forge of empires how to trade apples in the fall event

I have every event building since they started doing them regularly and while I haven't put down that Winter Village set, everything else is placed down.

EDIT: My bad, its 24 spots, so it's slightly worse than a level 2 TF if you're looking solely at the fp. While I prefer to put down event buildings with attacks, you can't always get what you want, and a 9 fp for 20 spaces still beats 12 fp for 30 spaces. For me personally, I compare event buildings with level 2 Terrece Farms, because I still have a bunch of them (and a few level 1s). I really don't think it's that bad, and I'm in SAV. That's just for one world! Repeat on multiple and it quickly wears you down. Chests felt unsatisfying to get the higher star variants when a 5 star chest would give the exact same reward as a level 1 chest.

Ended up just wasting moves to make it go faster and hope the next board had paw pieces. Unable to move onto new board without running out of moves on the existing one. Often go many boards with either none or only one piece for the entire 25 moves. By far the main source of frustration for the event. Guess this is just latency (FOE servers are somewhere in EU/NA so I get 350ms+ ping to them) but playing similar games where moves can be placed much faster and more responsive, it becomes painful.

Piece movement (matching, making a chest, bottom collection) was very slow. For reference, I enjoyed the St Pat's event. Most of my gripes with it were mainly QOL things that made it feel as drawn out as possible. The new style of minigame was a nice change compared to 'click one of the 3 guys and get a prize' type event. I'm sure they'll be able to make improvements for next year if it comes back.

Forge of empires how to trade apples in the fall event