Disclosure: State 3597 / Gen 5 / Star Platinum ・ Based on personal play, not a datamine ・ Updated 2026-09-09
Monday to Friday are F1–F5. Sunday is for holding back and setting up; Saturday continues Friday's work.
The map: which category scores on which day
The preparation phase runs five days, Monday (F1) through Friday (F5). Each day scores the categories below. "Scores" here means that performing that category's action on that day adds SVS points.
| Day | Categories that score that day |
|---|
| Mon F1 | Chief gems / Fire Crystal / speedups (both specialist and non-specialist) |
| Tue F2 | Fire Crystal / speedups (both) / Lucky Wheel / hero shards / resource gathering / specialist emblems / books of knowledge |
| Wed F3 | Chief gems / speedups (non-specialist only) / specialist emblems / pet breakthrough / pet refinement / frost giants / beasts |
| Thu F4 | Chief gems / speedups (both) / books of knowledge / frost giants / refined energy stones / exclusive gear parts / Mithril / troop training |
| Fri F5 | Fire Crystal / speedups (both) / pet breakthrough / pet refinement / chief gear / hero gear (Mithril, refined energy stones, exclusive gear parts) |
Scoring categories can differ by state and by season. Check your own preparation phase table and map it onto this weekly split.
The rules that stop the leaks
- Hold the relevant resources and items until their scoring day, then spend them all at once. Spending before that day costs the same and scores zero.
- Title buffs — the speed bonuses attached to the titles a governor assigns (construction, research, training, and so on) — should be reserved the day before the big job. Booking ahead loses fewer points than assigning on the spot.
- Speedups score almost every day, so use them freely to clear bottlenecks. The one exception: specialist speedups do not score on Wednesday. Hold those and use only ordinary speedups that day.
Prep
SundayHold back and book ahead. What you set up here pays from Monday on
Do not use Agnes first thing in the morning. Agnes is the skill that increases the number of beacons. Beacons carry over to the next day, so using the skill at dawn and burning through them the same day means they cannot be converted into rewards by the following days' beacon-task event. Push the Agnes usage later and leave beacons standing for the next day.
- Reserve the title buff for construction (Vice President) so it lands on Monday's building work.
F1
MondayConstruction and gems
Scores today: chief gems / Fire Crystal / speedups (both)
- Run Fire Crystal construction while the construction title buff is active (Fire Crystal scores). After finishing FC5 there was nothing left to build for a while, but FC8 opened a week ago, so there is finally construction to do during a preparation phase again.
- Level gems (chief gems score).
- Speedups spent on construction score as well.
- Evening setup: gathering tasks start tomorrow, so send marches out to return to the city at 09:00. Time the cow skill — the one that completes gathering instantly, on a 23-hour cooldown — so that it is available the next morning.
- Reserve the research title buff (Vice President) for Tuesday.
F2
TuesdayResearch, gathering, heroes
Scores today: Fire Crystal / speedups (both) / Lucky Wheel / hero shards / resource gathering / specialist emblems / books of knowledge
- Push Fire Crystal particle research while the research title buff is up. In my case the gain is small, because I have not traded for particles since finishing T11 — that is a quirk of my own account, not a general rule.
- In the morning, clear beacon tasks with the marches returning from gathering, then send them out again. Alongside that, use the cow skill to collect gathering instantly (resource gathering scores).
- Spin the Lucky Wheel (scores).
- Star up the heroes obtained from the wheel and elsewhere (hero shards score).
- Level specialists (specialist emblems score).
- Use speedups on research bottlenecks (scores).
- Evening: gathering marches have to be pulled back for Frostfire Mine and Crazy Joe. Every opponent faces the same constraint. Clear Frostfire Mine and Crazy Joe close together in one block.
F3
WednesdayAll in on beasts
Scores today: chief gems / speedups (non-specialist only) / specialist emblems / pet breakthrough / pet refinement / frost giants / beasts
- Focus entirely on beasts from the morning. Wednesday has many scoring categories, but I am chasing rank on beasts, so I do not spread out.
- Only non-specialist speedups score. Hold specialist speedups for another day.
- Reserve the training title buff (Education Officer) for Thursday.
Why this shape. Chief gems, specialist emblems, pet breakthrough and refinement, and frost giants also score on Wednesday. I deliberately move all of them to other days — chief gems to Monday, specialists to Tuesday, pets to Friday — and concentrate Wednesday on beasts to place high in that ranking.
Scores today: chief gems / speedups (both) / books of knowledge / frost giants / refined energy stones / exclusive gear parts / Mithril / troop training
- Train troops while the training title buff is active, and spend speedups on it (both training and speedups score).
- Thursday also scores upgrade materials — Mithril, refined energy stones, exclusive gear parts, books of knowledge. In my routine, gear and pet upgrades are batched into Friday and Saturday, so Thursday stays centred on training.
F5
Friday–SaturdayFinishing gear and pets
Scores today: Fire Crystal / speedups (both) / pet breakthrough / pet refinement / chief gear / hero gear (Mithril, refined energy stones, exclusive gear parts)
- Upgrade chief gear (scores).
- Pet breakthrough and pet refinement (score). I skip pets on Wednesday and do them all on Friday.
- Fire Crystal also scores today. Anything left over goes in here.
- Upgrade hero gear (scores). Hero gear consumes Mithril, refined energy stones, and exclusive gear parts. All three score on both Thursday and Friday, so upgrading on Friday or Saturday still earns points.
Summary: the weekday checklist
| Day | Scoring actions to batch that day | Title buff to reserve the day before |
|---|
| Sun (prep) | Hold back and set up (delay Agnes) | Construction (→ Mon) |
| Mon F1 | Fire Crystal construction, gems, speedups | Research (→ Tue) |
| Tue F2 | Research (Fire Crystal particles), beacon tasks + gathering, Lucky Wheel, hero stars, specialists, and in the evening Frostfire Mine and Crazy Joe | — |
| Wed F3 | All in on beasts (chasing rank; other categories moved to other days) | Training (→ Thu) |
| Thu F4 | Troop training (with speedups) | — |
| Fri–Sat F5 | Chief gear, pets, Fire Crystal, hero gear | — |
The preparation phase rewards timing, not extra spending: the same resources score more when they are spent on the day that counts, and score nothing when spent early. Closing those leaks is what wins the phase.
Note on terms: the English names above are working translations of the Japanese client's wording and may not match your client exactly — in particular the title/officer names, beacons, beasts, frost giants, specialist emblems, refined energy stones, and exclusive gear parts. Map them onto your own preparation phase table.
Disclaimer: this article is a personal account of how one governor plays. Scoring categories and mechanics can change with state and season, so check your own preparation phase table.