It's been a while since I posted about Crownrend and No I haven't stopped playing. I have just been busy with other HIVE projects and posts and wanted to wait until I had an epic article to write!

And with the recent announcement today from Deathwing today on the official Discord, well today is the perfect day to write up a sweet article about my time in Crownrend.

A lot of the posts I have seen have been about if/when people break even on Crownrend or opening an insane amount of chests and all that and it was never really my style (since I already wrote about how I broke even a long time ago😄).

My strategy up until this point was to sell off some $Denar early to recoup my initial investment and then to save my Denar and upgrade my buildings and buy chests when I could but that was basically never. There are some amazing people in the Crownrend community that have given me in game items and it has been such a big help.

Before we get into it. Let's take a look at my current setup:

I have 232 $DENAR to my name as I try to save up as much as I can and only upgrade a building every 2 days (before unrest kicks in) and keep all the rest. I was going to save up to buy 5 chests at once and do a post about it (more on that later 😉)

My Army stats are nothing to write home about but they work for my play style. What I do need it better equipment because mine is 'okay' but not great at all.

Opening Chest Time!

In order to open more chests than the 2 that I can afford right now. I need more $DENAR. So I went to Hive-Engine just to see what $DENAR was running these days and I found out it's dirt cheap! Like REALLY cheap. So I decided to pick up a few Denar..

So I bought 5,000 Denar 😇

But what I didn't take into account was buying ORI. I wanted to open a bunch of chests to:
A) Get better equipment of course but also...
B) Start a Alliance!

You need 0.75 ORI to start an alliance and you get ORI by burning your items or by buying it on secondary. And at the current going price of $ORI I am just shy of enough Swap.Hive.

And that is a bummer. Hopefully I get enough items to burn to make that 0.75 ORI threshold!

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Effective today actually there was a change in the Chest Prices ingame. A chest still starts off costing 100 $DENAR like always but after every 10 chests you purchase the price increases by 100 $DENAR.

Here is my quick math of Chest Prices

# of Chests	Cost in Denar	Total cost for each 10 chests
Chests 1 - 10	$100 each	$1000 total
Chests 11 - 20	$200 each	$2000 total
Chests 21 - 30	$300 each	$3000 total
Chests 31 - 40	$400 each	$4000 total

And with that math having 5,232 $DENAR that means I should be able to open... 27 chests
10 x $100 = $1,000
10 x $200 = $2,000
7 x $300 = $2,100
which equals $5,100 Denar.

Let's hope that is enough!

So without further ado let's send the Denar into the game:

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Here is my first 10 Chests!

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And my 2nd 10 Chests!

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And the last 7 Chests...

I GOT A RARE!! WOOHOOO

Opening 27 Chests though getting 1 that is a 3% chance.. is 'okay'.

I may or may not have bought another 5,000 Denar though because I wasn't happy with my Items still.

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So another 10 Chests!

Alliance Time!

I burned almost all my extra items and still didn't have enough ORI to start a Alliance! So back to Hive-Engine and luckily all I needed was 0.34 ORI and I have just enough Swap.Hive for it!

Now we go to create a alliance, and come up with a name.. Is there really any choice in the naming?

Welcome to my Alliance! This is the first time I am seeing all these screens so I wanted to share it with you all. With the introduction of 'Crowns' this is going to be interesting.

From what I gather, Alliances are going to have to participate in the War's to earn Crowns in order to upkeep their Alliance. I like this change and it requires Alliance members to be active!

It would appear that War's last for 1 week and I will be very interested to see how it plays out. I am glad I got in right before this all started!

Yeah I am a Alliance of 1 member but I am excited to see it grow. (more on that at the end)

If you want to read more about the Alliance Update...

Read the official Post here: https://peakd.com/crownrend/@crownrend/alliance-update-is-now-live

Recap

My Kingdom Stats Before Today:

My Kingdom Stats AFTER my Chest Openings:

With the items I decided to keep and equip I am most pleased with my Denar Earnings now:

That is roughly 8 Denar every 4 hours (how often you can claim) and I have a Vault that Holds 10. Assuming I don't get attacked too much I am going to have to upgrade my Vault Level soon. I may also spend the 100 Denar and upgrade my Mine Level too but we will see. I don't want to earn too much that I am just an easy targe too.

The 1 MAJOR downside though is now in the Battle Hall there are way tougher enemies that I can face. Where I was yesterday I could attack about 80% of the people confidently but now it looks like maybe 20% I would attempt to attack given their Speed.

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My Items Before Today:

My Items AFTER my Chest Openings:

I am stoked to have 2 Rare items now and 5 uncommon's. I would like to get more Rare's or higher tier items but that will come in time!

Alliances are going to change up my strategy for sure and I am still just trying to figure out HOW it will hahaha.

As a 1 person Alliance I know War's are not going to be my strong suit so I am going to have to get more members here sooner or later..

Call to Action to you the Reader!

So with all of this being said now comes the fun part. What you the reader get out of this post!

I have 1 Alliance spot open and 2 items to give away.

Here are the 2 items:

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Tech --> Medical --> Healer's Clinic

Burn for 0.03858 Ori

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Tech --> Mining --> Reinforced Mining Shaft

Burn for 0.03672 Ori

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I am adding the Ori Burn value because while I would love for these 2 items to go to newer players who do not have the items I realize I don't have the time or patience to try to figure out if people are trying to screw me over so figured I would be upfront about the ORI value as well 🙂

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What do you have to do to win 1 of them items or earn a spot in my Alliance?

Here are the rules for entry and it is as simple as posting a comment to this blog. I am not even going to ask for tips/votes or whatever because this post isn't about that. I love this game and want to give back!

So.. post a comment to this article with the following information:

1. State if you want a chance at a item or a Alliance spot (you only get 1 choice and duplicate posts for entry = all posts disqualified, you can post multiple times to talk but only 1 can be an entry post)

2. Type out your in-game Kingdom Name

3. Post a Screenshot of your Kingdom (I am don't care if it includes your items or not, I just want to gauge how active you are as a player)

Here is a sample of what I am looking for. Nothing fancy or anything.

My promise to you. I will not not pick someone because they already have an item in those slots or if they are a super low level player or anything. I am just curious honestly to see where you at your Crownrend Journey!

After the 7 days, when this post pays out.. I will take the entries and use a online Random Name Picker Tool to input the info. I will record the entire session and post a follow-up article announcing the winners and then sending out the items!. (it may not be exactly after this post pays out but within a day or 2 at most! cause Life and work and all that may get in my way lol)

Good Luck to Everyone!