Dev Diary: Summer Event 2019

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More information about the upcoming Summer Event 2019

Dear Settlers,

The long-awaited Summer Event is making its way to the live servers again! 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: Monday, 24th of June ~ 10:00 CEST
Start of removal phase: 15th of July, ~ 10:00 CEST
Complete deactivation: 22nd of July, ~ 10:00 CEST
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

• New Explorer: Adventurous Explorer
• New Geologist: Archeological Geologist
• New Battle Buff: Rain of Flaming Arrows
• New Residence Building: Tree House
• New Storage Building: Storage Tower
• Summer Event Version of Wondrous Residence
• New footie field
• Buff available for footballs: premium friend buff
• Seasonal XP adventure boost added - all adventures give 3x more XP and 2x more loot (excluding buildings)
• Footballs added to Venture loots - all ventures now grant footballs too
• The event calendar rewards have been improved significantly
• New Friar Tribute
• New Joyous Bundle Item in shop
• Observatory Recipes added to the black market
• Improved Lettersmith production speed bonus increased from 25% to 50%
  

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, mini-missions and ventures
• 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
  

In 2018 we introduced the quest chain A Host of Responsibilities, 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. ?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.

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.

Every day, you will receive a random quest, similar in scope to regular daily quests, that will reward various tactical resources. Active premium time will not offer a second quest!

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. Opening missed doors for gems has been increased to 100 gems for normal doors and 300 gems for special doors due to a much higher value in the calendar.

Don't forget to open the doors daily and also remind your friends to do so!

Type: Regular door
Amount: 11
Description: Can be opened on the specific date displayed or for 100 gems afterwards
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 300 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 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

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. In this year's event all adventures give 3x XP and double loot (excluding buildings)! Footballs have been added to the loot of Ventures and coop football loot has been boosted.

"Adventure/Coop"

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Adventure/Coop

Aladdin and the Beautiful princess

Ali Baba and the Treasure of Wisdom

Storm Recovery

Ali Baba the Young Woodcutter

Ali Baba and the First Thief

Ali Baba and the Third Thief

The Invasion of the Nords (Nords 2)

Mad Marry (Mad Henry)

Ali Baba and the Treasure of Knowledge

Sindbad and the Besieged City

Sindbad and the Sea Snake

Bandit's Nest

Outlaws

Arctic Explosion

Bastille Island

Traitors

Ali Baba and the Second Thief

Pirate Life

Old Friends

Aladdin and the Oil Lamp

Sons of the Veld

Return to the Bandit's Nest (New Bandit's Nest)

Horseback

More Secluded Experiments

Surprise Attack

Sleepy Reef

The Heroic Little Tailor

The Betrayed Little Tailor

Secluded Experiments

The Clever Little Tailor

Sons of the Little Tailor

The Valiant Little Tailor

The Nords

Lakeside Treasure

Dark Brotherhood

Gunpowder

Witch of the Swamp

Stealing from the Rich

The Siege

Victor the Vicious

Tikki Island

Tropical Sun

Sleeping Volcano

The Lost Skull

Roaring Bull

Whirlwind

Tomb Raiders

Island of the Pirates

Black Knights

Raiding the Raiders

Motherly Love

The Dark Priests

Buccaneer Roundup

Heart of the Woods

The Grain Conflict (Safe the Towns)

Twins

Riches of the Mountain

Old Ruins

The Shaman

"Ventures"

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Ventures

Of Songs and Curses

The Dragon's Roost

El Chupacabra

Raid Of The Nords

The Lost City

One Step Ahead

The Fisherman and his Wife

Hansel and Gretel

The Pied Piper of Hamelin

Red Riding Hood

Snow White

At the Foot of the Mountain

Unknown Regions

Mountain Labyrinth

The People of The Mountain

A Giant Battle

Valuable Intel

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 2019!

A new Achievement has been added: Training Marathon - Complete 25 Mini missions to obtain the Friar Tribute!

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Adventurous Explorer

Her pace is achieved by taking a higher risk and not preparing as much as her colleagues. As result she has a vast experience which lets her find 50% more treasure and she also needs less provisions on adventure searches.

Archeological Geologist

A geologist with a fable for soccer and archeology. Not just looking for resources lets him always find something great on the side. Has a chance to find Treasure when successfully discovering a deposit. This can be a deposit refiller, a buff or even a book.

