[Dev Diary] Summer Event 2018

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More information about the upcoming Summer Event 2018

Dear Settlers,

The long-awaited Summer Event is making its way to the live servers! It's going to kick-off with brand new features: an exciting specialist, building, quest chain, buffs and a plethora of changes compared to previous editions.

New aspects & changes are highlighted in blue color.

EVENT SCHEDULE

Event Start: 26th of June, ~11:00 EEST
Start of removal phase: 17th of July, ~11:00 EEST
Complete deactivation: 24th of July, ~11:00 EEST 31st of July, ~00:59 EEST
Level requirement: 16+

If your level is below 16, you will receive a quest tasking you to reach level 16. So hurry up, you surely don't want to miss out on all the fun!

CHANGES FROM THE PREVIOUS EDITION

• Swapped a few doors in the Calendar
• Changed the contents of the final door
• Added a new quest chain
• Added a new highest tier/level range, starting at level 56, for the daily event quest
• Added new achievements related to the new quest chain
• Added a new buff option to the Footie Field
• Added new items at the merchant: Snack Stand and Stone-Cold Geologist
• Footie Field limit has been changed to 1 "per event" instead of "per player"
• Lucky Explorer per-event limit reduced from 2 down to 1
• Rebalanced event loot from treasure hunts
• Rebalanced event loot from non-event adventures

Have a kick-around in the
dedicated feedback thread.

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The event resource is called Footballs. They can be traded and are listed in the Storehouse (Event tab) as usual.

Footballs can be gathered in a variety of ways:

• Collectible footballs spawn on the home zone
• Normal Adventures have a chance to drop footballs, including scenarios and some mini-missions
• Event adventures from the event calendar always drop a fixed amount of footballs
• Event quests reward footballs
• Treasure hunts can reward footballs on top of the usual loot
• Event achievements reward the player with Footballs upon completion
• The merchant
• Trading with other players
  

Introducing A Host of Responsibilities, a new quest chain that starts at level 22 or above. It deals with the costs and responsibilities of hosting tournament matches on your island. The rewards focus on coins, a stacking population growth buff (that is immediately applied; it doesn't go to the star menu), and a big reward for completing the whole chain.

For the first 15 days of the event, a new quest in this chain will be unlocked and starts if or when you have finished the preceding one. For example, if you don't finish the first quest until the third day, then you will get the second quest immediately upon completing it, followed by the third quest after the second one is done. If you then complete the third quest on day three, you will still not receive the fourth quest until the fourth day of the event. The daily time during which a new quest is unlocked should match the first time that you logged in during the event. The new quest chain's sub-quests unlock after a certain number of days after your first login during the event, and not the event start.

Every day, you will receive a random quest, similar in scope to regular daily quests, that will reward various tactical resources. Running Premium time will trigger two such quests.

A tournament quest chain will guide you through the mechanics of the event, in regard to collecting of tactical resources, production of tactics buffs and their use in the event scenarios. The quest chain is linked to the Fixture List, as the quests will often ask you to open certain doors.

In order to access the Fixture List, just click on the icon next to your avatar.

3 DIFFERENT TYPES OF DOORS

There is a total of 21 doors. You can open one door each day.

Type: Regular door
Amount: 11
Description: Can be opened on the specific date displayed or for 20 gems afterward
Requirement: It doesn't matter if previous doors are still closed or not
Rewards: Provides basic rewards (such as resources), sometimes chosen randomly


Type: Adventure door
Amount: 5
Description: Can be opened any time for free, once the respective date was reached
Requirement: It doesn't matter if previous doors are still closed or not
Rewards: One of the Summer Event Adventures


Type: Special door
Amount: 5
Description: Can be opened on the specific date displayed or for 50 gems afterward.
Requirement: All previous doors need to be open
Rewards: Most special doors offer a choice between several rewards when opened

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There are 12 different Tactical Resources which you can use in the Provision House to produce Tactical Items. These tactical resources are tradeable and can be acquired in the following ways:

• As loot from regular adventures
• As collectables on the home island
• As additional loot from treasure searches
• As a reward for event quest
• As purchase from the in-game merchant

Tactical items are obtained through the Provision House, and can be used as follows:

• They are needed to successfully complete Event Adventures.
• Most of them are usable against multiple different skills.
• They are produced from combinations of types of 2 Tactical Resources (except for "Red Card", that requires Advanced Paper)

Adventure Doors can be opened any time for free, once the respective date was reached (even if previous doors were not opened).
Therefore, every player is able to play all the available adventures.

5 non-combat Event Adventures inspired by football matches become available through the Fixture List: Practice Match, Round of 16, Quarter-Finals, Semi-Finals, and Finals.

