Castle Story event 1/18 - What's Eating Baron's Grapes?

[Scratte717]

Yesterday I completed event. The horse looks cute and all the artwork is great, however - after 2 golden trades ... it is in my inventory now You never know, might be of some use in future... or not Lately I learned that you never know what resource may become very important for some future quest.

And - the 40minute unlimited energy purchase helped a lot to progress on Mermaid Quest.

[meme1098]

Woohoo! I finished last night. I managed to do 10 basket trades and 2 golden trades without getting anything of value. Never saw anywhere near 10,000 coins. No deco drops either.

I think my final trade, which was a golden trade, should win a prize for worst prize ever. I didn?t even see a black ?you can?t hold anymore? banner.

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Wow...that's really awful. I don't understand S8's reasoning behind this one. 🙄 Totally useless update. I'm kinda glad RL kept me too busy to bother with it. 🤣

[EsmeW2]

I think my final trade, which was a golden trade, should win a prize for worst prize ever. I didn?t even see a black ?you can?t hold anymore? banner.

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Snap, exactly the same just happened to me. Golden fruit trade got me 130 coins and nothing else! Ludicrous!!!

[DeeDeeBird70]

Whew, finally finished! Last trade brought, drumroll please, 105 coins and an iron ore. I did get 3 grape lattices from an early trade and 3 vineyard walls from #9. Nothing else was of much value. I don't plan to make any more of the gift basket trades but I might do a golden trade or two, emphasis on might. I do like the horse and cart and he's parked in front of a little tasting area with Aetas as hostess. The purple in her dress fits nicely with the grapes.

Way too much chopping of Acers for the berries dropped, the uneven drops were frustrating. Too often only 2 or 3. Unlike others, I had a sufficient number of monsters, mostly from the acers but skunkupines from sugarcanes as I was restocking sugar. In fact I parked a troll the last day and a half. No problem with the purple grapes either, I ended up up with 5 extra. We needed only 3 for each trade instead of the 7 green ones. If the final prize had been something other than the horse and cart, I probably would have passed. The artwork is beautiful, too bad the drops were so lousy.

[cavegirl1]

Looks like I finished around the same time as a few of you. I didn't seem to have any problems with spawn rates or drops, though I did purchase the gem tree as I can't resist a cute tree ( and there's nothing else to spend gems on for me ...)

Searched my inventory and have 6 lattice, 1 gate and 5 walls quite a way back so don't know when I got them and if that is good/bad ...

I wasn't really keeping track - but I think I might have had enough to do 3 gold trades. But don't remember what I got.

Guess that says something about my interest level. But it made a change from chopping anemones!

[SpiritWind00]

Hi all, please note that I have completed all of the inventory information and have transferred it into the Building and Inventory Guides. If there are any changes, please post in the Hub feedback thread as normal. Cheers!

[CharmOfLea]

I think this might have been an event for bored level 50++ with herds of alis. They?ve got nothing to lose and deco to gain.

If so, I?m still bored. The chance for something exciting from the gold trade is there, but it seems too low.

[jesslau9]

woohoo i just hit 6 monsters in a row,within 40 energy!

#1 was mushroom, then 5 from trees

never before!

now I need me a few more purple grapes

[atiragram]

Seems like finishing by now without the gem tree is still an exception, according to what was reported so far.
I might still make it though, since I was finally a bit more lucky with purple grapes yesterday. I have enough of them for trade no. 8. If I manage to get 6 more today and tomorrow, it would be doable at least theoretically.
So I just continue, hoping it might be achievable. Would be really nice to have the horse since I like the way it looks and I would collect the drops just to see if golden trades give me one or the other additional deco item. I don?t think it?s worth many gems though. I prefer saving those up for another wizard school or a beastbane display. So if the grapes don?t drop in the end, I guess I just won?t finish (ok I might spend 25 if I?m just short one in the end).
At least I can?t complain about this not being exciting until the end (exciting in terms of ?Oh, will I be able to make it or not??).

[HuckleTown]

It's sad that S8 still hasn't fixed the random drop issue. I happen to be on the luckier side this time (enough purple grapes and hopefully enough monsters) but that doesn't make me enjoy the event more. I've been on the bad luck side and it is frustrating to put all that time in and not finish because your game didn't drop the needed resources.

Good luck to those looking for grapes and monsters.