K2149 FREEZE PROTOCOL

🧊 K2149 — THE KVK ACADEMY

GUIDE 04 — K2149 FREEZE PROTOCOL

Keep progressing without creating our Power Spike too early

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MESSAGE 1/9 — 🎯 OUR OBJECTIVE

The Freeze does not mean stopping the game for a month.

Our objective is to:

✅ continue all progression tied to time that cannot be stored; 📦 save resources that can wait; 📉 limit our growth before matchmaking; 🔥 convert our stock after the opponent has been selected; 🏆 gain progression + KvK points at the same time.

WE ARE NOT TRYING TO STAY WEAK.

WE ARE CHOOSING THE BEST TIME TO BECOME STRONGER.

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📅 K2149 SCHEDULE

🟠 Strong Freeze: 29/08 → 01/09

🔴 Hard Freeze: 02/09 at 00:00 UTC

⚖️ Expected matchmaking: 05/09 → 06/09

🔥 Expected start of Prep: 07/09

🏰 Expected Battle Day: 12/09

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🔴 WHY DOES THE HARD FREEZE START ON 02/09?

Kingshot states that matchmaking normally begins on Saturday and the opponent is announced on Sunday.

However, Kingshot does not publish:

⚠️ the exact snapshot time; ⚠️ the exact calculation time; ⚠️ whether data may be collected in advance.

02/09 at 00:00 UTC therefore provides:

🎯 A K2149 SAFETY MARGIN

This is not an official time imposed by Kingshot.

The Hard Freeze remains active until the opponent is actually displayed.

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MESSAGE 2/9 — ⚠️ WHAT WE ACTUALLY KNOW

📘 OFFICIAL

Kingshot states that:

• Power is not the only matchmaking factor; • Troop Power currently has a very low impact; • a future algorithm is intended to remove this impact entirely; • this new algorithm has not yet been confirmed as deployed.

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🔎 REPORTED CONCIERGE RESPONSE

A public response attributed to the Concierge lists the following modules as possible components of overall strength:

👑 Governor Gear 💎 Governor Charms / Talismans ⚒️ Hero Gear 🦸 Hero Power 🏗️ Building Levels 🐾 Pet Strength 🔬 Academy Technology 🔥 War Academy Technology

The same response also mentions an all-time maximum for each module.

⚠️ However, Century Games does not publish:

• the coefficients; • the exact weight of each system; • the exact number of players included; • the complete formula.

THIS GUIDE THEREFORE APPLIES A CAUTIOUS STRATEGY.

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🎯 “HARD POWER”: OUR DEFINITION

In this guide, Hard Power means permanent progression already created on the account:

• a completed building level; • completed research; • upgraded Gear; • upgraded Charm; • upgraded hero; • upgraded pet.

An unused resource in your bag has not yet become that upgrade.

ACQUIRING ≠ USING.

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MESSAGE 3/9 — 🔴 WHAT MUST BE STORED

These resources can wait without wasting a daily progression queue.

👑 GOVERNOR

📦 Governor Gear materials 📦 Charm Guides 📦 Charm Designs 📦 Talisman materials

➡️ No major upgrades before matchmaking.

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🦸 HEROES

📦 Hero Shards 📦 Forge Hammers 📦 Mithril 📦 Hero Gear materials 📦 Widgets / Exclusive Gear

⭐ HERO SHARDS

✅ collect them; ❌ do not automatically upgrade stars.

Hero Shards used for ascension earn points during certain Prep days.

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📘 HERO EXP AND SKILLS

Levels and skills can increase Hero Power.

They can therefore be delayed until after matchmaking when they represent a major Power Spike.

However:

HERO EXP AND SKILLS CURRENTLY DO NOT EARN ANY IDENTIFIED PREP POINTS.

After the opponent is displayed:

✅ use them if they are genuinely needed for combat; ❌ do not wait artificially for a scoring day that does not exist.

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🏗️ DEVELOPMENT

📦 Truegold 📦 Construction Speedups 📦 Research Speedups 📦 Training Speedups 📦 Universal Speedups

Stored Truegold does not yet constitute a building level.

Spent Truegold creates permanent progression.

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🐾 PETS

📦 Common Taming Marks 📦 Advanced Taming Marks 📦 Growth Manuals 📦 Nutrient Potions 📦 Promotion Medallions 📦 surplus Pet Food after daily actions

⚠️ Pet Food needed for daily attempts that cannot be stored is not subject to total stockpiling.

DAILY ACTIONS = CONTINUE

LARGE PET STOCK = SAVE

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MESSAGE 4/9 — 🎒 ACQUIRING IS NOT USING

You can continue to:

✅ collect Truegold; ✅ obtain Hero Shards; ✅ buy Charm Designs; ✅ obtain Mithril; ✅ obtain Forge Hammers; ✅ collect Widgets; ✅ earn Pet materials; ✅ accumulate Speedups; ✅ buy the packs you had genuinely planned to purchase.

