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Game Guide: King of Avalon

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2024: This guide was written for older offer terms. The new offer is $295.80.

Most game functions remain the same. Notably, level 18 was the previous final goal. The new requirement is level 32, which is unachievable within the available time.

I would suggest going for the level 22 reward and completing all spending requirements. This should earn you $18.80.

Offer Link: https://www.swagbucks.com/offer?oid=24749&rb=69384823

It’s a fairly generic medieval city simulator. Lots of resource collecting, mini events, both friendly P2P interactions and PVP. Everything is time based and you get items to speed through the boring bits.

The walkthrough though wasn’t quite accurate. The fellow was on an earlier version of the game that had functions that are no longer available for strictly free play.

You’ve got a (Green) Stamina bar which lets you take actions like attacking monsters or barbarian camps. Other actions like gathering resources or attacking other players is free. You also get a (yellow) Stamina bar for a mini game where you lead your dragon knight through a dungeon.

Your Stamina will regenerate slowly over time. The bar is Full at 100 points and you get 1 point back every 5 minutes, it take 8.5 hours to completely refill from zero.

In the Skill Tree “Balance” you can put Lord skill points into Stamina Recovery 1 (5% Max), and Tier 2 (20% Max). In the VIP perks there is a Lord Stamina recovery boost that will speed up the recovery rate. One of the Blue Heroes you can get “Sir Gaheris” has a talent that will boost your Stamina Recovery Rate.

For the resources I would strongly suggest starting a farm town and placing it next to your main city. You can raid it for resources that you need. Alternatively you can attack other players, abandoned towns, or ask your Alliance members to send you resources.

The high level Alliances get lots of Gifts that may include Gold or big resource items. You can use Gold to pay for anything you are missing.

All actions give you experience for your Lord and add to your Power rating. Certain game functions like equipping much needed armor are not available until you reach higher Lord levels.

The Swagbucks offer says you need to reach a level of 16 but doesn’t specify if this is Lord level or Stronghold level to get the points. The resource requirements go up tremendously each level, far beyond what you city can produce. You are expected to buy your way there or go crazy on PVP. Ransacking nearby cities will get you the resources you need but takes a long time.

Right so, at Stronghold level 16 you get access to the vault which help out as you can boost your Gold for premium purchases (pay-wall) and the Marketplace where you can buy speed boosts and more resources. If your Lord level is 16 at this point you can wear equipment which will add like 1.5 million to your power rating per piece.

To move from stronghold level 16 to 18 you need around 18 million of food/wood and 4-8 million Iron/Silver. The most I could gather at this point was 600k resources and even that took 1-2 hours per run.

Most of the videos I watched said to make another city and then raid it for resources which I did naturally. With a farm account parked right next to my city I was able to attack it and got around 4 million wood in 30 minutes. I had do lots of missions on the other account to replenish those stores for the next attack but it was much mote efficient than doing Gathering or real PVP.

During the tutorial you are prompted to join an Alliance which is where most player to player interactions occur. I didn’t want a lot of pressure and so opted to make my own alliance at this stage. However when I woke up the next day the guild was full to capacity. The open enrollment option is on by default so I had a bunch of teammates suddenly. Pressure.

If I had to do it all over again I would definitely pay the dollar to get the First Recharge pack. The hero included gives major bonuses to construction that would make the 4-5 day completion possible. Having the right Economic heroes set in your Council makes the game playable. The Military heroes are of less use if you are just going for the point reward.

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Rise of Kingdoms Gift Key/Code

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Here is a list of Gift Keys that should be valid for use in the game as of 3/14/2022.

You can click on your Portrait (top-left) and then Settings (Sprocket icon), click Redeem, and enter the 10-digit key. They are not case sensitive.

  • New User: rokvictory

Expired Codes:

  • Chinese New Year 2022: happycny22 (expired)
  • Chinese New Year 2022: rokcny8888 (expired)
  • New User: xinchaorok (expired)
  • amqdqbegkd (expired)
  • Valentine’s Day 2022: tw1xpxw9z2 (expired)

We have a guide to the game available if you are doing it on Swagbucks, MyPoints, FreeCash, or InboxDollars. Rise of Kingdoms.