Details

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Ticket Amount	Item Name	Item Amount
5	Mining Guide	2
5	Rock Mining Guide	2
10	Zombie	2
10	Stadium Snacks	2
10	Bag of rainbow snow	2
10	Elixir	2
10	Machine oil	2
10	Gold fever	2
5	Rain of arrows	1
5	rain of flaming arrows	1
5	codex	1
5	manuscript	1
5	tome	1
1	codex	2
1	manuscript	2
1	tome	2
20	filldeposit ironore	200
20	filldeposit bronzeore	200
20	filldeposit goldore	200
20	filldeposit granite	200
20	filldeposit titaniumore	200
20	filldeposit salpeter	200
20	filldeposit any	200
5	filldeposit ironore	500
5	filldeposit bronzeore	500
5	filldeposit goldore	500
5	filldeposit granite	500
5	filldeposit titaniumore	500
5	filldeposit salpeter	500
5	filldeposit any	500

A redecorated Version of the Wondrous Residence. Able to house an impressive amount of Settlers in such a small building footprint (2x2), the Wonderous Residence has to be one of the most efficient population buildings to date. Although it is relatively expensive to upgrade, the returns more than justify the means if you're looking to squeeze every last drop of space on your home-island:
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A must for all summer enthusiasts and soccer fans. Instead of tokens this variant will require footballs as upgrade costs.

Increases the population limit.

• +140 Population from start
  
• Upgrades will increase the population up to 650!
  
• Requires only 2x2 squares of space!
  
• Needs 5,995 footballs to be purchased
  
• Limit: 2 times for footballs each event
  

Level	Costs	Population	Construction Time
1	-	140	5 Minutes
2	Coin 350 Marble 300	+30 (170)	10 Minutes
3	Coin 900 Hardwood Planks 1000	+30 (200)	30 Minutes
4	Coin 1100 Granite 1000	+35 (235)	1 Hour
5	Coin 1500 Exotic wood Planks 1000	+35 (270)	2 Hours
6	Grout 1500 Granite 2500	+40 (310)	3 Hours
7	Coin 4000 Mahogany Planks 5000	+40 (350)	6 Hours
8	Grout 1000 Football 1000	+50 (400)	1 Day
9	Coin 5000 Granite 7500	+50 (450)	3 Days
10	Grout 5000 Granite 12500	+50 (500)	4 Days
11	Magic Beanstalks 10000 Granite 12500	+50 (550)	7 Days
12	Grout 10000 Coin 15000	+100 (650)	7 Days

A 1x1 building with 5 upgrade levels to increase the storage on your island up to 16000.
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Need more space? Build this beauty of a tower between other buildings to free some building space and store more goods at the same time!

Increases the storage limit.

• +1000 storage from start
  
• Upgrades will increase the storage up to 16000!
  
• Requires only 1x1 squares of space!
  
• Needs 1699 footballs to be purchased
  

Level	Costs	Storage	Construction Time
1	-	1000	3 Minutes
2	Real Plank 120 Marble 100	2000	5 Minutes
3	Real Plank 300 Hardwood Planks 1000	3000	10 Minutes
4	Coin 300 Granite 150	5000	1 Hour
5	Grout 200 Granite 300	8000	12 Hours
6	Grout 1000 Granite 500	16000	24 Hours

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%. If you already had a snack stand from last years event, you can now obtain another one.

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: Incitement! 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
Cool-down: 23h

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

Name: Incitement
Description: All types of Mines' productivity +200% for 90 minutes.
Cost: 300 bread, 500 meat
Cooldown: 23h

The Treehouse will increase the population limit. The first level already adds 150 population. Every Upgrade will increase the population even more.

Level	Costs	Population	Constr. Time
1	-	150	-
2	32 Tokens	170	1 day
3	39 Tokens	190	1,5 days
4	45 Tokens	210	2 days

Tributes are a new type of building which has a unique property: they only take up the space of your everyday decoration building, but can have effects along the same lines of production buildings! The tribute pictured above is the "Friar Tribute" - this building honours the tenacity of your friars. Spurred by the praise more brew gets produced. Produces 4 Brew every 6 minutes.

