🏆How to Win
Gold Rush is a game of maximizing efficiency and finding your niche, where clever tactics and coordination gain you an edge over your peers in accumulating Royal Favor and XP.
Royal Favor (70% of Prize Pool) 👑
Royal Favor points can be earned by trading in certain items found in the world to the Royal Treasury (Sir Althus in the Capital City and New Mortis). The Treasury is currently is currently looking for the following:
Artifacts dropped from monsters.
There are four tiers of artifacts - Artifact (150 pts), Exquisite Artifact (325 pts), Fabled Artifact (1250 pts), and the Otherworldly Artifact (5,000 pts).
The tougher the monster, the more likely it is that you will get an Artifact drop. Additionally, the more valuable Artifacts are only dropped by the higher-tier monsters & bosses.
Gold Ore - randomly earned while extracting resources, via Mining, Fishing, Woodcutting, Hunting, or Gathering. The higher the resource tier, the more likely that Gold Ore is found in the process.
For example, mining Tin Ore (Tier 1) will be much less likely to earn Gold Ore than mining Adamantine Ore (Tier 4).
Each Gold Ore is worth 100 pts.
Gem Piles - earned by looting Chests. Chests are fixed location objects scattered throughout the World Map.
There are four chest variants - Swamp , Barrens, Dark Forest, and Wilderness. The Wilderness chest has more than double the rewards of the other 3 chests, but is more dangerous.
To unlock Chests, you will need to loot a Key Fabrication specific to the region of Chest. E.g. monsters in the Swamp south of the capital drop Swamp Chest Key Fabrications which open the Swamp Chest. Key Fabrications can be traded.
Each Gem Pile is worth 400 pts.
Your share of the prize pool is based on your Royal Favor Points as a percentage of the total supply of Royal Favor Points earned by other players in game.
Royal Favor is on a Rolling 24hr leaderboard that grants up to a 1.5x multiplier for players at the top of the leaderboard. Trading in multiple Royal Favor items at once will re-calculate your multiplier individually based on your realtime leaderboard ranking for each item traded in. You do not need to trade them in one by one to maximize your post-multiplier earnings.
Luster Value
All Royal Favor item also have a Luster value. This value starts at 100 and gradually decays to 0 over time. An item with a luster value of 50 will grant only 50% of the item's base Royal Favor value points value, discouraging hoarding of Royal Favor items and leaderboard multiplier manipulation.
Royal Favor items cannot be transferred, sold, or traded.
XP Leaderboards (30% of Prize Pool) 📊
XP can be earned by performing almost any activity in game. Players can progress from Level 1 to Level 99 in each of the 15 skills that will be counted for the XP Leaderboard split of the prize pool
The Top 25 by XP in the leaderboard for each of the following skills will split 30% of the prize pool.
Combat Skills:
Melee
Ranged
Magic
Divination
Extraction Skills:
Mining
Fishing
Woodcutting
Gathering
Hunting
Refining Skills:
Smithing
Cooking
Crafting
Alchemy
Chargecrafting
Engineering
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