Last Shelter Survival: State vs State Guide

Introduction

The Clash of Zones (CoZ) event is a State versus State competition where each state will be drafted into a league (Silver, Gold or Legendary) and compete for 4 weeks against a different state each week in a series of daily competitions.

After each daily event the state with the highest score wins the competition points for that day and the winning state is decided at the end of a week based on who has the most competition points.
There are 6 different daily events and the 7th and last day is a free 'Select' event where you can choose what you score points for.

There are also additional competition points that either state can get, for Occupying the Enemy Presidency, during the start of the first Kill Event, and also for winning the Championship Duel.

It is worth mentioning that not all events score equally, as you can see below, the competition favours combat power so this should be your primary focus in the game:


Over the whole competition, you can use the following to help you increase your score, your alliances score and that of the state (more details are given in each section):

• Clash of Zones bonus score tickets (50% or 100%) to increase your points.
  Pay attention that it lasts only for 30 minutes!!
  
• Research Zone Commemoration to unlock more bonus boxes (up to 9 reward boxes can be unlocked instead of the starting 3, a total of +400% score bonus and a final double rewards research gives you 2 times the rewards for unlocking each box)
  
  
  
• Powerful Buffs can be granted by the President. Request them according to your needs
  
  
• Make sure your upgrades/speedups/... coincide with the corresponding daily tasks to get these rewards as well.
  E.g.:
  
  • Make sure your building finishes on Tuesday between 12h and 13h (Game Time)
    
  • On Tuesday: Start building and use Building SpeedUps to finish between 13h and 14h to get points for both Building & SU
    
  • ...

Here's the full TimeSheet of the Daily Challenges:

Find the fully interactive one at:
Daily Challenges[docs.google.com].

Monday: Gathering

The goal is to gather as much as you can.

Here are some tips to maximize the points you get from gathering:

• You can start gathering way before the gathering day itself, what matters is when you bring the APC back to base (beware if the KE is still ON, you can get your troops killed while gathering)
  
  
• Buy a gathering bonus from the alliance store which gives you 50% bonus gathering speed for 24 hours
  
  
  

• Ask a Buff from the President (bribe him :P) which can give a boost as well: Secretary of Finance +20% (BEFORE sending troops gathering), First Lady +10% ( BEFORE bringing troops from gathering)
  
  
  
  
• Although iron is worth more points per unit you gather lumber 50% faster, and Food and Fuel 100% faster, so the same number of hours spent gathering any resource will grant the same number of points (except diamonds which give the least points because they gather extremely slowly)
  So gather whichever resource you think you will need most for build and research days.
  
  
  
  
• Before returning your APC to your base, make sure to activate one of the Clash of Zones Score multipliers (50% or 100%) to increase your points.

Extra Tip:
Later in the game, Fuel and Iron are highly needed so maybe focus on these and make a big stock so you'll find it when needed ;-)

Tuesday: Building

Start building before this day so it finishes on Tuesday.

To help you further, you can:

• Focus on big buildings with long construction duration, they give most of the points
  
• Use Speed Ups -obviously-
  
• Ask your president for the Construction Buff which gives you +10% construction speed
  
  
  
• Use the Construction Center to improve your building speed, but this one is paid and is part of the Arms Supply pack
  
  

Wednesday: Research

Day number 3 of CoZ is Research Technology.

You earn personal rewards for researching technologies.
The higher and more expensive the research is in resources and time, the more points you get.

You can use all the helpers: Speed ups, Points multiplier, Buffs

Buffs you can use here are:

• Technology; +10% speed & Last hour free
  
  
  
  
• Defense: +10% speed
  
  
  
  
• Vice President: +5% speed
  
  

Thursday: Heroes

Day number 4 of CoZ is Hero Development.

