[Dev Diary] Easter Event 2016

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The upcoming Easter 2016 Event, Party Crashers, new Achievement building and more

Dear egg hunters!

This year's Easter event will bring some pretty tough guys to your island - the "Party Crashers"!
Also, a new Achievement building can be obtained by playing the event. Special Guild Quests will provide some extra Stripy Eggs, there will be a bunch of new items in the event shop and last, but not least, we implemented a few improvements based on the worldwide player feedback from 2015. Explorers find a guaranteed minimum of Stripy eggs by a treasure search, for one.

Read all about the event in this Dev's Diary!

• Start: 15th of March 2016 (instantly after the Easter game update)
• Removal phase I: 5th April 2016 around 00:01 GMT
• Complete deactivation: 12th of April 2016 with a game update

New content will be added to the game this year. The most noticeable change is certainly the "Party Crasher" camp in the middle of the island (on our so called "event island"). New achievements with a new reward building, new Easter quest chains for level 50+ and of course: The new female Intrepid Explorer!

Stripy Easter eggs are the new Easter Event resource.
The following brief FAQ provides more information about the Easter 2016 event resource.

Additionally, a new Dev Blog will provide more insights on the new event resource.
It is still being prepared and it is planned to be published on the 16th or 17th of March.

During the Event, all players have the chance to gather Stripy Eggs (the new Easter Event resource).
Stripy eggs can be traded. There are several ways to get them:

• Adventures:
  All Adventures except Scenarios have a chance of providing Stripy eggs as loot.
  The values from 2015 no longer seemed fair due to the Level cap raise and all of the new content implemented over the past year.
  Therefore, the rewards in stripy eggs for adventures have been re-balanced.

• Expeditions:
  All Expeditions have a chance of providing Stripy eggs as loot.
  There will be no islands with Stripy eggs as colony yield.

• Collectibles:
  Stripy eggs will spawn on the home island to be collected.

• Explorers:
  Stripy eggs can be found with each standard treasure (in addition to the regular search reward).
  Explorers will always find a minimum amount of Stripy Eggs by a treasure search.

• Shop:
  There will be 2 packages with Stripy eggs available in the Shop.

• Event Quest Chain:
  Every 5 days, you will get One Easter Quest Chain (with several sub quests), that will offer Stripy eggs as reward.

• Quests & Easter adventures:
  The Event Quest Chains will hold quests for 2 adventures in which hidden Easter eggs have to be found.
  There are 8 adventures in total, with max. 9 hidden eggs each.

• Guild Quest:
  Every day during the event guilds will obtain one random guild quest from a total of five.
  Completing this quest in an individual level will grant a small amount of event currency.
  The more guild members complete their individual quest, the bigger the grand guild reward will be upon midnight.

When Removal Phase II kicks in, remaining Stripy eggs will be exchanged to coins.
Read more about this in the explanation of the Removal phases.

Please feel free to leave your feedback here.

Happy Easter!
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The island in the center of the home zone will have a bridge that will allow a general to go after it. This bridge (and this so called "Event Island") can only be used by generals. I cannot be built upon (buildings, decorations or roads) and collectibles will not appear on it.

The "Party Crashers" will make an appearance on your island every day and set camp on the centre of it. You can choose to deal with this problem by asking your friends for help so you can bribe them off your island, or by taking up arms yourself and send your general to deal with them. Once the camp is destroyed, smoking ruins will be left in its place. Consult the quest details in the quest book for more information.

Every passing day, the units inside the camps will become stronger, and require stronger units (or more waves). To master this part of the event, you will have to surpass 15 iterations. Every camp has a quest attached to it. Until the camp is defeated by any mean of your choice, the quest will not progress forward.

Upon defeating the last camp listed (15 times), the "Party Crashers" encounter will be replaced for a daily, very challenging objective, where you have to fight three bosses and some strong bandit units at the same time.

The "Party Crashers" feature is available until removal phase I.

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None of this year's Easter event achievements will grant event currency. Instead, those that have any rewards attached to them, will provide buffs. Achievements are still valuable on their own, since they are useful to upgrade the Spacious Warehouse!

An Easter nest building was introduced in 2015. Since then it provides a warm and comfy shelter for your Settlers. With this year's event, a new achievement building will be introduced: The Spacious storehouse. The building works like an improved warehouse but provides even more space. Its level depends on the sum of achievement points gained from Easter 2016 event achievements.

Finishing Easter quests or playing Easter buff adventures are only two of many ways of collecting Easter 2016 achievement points.
The more Achievement Points have been gathered, the higher the building can be upgraded.

• Acquiring the building
  The building will be available as a quest reward from the quest chain "For my most loyal egg hiders". The building will be an item in the Star Menu and can be placed on a free spot. The building will be available after the Easter event 2016, independent of any achievements completed.

• Warehouse function:
  Aside from having a visual appeal as decoration it serves as a warehouse. The amount of goods that can be held increases depending on the achievement points that earned throughout the event. It is intended that when level 6 is obtained for this building, it's the best storage building in the game, proving even better than an improved warehouse!