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FreeCash: West Game

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West Game

Type: 4X Game, Cowboys/Western

I played West Game through the Adgem offer wall in FreeCash and earned $62.64 after reaching the final goal. I only spent $1 on a beginner pack.

Offer terms are to “complete” Town Center level 16, which usually means getting to 17.

Layout

The town layout doesn’t really feel like any of the other games I have played, so I couldn’t really call it a clone.

Gameplay is very standardized and follows the same set themes of the genre. A nice difference is that the resource buildings are automated and will accumulate resources without having to tap on them to collect them every time.

There are caps on resource storage space, so you will need to keep an eye on the numbers if you are away for a time.

Strategy

Starting out, you don’t have a lot of resources, and gathering resources is tedious. I would suggest only using Siege units for Gathering as they have the best Load capacity.

You can only use 1 March until Town Center level 8. Use up all your energy fighting mobs and bosses, and then send out your gathering units. Heroes can be imprisoned in this game, so never send your hero on the Gathering march.

VIP Level

Raising your VIP level is useful, and there are two tiers of VIP ranks.

The second tier unlocks after reaching VIP 10. I got to VIP 5 on the second day of gameplay, and it has made a big difference in getting through the building upgrades.

I have also crafted Equipment that supports Troop Load, Farm Production, and Coin Production. Crafting materials will mostly come from your Alliance gift boxes.

Spending

You probably don’t need to spend any money on this game other than maybe getting the 99-cent starter hero.

Everything else in the store seems to be $5 or more. I expect this game offer to take about a week to finish.

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Swagbucks: Elvenar

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InnoGames: Elvenar

Swagbucks has the Elvenar game offer set to 1,250 SB currently. It used to be 500 SB, so this is a good increase in points and makes it worthwhile to complete in my opinion. You just need to unlock Ancient Wonders in Chapter II of the Tech Tree within 30 days. I managed to finish the research in 5 days, it then took 10 days to collect all the sigils to “Unlock” the construction. Here is a direct link to the offer: https://www.swagbucks.com/offer?oid=18630&rb=69384823

If you are not already a member of Swagbucks, FreeCash, MyPoints, or InboxDollars; I strongly suggest you sign up. These sites are a great source of extra income for spontaneous purchases.

This will require a total of 343 Knowledge Points (KP) to complete Secret Ancient Wonders technology. A portion of these points will be paid during the Tutorial and can be disregarded. On the research tree for the first chapter (age) you need to get everything except for Squad Size upgrades.

Advanced Residences
Advanced Goods

Starting in chapter 2 you only need to research Advanced Scouts (25KP), Advanced Residences (42KP), and Advanced Marble/Steel/Planks (32KP)/(28KP)/(30KP). Secret Ancient Wonders costs a final 35KP. This should complete the offer terms.

Adv. Residence30k Gold0 75 Marble210 Steel0
Adv. Marble32k Gold0 0 160 Steel70 Planks
Adv. Planks17k Gold2,250 Supply220 Marble90 Steel0
Adv. Steel13k Gold2,400 Supply90 Marble0190 Planks
S. Ancient Wonders50k Gold5,000 Supply000
Materials Required

I would strongly suggest not building any Event buildings in your city as they take up a great deal of space and will hamper your ability to complete this offer quickly. Your primary focus should be clearing Encounters on the World Map and completing Storyline objectives. You’ll run out of Gold frequently, but have more supply than you can store. The HQ determines how much resources you can have on hand. I would suggest upgrading to level 3 HQ.

The Encounters are your main source of Knowledge Points, it doesn’t matter if you fight or trade, either option will work. You should be able to clear the first chapter on day 1. A number of Sideline-Story objectives will also reward you with KP, so keep an eye out for those.

You will get sigils by giving aid to neighboring towns and by clearing map locations.

You can claim a freebie in the Shop every day, top-right of the screen. In the game settings, there is an option for “Data Usage.” This game collects a lot more data than others you may be familiar with and depending on how you feel about that sort of thing you may want to disable or opt out of a lot of it.

