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    [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.


    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 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 50 gems afterwards.
    Requirement: All previous doors need to be open
    Rewards: Most special doors offer a choice between several rewards when opened




    No extra clicking is needed this event to claim the final reward.
    The Football Trophy 2016 awaits behind the last door.



    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.




    5 non-combat Event Adventures inspired by football matches become available through the Fixture List.
    Their rewards have been rebalanced compared to 2014.




    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.



    Completing all tournament adventures awards The Champion's Monument 2016.



    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 > here <

    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

    Last edited by BB_Pandur; 13.06.16 at 14:27.

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    The event will be deactivated in 2 steps. As known from previous events, most of the features are not available any more during Removal phase. The deactivation will then be conducted 1 week later (including the shop).




    Removal phase start
    : 5th of July 2016 at 02:00 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 Achievement
    • The first spawn of collectibles during the Removal Phase won't provide event resources any more
    • In most cases Explorers won't find event resources any more. See corresponding Dev Blog
    • Adventure and Expedition 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: 12th of July 2016 at 02:00 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
    • Footballs 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 / July.


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