So , if anyone has noticed this, the reward for 1500 points is 2 gold chests. Many people think that they are the golden ones, the good ones. In the painting of the event (check news, it appears right in the middle) you can see clearly the golden chest. Many people can rush to this level just because of this misunderstanding.
But SP can go lower, of course they can. The preview image of the chest “misteriously” is not loading for me and for anyone I have asked (inside the event).
Ofc they will say it was a mistake bla bla, but come on, it is pretty obvious and extremely low, considering all people/kids playing that won’t realize this. I don’t think this is a coincidence at all

@jacinto I also found it interesting, that the picture does not load on any of my devices ...

You're right, it really is the chest from the shop.

So @Fox what is the reward, then? It could be misleading!

I can confirm they are what they say they are: Gold Relic Chests (exactly like the Gold Relic Chests we are familiar with from pvp season rewards), not Golden Relic Chests (as sold in the Chest Shop).

@C0ntr1v3d aren't they called Golden Relic Reward chests? Also, two chests in a third chest (at least the description says it contains two chests, not two gold relics)?
But still, it's misleading then, because of the chest icon. People may think they get the chest from the shop.

I think the description is clear . as also can confirm as paul said . it is 2 gold relic for sure
Good luck for players who reached\will reach this point . still 40 point here

Well I only wanted the lvl 9 rune anyway, so I don't really care (I'll get a a Healing Mask or a Supercharged Amulet anyway , I always get those from the chests). Still, the icon could be misleading.
Also rank 3 Roccigon, here I come!

Wow ... what a cheap and paranoid post about an overly generous event.

@Ekto-Gamat What? you do not believe in a conspiracy organized by a secret circle of occult adepts within the higher hierarchy of SP viciously planning to organize a visual bug to trick innocent players??

Most seriously, I think it is a very far stretch to imagine that there is any ill intent here. And indeed these are gold chests as mentioned by Contr1v3d. 2 Golden relic chests from the shop would be quite generous.

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Wow ... what a cheap and paranoid post about an overly generous event.

My sarcasm detector might be malfunctioning.
Say if we can hatch 3 legendary monsters at a time (considering that we would miss out on Steampunk and Varuna if we use all 4 slots for hatching), we can hatch 12 legendary monsters in the event week (with speedups, and some luck if those monsters were already hatching), that's ~720 points. Another 6 can be ranked up. Say 40 points on average, another ~240 points. So we can get about 1000 points for free, give or take a few.

The cost of insta-hatching a monster is 45 gems. Ranking up is cheaper (12-14 gems per monster), but unless we have cells laying around, we'll also need to rush the extracting. So a rushed rank and rushed extract will cost about 25 points. With luck we can rank up to 2 stars. In any case, we're talking about 70-80 gems to earn 100 event points, no matter how we get them.

To earn the 500 remaining points, we need to spend ~400 gems. 120 cells for Rocigon monster and a level 9 rune for 400 gems, with the rune possibly being crap and needing to be switched to a different type (with the risk of downgrading it to 8 or even 7). That's pretty much market value, and the only bonus are the 2 gold relic chests. Would it be too much to expect them to be the chests you can buy in a shop?

I just got back into the game a few weeks ago. I'm already considering to uninstall again. Such cheepnis.

@Frunobulax you just get what you can get for free and don't worry about the rest. You just have to let go of the expectation that you can get it all. This is how SP makes its money

@Frunobulax No sarcasm at all. The third reward is pretty much free for many. Lvl 6 rune, lvl 8 rune, a Rocigon, 20 Rocigon cells, 2 silver relic chests and 20 elementium.

With the heads up posted on taringa I was able to prepare 4 hatches and 1 ranking, reached the 3rd chest completely f2p, I actually have 958 points f2p, and I'll be able to complete 4 more hatches (one a nemesis) and one more rank (I did 2 rank 3 non breadable to get more points) , so, I'll be short of more or less 300 points of the 4th chest, at that point I'll see if I need to gem the rest, is will be around 100-120 gems maybe, and I think the reward is worth the price.

Granted that doing this won't let me get points for any progressive or maze event from the breeding and hatching, effectively not allowing me to advance a lot, but that's the call I made, there's content for everybody now, one should pick on which event participate and go with that.

@xargul there are lots of people on this forum who will tell you that SP constantly is exploiting human nature to maximize gem($$$) spending with all of their events so it seems like a perfectly reasonable question.

So I finished with 1520 points. A lvl 9 Team Strength rune automatically became a lvl 8 rune after trying to upgrade it (what a surprise ), but at least it's a speed rune. Overall I spent 200 gems and it was worth it.