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Evony TKR: 1 Gold Equipment

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The guide you may have seen here previously was sadly incorrect on several points. The below guide was written by a Reddit user and it has been confirmed as working.

Originally Posted on the “FreeCash.com” Reddit Sub by the user (u/Brave-Interaction511)

4 basic attributes mean King’s equipment, not just any gold equipment.

Cost: $25-50

Time: 6-14 days (this is based on people who I know did it, but that was also before this guide existed)

This credit is for me on Lootably btw. Others did it on AdGem (which paid a lot more, 140k).

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Want to address some things before the actual steps.

“Don’t want to spend”: I don’t think this can be done for free within 30 days because you can only produce 12 materials a day max w/o speeding and I seriously doubt you could make up for the rest purely through alliance, subordinate cities, events, etc. in the time limit.

“Can you do it in a day?”: Possibly, if you spend like $50 (mostly for gems). Keep in mind you have to keep refreshing the scroll chest (18,230 gems). (Also it should show up at market level 21.)

Packs and stuff: For the building part look for the most competitive packs (top of the inbox, use double down coupon). The pack price/contents reset daily. You need at least 2 to speed the keep. Keep an eye out for any good crafting pack deals, and collect your consumption event rewards!! (bottom, might be hidden by arrow). You might see some great gems deals I didn’t or something, so you’ll just have to use your best judgment on that.

Some numbers:

The equipment needs 60 gold materials in total.

1 gold material = 27 blue materials. 1 blue material takes 273 gems to speed up.

So 27 blue materials cost 7,371 gems to produce & speed up.

You will pick up a bunch of materials and random equipment to disassemble so you don’t need to produce all 1,620. Just most of them.

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Steps:

These steps sort of overlap so please read all before you do it. 🙂

1. Building. Level the keep to 21. Build the research factory & upgrade that to 21. Build a forge, work on leveling that to 21 too (but you won’t need it till the end). If you’re trying to buy the scroll then you need a level 21 market as well.

2. Alliance. Start trying to join a good alliance before you hit 21 so you can get a head start on the scroll. (There is a cooldown for switching alliances btw). You’ll get a bunch of resources and speedups that’ll help with your keep and other buildings too. If you tap the 3 dots above alliance, then go to ranks and look at kills you’ll see some good alliances to join. Once one lets you in, teleport there and whenever a powerful player starts a war against a monster/boss, join that with 1 troop. This is directly what I was told to do by my alliance so you’re not doing anything weird here.

3. Obtain the king’s scroll. Bosses Infrit, Griffin, and Junior Cerberus drop the king’s scroll chests. As mentioned earlier you can also buy it on the Black Market for 18,230 gems. The king’s sword doesn’t have credit.

4. Materials. Open up every witch’s bag and chest you have (except resource ones of course). Make sure you are checking events too. If you have any random equipment in your inventory, disassemble that too. Go to your forge and under craft you’ll see the gold equipment that matches your scroll. Just tap on those materials and compose. See what you need and go produce it at the research factory. I’ve already gone over the numbers above so you can figure out how many gems you might need to fill in what’s missing.

5. Craft. If you’re short on speedups then go to your monarch and look under “fame”, collect everything there, and then tap on the monarch gear and look if you have one that speeds up crafting. Equip that. Now assuming you have all the materials all you have to do is go back to the forge, go to “craft”, and craft it, and speed it up. (Also this credited within a few minutes for me but don’t forget to take screenshots of this process in case you do have a tracking issue.) You don’t need to refine it! You’re done.

6. Congratulations!! You’re a legend. Enjoy.

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RAID: Shadow Legends Revisited

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UPDATE: As of July 2022, most, if not all, versions of the Raid Offer have been changed to require you to open 3 Sacred shards and require a purchase. It may no longer be possible to do this offer as Free-to-Play.

https://www.swagbucks.com/games/apps/1671396/raid-shadow-legends?rb=69384823

I originally wrote an offer guide for RAID Shadow Legends in October 2021. I recently reinstalled the game to challenge myself to complete the tougher offer terms.

Just to be clear, I am not taking the offer again. I am no longer a new user and do not qualify to complete it. I am just playing for fun with the offer terms as my goal.

