Maintenance in the middle of Dark Citadel

So we were in the midst of rallying the OZY Dark Citadel, and the following comes up:

I wonder what state my shield will be in when the maintenance ends.
A visitor had just stated in the Alliance Messages, that they couldn't change their shield.

Path to glory 3

This path is the one that starts at castle level 10.
You have 7 days to complete it.
There are 5 things to do, which gives you 5 prizes.

What to do:

1. Gain 750 social points
2. Trade 54,000 resources
3. Research 5 technologies from Era II
4. Gather 450,000 resources
5. Reach 2 Solo Event Milestones

The 1st one just needs an active alliance, with people asking for help.

The 3rd one needs some time, but the researches are all less than 5 hours long.

And the 5th one can be done in a single event if you reach the 2nd stage, or two separate events with the 1st stage.

What you get:

1. 50,000 experience points
2. 1 x 25% gathering speed boost
3. 750 gold
4. 1 x 24 hour peace shield
5. Liberator Boots (+15% March Speed, -20% Upkeep, +1 Scouting Level, +15% Army Attack)

Path to glory 5

You have to do the following missions:
This path is triggered by getting you castle to level 20.

1. Hire two spy agents
2. Five Research from IV era
3. Complete 5 spy missions
4. Gain 5000 social currency

And you get:

1. Large vigor flask (100 points for spies)
2. 3000 gold
3. Full security pack (100 security points)
4. Outlaw Helm (+20% spy experience, +5% spy speed, +5% spy success chance)

The first one needs a lot of resources, so plan for it.  The following is what is needed resource wise to get from level 0 to level 10 of the dungeon.

• Wood = 18,466,310
• Stone = 26,806,151
• Iron = 31,592,413
• Food = 18,147,730
• Silver = 2,370,842

To do the researching you need to upgrade your Academy to level 20.
You have to upgrade your Lumber Mill, Stone Quarry and Workshop to Level 20 first.
About 2M of each resource needed for this (Food Stone, Wood, and Iron)
Minimum time is 37 days for the research, if you have NO gear or talents.  Best to set your gear and talents to reduce the time.
And you will need speedups.
You will need a couple of million of silver and about a million of other resources for the research.

Planning is the key.  Have the resources and speedups available and this is a piece of cake.

Oh, and be in an alliance where there are lots of tasks setup, and people asking for help.

Path to glory 4

You get 7 days to complete this path.
This path is triggered by getting your castle to level 15.
There are 5 steps in the path:

• Train 200 faction units
• Promote faction units to level 3
• Research 5 technologies from Era III
• Complete 5 daily quests
• Incapacitate 1,200,000 units

For all this you get:

• 1 x 8 hour speed up
• 900 royal lottery tickets
• 1,500 gold
• 1 x 24h peace shield
• 1 x Shining Grips (+50% resource income, +35% attack and health vs encounters)

Before starting this path, you should already have your Academy upgraded to level 14.

Upgrade your Royal Barracks to the level which allows 200 faction units to be trained in one hit, as the lower levels are cheap and fast to upgrade, then train your faction units.

You should get your Academy upgraded to level 15, whilst you are promoting your faction units, so you can start on the research.  The research is the task that takes the most time.

You will need about 1M of each resource type to be able to upgrade your faction units to level 3.

You can start the research BEFORE the task becomes available, which speeds things up.

Although you used to be able to complete research and faction upgrades before the task, reports below indicate that this is no longer the case.  You should still upgrade your academy, but don't start the research until the task is available.

For the 1.2 million units, encounter camps are the best way of doing this.  Or participate in a Dark Citadel if there is one available at the right time.  It seems like a lot, but it is possible.

The more time you leave to finish this task the better.

(Edited to note not to start research and faction upgrades until the task is available)

R23 gathering rules changed

Well, it's been an interesting day.
We now have the gathering agreement back in place with R23.
And we have agreement that tiles in the following regions can also be gathered:

• Levermere
• Painshagg
• Lyngingford
• Caercott
• Mount Noraman
• Drumington
• Dalenford

Rules update

The rules have been updated.
123 has been renamed, and we no longer have a gathering agreement with them.
If any R23 players are seen gathering in the OZY regions, then send a PM to OZY's leader, about which R23 member, and where.
They will let R23 know, and R23 will deal with the rule breaker.

The same applies to us. If R23 see's an OZY member gathering in R23, then they will inform OZY's leader, who will initially demote and warn the OZY member, and if they offend again, kick them.

Path to Glory 6

If you happen to be interested in what Path to Glory 6 is...
This path will be triggered by your castle reaching level 25.
You have to complete 4 separate tasks in 15 days.

1. Epic Encounter Attack Boost

2. 100% Gathering Speed Boost (8 hours)

3. 24 hour Speed Up

4. Legendary Rhenium Armour. (30% Construction speed, 20% Research Speed and 15% training speed)

To complete this Path, you must:
1. Defeat 25 camps (of any level)
2. Trade 3M
3. Enter the Royal Lottery, once
And finally
4. Upgrade your castle to Level 27.

The final task is the difficult one, and you really should plan for it.
To complete you will need:
One of all buildings as Level 24 (excluding Storehouse, Embassy, Dungeon, Royal Barracks and Wall)
Gold.  At least 15k of gold, or a lot of multiple day speed ups.
At least the following resources.
44M Food
40M Wood
53M Stone
74M Iron
0.2M Silver

Using a region with Investment Focus, will reduce the time, and therefore Gold and/or Speedups.
Make sure you use you best build gear.
Good luck when you get there.