The goal of the Special Event Adventures is to win football matches by countering all of the opponents' skills.
You do this by applying the correct Tactical Items. Every opponent unit/skill can be defeated by either of two Tactical Items (your choice).

Adventure Tournament Mode
Bear in mind that your matches have to be completed in order. You will not be able to start an adventure if you haven’t completed the quest to beat the previous one first (*). To make things easier, if you cancel one of the adventures it will return to you by mail. Your progress will not be saved, but you won’t get stuck and you can use this method to scout your opponent’s skills.

* The adventure "Practice match" does not have to be completed.

Completing event related achievements is a means of earning footballs. The achievements do not contribute to the overall achievement score and the ones that have not been earned by the end of the event will be hidden from the achievement menu.
The achievements deal with many aspects of the event:

• Completing tournament adventures
• Opening all doors of the Fixture List
• Completing Summer quests
• Earning footballs through explorer searches
• Collecting event collectables
• Producing tactical buffs
• Trading tactical resources

Winning all matches earns you a golden statue: the Champion's Trophy 2018!

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A new Geologist that you might remember from the previously published Sneak Peek is making his way to our islands. Introducing the Stone-Cold Geologist, a geologist whose main expertise is finding stone, marble, and granite deposits of doubled size, and in half the usual time.

Facilities such as Snack Stands are always a good idea when hosting tournaments on your home island. Treat your guests with a delicious Stadium Snack, refreshing beverages such as Red Flying Settler, or - why not - Hot Lemon Tea. Every additional Snack Stand increases production speed by 100%.

Name: Stadium Snacks
Description: +300% output on workyards for 24 hours (36 hours on friend/guild member)
Cost: 1,500 sausages, 1,500 bread
Production time: 71h

Name: Red Flying Settler
Description: +200% output on workyards for 24 hours (36 hours on friend/guild member)
Cost: 2,000 brew, 100 simple paper
Production time: 11h

Name: Hot Lemon Tea
Description: +200% output on Village School and University for 24 hours (36 hours on friend/guild member)
Cost: 2,000 water, 2,000 coal, 25 herbs
Production time: 11h

The last edition's Footie Pitch makes a comeback with an additional new buff: The Wave! Every additional Footie Field increases cooldown speed by 100%.

Name: Strength Training
Description: Increases the productivity of Weaponsmiths +200% for 90 minutes
Cost: 300 fish, 500 water
Cooldown: 23h

Name: Exhibition Match
Description: Boosts population growth +500% for 90 minutes
Cost: 200 sausages, 200 brew
Cooldown: 23h

Name: The Wave
Description: Boost the Fish and water workyard productivity +400% for 90 minutes
Cost: 400 brew
Cooldown: 23h

Name: Stone-Cold Geologist (Limit: 2, not tradable, not giftable)
Type: Specialist
Description: Finds stone, marble, and granite deposits of doubled size, and in half the usual time.
Price: 1,295 Footballs

Name: Snack Stand (Limit: 1, not tradable, not giftable)
Type: Building
Description: A building that produces existing buffs
Price: 4,250 Footballs

Name: Footie Pitch (Limit: 1, not tradable, not giftable)
Type: Building
Description: A culture building that applies zone-wide buffs at the cost of resources
Price: 1,499 Footballs

Name: Lucky Explorer (Limit: 1, not tradable, not giftable)
Type: Specialist
Description: Summer-Event exclusive Explorer, 3 times as fast as Tavern explorers, grants a chance for extra buffs
Price: 2,499 Footballs

Name: 5 Building Licences (Limit: 1, not tradable, not giftable)
Type: Buff
Description: Increase maximum building limit by 5
Price: 880 Footballs

Name: Friary (Limit: 2, tradable, not giftable)
Type: Building
Description: Produces 4 times as much Brew as the regular Brewery
Price: 1,999 Footballs

Name: Grout
Type: Resource
Description: Contains 200 Grout
Price: 249 Footballs

Name: Training overtime
Type: Buff
Description: Use on barracks and speed up recruiting time +200% for 12 hours
Price: 249 Footballs

Name: Stadium Snacks
Type: Buff
Description: Increases output of a workyard +300% for 24 hours
Price: 345 Footballs

Name: Supporter Hats
Type: Buff
Description: Increases population growth of the Mayor's House by +200% for 8 hours
Price: 410 Footballs

Name: Flowerbed flag (47 different flags)
Type: Building
Description: Decorative construction
Price: 150 Footballs

Name: Small Fan Package
Type: Resource
Description: Contains 250 Footballs
Price: 199 Gems

Name: Tactical Resources (12 different types)
Type: Resource
Description: Adds 10 Tactical Resources of a certain type
Price: 10 Gems

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The event will be deactivated in 2 steps. As known from previous events, most of the features will not be available anymore during the Removal phase. The deactivation will then be conducted 1 week later.