I found a version of the offer on Lootably with 5 objectives that piqued my interest.

  • Complete Tutorial
  • Make your first purchase
  • Collect 2 Void Shards
  • Collect 4 Void Shards
  • Collect 6 Void Shards

Testing the Challenge

EDIT 2/07/22: I found 2 extra ways of getting void shards within the time limit. The daily login rewards get you 2 shards, and the clan boss chest gets another.

You can potentially get multiple Void Shards if you are in a strong Clan that beats the boss regularly throughout the week.

It took 12 days to get all six of the Void Shards that this offer would have required.

There is also the more popular “Get 2 Sacred Shards” version, but that mostly gets done through purchases.

For anyone interested in a money-maker deal, this offer was listed for $55. The shop has an offer of $9.99 for 3 Void Shards that show up at level 15.

Special Void Pack $9.99

Similarly, for Sacred Shards, but it costs $15 per Shard, so only do that if you are getting $80-$90 back in points.

I checked online and found 3 game codes that were still active. You can only redeem them once per day.

Mostly, it was Energy and Arena tokens; the multi-battle ones did not work. One code did get me the blue 3-star Mother Superior hero. She works great for healing in my campaign lineup.

Methods to Acquire Shards

For the Void Shards, there are many ways they can be earned through gameplay, without spending money.

  • Complete the campaign on Normal mode.
  • 3-star completion of Normal Campaign.
  • Login Reward Day 12 & 29.
  • Complete Daily quests for 30 days.
  • Clan Boss Chest Rewards.
  • A referred friend reaches level 30 (max 3).
  • Reach level 75. (Sacred Shard at 60).

This just leaves me missing 1 Void Shard. I’ve got 30 days until I get the Daily Quest shard, which coincidentally will also include a Sacred shard for other cleared objectives.

Trial Run

I started the game on January 26th at 9:56PM (EST). I am looking forward to the challenge.

I finished the campaign on Normal on my 3rd day of play.

My hero lineup for the campaign includes my starter, Galek (Orcs), Warpriest (Sacred Order), Mother Superior (Sacred Order), and Deacon Armstrong (Sacred Order).

For the Dungeon battles, I also include Valerie (Banner Lords).

Galek is equipped with the Life Steal and Immortal gear sets. He is 4-star and fully ascended.

Hero Lineup

Galek is wearing Life Steal and immortal sets.

Warpriest is also a 4-star and has 3 ascensions. She has on the Life and Divine Life sets.

Warpriest wearing Life and Divine Life

Deacon Armstrong is a lucky Purple 4-star hero I got from an Ancient Shard. He is wearing Life and Speed gear.

Deacon wears Life and Speed sets

Mother Superior whom I got from a gift code, is a 3-star hero. She is fully ascended and wears the Life and Divine Offense sets.

Mother Superior wearing Life and Divine Offense

For Dungeon battles, I also bring Valerie a 3-star fully ascended Banner Lords hero. She has on the Offense and Life sets.

Valerie is wearing the Offense and Life sets
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MyPoints: A Detailed Guide for New Users

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MyPoints is from the same parent company as Swagbucks and InboxDollars. The main difference I have found is the point values are lower than the other two platforms. You are allowed to have a single account with each platform.

You can earn Points in a bunch of ways. For example:
Shopping online, using the site as a starting point
Clicking on emails they send out on behalf of partners
Booking travel with the sites you already trust
Taking surveys
Playing online games

Welcome Bonus for new users: Spend $20 or more (excluding taxes, shipping & handling, and special processing fees) through the MyPoints.com website, the Score! browser extension or Bonus Mail emails in the first 30 days of membership to receive a $10 Bonus in your account. A $10 Bonus will be awarded in the form of Points deposited into your MyPoints account: $10 Bonus = 1,750 Points. Full terms of the offer here.

Here is my Referral link MyPoints, which will get you an extra bonus, or if you prefer, you can use this non-referral MyPoints link.

  1. Click, sign up, register, and verify your account via email.
  2. You will also be prompted to verify via text message when you redeem your points.
  3. Complete some initial demographic questions to build your survey profile.
  4. Make sure to complete the signup on the landing page before navigating away, or it won’t count.

