Moonlight on the Runway

How it works

One new event opens every hour, on the hour — ten venues, each running a 10-hour loop, staggered an hour apart. That's 24 events a day, 168 a week.

Gem values run on their own separate loop: a fixed sequence of 21 values that advances one step per hour and then repeats, forever. Eight full turns of that loop fit exactly into a week.

Two things are pinned to each slot in that 21-hour loop: the gem value (your 4-star reward) and the cash you collect just for entering. Both are fixed and fully mapped — the same slot always pays the same amounts.

Cash doesn't scale evenly with gems: it runs from 2.2× the gem value on the weakest slots to 3.1× on the strongest, so the big events are worth a little more than their gem number alone suggests.

Because 21 and 10 share no common factor, the two loops drift against each other and only realign every 210 hours. Any venue can host any gem value — so budget your items by the number on the event, never by where it is.

What a week contains

4-star gem rewards across one full cycle:

What you take home

Cash and gems are both locked to the cycle. Only the fifth-star bonus varies — see below.

If you played everything

Entering all 24 events a day, every day:

The cash comes regardless — it stacks on top of every row. Going from 4 stars to 5 across the board is worth roughly 70,000 extra gems a week, nearly quadrupling the gem take.

The 5-star figures assume gem bonuses throughout and use the ~275 average for low events. Swap in Limited clothing on the premium slots and you'd trade some of those gems for up to 72 items a week.

Where to spend

Purple & high red (160+) — 9 per cycle, 72 a week. These deserve unworn items plus a 30% crown consumable. This is the real Trendsetter budget.

Mid red (110–120) — 3 per cycle, 24 a week. A 30% consumable is usually enough here; save new items unless you have them spare.

Green & yellow (80–100) — 9 per cycle, 72 a week. Cheap consumables only. Recycle looks freely; these are volume, not value.

The two 280s and the 260 are the three biggest payouts in every cycle — worth planning a look for in advance rather than improvising.

Clothing or gems

Any event can award a clothing item as the fifth-star prize — not just the premium ones. What you actually receive depends on your wardrobe: if you already own the item, the game pays out gems instead.

That explains the numbers below. Premium slots (160+) pay a clean 500 gems on 160–200 and 700 on 220+, usually alongside Limited pieces. Low slots (80–120) come back anywhere from 150 to 410, averaging ~275, with no relationship to the event's own gem value — consistent with those figures reflecting the item's worth rather than the event's tier.

The cheap-event edge

Because that bonus ignores the event's tier, the fifth star is worth proportionally more on small events than large ones.

What that means

A fifth star on an 80-gem event pays around 375 gems — more than a 4-star finish on a 280.

So the usual advice to coast through the cheap events may be backwards. Styling them properly is cheap, repeatable, and there are 72 of them a week.

Bear in mind the gem figures above were logged by a player who already owned the regular wardrobe, so many of them are conversions rather than native gem prizes. A newer account would see more of these land as clothing.

Turn clothing into gems

If the fifth-star prize is a regular (non-Limited) clothing item you'd rather not have, buy that item in the store before the event ends. Because you'll then own it, the prize converts and you collect gems instead.

This is most worthwhile when the item is priced in cash — you're trading the weaker currency for the stronger one, and cash accumulates on its own just from entering events.

Limited items can't be bought this way, so those stay as clothing.