who are not in a fellowship and donate a couple of points when they are close to finishing and there are good chests available.
That's not even accounting for the fact that a rune is worth 10 points if you use it yourself vs. 15 if you use it on someone else.
Oh yes definitely. I don't even think you should use points on your own ancient wonder most of the time, at least not until all chests have been claimed by someone. Its a huge waste otherwise, particularly like you say with the recent change of the runes counting for KPs too.
I'm now quite a big fan of the Net Zero approach which, as far as I can tell, is the fairest and least tedious method. Although it does take some time to get your head around it as you have to switch from considering the one who benefits being the one who wins a chest to considering the owner to be the one who benefits