Completing your To-Do list each day can earn 10 points plus a little more for each task you complete.

A. Vote in the Daily Poll
Weigh in on the daily poll and see what other MyPoint members think.

B. Magic Receipts
Add an In-Store Deal to your shopping list.

C. Deal of the Day
Get Free Shipping On $85+ Order Earn 8 Points Per Dollar

D. Complete a Watch Activity
Earn 2 points while being entertained and informed.

E. Earn Points from Discover
Over 50,000 Points are waiting for you with MyPoints Deals.

F. Attempt A Survey
Earn up to 5 points for attempting a survey, even if you don’t qualify, up to 5 times a day.

G. Complete a Survey
Provide your opinions to partners and earn Points for completing a survey.

H.
Meet Your Daily Goal
Meet your personalized Daily Goal every day to earn 10 additional Bonus Points.

There are many other ways you can earn points that can be redeemed for gift cards.

  1. Shop: With the In-Store shopping, when you shop at participating local stores and pay with your eligible linked card, you will automatically earn points on qualifying purchases. You can also add items to your shopping list and then, after purchasing in-store, submit your receipts to get points for the corresponding items.
  2. Deals: On the top menu of the site, there is a Deals tab, and you can view Deals by category. You can search by category, including electronics, Health and Wellness, Home, Sports and Leisure, and Toys and Hobbies.
  3. Coupons: Earn 25 Points for each coupon you redeem at your local grocery store. Plus, earn 1 Point per coupon printed. A maximum of 500 coupon prints per month are eligible for Points, but there is no limit on the 25 Points per redemption. Points for the coupon print activity will be posted the next business day.
  4. Surveys: You can earn up to 5 points for attempting a survey. The surveys are sorted by Estimated time to complete, and they list the number of points you can earn if you qualify.
  5. Watch: Once you start the playlist, it will auto-play until completion or until paused by the user. You must complete this playlist to receive the points. It’s usually 5-10 videos.
    Videos are only available on the site via desktop or laptop, but you can earn additional Points for watching videos on your smartphone or tablet with the MyPoints TV app. Available in iOS and Android.
  6. Games: You can play “Cash” games that require a deposit and earn rewards. Cash Competitions is operated by WorldWinner.com. WorldWinner Rewards Points are different from the Points earned in the MyPoints program and may not be used for MyPoints rewards.
  7. Travel: You can use the MyPoints portal and links to book flights and hotel stays and earn points for the bookings. There are travel offers and travel deals available regularly.
  8. More: Some other options are the 7-Day Challenge, Search and Earn: using MyPoints as your default search engine will give you a chance at earning more points, and the Score! The browser extension will pop up offers and deals when visiting sites with a corresponding offer.

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Swagbucks: Call of Antia

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I did this offer for Call of Antia through the aYet Studios offer wall.

Unfortunately, they did not credit me the correct amount. I only received 50% of the advertised rewards. I sent in a ticket, and they said to wait 7 days to see if it was credited.

Call of Antia 5,066 SB offer I started

I emailed back that they were misunderstanding me and that I had already been credited, but that it was the wrong amount. No response.

Ruby & Rose the 5-Star hero I got

7 days later, I replied to the ticket message that I was still without the credit. No response. I checked the offer wall, and the game wasn’t listed under my pending offers. 10 Days later, I replied again to the ticket. No contact.

offer terms clearly show the correct amount

The offer requires that you purchase a “Battle Pass” for $9.99. I ended up barely breaking even on this offer after the purchase.

I now see that they have another Call of Antia offer up for 21,250 SB, and that you need to collect 8 of the 5-star heroes. This is quite impossible without spending hundreds of dollars.

You can buy 1 5-Star hero for $99, and you get a 5-Star for every 85 Sacred summons using Orange Summon Stones valued at $1 each.

Unless you get lucky on your summons, you are looking at close to $700 spent to complete this version. And aYet Studios may not credit you the correct amount.

they only paid 50% of the advertised reward

I would definitely advise against doing this offer through the aYet Studios offer wall, if at all.