My plans overall in Game Of Thrones Winter Is Coming (GoT) were to spend $20-25 in the first month. Followed up by another $10 in the second and that might just be all. Granted I’m sure months later there will be something new or amazing deal to get a couple more bucks out of me. However, once your established and found the right conditions you are now set up for the long haul. Even more so once you hit head on that massive time sink of months to finish anything. While the big guys are spending a lot to get that last 1% and those ineffective players or free ones are months behind. You are still gaining and maintaining a decent lead.

I’ve been able to maintain being in the top 20 to 30 players by power and about 10 above that in the number one alliance on the server I am on. To be fair this server does lack some bigger spenders that can be found on others. I still, however, would maintain quite the ranking lead over the thousands of others playing. Let alone many who have outspent me by tenfold.

Finding A Good kingdom (Server)

It is also very hard to grow if every day all the alliances are getting their hives burned (the players of that alliance grouping in one area to work with each other). Lots of resources lost and a hard lesson learned when people lose army due to not having enough hospitals to hold them all. Mostly due to no one teaching them any better since the smart players left to find a better place to play.

Instead, you want to be on a kingdom that has organization and the top alliances are working with each other. Thankfully at least once a week right now GoT is opening up a new kingdom so you do have always another chance to find one that works for you. They also understand the real consequence of using lord execution and how that should only be reserved for people that won't see the kingdom burn and will never be a team player.

This is all important as you want a kingdom that has a chance at doing well in Kingdom vs Kingdom. Diamond mines spawn on your kingdom afterword depending on how well you did. This gives you a massive advantage and really lets your kingdom progress cheap. Higher level buildings take forever to finish unless your boosting and start requiring special items that require diamonds to buy.

Finding The Right Alliance

When I joined my new server I was 15 hours late to the party. As soon as I unlocked the ability to join an alliance I went right for number one after checking out what else there was. By then they had established they were going be number one with their organization. They had an alliance-wide plan and prior successes. They were not asking for anything crazy and performed active players over some whale that could not follow the plan. The only thing crazy is they still had open enrollment where anyone could join. They were kicking people left and right who failed a very clever test. Thankfully I passed without even knowing about it and they have kept me around ever since.

What you want to avoid are an alliance that requires 12 hours or longer online every day or other crazy nonsense. Real life should always come first. Those kinds of alliance fall quite hard and tend to not be around after the first sieges when those players realize they are not getting King’s Landings. They went all or nothing and sadly many will just go join the next new server and do it all over again with the same result.

You want a place that accepts all kinds of spenders and is just fun. You could be spending the next months to years playing with these people. Also, Tier 4 troops cost a lot of resources it takes an alliance to feed a couple of people boosting them out. So everyone ends up finding their place in an alliance to worth together to be great.

The smarter big spenders also hold off on spending for a little while. They want to make sure the kingdom they are on is going be decent. Along with the fact when they start buying packs everyone in that alliance gets gift boxes. I’ve gotten thousands of diamonds and days’ worth of boosters from these gift boxes. This is another way I can remain just a budget player and be doing so well. This really allows an entire alliance to be lifted up.

Those gift boxes from a higher alliances end up going a long way for the budget player. You will also be doing some spending to help along. You will also end up helping out by killing rebel leaders which is a great and quick way to help farm for more keys to level up the alliances “luck” on boxes. So really there is no reason to not be in a top alliance. Maybe you won’t be in the number one but active players who follow direction are always needed out there.

Learn Before Spending And Think Before Buying

GoT has a lot of whales targeted spending and if you’re not willing to shell out $5,500 to max it out you could be tossing $100 or far more down the drain and not even get what you wanted. This comes in play with the buyable commanders as seen in the screenshot above. Take someone like Jon Snow at the max quality he is giving the army he is active in 25% defense, attack, and health. It’s $100 to buy 6 metals. The game likes to offer a $20 coupon and so people will buy one for $80.