You can get points for any of the following:

• Use recruitment tickets
  
• Upgrade hero level
  
• Upgrade hero skills
  
• Unlock hero skills
  
• Kill zombies
  
• Exchange wisdom medals
  
• Spend wisdom medals

You can use all the helpers: Speed-Ups, Points multiplier

Advanced tip to get the maximum points from the event:

• Split unimportant heroes (blue/green) you have already (split only works when heroes are non stationed nor in APC)
  
• Recruit new heroes (not too many to avoid getting duplicates)
  
• Get free level upgrades by attacking zombies (the higher the zombie level, the higher level you'll reach, you can do it more than once)
  
• Unlock hero 1 or 2 skills (the first cheap two as shown in picture below)
  
• Start over from top

PS: Tip update: I now make hero go up to level 12 using exp points, then use medals to unlock and max the 2-3 first skills. Once done, I split it and start over.
Normally, 3-4 heroes are enough to get the daily.

Friday: Troops

Day number 5 of CoZ is Train Units.

It's simple: you need to make the maximum number of troops !

You get points for:

• Training troops in:
  
  • Fighter camp
    
  • Shooter range
    
  • Vehicle factory
• The higher the level of troops you are training, the more points you get

You can use all the helpers: Speed-Ups, Points multiplier

Extra Tip:
For gathering on Monday, it is worth starting way before, sadly due to the Kill Event during the weekend, it is too risky to send your troops gathering !
The trick is to make lvl 1 cabs, then use them to start gathering earlier. Even if you are hit, the attacker won't get much points ;-)
Also make sure to send them gathering far from your base in the middle of nowhere to have less risk to be found !

Saturday-Sunday: Kill Event

During the Kill Event (KE), players are able to teleport into the enemy state with the goal of killing their troops, and enemy players can teleport into your state to do the same thing.

Collect as many advanced teleport, diamonds and sheilds as you can during previous days.

You have two options here:

• Stay in your original state:
  At all times to avoid being attacked:
  
  • Bubble up: Best is to use 3 days shield to cover the whole duration of the event (48hrs)
    
  • You don't have money/diamonds: Your troops are in danger !!!
    
    • Send them camping somewhere random on the map (camping is when you click on an empty spot and you choose Place): The chances to be found are slim, and even when found, your troops will be wounded even if their number exceeds your hospitals limit
  
  
• Go hunting in the other state:
  Here are some guidelines (mostly learned the hard way):
  
  • When you have a shield, it will not go away when you move to other state, it only goes away when you attack someone
    
  • Before you start attacking, know that sheilds have a reactivation cooldown of a number of minutes equal to your base level (minimum 10 minutes), so you cannot sheild again until the cooldown has expired.
    
  • Be careful attacking player in TOP alliances, as they will be warned and their strong players can teleport and attack you very fast. Be ready to teleport away to safety at a moments notice.
    
  • Make sure not to attack far away bases, since you cannot shield or random teleport while your troops are out. If you are attacked in the meantime, you can only advanced teleport away and your attacks will be wasted as troops immediately jump back to your base when you teleport!
    

Check list:

• Localize your targets:
  
  
  • un-shielded bases that are not higher level than your base level (ideally your level -1) not in dense hive to avoid being detected => Attack will cost 5 Durability Points
    
  • Tiles => Attack will cost 10 Durability Points
    
  • Check your alliance chat as they might be sharing interesting/easy targets
    
  • Avoid top alliances since they can get warned very fast and start chasing you
  
  
  
• Items to Have/Buy:
  
  
  • Attack Bonus (12 hours) from Aliance Store
    
  • Defense Bonus (12 hours) from Aliance Store
    
  • CoZ score multiplier 50% or 100% card
    
  • 5-10 Advanced Teleport using Diamonds (2K each)
    
    
  
  
  
• Advanced Teleport will work even if your troops are out of your base. Unlike Random & Shield which will not work during any ongoing attack !!!
  
  
• Scout stationary un-sheilded players in alliances that have level 22 + bases to check for reinforcements from stronger players and that it isn't a trap first
  
  
• Try to spend resources before you start attack and between attacks (resources you stole) while shielded or have teleported to safety. Then if you are attacked back less resources will be stolen