Alliance Trial

Alliance Trial is a point based daily event, running from monday to saturday.

Contrary to what you could believe you don't have to be in an alliance to make the Alliance Trial.

Alliance Trial daily events are directly linked to the Alliance Duel, in which you gain rewards at the end of the day if you beat the alliance you're up against.

Each day is based around a specific theme: Monday is gathering, Tuesday is construction, Wednesday is research, Thursday is hero recruitment, Friday is soldier training, Saturday is Enemy elimituesdnation.

## Monday: Gather Resources

### Strategy

Gathering day is self explanatory. You have to gather stones, iron or Z coins to gain points. There are multiple ways to increase your gathering speed :

1. Try to put gathering heroes in your lineups. They have a flat +100 load. And also at Epic rank (orange) you unlock their gathering speed-up skills. The following heroes are for gathering: Brom, Park Ji-Mi, Matthew, Dean, Cindy, Ivan, and the best one is David (unlockable at the crystal wheel event). Try to spread them around in your 2, 3 or 4 lineups in order to have a matching gathering speed. You can also add Irma if you want more Load output (David also has one, but at Epic rank (Orange)).
2. You should always collect resources in cities that your alliance has already repaired. Since you get a 50% bonus gathering speed up in repaired friendly territory.
3. Use the explore minerals in your biggest city and gather every member of your alliance around said city.
4. The research Efficient Gathering should be completed for a +40% gathering speed. There is also a second Efficient gathering tech in The alliance Commemoration tree. + all the different load enhancement in your lineups, and in the Alliance Commemoration tree.
5. Finally, ask your alliance R4 or leader to refill the Gathering boost item in the alliance shop, buy them and use them to have a +50% gathering speed-up.
6. The night before the event starts, try to send your lineups on quarries, mines, mints, and time it so that they return the day of the event. Will save you a lot of time. Your alliance R4 or leader can start explore minerals before the event too.
7. As of Version 1.307, the "Alliance" -> "Influence" tab created a position "Master of Gathering". This player or your R5 can issue a "Battle Order" called "Fast as a Hare" which increases the Alliance members' Gathering Speed by 20% for 12 hours. This Battle Order can be issued 3 times to start speedup in the afternoon before Gathering day and again twice during the Gathering day.

### Point optimization

You can gain points in these ways:

* Gather 1 Stone -> 30 points
* Gather 1 Iron -> 45 points
* Gather 1 Z Coin -> 60 points
* Mine 1 unit of aluminum -> 1 point
* Plunder aluminum x1 -> 1 point
* Purchase 1 diamond -> 50 points

In order to maximize your points, there are multiple things you can do:

1. The points are registered only when the lineup comes home. So you should time your lineups in order to get them all to come home at the same time. Aka send them all on similar level quarries, mines or mints. Then use an Alliance Duel Points Card to boost up to 50% the amount of points you get. Don't use the 100%, 200% or above that day. They will be way more useful for the next days. And try to not use more than 3 of them.
2. There are 3 Super value Points tech, that you should definitely focus on, The first one give 50% more points, The second gives 100% more points, the third one gives 150% more points. And there is also incentive gathering that gives you 150% more points. For a total of 450% more points boost, with all the techs. This multiply your points gained by 5.5 even without taking into account the Alliance Duel Card Boosts.
3. Some places are better than others to gain points. Here we'll review in a table the different quarries, mines, and mints to give you an idea of what's the best place to send your lineups :

\*Available in Dimensions only for Stone and Iron mines and only when a City is Explored for mines. Note that the higher level mines give an extra level 10 reward chest per level above 10.

### Rewards

Take note that the reward here is Construction speed-ups, you shouldn't spend them before the next day.

## Tuesday: Expand the Fortress

### Strategy

The main strategy here sums up into one word: "Preparation".

You should spare as much Stones / Irons / Z coins for this day. And also spare Building construction speed ups.

