Individual Contests

Every server has between 1 and 4 individual contests going on at all times.

These contests can be found in the Contest section along the right edge of the game.

**Duration**

Typically there will be one Contest that will last 3 days, listed at the top of the Contests, then an additional 2 or 3 other Contests that will last 2 days. Contests always end at 11PM EST and start at 1AM EST.

**How to play**

While the contest is active you can view the current Ranking list and see a Strategy guide suggesting how to earn a higher rank for that contest. Players that rank within the top 200 will earn some sort of prizes.

Players that finish in the top 3 ranks for each contest will earn prizes and a special Title, but most importantly a temporary Elder position in the Palace. At any time there are 7 Elders - identified by the letters that spell out VAMPIRE, so a V Elder, an A Elder, an M Elder, etc. There is no special meaning to which letter except that the V Elder sits in the Queen position during their temporary time in the Palace.

Some of the Individual Contests we have seen include:

* Intimacy - send Gifts to Mr. Right
* Date - acquire fabric materials for Mr. Right's suits. Just completing a Date doesn't count, you must earn fabric(!).
* Energy - complete Stories. The more Energy you spend to complete the Story the higher your rank.
* Pets - achieve Pet Satiety by feeding your pets. Note that Satiety CAN go up to 190 in one feeding (Feed up to 90 using lower grade pet food, then finish by using the top grade pet food)
* Garden - Plant flowers. You don't have to sow them... just plant them. Fertilizer is your friend here.
* Ability - Use Ability scrolls to Enhance Follower abilities
* Coins - Spend coins to level up Followers
* Potion - Use potions by Replenishing Energy in Routines

**Rewards**

In general the prizes are a range of typical game items. The most interesting items are for the top 50 players. The notable rewards you are likely to see are:

* Makeup Bag - exchange for a new Makeup look
* Follower's Heart - use in the Contest Shop to acquire additional Followers
* Crystal - use in the Contest Shop to exchange for set items
* Item Chests
* Follower Awakening items - hats, ribbons, medals

**Strategy**

Players will play hard, spending diamonds and money to get those top rank Elder spots. Players will get up to the top of the leader board then make sure they are online JUST before the contest ends ready and prepared to dump extra effort into ensuring that they retain that top spot at the last minute.

To have any reasonable chance at winning an Elder slot, or even a top 5 slot, you probably need to play ahead and hoard the relevant items through 2 or 3 contest cycles and/or be prepared to spend money/diamonds to buy a good bit of extra items.

Keep in mind that you do get prizes all the way down to rank 200 and it isn't hard with usual play and no extra expense to end up ranked somewhere in that top 200 as long as you are playing fairly regularly.

Quick Example of a Contest: I'm looking at an Intimacy Contest that still has 2 days left in it. The top player has added over 2700 Intimacy and the top 10 players have all added about 900 or more Intimacy. Consider that each Intimacy Gift adds 2 or 3 points, so to reach 2700 points a player would need to have about 600 or 700 three-point items in their bag and about 340 two-point items. (on average with normal play you end up with about 75% 3 point items and 25% 2 point items, roughly speaking) It is likely that instead of that many individual gifts, a player would have a number of Intimacy Chests, too. Intimacy Chests give out a random number of Intimacy points ranging from 5 points to 300! On average I see 15-40 points happen most often, but sometimes I have seen a 150 point result. As you can see, you'd have to have a lot of Intimacy generating gifts (or chests) hoarded up in order to reach that level - or else spend the money/diamonds to buy whatever items/chests you can, either way.