To maximize your milestone score in the Glory Journey event in Doomsday: Odysseus Returns, match your resource and speedup investments to active stage objectives rather than spending materials across off-schedule phases. You gain points by depleting stamina on high-value targets, promoting lower-tier troops during training windows, timing resource gathering returns before phase resets, and purchasing discounted consumables with diamonds.
Track Capped Tasks and Continuous Scoring
Glory Journey awards points across several primary categories: building construction, technology research, troop training, resource gathering, and infected hunting. Progression tiers yield rewards such as hero fragments, armament chests, and speedups.
Before committing speedups or resources, check the active stage conditions in the event interface:
- Capped daily tasks: Objectives like radar missions and alliance help clicks stop generating points once you hit their daily maximum. Complete these daily, but stop spending once the cap is reached.
- Continuous tasks: Troop training, building construction, and technology research scale with speedup usage without a hard daily ceiling. Save your major speedup caches for phases that award points for these specific actions.
Spend Stamina on High-Efficiency Targets
Stamina expenditure offers steady point generation, but different infected targets yield vastly different points per stamina point spent. Hunting roaming map infected gives minimal point returns, whereas rally-based targets provide the highest point density along with secondary rewards.
| Target Type | Stamina Cost | Point Efficiency | Secondary Yield |
|---|---|---|---|
| Roaming Infected | 10–15 | Low | Basic speedups, crafting scraps |
| Radar Combat Tasks | Fixed | High (Daily cap) | Radar milestone points, combat badges |
| Elite Infected Rallies | 30–40 | Highest | Alliance gifts, large point payouts |
To get the most value from your stamina pool:
- Maximize radar combat tasks each day until their points cap out.
- Join or lead elite infected rallies to earn top-tier point bundles and alliance gifts.
- Deploy hero squads with stamina reduction talents or march speed buffs to reduce the stamina cost per rally.
- Run hunting sessions early in the morning and late in the evening to keep your stamina bar regenerating continuously without sitting at full capacity.
Promote Existing Squads Instead of Training Raw Units
Troop training phases provide the highest single-phase point surges. However, training brand-new units from Tier 1 through Tier 4 delivers fewer points per minute of acceleration than upgrading existing units.
Promoting lower-tier units (such as Tier 4 units to Tier 5) compresses high point returns into fewer speedup minutes. This method consumes fewer minutes per finished unit while still awarding point credit for the higher tier.
Before applying universal or training speedups during a training phase:
- Activate your Shelter's training capacity buffs.
- Switch to development talent presets that decrease base training time.
- Relocate inside alliance territory or near combat sanctuaries that grant territorial training speed buffs.
Lowering the base training timer before applying speedups increases the point yield of every hour skipped.
Time Gathering Squads and Manage Nodes
Glory Journey tallies gathering points only when a squad returns to your Shelter. If an event phase concludes while your troops are still out harvesting, those resources will not register for that phase's milestone score.
- Recall marches early: Order your squads to return 15 to 20 minutes before a scoring stage ends so all gathered resources register before the cutoff.
- Harvest in alliance territory: Deploy gathering specialists to Level 5 and Level 6 nodes inside alliance borders to benefit from alliance gathering speed modifiers.
- Clear nodes completely: Finish remnant nodes instead of leaving low-value scraps behind, allowing fresh high-level nodes to respawn.
Invest Diamonds in Discounted Supplies
When a Glory Journey phase rewards diamond expenditure, avoid spending raw diamonds to instantly finish construction or research timers at standard rates.
Instead, spend diamonds in the VIP Market or at merchant stalls on items that support subsequent event phases:
- Stamina recovery cans to store energy for future hunting phases.
- Eight-hour speedup bundles at discounted rates.
- Advanced armament tokens.
Stop spending once you reach the highest milestone reward for that phase to preserve your diamond reserves for future event rotations.
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