There is a specific moment when construction CP's are gathered. This moment is when you click on a button with tools on it. It finalize the leveling process, and at the same time gives you the CP for finalization the construction.

To make sure to get the most out of this day. Don't finish your construction by clicking on the button until that day. Upgrade every building and stack up finalized constructions before the event. So that you can finalize buildings that takes more than a day to build for example.

If you want to make sure that you don't accidentally gather construction CPs by misclicking, there is a setting that can help you. Click on your profile icon in the top left corner of the game screen to load your Commander Info page. Near the top right corner of that screen, you'll see two gears to access Settings. On the Settings screen, select General Settings then scroll down on the dialog box to the Collect Facility section. Turn ON the option to "Confirm with me when collecting Facilities". This will require you to click twice to collect the CPs on days when you are preparing. On Expand the Fortress day, you can choose the option to not ask you again for the day and quickly gather up all your prepped CPs.

There also are a ton of buildings that takes little amount of time to build, and gives substantial amount of points, these are the following buildings:

* Advanced Coal Mine
* Advanced Iron Mine
* Advanced Stone Quarry
* Barracks
* Mines
* Capacitor Room
* APC 1

If you didn't have enough time to prepare, you should prioritize these buildings.

### Point Optimization

Here the only point optimization will be to use the Alliance Duel Point Cards before clicking on the button with tools on all the building you spared before.

Try to use as many, if not all the construction speed-up you were sitting on during the timer of the Alliance Duel Point Cards.

You could also calculate how much a building will give you before starting to build them. In order to do so. Go to the building -> level up -> explation mark. Here you will see the amount of CP's the building is currently giving you, and how many it will give you for the next level. Simply substract them to know the amount of points it will give you.

The different ways to gain points are the following:

* Update 1.351.001 added the season facilities and APC modification points

### Rewards

Please take note that the reward speed-ups here are Tech speed up. You shouldn't be using them on that day. And try spending as little Z coins as possible for the next day.

## Wednesday: Research Technology

### Strategy

Again, like the last day, this is all about "Preparation"

Take note that you should have stacked as much Z coins and Power as possible, and kept your Tech Speed-Ups.

The way to prepare differ though. Since you need to finalize the former tech to be able to research the next one, you can't stack up a bunch of tech and finalize them.

What you should do here, is take you longest tech, and the one that gives you the most CP, and time it so that it end on the start of the day.

In order to get the most amount of Z coins as you can, try :

* to fill your plunder amount that restore every week
* To use rapid button on every Mint as much as you can and whenever you can
* Sell as many items as you can in the trade center for Z coins, while only buying the items you deem necessary
* Participate in other events
* Use your turret elimination as much as possible
* Kill Mutated Zombies lvl 5

On that note The Mutated Zombies give you a ton of research speed ups, so you should kill as many as you can everyday (daily cap is 5) and if you have Kaya event you can do 4 more.

The only ways to get reliable big amount of power are :

* Use the rapid button on the power generator as much as you can whenever you can
* Sell 2 500 stones for 2 500 coals in the trade center (if you have it to level 12) and then 2 500 coals for 12 500 powers. (So 2 500 stones for 12 500 power)

Once you did all this, you can start chaining as many fast research with big amount of CP gains as you can, while using the Tech Speed-Ups.

### Research Speed Optimization

You can decrease the time needed to complete a research, but it is not always recommended if you want to get the most points possible. In certain stages of the game, you might become limited in your research by Energy, Z Coins or even Alliance Medals while the Tech speed-ups keep on stockpiling. To make use of more speed-ups for points it can thus be better to avoid the improvements listed below.

### Points optimization

Once you prepared, use your Alliance Duel Card Points, and after that chain as many fast research with big amount of CP gains as you can, while using the Tech Speed-Ups.

