Storing Stamina for Events- AP/HP Stacking in IkeVil/IkePri
This strategy post will cover how to stack ads anc cocktails and use the stamina towards events. The IkeVil March update added an ad page where you can watch all your ads for diamonds, AP, HP, and story tickets all at once fomr one place. IkePri players are probably already familiar with this feature because it was implemented a long time ago. They work the same way. The only difference is that IkePri allows 10 ads for HP daily whereas IkeVil only allows 5.
At any point, your AP cannot exceed 999/100. 999 is the upper limit. If your AP is below 100, you can use stamina items to replenish it. Once you get 100 AP or over, you cannot use any cocktails. It will also stop regenerating. For example, if I used a +100 AP cocktail when my AP is at 87, it will stay at 187/100. If I do a single escort, it will become 167/100 and remain so. If you are saving this AP for an event, you can't do any escorts in the meantime. I do not recommend stacking for new players who need to farm intimacy points for the main story.
Before the limited cocktails expire and when your AP bar is where you want it to be, use the limited cocktails. You can only use up to 9 +100 AP cocktails, so might as well spend any extra ones, escort until you are happy with your AP bar, then use all the limited cocktails. Using all your cocktails when your AP is at 99 will give you the maximum amount of AP you can get. For example, if you use 3 cocktails when your AP is at 99, you will get 399 AP. Once you do a “max escort", you will use 380 AP with a remainder of 19. Another 1 AP will generate in 3 minutes and you can do another escort. However, this approach can be difficult because you will only have a 3 minute window to use those cocktails. When I try to find the happy place for me to start stacking, I consider how much AP I want to spend on the current event, how many escorts I can get for the next event, and how minutes it will take to charge a new escort once I clear my AP. For example, having my AP bar at 37 is much better than at 25. Although both of these will only give me 1 escort from natural AP, in the latter case I can do another escort in 9 minutes compared to 45 minutes in the former case.
Stacking Stamina From Ads
With the app update, we can also stack ads up to 999/100. See the table below for the what has changed.
Stacking AP Before An Event
Stacking AP is super helpful for story events, which historically in the EN server start at 3x LT for 1 hour once you choose an event route. Doing this lets you do up to 44 escorts (worth 9 full cocktails) at 3x LT just from ads, with another 5 escorts from natural regeneration. If you start from 100/100 AP, you can watch 44 ads across 5 server days to get to 980/100 AP. If you start from 99/100 AP, you can watch 45 ads across 5 server days to stack to 999/100 AP. To stack AP with ads, wait until your AP is at a place you like anywhere from 81-99. Aiming for 99 is possible but difficult because you will probably have to set an alarm or keep an eye on your AP so you don't miss the 3 minute window to finish the ad. I recommend to start stacking when you have 90 AP or above, so you will remain with 10 AP or above after your escorts, thus needing only 30 minutes or less to do another escort before the 1 hour 3x LT ends.
You can also stack your AP for Collection Events. However, they don't typically start with 2x or 3x LT with few exceptions (Elections, sometimes EN originals). If there's no event that uses AP that you are interested in, then might as well stack your AP every day. Otherwise it's difficult to tell whether it's worth the sacrifice to another event because EN does not publish the LT schedule ahead of time.
Stacking AP/HP During An Event for Lucky Time
Escorts during LT give more hearts/LP than during non-LT, so sometimes it makes sense to stack your ads when there's no lucky time that server day and save them for the next lucky time. The tricky thing is that whether it is worth stacking or not all depends on the player’s time zone/schedule, and whether the next LT is 2x or 3x. The only way to figure out which option gives more hearts/LP is to do the math for both outcomes and see which one gives more. The difference between them is usually small, so if you don't feel like doing the math, it doesn't make a huge difference. If you want to be more hands off with the event you can stack so that you can take a break from clearing AP. If you enjoy the min-maxxing tho, I will walk you through an example process.
I will use PST here since it's the “official” time zone for IkeVil. Ads reset at 12 am (midnight) PST.
Scenario: there's no scheduled LT this server day. The next LT is tomorrow at 8 am and it is 2x.
If I don't stack my AP: I would do 20 natural escorts today and 10 escorts from ads before sleeping at 9pm. When I wake up tomorrow at 6am, I will do 2 single escorts so that my AP will be ~100 at 8am, then do 5 escorts at 2x. In total this is equivalent to 20+10+2+(5*2)=42 escorts at non-LT.
If I stack my AP: I would do 15 natural escorts today so that my AP is at 100 at 9pm, when I will stack my ads. When I wake up at 6am, I won't do any escorts until 8am, when I will do 15 escorts at 2x. In total this is equivalent to 15+(15*2)=45 escorts at non-LT.
As you can see, it makes a difference of 3 escorts in this simple scenario where I can clear my AP when the LT starts. It gets more complicated if I cannot.
If there's more than 1 server day without LT, there are some things that apply to most players. Generally speaking, if there is more than 1 day of no escort LT and the next one is only 2x, it's not worth stacking and you should clear it as usual if you do more than 15 escorts/day. 3x LTs are generally worth stacking for if you do 20 or less escorts/day, but not worth skipping 2x LTs for.
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