However:

KEEP STOCKPILABLE ITEMS.

Example

You obtain 100 Charm Designs.

❌ Immediate use

➡️ Power before matchmaking ➡️ no KvK points ➡️ stock gone

✅ Storing

➡️ matchmaking completed ➡️ use on the correct day ➡️ same final progression ➡️ additional KvK points

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💳 PACKS AND VIP

No public coefficient is based directly on the amount of real money spent.

However, some purchases may automatically provide:

👑 VIP points; 🎨 a permanent bonus; 📈 immediate progression.

The direct role of VIP in matchmaking is not published.

Simple rule

✅ buy and then store the materials: generally compatible with the Freeze; ❌ buy and then upgrade everything: immediately creates Power.

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MESSAGE 5/9 — 🟠 WHAT MUST CONTINUE

FREEZE ≠ STOPPING THE ACCOUNT

Some progression relies on time that cannot be stored.

Stopping it for a month would create a real setback.

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🏗️ CONSTRUCTION

SOFT FREEZE

✅ keep builders active; ❌ no unnecessary speedups; ❌ avoid major Truegold pushes.

BEFORE THE HARD FREEZE

Start a construction project that is:

✅ useful; ✅ long enough; ✅ scheduled to finish after the opponent is displayed.

DURING THE HARD FREEZE

❌ do not intentionally complete a major building with speedups; ❌ do not start a short, significant upgrade that will finish before the match.

If an already-started construction project finishes naturally:

➡️ do not panic; ➡️ do not use any speedups; ➡️ if possible, start another long queue that will finish after matchmaking.

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🔬 RESEARCH

SOFT FREEZE

✅ keep the Academy active; ❌ no massive use of Research Speedups.

BEFORE THE HARD FREEZE

➡️ start long research that will finish after the opponent is displayed.

⚠️ Do not assume that economic research is automatically invisible.

Academy Technology is listed as a global module, with no public distinction between economy and combat.

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🐾 PETS

Each pet has a limited number of daily feeding and taming attempts.

An attempt not used today cannot be stored for Prep.

K2149 rule

✅ perform daily actions that cannot be stored; ❌ do not use up saved materials; ❌ do not perform a major Advancement or Refinement for a ranking.

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🪖 TROOPS

Troop Power officially has a very low impact under the current system.

K2149 rule

✅ natural training 24/7; ✅ useful natural promotions; ❌ no major push with Training Speedups; ❌ never intentionally kill or dismiss troops; ❌ do not deliberately fill the Infirmary.

Stopping camps for a month would cost far more progression than the small potential matchmaking benefit.

NATURAL TRAINING = YES

TRAINING SPEEDUPS = STOCKPILE

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MESSAGE 6/9 — 🎮 EVENTS

The Freeze does not mean that events should be stopped.

✅ CONTINUE

🐻 Bear Trap ⚔️ Vikings 🧙 Mystic Trial 🏟️ Arena ⛏️ Gathering 🐗 Beasts / Terrors 📋 Intel Missions 🐫 Caravans 🎲 Twin Star 🏝️ Island 🤝 alliance activities and donations

DOING THE EVENT ≠ SPENDING FOR THE EVENT.

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🟢 MILESTONE TO COMPLETE

A milestone reached with:

• stamina; • Gathering; • Intel; • free battles; • daily attempts; • natural progression that was already planned.

➡️ COMPLETE IT.

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🔴 MILESTONE TO AVOID

A milestone requiring massive use of:

• Charms; • Governor Gear; • Hero Gear; • Hero Shards; • Truegold; • a large stock of Pet materials; • Construction Speedups; • Research Speedups; • Training Speedups.

➡️ Generally SKIP IT.

Do not burn a month of reserves for a few intermediate rewards.

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🧙 MYSTIC TRIAL

✅ progress as far as your current Power allows.

❌ Do not make a major Gear, Charms, Pets, or Research upgrade solely to clear a floor.

DO THE TRIAL = YES

CREATE A POWER SPIKE FOR THE TRIAL = WAIT

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🏝️ ISLAND AND ALLIANCE TECH

✅ collect Water Essence and limited gains; ✅ continue Alliance Tech donations.

Island Prosperity and Alliance Technology are not publicly identified as separate direct KvK matchmaking modules.

However, some Island bonuses may indirectly increase permanent stats.

During the Hard Freeze:

➡️ simply avoid major optional stat upgrades.

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MESSAGE 7/9 — 📆 MONTHLY PLAN

🟢 NOW → 28/08

SOFT FREEZE

CONTINUE

✅ natural building progression; ✅ natural research; ✅ natural training; ✅ daily Pet actions; ✅ normal events; ✅ maximum farming.

STORE

❌ Charms; ❌ Governor Gear; ❌ Hero Gear; ❌ major hero ascensions; ❌ major Truegold pushes; ❌ major Pet pushes; ❌ massive use of Speedups.