Removal phase start: 16th of July 2018 at 11:00 EEST

• Event quests will be deactivated/canceled
• Event Achievements will no longer be obtainable
• The Achievement category will disappear for everyone who didn't gain event Achievement

• The first spawn of collectibles during the Removal Phase won't provide event resources anymore

• In most cases Explorers won't find event resources anymore
• Adventure and Expedition loot won't include event resources

• Event adventures are being canceled
• Event adventures cannot be started but can be deleted
• Tactical buffs cannot be produced
• Tactical resources are hidden from the storage and star menu
• Trade offers involving tactical resources cannot be initiated. Already existing ones are hidden until they run out

• The event art will be removed from the loading screen
• The event info window and Fixture list will be deactivated

• The event shop will still be available except for Tactical Resources

Deactivation: 23rd of July 2018 at 11:00 EEST

• The Event Shop category will be deactivated
• New trades containing event currency cannot be posted anymore

• Existing trade offers containing event currency will be invisible until they expire

Resource and item exchange

• Event currency will be removed from the game and exchanged for 1 Gold Coin each
• Tactical resources are removed from the star menu, all storages and mail attachments without compensation
• Tactical buffs are removed from the star menu without compensation
• Event adventures are removed from the star menu and mail attachments without compensation

The exchange will be conducted with the next game update.

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The event will be deactivated in 2 steps. As known from previous events, most of the features will not be available anymore during the Removal phase. The deactivation will then be conducted 1 week later.

Removal phase start: 17th of July 2018 at 11:00 EEST

• Event quests will be deactivated/canceled
• Event Achievements will no longer be obtainable
• The Achievement category will disappear for everyone who didn't gain event Achievement

• The first spawn of collectibles during the Removal Phase won't provide event resources anymore

• In most cases Explorers won't find event resources anymore
• Adventure and Expedition loot won't include event resources

• Event adventures are being canceled
• Event adventures cannot be started but can be deleted
• Tactical buffs cannot be produced
• Tactical resources are hidden from the storage and star menu
• Trade offers involving tactical resources cannot be initiated. Already existing ones are hidden until they run out

• The event art will be removed from the loading screen
• The event info window and Fixture list will be deactivated

• The event shop will still be available except for Tactical Resources

Deactivation: 24th of July at 11:00 EEST 31st of July at 00:59 EEST

• The Event Shop category will be deactivated
• New trades containing event currency cannot be posted anymore

• Existing trade offers containing event currency will be invisible until they expire

Resource and item exchange

• Event currency will be removed from the game and exchanged for 1 Gold Coin each
• Tactical resources are removed from the star menu, all storages and mail attachments without compensation
• Tactical buffs are removed from the star menu without compensation
• Event adventures are removed from the star menu and mail attachments without compensation

The exchange will be conducted with the next game update.

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Dear settlers,

The information published in the Dev Diary regarding daily event quests when running Premium time was incorrect. The entry has been updated.

• Daily event quests are not doubled for Premium time users.

We would like to apologize for the confusion.

Happy Settling,
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Dear settlers,

Please be aware of the following change concerning the event deactivation date:

• The event deactivation will take place on 31st of July, ~00:59 EEST

This means that the event merchant phase is prolonged, to ensure you have enough time to spend any remaining footballs.

Happy Settling,
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Dear settlers,

We would like to share further insights with you in regard to the tactical resources drop. The table below and the presence of the icon under one of the 3 categories indicates whether they can be found in adventure loot, treasure loot or collectible item, respectively.

Tactical resource	Adventure Drop	Treasure Loot	Collectibles
Shoe
Banana peel
Red Color
Telescope
Fist
Training dummy
Elastic spring
Shoulder pad
Helmet
Studs
Wet Grass
Grease
Footballs

Happy settling,
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Dear Settlers,

Many questions about the Lucky Explorer limit have been raised and some elements of the Summer event in the game.

Lucky Explorer

The limit will be raised to 9 for every player.
If you didn't obtain a Lucky Explorer with Gems during the event, you can do so after the next game update.

Summer event deactivation

The event collectible items and event buffs will be removed with the next game update. The logo and the loading screen will also be reverted back to normal. These elements are still visible due to the extension of the deactivation phase.

The next game update is scheduled for August 14th 22nd 23rd. A change log will be published on Monday, August 13th.

Happy Settling,
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