Gold Rush

It's Friday, and Castle Crisis is just about to start again.  Now that it's happened twice, I know what to expect: no gold anywhere, and precious little mana either.  A fair fraction of people simply give away all their gold and mana to the Avaricifer when he's active.  Some of us still stockpile gold for merchants, but obviously nowhere near a majority.

Anyway, 08:30 server time is the kickoff.  Last time I missed it, figuring there would still be plenty of gold to be had a few hours into the event.  That wasn't so.  And this time, I mean to be there.  It stands to reason that for the first little while, there should still be plenty of gold to be found.  I'll raid like a maniac and give it all to the Avaricifer.  I have my gold and mana maxxed.  Waiting...

08:30: they're off!  I give the Avaricifer all my mana and almost all gold (have to keep some to pay for raids).  Then I start raiding.  Early, it's easy.  It takes just a few nexts to get bases like this:

Easy money

But it goes downhill surprisingly rapidly.  15 minutes in, I am nexting through tens of bases, and starting to see lots of bases with less than 10000 gold.  That is what you see when a player gives away all his stored gold and turns off his device.

But there is still a lot of gold.  Bases with 1m+ still pop up, just fewer of them.  It takes about 20 minutes to max out the mana I've given to the Avarificer.  But it takes 40 minutes to max out gold given, and just over an hour to max out my stored gold again.  Gold has gotten pretty rare.  I am surprised at how fast it vanished.

Even so, there are still rare bases with decent gold.  And I suppose there will be for the next 12 hours, although decreasingly so, as all the people who turned off their device in the 12 hours before 08:30 pop back up.