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🟠 29/08 → 01/09

STRONG FREEZE

➡️ further reduce permanent upgrades; ➡️ stop chasing rankings; ➡️ prepare long Construction / Research queues; ➡️ avoid any major Power Spike; ➡️ make sure that the main accounts know the instructions.

Ideally, long queues started during this period should finish after 06/09.

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🔴 02/09 00:00 UTC → OPPONENT DISPLAYED

HARD FREEZE

STOP

❌ Charms / Talismans; ❌ Governor Gear; ❌ Hero Gear; ❌ Hero Stars; ❌ major Hero EXP / Skills upgrades; ❌ Widgets / Mithril / Hammers; ❌ Truegold; ❌ major Pet upgrades; ❌ all massive Speedup use; ❌ major buildings or research finishing before the match; ❌ event ranking pushes.

CONTINUE

✅ natural training; ✅ daily attempts that cannot be stored; ✅ Gathering; ✅ Intel; ✅ Bear; ✅ Vikings; ✅ Mystic Trial without a Power Up; ✅ free events; ✅ normal farming.

THE HARD FREEZE BLOCKS MAJOR POWER SPIKES.

IT DOES NOT BLOCK THE ENTIRE ACCOUNT.

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MESSAGE 8/9 — 🔥 AFTER THE OPPONENT IS DISPLAYED

When the opponent appears on Sunday:

MATCHMAKING IS NORMALLY LOCKED

However:

🚫 DO NOT SPEND IMMEDIATELY.

A resource used on Sunday gives:

📈 Power; ❌ no Prep points.

The same resource used on the correct day gives:

📈 Power; 🔥 KvK points; 🎁 rewards.

Wait for:

⚔️ THE START OF PREP — 07/09

Then follow:

🟢 GO — use only what is authorized; 🟠 HOLD — keep the resources; 🔴 STOP — objective reached, stop immediately.

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⚠️ EXCEPTION: HERO EXP AND SKILLS

Hero EXP and skills currently have no known scoring day.

After the opponent is displayed:

✅ use them if they are needed for your combat marches; ❌ do not use them solely to display more Power; ❌ do not wait artificially for a scoring day that does not exist.

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💰 DO NOT EMPTY EVERYTHING DURING KVK

If we can win using only part of our stock:

KEEP THE REST.

The example “use 60% and keep 40%” is not a fixed rule.

Depending on the opponent, we may need:

• 30%; • 60%; • 90%; • exceptionally, almost everything.

The right amount is:

THE MINIMUM NEEDED TO WIN WITH A SUFFICIENT MARGIN.

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MESSAGE 9/9 — 👑 WHO MUST FOLLOW IT?

🎯 K2149 RULE

🔴 TOP 100: strict protocol

🟠 TOP 101–200: Soft Freeze strongly recommended

🟢 rest of the kingdom: stockpiling encouraged

Kingshot does not publish the exact number of players included.

PLAYER #101 IS NOT AUTOMATICALLY “FREE.”

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🚫 FALSE GOOD IDEAS

Do not try to artificially lower your matchmaking strength by:

❌ removing your Governor Gear; ❌ unequipping your heroes; ❌ resetting a hero; ❌ killing your troops; ❌ dismissing your troops; ❌ filling your Infirmary; ❌ leaving your alliance; ❌ changing your name.

A response attributed to the Concierge states that the system may retain the all-time maximum reached by each module.

Even without knowing the complete formula, these actions are useless or dangerous.

WE CANNOT REDUCE POWER THAT HAS ALREADY BEEN CREATED.

WE AVOID CREATING OUR NEXT POWER INCREASE TOO EARLY.

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✅ QUICK TEST BEFORE EACH ACTION

1️⃣ Does this action create permanent Power?

❌ No ➡️ do it.

✅ Yes ➡️ next question.

2️⃣ Can the resource remain in my bag without any loss?

✅ Yes ➡️ store it.

❌ No ➡️ next question.

3️⃣ Is this daily time or a queue that cannot be stored?

✅ Yes ➡️ continue naturally, without a major speedup.

4️⃣ Can this action wait until matchmaking?

✅ Yes ➡️ wait.

When in doubt:

HOLD AND ASK BEFORE SPENDING.

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🧊 K2149 STRATEGY

FARM EVERYTHING

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STOCK EVERYTHING

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SOFT FREEZE

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STRONG FREEZE

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02/09 HARD FREEZE

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05–06/09 MATCHMAKING

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07/09 KVK PREP

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SPEND ONLY WHEN IT SCORES

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STOP WHEN WE HAVE ENOUGH

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KEEP THE REST FOR NEXT KVK

🏆 Minimum growth before matchmaking

📦 Maximum available stock

⚡ Minimum loss of unrecoverable progression

🎯 Maximum KvK efficiency