Feedback Anniversary Event 2025

[BB_Cip_Mirade]

Dear Settlers,

you're welcome to use this thread to give us feedback about the Anniversary Event 2025.

Information about what's new and what has changed can be found here.

Replies:

August 7: smuggler has 1000 units, colossus not moveable, community goals, bonus

August 11: donation phase 2

August 25: graphics offset during construction

August 26: info on reward

September 4: compensation not this week

September 11: building alignment, event items at merchant

September 12: last chance sale started at 12:00 CEST, only new event items

[sas_sam]

Bad moves
These were useful items, but have been removed from merch and still added back:

• Royal Explorer - 4499 gems (max. 4) - no option to buy
• Celebrative Lookout - 3299 gems (max. 2) - no option to buy, 1 from event calendar for free
• Wondrous Celebration Residence 9999 gems (max 5) - it's in a ridiculously expensive bundle
• Yet again, another event where the new items are not tradable
• The Misty Cake-Adventure has been removed again because of the bug, instead of fixing it.

Good moves

• Great to see that some old standalone items are still available to the merch! Rina Explorer, Bold Explorer, Emphatic Explorer, Gen. Tremble Beard, Diligent Geologist, Sickbay, Old-School Barracks
• The Smuggler gen and his ability look funny
• The rewards are very nice this year (both calendar and event tasks)

Conclusion
The new building, Boat Residence, is pricy (650 gems) compared to its max. 180 pop limit. It should be at least 350.

The new Elder Tree Lighthouse is a new, pricy (6000 gems), but useless building from my POV.

The new Mountain Clan Colossus looks cool, but it still takes too much space (3x3), and its upgrade time (41.5 days) is huge. Overall, I'm not sure if it's worth it... but at least it's "free" as a Community-Goal.

Personally, I would like to see 4 tweaks and a fix in this merch:

• Add back the Celebrative Lookout
• Add back the Royal Explorer
• Add back the Wondrous Celebration Residence
• Fix the Misty Cake buying bug
• Make some new items tradable

Previous feedbacks:

• Summer Event 2025
• Valentine's Event 2025
• Christmas Event 2024
• Halloween Event 2024
• Anniversary Event 2024
• Summer Event 2024
• Easter Event 2024
• Valentine's Event 2024
• Christmas Event 2023
• Halloween Event 2023
• Anniversary Event 2023

[Graciethecat]

This is a pleasant surprise,

Changes compared to test server
The size of the Mountain Clan Colossus was lowered from 4x4 to 3x3.
The price of the Party Hard Chest was reduced from 23,999 Gems to 22,399 Gems.
The Boat Residence increases the population limit by 60 - 120 - 180 instead of 40 - 90 - 150.
The Elder Tree Lighthouse increases the population limit by 80 instead of 40. Additionally, the fire in the fire basin was added.
The Scouting Post is available 1x for 5499 Gems instead of 1x for 7950 Gems.
The Misty Cake-Adventure had to be removed from the merchant. Unfortunately, the issue that already occurred last year could not be resolved in time.
The names of the bundles were changed.

Thank you for listening to feedback from the test server. We are not used feedback being heard, much less actions taken due to the feedback.
The "Easter Eggs" are a nice touch

The graphics are nice on the Boat Residence, the changed population increase the value. The revised population is appropriate for the boat.
The smuggler is a nice addition, although the description does not include how many troops he carries. Is this information available?
Mountain Clan Colossus, I like the appearance of the building but he is large. Is the building movable and/or does it return to the star menu if destroyed?
The Elder Tree Lighthouse will most likely be a decoration/small pop building. The cost to run the fairy fire is steep to find collectables (100 Oil and 30,000 Pinewood) compared to the fairy dust which shuffles the collectible that can be produced for 200 fish and 100 bread. The dust can be made ahead and used more than once vs the fairy fire which will have a 3 day cooldown.

I am looking forward to the event. Has the community goals been revised this year? Historically it has been a challenge to meet the goals.

[BB_Cip_Mirade]

Greetings,

Thank you for your feedback!

The smuggler is a nice addition, although the description does not include how many troops he carries. Is this information available?
Mountain Clan Colossus, I like the appearance of the building but he is large. Is the building movable and/or does it return to the star menu if destroyed?
I am looking forward to the event. Has the community goals been revised this year? Historically it has been a challenge to meet the goals.

The smuggler has 1000 units.
The colossus is not movable since it's a special storehouse. It's recurring.
The community goals haven't been revised this year. Such a step would a required a thorough analysis in advance which was not possible in the time available.

[Graciethecat]

Thank you for the updates. As I reread the diary, I have a few more questions.

Is there any more information on what weapons and/or how much gold the smuggler can hide in his coat pockets?
The Smuggler: Description: Brings coffers with weapons or gold after completing a trip.

