[Dev Diary] Summer Football Event 2016
Dev Diary: More information about the the Summer 2016 Football Event
Dear Settlers,
Pull up your socks and lace up your boots, it's nearly time for kick off!
This year, join Football fans again in celebrating this popular sport during The Summer 2016 Football Event.
- Start: 14th of June 2016 00.00 GMT (02.00 CEST)
- Removal Phase: 5th of July 2016 00.00 GMT (02.00 CEST)
- Deactivation: 12th of July 2016 00.00 GMT (02.00 CEST)
Most of the features from the last Summer Football Event have been kept. Based on player feedback, the Tactical Resources and the Tactical Items used to complete the Special Event Adventures have been rebalanced. The event calendar returns as the Fixture List, Adventure Tournament Mode is introduced and 2 new unique Trophies become available.
On top of that, Summer Event exclusive items like the Lucky Explorer, Building Licenses and Flowerbed flags are making a comeback.A new kind of building, the "Footie Pitch" (Culture Building) can be obtained using Footballs.
A Pre-Event Conversion was done with the version deployment end of May / early June.
During the conversion, left-over Tactical Resources "Twister" and "Corner" were converted to the new "Training Dummy". All left-over "Bicycle Kick" and "Corner Ball" items were removed and compensated for with the new "Feint" Tactical Item.
New aspects & changes are highlighted in blue colour.
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: 
- Rewards for unlocking Event Achievements
- Rewards for completing Event Quests
- Rewards for completing adventures *
- Explorer loot from treasure searches:
- 100% chance on all searches
- Short searches have a chance of 80% to get footballs (20% = 2 footballs, 60% = 1 football, 20% = no footballs)”
- Collectible Items on the home island
- Fixture List
- Trading with other players
- In-game Shop
*All adventures except Scenarios, Arctic Explosion, Bastille Island, Tikki Island and Bounty Hunter
Once the event is activated, a Fixture List (similar to the well-loved Event Calendar) becomes available to players level 16 and above. Simply click on the Football icon located next to your avatar to open the Fixture List Interface.
There are 12 different Tactical Resources and you can use them in the Provision House to produce Tactical Items.
Tactical resources are tradeable and can be acquired through:- Collectible Items on the home island
Shoe, Banana peel, Red color, Telescope, Fist, Training Dummy, Elastic Spring
- Treasure searches (explorer)
Shoulder pad, Helmet, Studs, Wet grass, Grease
- Adventures *
* All adventures except Scenarios, Arctic Explosion, Bastille Island, Tikki Island and Bounty Hunter
Shoe, Banana peel, Shoulder pad, Studs, Helmet, Red color, Telescope,
Wet grass, Fist, Grease, Elastic spring, Training Dummy
- Event Quests (Chain Quests and Daily Quests)
Shoe, Banana peel, Shoulder pad, Studs, Helmet, Red color, Telescope,
Wet grass, Fist, Grease, Elastic spring, Training Dummy
- Merchant
Shoe, Banana peel, Shoulder pad, Studs, Helmet, Red color, Telescope,
Wet grass, Fist, Grease, Elastic spring, Training Dummy
Left-over Tactical Resources "Twister" and "Corner" were converted to the new "Training Dummy" during the the Pre-Event Conversion.
You can use your Provision House to produce the 8 Tactical Items available this year.- Tactical Items are needed to successfully complete Event Adventures.
- Most items 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)
- Because of the rebalancing, all left-over "Bicycle Kick" and "Corner Ball" items were removed and compensated for with the new "Feint" Tactical Item in the Pre-event Conversion.
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.
The goal of the Special Event Adventures is to win football matches by countering all of the opponent’s 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
This year, 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, the adventures return to you by mail if you cancel them. 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.
The Summer 2016 Event introduces new football-related achievements.
You can get the award for "Talent Scout", click your way to "Fan Club President", become the "Assistant Coach" or all of the above.
The Event Achievements are listed separately and don't count for the overall score in "General Achievements".
On top of the glory, when a new achievement unlocks, you also get Event resources to spend as you wish.
We are introducing a new type of building this year: the
Footie Pitch is our first Culture building.
- Culture buildings have the ability to buff your home island for a limited time by applying zone-wide buffs
- Using those abilities costs resources and triggers a cool-down period during which the building cannot be used again
- Indestructible while on cool-down, but it can be moved around
- Can not be upgraded
The Footie Pitch gives a choice between two buffs every time you use it.
Once per day, it can either improve your population growth (including Village schools!) or the productivity of all your Weaponsmiths.
Name:
Strength Training
Description: Increases the productivity of Weaponsmiths x3 for 90 minutes
Cost: 300 fish, 500 water
Cool-down: 23h
Name:
Exhibition Match
Description: Boosts population growth x6 for 90 minutes
Cost: 200 sausages, 200 brew
Cool-down: 23h
Name: Footie Pitch (Limit: 1, not tradable, not giftable)
Type: Building
Description: A new type of building that applies a zone-wide buff at the cost of resources
Price: 1.499 Footballs
Name: Lucky Explorer (Limit: 2, 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 x3 for 12 hours
Price: 249 Footballs
Name: Stadium Snacks
Type: Buff
Description: Increases output of a workyard x4 for 24 hours
Price: 345 Footballs
Name: Supporter Hats
Type: Buff
Description: Increases population growth of the Mayor's House by x3 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
You are invited to provide feedback
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Happy settling!
BB_RobinHood
// Update 13th June: Updated Adventure list which doesn't provide Tactical resources or footballs:
"All adventures except Scenarios, Arctic Explosion, Bastille Island, Tikki Island and Bounty Hunter"
// 2nd update 13th June: "Corner" and "Twister" will not be available at the merchant, "Training Dummy" will be
Type: Regular door
Type: Adventure door
Type: Special door
