Dev Diary: Summer Event 2020

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More information about the upcoming Summer Event 2020

Dear Settlers,

The weather is getting warmer and you hear the cheers of your Settlers. What does this mean? The Summer Event is making its way to the live servers again! It's going to kick-off with new features such as a new general, a new tribute, 5 new daily event quests, a new flag - Arrrrrr you ready, mate?

New aspects & changes are highlighted in blue color.

EVENT SCHEDULE

Event Start: Monday, 22nd of June ~ 10:00 CEST
Start of removal phase: 13th of July, ~ 10:00 CEST
Complete deactivation: 20th 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!

Explorer will only bring back event currency if they return BEFORE the Removal Phase starts. In rare cases, explorer might bring back resources when sent before the Removal Phase and returning during the Removal Phase. Please also have in mind that the same behavior is present for the Start of the Event. Explorer will only bring back Event Currency if sent after Event Start. In rare cases, explorers might bring back resources when directly sent before the event starts, and returning after the event started!

CHANGES FROM THE PREVIOUS EDITION

• New General: General Sylvana
• New Daily Event Quests (5)
• New Tribute: Bakery Tribute
• New Storage Building: Capacious Warehouse
• Achievement Rework: "Fan Club President" - Gather 1000 Collectible || Gather 750 Collectible
• Buff available for footballs: Beneficial Buff Bundle
• The event calendar rewards have been exchanged
• A new flag was added to the merchant
  
  

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 will 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 will 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! This year we will introduce the following 5 new daily event quests!

The Hottest Day
Task (Level 16-26)
	Pay 1250 water.
Rewards 8x
Over the last few days, temperatures have been rising higher and higher. Today it is almost unendurable. Your squad needs way more drinking water than usual. Provide some from your storage!

Shakespeare
Task (Level 27-36)
	Pay 45 coins.
Rewards 8x
Traveling actors are visiting your island and give a stunning theatrical performance of Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”. As a team building measure, you and your squad attend to the play. Players are delighted and so are you. Provide some extra tip for the artists to make sure they come again next summer!

Stadium Repairs
Task (Level 37-55)
	Pay 160 Marble and 240 RealPlank.
Rewards 8x
One of the tournament’s stadiums needs safety repairs. You can’t risk any of the crowd getting injured. Provide the materials needed to carry out the repairs!

A Stadium Magazine
Task (Level 56-80)
	Pay 400 AdvancedPaper.
Rewards 8x
A supportive settler volunteers to produce and hand out stadium magazines during matches. He asks you for quality materials to print on

Friendly Match
Task (Level 56-80)
	Pay 11 Recruits.
Rewards 8x
Some of your team’s players lack match experience. Arrange a friendly match and assemble a squad of 11 Recruits to play against!

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!
OPEN THE SECOND DOOR TO RECEIVE A BAKERY TRIBUTE!

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 afterwards.
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 once again all adventures give 3x XP and double loot (excluding buildings/buffs)!
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

Split City in Summer

Split City in Fall

"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 2020!

Training Marathon - Complete 25 Mini missions to obtain the Friar Tribute!

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Sylvana is a Cossack woman and a born leader. She’s kind, yet hard, but always fair. Don’t underestimate her, as she really knows how to make your cavalry fight. "We have everything we need!” Her Trait is "Astute Strategist".

Name: General Sylvana (not tradable, not giftable)
Type: Specialist
Description: Sylvana is a Cossack woman and a born leader. She’s kind, yet hard, but always fair. Don’t underestimate her, as she really knows how to make your cavalry fight.
Price: 1x 6695 Footballs, 1x 6999 Gems, 1x included in All-Round Package | per Event

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

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

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

Name: Lucky Explorer (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: 1x 2,499 Footballs | per Event

A 2x2 building to increase the storage on your island up to 18000, it requires no upgrades.
All goods are stored, delivered and taken from here. Has capacity to store 32.000 resources

Name: Capacious Warehouse (tradable, not giftable)
Type: Storage, recurring
Description: All goods are stored, delivered and taken from here. Has capacity to store 32.000 resources.
Price: 3x 1699 Footballs | per Event, 2x 3599 Gems | per Player

Through lots of experiments to find a stronger metal, a new way to produce tokens was discovered instead. While still being an expensive and elaborate process, it provides an additional path to those precious tokens.
Produces 1 Token out of 32 Titanium and 224 Oil in 3,5 Day and has a size of 2x2 squares of space. Upgrades are also not required.