Is the "REMINDER: During the 14th Anniversary of "The Settlers Online" a seasonal Event Bonus with 2x XP and 3x loot will be active" still going to be active for the 15th anniversary also? I know to never assume. :S

[BB_Cip_Mirade]

Is there any more information on what weapons and/or how much gold the smuggler can hide in his coat pockets?
The Smuggler: Description: Brings coffers with weapons or gold after completing a trip.

Yes, I've added the information to the post.

Is the "REMINDER: During the 14th Anniversary of "The Settlers Online" a seasonal Event Bonus with 2x XP and 3x loot will be active" still going to be active for the 15th anniversary also? I know to never assume. :S

I'll enquire about this. Short update on Aug 11: According to the info I have received, the bonus should be active.

[damien762]

great to see a new building why dont you implement a send all option for explorers as promised by BB ?

[Shadowvzs87]

i join to the others,

Party Hard Bag - it is good bundle for the price, it is worth compared what is contains

Party Hard Box - it think not really worth to buy (not enough value compared with the content)

Party Hard Chest - i think overpriced but maybe only a bit (compared to box and the price, it is a better deal)

Mountain Clan Colossus - the new building design is ok BUT
- upgrade time is ridiculous long, last upgrades 15 days overall very very long, normal storehouse/improved etc storehouse takes 2.5minutes to first upgrade and last levels takes 7 days, this one 12h then later 15h
- size, compared with the more storage the building size is too big
Overall: Not worth at all, even if i get, make no sense to use/place it
- gold gathering option is interesting but compared with the size (can build in that spot 9 storage tower way faster and more benefit, not even think about benefit of the traveling time, small storehouse always better travel time), price, upgrade time and the extra storage make a useless option, i would not increase the building time for the buildings for sure because anyway no one will pay 119k GEM for 1 single upgrade just make the players disappointed :/
https://settlersonlinewiki.eu/en/bui...ved-warehouse/
Fix:
- if u normalize the upgrade time (make similar as the improved storehouse)
- size to 3x2 or 2x2 (if 2x2 then the current gold ore production is ok)
- AND 1 from the followings: increase the gathered ore (like 1 gold ore/ hour per level) or replace it to produce 3 granite per level in every 3 hour or just increase the storage space to double instead of the gold ore production


Elder Tree Lighthouse - not bad (design and what it gives), only would be better if it is consume instead of oil better the 100 gunpowder or 200 gold ore or 200 gold bar or 100 coin or 100 map fragment (and that pinewood) something less rare and if someone have more from this building then reduce the cooldown (until max 10 building, with 10 buildings it should be ~10h cooldown)


Smuggler bonus is nice addition, same as the Brohmann passive coffer ability

Explorers are nice, maybe they should have high purchase limit

Boat Residence - i love it, i think it is too cheap (the gem price could be maybe at least 1k and with 5 limit), great idea because need normal rss to upgrade, pretty good population increase amount, best thing in the anniversary shop after the explorers

Retro maps - i love the retro settlers 2 event adventure maps with their retro music

Extra buildings - I would add for fun the old settlers buildings as well into the shop, for nostalgic reasons with 1 limit for 1-3k gems https://settlersonlinewiki.eu/en/bui...-headquarters/

Future building ideas - I would also check the other old settlers buildings like from settlers 2, settlers 2 10 anniversary, settlers 3 (amazone extension), settlers 4 buildings, settlers new allies (just for the design with different role/produced product, it makes more authentic and nostalgic but this is for the future) at least for the anniversaries or for xmass

[Larasxx]

That Mountain Clan Colossus can be buffed to increase the gold ore, including with the love tree and likely with other buff buildings.

[Shadowvzs87]

That Mountain Clan Colossus can be buffed to increase the gold ore, including with the love tree and likely with other buff buildings.

yeah, but it is a bit building with 1h production time and 119k gem per level upgrade or 15 days until u can get a free (just simple doing SCS i got so much from it)

- Industrial Gold Mine which built in few minutes and produce 7 gold in 6min production (with PFB and +200 Mine Fevor buff and produce 406 gold ore per hours and hourly 67.(6) gold and takes ~NO space, it requires deposit (except if someone want endless gold mine) but for me the refilling for 1 minute not an issue and make coin produciton economy at moment make no sense in this game when a PFB buff cost is over 1 million coins

Other hand there is building has good storage space (but also use more space on the island where u can build more storehouses) and produce hourly 7 gold ore (with pfb + mine fevor = 42 gold ore per hour) on max level (only after ~42 days building time). Buffing a building with slow production time to get less valuable product (gold ore) maybe worst then directly selling the buff or just use the buff on other buildings with ~10x lower production time.

If i would buff something with love tree than that would be something which produce something more valuable and more frequently so the buff effect used more efficiently (so not in 6 production cycle but in 20-30 or 50 production cycles)...

Well, you can use it then, for me not really worth the effort around the building (disadvantages: size, time, production

if it would be smaller (or produce something what worth), normal upgrade time then i would not complain about it at all, it would be a nice and unique reward building, but you can use it, as you want, just my opinion is not worth to get it, and since it is a big reward of the events i think it would be more attractive to the players