Name: Archeological Geologist (Limit: 2, not tradable, not giftable)
Type: Specialist
Description: Has a chance to find Treasure (refiller, buff, book) when successfully discovering a deposit.
Price: 1,495 Footballs

Name: Adventurous Explorer (Limit: 2, not tradable, not giftable)
Type: Specialist
Description: +300% task speed. Travel expenses are cut by 50% and finds 50% more treasure
Price: 2,899 Footballs

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: 2, 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: 1,599 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 +300% Brew compared to a regular Brewery
Price: 1,999 Footballs

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

Name: Premium Friend Buff
Type: Buff
Description

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The Friend Buff provides several boni to the buffed player, with certain differences:

• The token of appreciation for a very good friend.
• All single production buff effects are doubled!!
• 50% bonus XP from Adventures. Applies to Premium Time XP Boost too!
• Production time of units in barracks & elite barracks is halved!
• Production time of buffs in provisioner & rarity provisioner is halved!
• Weapon producers (except combat armory) will be twice as fast!
• Explorers and Geologists complete their tasks 20% faster
• Duration: 15 days
  
  Be aware:
  
• It can only be applied to a friend, not on your home island.
• Reapplying the buff will restart the runtime and not be added on top
• The doubling of buff effects does not stack with other buffs of this kind and does not apply to epic workyards
  
  Available from lvl 13, Cooldown for Starcoins 30 days
  
  
• Price: 1000 Footballs (1 per Event)

Name: Tree House
Type: Building
Description: Increases the population limit.
Price: 3,499 Footballs (2 per Event)

Name: Improved Bakery
Type: Building
Description: Produces +200% Bread compared to a normal Bakery.
Price: 1,795 Footballs (2 per Event)

Name: Improved Floating Residence
Type: Building
Description: An improved version of the floating residence, granting more space for settlers impervious to seasickness!
Price: 4,299 Footballs (2 per Event)

Name: Rain of Flaming Arrows
Type: Buff
Description: A defined amount of random units between 100 and 200 units in the camp will be defeated and removed. Roughly twice as strong as Rain of Arrows. Can only be used once on an enemy camp.
Price: 449 Footballs (5 per Event)

Name: Fruits of hardship
Type: Buff
Description: Use on the Epic Workyard, offers +200% on the output for 24 hours (36 hours on friend/guild member)
Price: 495 Footballs (5 per Event)

Name: Medipack
Type: Buff
Description: A buff with which a defeated general can be recovered instantly. Guaranteed without side effects!
Price: 395 Footballs (2 per Event)

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: Shotfirer
Type: Buff
Description: Use on Rocks and Rubbles: Frees up covered building space (up to 5 building sites)
Price: 999 footballs

Name: Demolition crew
Type: Buff
Description: Use on Mountains: Frees up the covered building space (up to 9 building sites)
Price: 1.999 footballs

Name: Improved Deerstalker Hut (Limit: 2, tradable, not giftable)
Type: Building
Description: Produces meat without using a meat deposit, twice as fast than the regular Deerstalker Hut
Price: 3,995 Footballs

Name: Storage Tower (No Limit, not tradable, not giftable)
Type: Building
Description: Will free some building space (1x1 Building) and can store more goods at the same time!
Price: 1,699 Footballs

Name: Recipe: Normal Star Chart
Type: Recipe
Description: Information about how to get more details into your star charts. Unlocks "Normal Star Chart" in the Observatory.
Price: 799 Gems

Name: Recipe: Detailed Star Chart
Type: Recipe
Description: The best you can find, when it comes down to creating star charts. Unlocks "Detailed Star Chart" in the Observatory.
Price: 1,199 Gems

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

Name: Joyous Bundle
Type: Resource
Description

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A must-have for every Settler. Worth 3 times its gem value! Check out the content:

• Courageous Explorer
• Demolition Crew (not counted to the limit!)
• In total 7 Premium Days (2x 3days,1x 1day)
• Jolly Geologist
• Premium Friend Buff
• 5x Fairy Fire
• 5x Fairy Light
• 2x Sack of Omniseeds
• 2x Assassin
• 2x Big Catapult
• 2x Rain of Arrows
• 2x Rain of Flaming Arrows
• 2x Ballista
• Price: 3,999 Gems (1 per Player)

Name: Big Fan Package
Type: Ressource
Description: Buy a sack of useful training materials in order to properly prepare your boys for this major event. Adds 2500 footballs.
Price: 1,990 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:15th of July 2019 at 10:00 CEST

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

• The first spawn of collectables during the Removal Phase won't provide event resources any more

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

• Event adventures are being cancelled
• 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: 22nd of July 2019 at 10:00 CEST

• 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,

Please be aware that we made the following changes in the developer's diary:

• Shotfirer and Demolition Crew was added to the merchant (footballs).
• Valuable Intel was added to Ventures.
• Expedition loot does not include event resources. The remark in the Deactivation-Phase was removed.
• As the question came up in the feedback threads:

  How does the Premium Time-, and Premium Friend Buff Experience Bonus work together?
  It works multiplicatively.

Happy Settling,
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