Name: Token Coinage (not tradable, not giftable)
Type: Production, recurring
Description: Produces 1 Token out of 32 Titanium and 224 Oil in 3,5 Days.
Price: 3x 7495 Footballs | per Event

This tribute honors all diligent bakers. Let us celebrate all these early risers delivering the island’s famous warm and fragrant bread.
This is a 1x1 Tribute that produces 2 Bread in 6 minutes.
You can get it once by opening the second door of the event calendar!!

Name: Bakery Tribute (not tradable, not giftable)
Type: Tribute, recurring
Description: This tribute honors all diligent bakers. Let us celebrate all these early risers delivering the island’s famous warm and fragrant bread.
Price: 1x 4499Footballs | per Event + 1x Calender

Name: Pirate Flag Flowerbed (tradable, giftable)
Type: Building
Description: With this flowerbed flag you can make yourself a make-believe pirate island. You might even attract some real pirates that come and hide a treasure on your island. One never knows. The Size is 2x3.
Price: 199 Footballs | no limit

Name: Snack Stand (not tradable, not giftable)
Type: Building
Description: A building that produces existing buffs
Price: 2x 4250 Footballs | per Event

Name: Footie Pitch (not tradable, not giftable)
Type: Building
Description: A culture building that applies zone-wide buffs at the cost of resources
Price: 2x 1599 Footballs | per Event

Name: Friary (tradable, not giftable)
Type: Building
Description: Produces +300% Brew compared to a regular Brewery.
Price: 2x 1999 Footballs | per Event

Name: Tree House (not tradable, not giftable)
Type: Building
Description: Increases the population limit.
Price: 2x 3499 Footballs | per Event + 5x 3199 Gems | per Player

Name: Improved Bakery (not tradable, not giftable)
Type: Building
Description: Produces +200% Bread compared to a regular Bakery.
Price: 2x 1795 Footballs | per Event

Name: Improved Floating Residence (not tradable, not giftable)
Type: Building
Description: An improved version of the floating residence, granting more space for settlers impervious to seasickness!
Price: 2x 4299 Footballs | per Event

Name: Improved Deerstalker Hut (tradable, not giftable)
Type: Building
Description: Produces meat without using a meat deposit, twice as fast than the regular Deerstalker Hut
Price: 2x 3995 Footballs | per Event

Name: Storage Tower (not tradable, not giftable)
Type: Building
Description: Will free some building space (1x1 Building) and can store more goods at the same time!
Price: 1699 Footballs | no limit

Name: Flowerbed flag - 55 different flags (tradable, giftable)
Type: Building
Description: Decorative construction
Price: 150 Footballs | no limit

Name: Wondrous Summer Residence (not tradable, not giftable)
Type: Building
Description: A redecorated Version of the Wondrous Residence. A must for all summer enthusiasts and soccer fans. Instead of tokens this variant will require footballs as upgrade costs.
Price: 2x 5995 Footballs | per Event

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

Name: Premium Friend Buff
Type: Buff
Description

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The Friend Buff provides several boni to the buffed player:

• 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: 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: All Round Package (not tradable, not giftable)
Type: Bundle
Description

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You cannot let this opportunity pass and grab this event exclusive bundle:

• 1x General Sylvana
• 1x Keener Explorer
• 1x Water Mansion
• 1x Large Riverhouse
• 1x Storage Tower
• 1x 7 Premium Days (2x3 Days, 1x 1 Day)
• 2x Medi Pack
• 5x Hugs and Kisses

Price: 11999 Footballs (1 per Event)

Name: Beneficial Buff Bundle (not tradable, not giftable)
Type: Bundle
Description

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Crucial for every settler. Worth more than 3 times its resource value. Get your buffs now, only one purchase per player! What you see is what you get:

• 2x Training Overtime
• 1x Prestigious Friend Buff
• 1x Stadium Snacks
• 1x Supporter Hats

Price: 699 Footballs (1 per Player)
The content of this package is worth over 2000 Footballs!

Name: Joyous Bundle
Type: Bundle
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
• Prestigious 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: Barrel of Oil(tradable, giftable)
Type: Resource
Description: Includes 100 Oil
Price: 549 Footballs

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

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

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

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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:13th of July 2020 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 any more.
• 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: 20th of July 2020 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.