KingShot Beginner's Guide: 100-Day Event Timeline & F2P Strategy

KingShot Beginner's Guide: Complete 100-Day Event Timeline & F2P Strategy

Welcome to your ultimate companion for navigating the initial stages of KingShot. This guide is designed to equip you with a comprehensive timeline of events and invaluable tips to optimize your growth and avoid common pitfalls during your first 100 days. Whether you're a free-to-play (F2P) user or a discerning spender, these strategies will help you build a formidable kingdom.

Your First 100 Days: A KingShot Event Timeline

The first 100 days in KingShot are a whirlwind of growth, alliance-building, and learning the core mechanics of the game. Here's what you can expect:

Days 1-20: The Foundation

• Initial Power Push: Your journey begins with a focus on rapidly increasing your power, forming alliances, and getting a grasp of the game's mechanics.
• Early Game Bonuses: Timed tasks and bonuses will be available, encouraging you to progress quickly.
• Map Fog Lifts (Plains): Around day 14, the fog over the plains will clear, unveiling new territories for your alliance to claim.
• Recurring Events Begin: You'll start to see recurring events such as:
  • Alliance Championships
  • Eternity's Reach
  • Sanctuary and Fortress Battles
  • Fishing events

Days 20-40: Expansion and New Challenges

• Map Fog Lifts (Fertile Land): Around day 38, the fertile lands will be revealed, leading to a rush for alliances to secure new, resource-rich territories.

Days 40-60: The Game Opens Up

• Generation 2 Heroes (Approx. Day 40-50): The introduction of second-generation heroes provides more options for F2P players to acquire powerful orange heroes. The exact timing can vary by server.
• Red Hero Gear Unlocks: While it becomes available, obtaining red hero gear at this stage is more likely for those who spend money on the game.
• First Castle Battle (Approx. Day 54): This is a major server-wide event where alliances battle for supremacy.
• Generation 1 Pets Arrive: Shortly after the first castle battle, the first generation of pets is introduced, adding a new layer of strategy to the game.

Days 60-100: Reaching New Heights

• Age of Truegold: This major update breaks the level 30 cap for towns, introduces new troop abilities, and adds a scarce new resource: Truegold.
• Event Evolution: Existing events like Hall of Governors evolve into Strongest Governor, and new events are introduced, including:
  • Golden Glaives
  • Stand of Arms
  • Armament Competition
• Generation 2 Pets Released: Roughly a week after the Age of Truegold begins, the second generation of pets becomes available.
• Kingdom vs. Kingdom (KvK) Battle (Approx. Day 80-99): Servers become eligible for their first KvK around this time, pitting your entire kingdom against another.
• Generation 3 Heroes (Approx. Day 101): As you cross the 100-day mark, the next generation of heroes is introduced, continuing to evolve the game's meta.

7 Essential KingShot Tips for F2P Success

Based on 100 consecutive days of gameplay, here are seven crucial tips to accelerate your progress and help you make smarter decisions.

Tip #1: Stamina Refunds on Lost Battles When you lose a stamina-consuming battle in the wilderness (against beasts, terrors, etc.), your stamina is refunded. You might get it back immediately or when your troops return. This means you can take more risks on challenging fights without a significant penalty.

Tip #2: Don't Overlook the City Bonus Window That small arrow under your profile picture opens the City Bonus window, a feature many players miss. Here you can find:

• A free, rechargeable shield.
• Purchasable troop and deployment bonuses.
• A rechargeable random teleporter.
• Boosts for gathering speed and training capacity.

Tip #3: The Growing Importance of Gathering In the early game, your in-town resource buildings are your primary source of income. However, as you progress, upgrading these buildings becomes incredibly time-consuming and expensive. Resource nodes in the wilderness, especially in the fertile lands, become a much more significant source of resources. Prioritize gathering-related research as you move into the mid-game.

Tip #4: The Strategic Advantage of a Farm Account You can have up to two towns on a single server within the same account. Creating a second "farm" account is a highly effective strategy for generating extra resources. This second town can participate in events, gather from nodes, and you can then transfer its resources to your main account by attacking it (after moving its troops out of the way). Top alliances often have dedicated farm alliances.

Tip #5: Smart Gem Priority for Hero Building It may seem daunting to spend gems on heroes early on, but it is a worthwhile investment. Events like Hero Roulette and Hall of Heroes are opportunities to acquire hero shards. As you progress, you'll accumulate a significant amount of gems, even as a F2P player. Use them to strengthen your early-game heroes.

Tip #6: Strategic Use of Mythic General Hero Shards While it's tempting to use your universal Mythic General Hero Shards to upgrade your first orange heroes, it's more strategic to save them. Spend your gems on the more readily available early-generation heroes. Reserve your universal orange shards for the more powerful, harder-to-get heroes from later generations that will be released as your server ages.

Tip #7: Universal Training Buffs The training capacity and training speed bonuses you get from upgrading your troop training buildings (Barracks, Range, Stable) apply to all troop types, not just the one the building produces. This means that even if you're focusing on infantry and archers, upgrading your Stable is still beneficial as it will boost your overall troop training efficiency.

By understanding the progression of events and applying these strategic tips, you'll be well on your way to building a powerful and prosperous kingdom in KingShot. Happy gaming