Review [Issue 67] Events Study - Save The Gold Explained

[Vivianne 442]

 

Community events participants and forum readers, welcome! I enjoyed writing the previous "Events Study" article so much that I have decided to start a series out of it. Now, I present you another one of the most popular community events - Save the Gold.

 

Let's bring on all the little details!

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Introduction

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​The purpose of this event is to catch a Gold Box. The field of it is defended by mountains of mines and heavy-equipped Event Helpers. You're allowed to shoot at them and try to kill them, but it's not as easy as it might seem.

 

​You can read more about it on the official page of Save the Gold.

 

 

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Preparation

 

Save the Gold (STG) might be one of the most popular events, but it also includes a lot of hard work. Event Helpers and Event Admins struggle with errors which pop up as the map progresses with too many mines. If that happens, they have to set up everything again but they don't do it as good as the first time since there's not enough time.

 

Event Helpers or so called defenders of the Gold equip Orange paint and any turret they want. In the past, there used to be a rule that allowed them to only use medium hulls, but thankfully, that has changed - now they must equip heavy hulls such as Titan or Mammoth in order to make the challenge even harder for the hunters.

 

​Officially, Save the Golds are always held in the map Highways. There's one Gold with two defenders on each main bridge. Their job is to defend the Gold of course not with only shooting and killing but also with placing loads and loads of mines (that often make the map "crash", as I mentioned).

 

​I decided to spice everything up a little so here I'm giving you a picture from bird's perspective on the map before participants join.

 

 

Their job wasn't quite finished yet, but it seems like the event is about to start soon.

 

 

 

 

Rules

 

One of the purposes of this event is to kill the defenders (Event Helpers) to get to the Gold Box; which means there are not many rules as there are in other community events, let's get through them anyway.

• You're not allowed to go on the mines or try to kill the defenders before the admin's "GO". If you do shoot at/kill Event Helpers or destroy mines, you will firstly be warned and later on kicked from the battle (if you make the same mistake again).
• Participants of the STG are also not allowed to take the gold before the event has started. The event is ruined in that case. The person who took the gold box before it started will get kicked and will not be rewarded.
• After you took a Gold Box, you must leave the battle and face a prohibition on joining the following rounds. Therefore players who weren't as lucky get a chance to catch a gold box.

 

 

 

Parameters and Ranks

 

Tankers between rank and have a chance to participate in the event. 

 

Parameters:

• Game mode: DM - Parkour
• Max players: 24
• Time limit: 30 min each round (there are two rounds)
• Destroy limit: none
• Private battle: ON
• ​Bonus boxes: OFF
• ​Gold boxes: ON
• ​Supplies: ON
• ​Upgrades: OFF
• Alterations: OFF
• ​Auto-finish: OFF
• Weapon change: ON

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Prizes

 

Beside the Gold Box itself that is worth one thousand crystals, there's also a reward for each participant that catches the Gold Box, worth five thousand crystals.

 

 

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Advisories

 

There's obviously a lot of different ways to catch the Gold Box and what is better than learning from experienced participants. I have been to a lot of STGs (Save the Golds) not only as a defender but also as a normal player and I noticed quite a few tricks "that can make you better at being a "gold hunter".

 

1) Work in Teams:

Even though the event is placed in a DM match that can't stop you from participating in teams. It's easier to get through the field of mines if there's more people trying at one spot. If you keep attacking at one ramp you will be able to make a "highway" to the gold box. Much easier than trying on different ramps each time you die.  

 

2) Parkour:

Doing parkour can be difficult at the beginning of the event since there's no good place to jump off. That changes when defenders on the middle bridge get defeated. You get a free ramp to jump off. During the event you can see people in pairs jumping to the smaller bridges, they help themselves with mines.

 

I tried to recreate that trick (failed badly).

Note: This wasn't taken during an actual Save the Gold event.

 

​3) The Killer

​As cruel as it sounds, the best way to get to the Gold Box fast and easy is to kill the defender, but there's no need to kill both of them since each of them has only one side of the ramp. Don't get too excited, killing the defender is also the hardest thing during this event not only they are surrounded with a sea of mines, they are also drugging heavily. The easiest way would probably be placing mines around him/her.

 

I tried to recreate something close to "The Killer". Here we have a basic camper trying to defeat the defender.

Note: Once again, this picture wasn't taken during an actual STG event.

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We're slowly coming to the end, I can't wait to see new participants using tricks similar to the ones listed above. That would be all, good luck in the up coming Save the Golds!

 

​Regards.

 

 

 

 

 

[Crip 4,735]

Nice analysis! You may have just persuaded me into actually taking part in an Official STG.

 

Good work! Looking forward to the next part of the series!

 

 

 

Do Kill the King next as I literally still have no clue as to how it works :x

 

 

[marc.jp_44 20,837]

Holy crap. Your signature is amazing x_x

[Destrod 2,634]

Great, well structured, short informative guide. Good job!

[JlerKaR_No6eAa 160]

Very nice analysis of these events. Good work Nyxy! :wub:  :wub: 

[Lone.Berserker 63]

Very nice. As much as you enjoyed writing I had an even more enjoyable experience reading it. No doubt you are going to be one of my fav reps. :wub:

[walis014 49]

Also see why u made it to tfp mad parkoar skills , but nice article very detailed and informative keep up the great work babes

[walis014 49]

nyx i love u

[Seek_and_Destroy 38]

Nice. YOUR a really talented writer. Can you do kill the king next please? It sounds like a fun contest mode.

[Guest]

Nice article! Well done. :)

[RIDDLER_8 5,552]

Can someone organize a 1 vs 1 save the gold box rain?

[skeletorXVIII 2,859]

:ph34r: Prizes are outdated. But otherwise nice article.