For unlocking a command it’s 10 metals so they did not even get him with only 6. You then need 20, 50, 100, and 150 to increase quality. Those 25% buffs are at the max quality and you get a very small percent at the lowest quality. This means you need to buy all 55 packs at $100 each to get 330 Jon Snow metals. He is also not the only commander like that in cost.

After that, the best bang for the buck is those castle builder upgrade packs you get at certain castle upgrade milestones such as level 17. I personally only bought the $5 one but there was also a $10 and $1. They come with a lot of boosters.

Since you already recharged they give you Melisandre for free the first time you buy. For another $5 you can buy a pack to increase her quality once. You can also buy Kevin for $5 and many spenders will. Just keep in mind for those bought commoners only way to get metals is from buying more. If you are going to buy further packs make sure you can even get the upgrade you want. For instance, the second pack for Kevin is $20 and you only get 15 of the 20 metals you need to increase his quality so you need to buy another pack just to get that increase.

When it comes to spending unless you are going be a whale keep an eye out for the budget-friendly stuff. Always double check you could even benefit and don’t impulses buy. Those deals tend to last a day and guess what a few days later they are back. With one expectation being the castle upgrade packs those only last a couple of days for a one time buy.

Compounding Your Efforts

I would log in and check to see if there was anything worth going after. Since you tend to boost around completing chapter quests in the early parts of the game for all that lord experience you tend to focus on building and research. While also having your talent points spent on reducing those timers.

An example of this would be an Elite 1 hour event with a tier 3 reward of 500 diamonds and 38 hours’ worth of boosters. I would also get another 4 hours for the lower tiers and maybe the normal event would require the same thing like building so that be another 10 hours on top of that. For a grand total of 52 hours’ worth of extra boosters and a bunch of other rewards. Compare that to someone just boosting to boost and did so not during that event and got nothing extra. You now are now 2 days ahead of that other player. Just make sure to do the math that you have enough boosters and time to allow alliance members to press help. If you just speed rush with zero alliance help to reduce your timers that reward more than likely won’t make up for the time you would have saved otherwise.

There are also events that reward you for just using boosters that day with diamonds. One such event is called best efforts and requires a total of 2880 minutes of booster spent. Pair getting that with just doing the Elite event you would pick up an extra 300 diamond and 1 hour worth of boosts.

There are also times when using diamonds instead of booster scrolls to boost makes more sense. If you are leveling up a castle and it’s going to take 30 hours to finish. Unless you have one of those single-use 24-hour boosters to use instead. It makes more sense to just spend diamonds. You need to work out the cost per hour. At that level, it should be around 61 diamonds per hour. Compare that to another thing that could cost you 90 diamonds per hour and that is quite the deal. Sometimes you can buy a pack for diamonds (not the black diamonds) and it’s far worse of a deal then what you could just spend them raw.

There are a bunch of other events and ways to earn booster, diamonds, and compound your efforts to earn more. You should always look for a way to get more or get ahead of others if it's more rewarding to do so and makes up for the cost. Just make sure you are taking advantage of alliance helps and not somehow shorting yourself in the processes.

Final Thoughts

There was a little overlap from my review I did a couple of weeks back. This, however, is far more detail and focused around getting ahead instead of just looking at the basics of the game. I may consider doing more content for this game if there enough interest in it. kingdom wars are however almost two months out and would require me to keep playing daily to keep up.

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Screenshots were taken and content was written by @Enjar about Game Of Thrones Winter Is Coming game.

For anyone who does not have a friend invite (it gives you 500 diamonds and other goodies for level 10 and under castles) feel free to use mine https://got.gtarcade.com/en?refer=IoAAGN9kJuBpp4IC or friendship code IoAAGN9kJuBpp4IC if you are already signed up to the game.I do get a small in-game reward chest if you happen to spend money on the game. You still get the free diamonds if you don’t so it’s a nice bonus regardless for you. There is no further compensation beyond that on my end.