The different ways to gain points are the following:

* Update 1.351.001 added the gear, mutation fusion & gear material points

### Rewards

\*These rewards are at the moment only unlocked on Wednesday and only once the 4 000 000 points mark has been reached. A message appears on the screen saying something about Technologist when the rewards are viewed.

## Thursday: Recruit Heroes

### Strategy

Here again, all about "Preparation".

You should not use many Combat Hero Recruitment Points before this event.

Try to participate in as many events as you can to get more points.

You get a lot of Combat Hero Recruitment Points during the Champion Duel that happens the same day so you might opt to wait for recruiting until the qualifier rounds are finished.

Daily ways to get points are as follow :

* Kill Mutated Zombies (30 per zombie killed): 150 per day
* Finish your daily activities: 150 per day
* Kill zombies if you unlocked the spoil chests tech : Relics
* Buy Points in the Trade Center, you can get 40 at least per refill without spending diamonds, and at most 195 if you have it level 12 and get a lot of food everyday. You can also get them 6 times instantly by spending 27 diamonds (240 points minimum then) and 6 more times every day. So you could get a minimum of 480 points per day with the Trade Center if you buy them every 3h30m.

You could use 900 recruitment points a day to complete Daily Missions.

### Point Optimization

Simply wait for the moment where you have as many Combat Hero Recruitment Points as you can have. Use your Alliance Duel Point Card, and then chain recruits. You can press the skip button in the top right corner to speed-up the recruiting animation.

You can also wait to use your faction cards for this event since they are worth more points. Though they are only obtainable through events or buying.

You can get points on this day by the following means:

* Perform a Combat recruitment 1 time -> 4 000 points
* Perform a Faction Recruitment 1 time -> 6 800 points
* Purchase 1 Diamond -> 100 points

You can use the Recruit Calculator to see how many points you would need to reach a specific reward.

### Rewards

Please take note that the reward speed-ups here are Training speed up. You shouldn't be using them on that day.

## Friday: Train Soldiers

### **Strategy**

For this day to get points come from Preparation and action. Save up as many training speed-ups as possible.

For people that would have maxed out their soldiers, it is recommended to kill some off by attacking people stronger than you or just attacking Forts/Cities in general with weak heroes, thus you can use the speeds ups and get points for training troops. You get points for training each level as stated in the table below:

Table for how much points gained from training and assembling troops
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Also it is recommended to save up on medicines because you can also get points from killing zombies.

Use mop-ups to help speed up the process of killing zombies.

The final way to gain points on Friday is:

* Purchase 1 Diamond -> 50 points

The rewards for Fridays event is the same as Tuesdays event: Many items and Tech Speed-ups.

## Saturday: Enemy Elimination

### **Strategy**

On saturday you can get a lot of points if actively participating in any ongoing wars. However, doing this every week can deplete your troops due to KIA.

Some strategies people use to still obtain a lot of points while sparing troops are:

* Attacking Bot Fortresses. You can identify bots by the lack of zone number when clicking on their forts. These bots usually have lower strength troops and lineups than players which helps limit troop losses.
* Trading points with an enemy alliance. It is better to do this against the Alliance you are matched with in the Alliance Duel, since it gives more points. Two players of opposing alliance put their strongest troops on a resource mine or a Fortress Construction site. Both players then send weak lines (preferably level 1 heroes without gear and low ascension, e.g. Akendalf) to the other player. The players sending the attack will have 100 grievously wounded soldiers for every attacks and the player stationing will receive points from defeating 500 enemy soldiers. This strategy costs a lot of Infirmary space and Medicine, but it is faster to replace medicine than soldiers. It can cost more APC energy than attacking Forts, since only 500 troops are defeated every fight, so it is recommended to trade equally with the opposing Alliance.

The points gained during this day are listed in the table below

\* Capturing the enemy's Main City does not provide personal points for the Trial. It only provides points for the Alliance Duel.

The rewards for Saturday's Trial contain double the amount of Alliance Medals compared to other days. The detailed rewards are shown in the table below.