Fate of The Empress Guide: Market Battle - The only thing you sell is drama

Lucian Kai
Dec 30, 2022
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Author: Linkai

Last update: 2022, December 30th

Ok here we are. The monthly drama generator. All sources of division dramas and fights. This guide will not only include how to play the event but also some "norms" which is not against game rule but people may feel offended about it (at least in SEA) that you should be aware about before you decide to do or not.

I. Date and Time

- Starting from 10:00 Friday of the 3rd week of division, last 4 days until 22:00 next Monday.

- Bonus time: 18:00-21:00 (Only apply at Dock and Central Square)

- This is a monthly activity

II. How to play

IIa. Stall Areas

Each person will have 2 hours a day to choose to sit at anywhere in the market.

There are 5 areas with different points and a number of seats too.

Central Square: 2 seats, Personal Point 140/minute, Guild Point 700/minute (25% bonus applied from 18:00-21:00)
Dock: 2 seats, Personal Point 100/minute, Guild Point 300/minute (25% bonus applied from 18:00-21:00)
Main Avenue: 15 seats, Personal Point 70/minute, Guild Point 140/minute
Residential Area: 60 seats, Personal Point 50/minute, Guild Point 50/minute
Guild Headquarters: Unlimited seats, Personal Point 25/minute, Guild Point 25/minute

Easy, choose your stall, sit or snatch it and kill your daily 2-hour

IIb. Sit and Snatch

So how to have a seat in the market. There are 4 ways to do it:

Find an empty seat anywhere and just drop yourself down. Peacefully. But you won't get high point for yourself and your guild too.
Snatching a stall from someone who is lower might than you and sit. Press on their stall and choose "Occupy".
Wait until someone finishes a seat at Central Square or Dock and slide yourself in. This method will require you a good internet connection and fast finger.
Ask a high might guildie to kick someone from their stall at Central Square or Dock for you to sit. Your guildie will need to press on their stall and choose "Expel".

Method 1 and 3 are the most peaceful way, but here we are, drama comes from methods 2 and 4. If you follow it, you may need to be aware of some other rules of the game:

"Expel" will kick the person from their stall but will not drop you into the seat. "Occupy" will kick the person from their stall and will drop you into that seat too.
When a person is opening a stall, they CANNOT "Expel" or "Occupy" anyone.
You CANNOT expel or occupy your guildies.
Truce: When you successfully have a seat, no matter which method, there will be a truce. If people want to snatch your stall during the Truce, they will have to spend 200 ingots which is not worth and they usually rather wait for Truce to end. Truce duration will be different depending on the area: 5 minutes in Central Square, 10 minutes in Dock, 15 minutes in Main Avenue.
Cool Down: Once you got kicked from the stall in any way, you will be in Cool Down and you cannot sit anywhere until it ends. The duration of Cool Down will be different depending on where you are kicked from: 20 minutes from Central Square, 10 minutes from Dock, 5 minutes from Main Avenue.
Protection: When someone expells other people from a stall, that stall will be empty and will be in 1-minute protection that any other guild cannot sit except your guild.
When someone is sitting, they still can move their seat if they see it empty and their connection and finger are fast enough. However, there will be no truce if they move while the truce from the original seat already ends.
You will have 5 free chances to expel/occupy a day. After that, you will need to buy more chances.

III. Rewards

- Personal points can be used to buy things in Market shop

- Guild points will be accumulated and affect ranking. Note that the reward for Guild Ranking is loot. And the might buff only affect in 3 days during Guild War after that.

- The top 8 Guilds will be qualified to enter Guild War, starting right after Market Battle.

IV. Tips, Tricks, Norms. Will you avoid a drama?

The most strategic and also most dramatic way to do this event is, of course, the high-might guildies will expel for the lower might to sit at Central Square or Dock for more Guild points. While there is NOTHING WRONG with this method, I must emphasize, because obviously, it's how the game is designed, the 1-minute protection for your own guild and the "Expel" button without sitting is there for a purpose, but many people take this offending and aggressive playing, note if you want to avoid drama. So it depends on you whether you will play it your own way or everyone's way. You also need to calculate if it is worth too, as your lower-might member may be kicked very fast.
Alliance. Yes, you may think about it if you just know this event a few times. Of course, it's a way to play too, but I will warn you that the alliance only works when either of you is willing to take the lower rank from the beginning. Otherwise, you guys will fight after and it gets worse. Also, the type of alliance "Don't kick my guild" will not work because it will end up becoming a game of who has faster internet.
Your guild has no one is strong enough to sit at Central Square and Dock. No problem, this is the game of number of people. Just try your best to use the 3rd way, sliding yourself in when someone finishes and sending all your members to Main Avenue. 2 seats at Dock will be equal to 1 seat at Central Square. 5 seats at Main Avenue will surpass 1 seat at Central Square. 2 seats at Main Avenue will be equal to 2 seats at Dock. Hey, it's not the end! My guild used to win No.1 in a tough division just by sitting in Main Avenue.
Don't try to wait until bonus to sit. You will get kicked until you cannot finish your 2 hours. If you really wanna try bonus time, try to sit during non-bonus for 1 hour, then find someone from other guilds to expel you and save 1 hour to play bonus time.
Patience. Patience. Patience. On 1st day, you may feel panic that your guild ranking is very low. But remember this is a 4-day event, calm down and catch up.
Chill. Chill. Chill. Don't forget to chill out too. It may be intense at 1st but when you play this event every month for 1.5 years like me, you will want to vomit and ignore it whenever you see it.