  ? Level 1: 1,500 storage - Easter event 2016 achievement points needed: 0
  
  
  
  
  ? Level 2: 3,000 storage - Easter event 2016 achievement points needed: 200
  
  
  
  
  ? Level 3: 6,000 storage - Easter event 2016 achievement points needed: 430
  
  
  
  
  ? Level 4: 12,000 storage - Easter event 2016 achievement points needed: 520
  
  
  
  
  ? Level 5: 24,000 storage - Easter event 2016 achievement points needed: 670
  
  
  
  
  ? Level 6: 48,000 storage - Easter event 2016 achievement points needed: 840
  
  
  

• Upgrade conditions:
  To upgrade the building's level, Easter 2016 achievement points have to be gathered.
  Every time enough points are earned, an icon will indicate that the building can be upgraded.
  The upgrade can be done without any additional cost.

• Indestructible:
  The building is indestructible. When destroyed, it will appear in the star menu.
  It can be built again and upgraded to the original level again without additional cost.

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Easter 2016 event Shop

Special event items are available in the shop (event category) until event deactivation.

Name: Intrepid Explorer (Limit: 1*)
Description: Explorer that rolls the loot table for adventures twice on every adventure search.
Travels twice as fast as regular explorers.
Price: 995 Stripy Eggs

Name: Master of Martial Arts (Limit: 1*)
Description: A special attack General. Recovers and travels to an adventure island twice as fast as a Tavern General.
Leads 220 units, has 1st strike, area of effect damage, attacks weakest target first.
Price: 4.595 Stripy Eggs

Name: Master of Defense (Limit: 1*)
Description: Special General. Recovers and travels to an adventure island twice as fast as a Tavern General. He deals a decent amount of damage.
He has a very high amount of Hit Points and leads up to 200 units. Splash damage, attacks weakest target first.
Price: 3.450 Stripy Eggs

Name: Veteran General (Limit: 1*)
Description: A Special attack General. Recovers and travels to an adventure island twice as fast as a Tavern General.
Leads up to 250 units.
Price: 3.280 Stripy Eggs

Name: Mr. Croix Sant
Type: Buff
Effect: Use on a bakery to increase its productivity x3 for 24 hours.
Price: 30 Stripy Eggs

Name: A celebrity comes to town
Type: Buff
Effect: Use on the Mayor's house to increase growth to 400% for 12 hours.
Price: 50 Stripy Eggs

Name: Chocolate Pralines
Type: Buff
Effect: Speeds up the Provision House's production times up to 300% for 12 hours.
Price: 120 Stripy Eggs

Name: Chocolate Rabbit
Type: Buff
Effect: Halves the production time of the Provision House for 12 hours
Price: 85 Stripy Eggs

Name: Rabbit Lucky Charm
Type: Buff
Effect: Increases the effectiveness of a workyard up to 300% for 48 hours
Price: 280 Stripy Eggs

Name: Inspirational Speech
Type: Buff
Effect: Increases the effectiveness of all nearby workyards (3 squares radius buff) up to 300% for 12 hours
Price: 455 Stripy Eggs

Name: Iron Ore Extractor
Type: Buff
Effect: Increases the production of Iron mines up to 400% for 24 hours
Price: 259 Stripy Eggs

Name: "Where do Easter eggs come from?"
Type: Buff Adventure
Description: Special Easter buff adventures only available during the event
Price: 99 Stripy Eggs

Name: Arctic Explosion
Type: Mini Adventure (Level 36)
Description: A new Mini Adventure for one player
Price: 35 Stripy Eggs

Name: Bastille Island
Type: Mini Adventure (Level 42)
Description: A new Mini Adventure for one player
Price: 35 Stripy Eggs

Name: Garrun the Trapper
Type: Adventure (Level 26+)
Description: Garrun the Trapper has decided to take it upon himself to sabotage Easter. Help free all the bunnies!
Price: 95 Gems

Name: Improved butcher (Limit 2*)
Type: Building (Not giftable, tradable)
Description: Places a building that produces sausages three times as fast as a regular butcher.
Price: 625 Stripy Eggs

Name: Enhanced Silo (Limit 2*)
Type: Building (Not giftable, tradable)
Description: Refills fields three times as fast as the regular silo.
Price: 1.325 Stripy Eggs

Name: Watermill (Limit 3*)
Type: Building (Not giftable, tradable)
Description: Produces water without consuming resources.
Price: 535 Stripy Eggs

Name: Rabbits Wheat Field
Type: Building
Description: Holds 6.000 wheat
Price: 145 Stripy Eggs

Name: Raving Rabbid Statue
Type: Building
Description: Click on it and the Bwaaaaah!
Price: 425 Stripy Eggs

Name: Grout
Type: Resource
Description: Resource needed to upgrade buildings to level 6
Price: 130 Stripy Eggs

Name: Mineral Rabbit
Type: Refiller
Description: Adds 6000 coal to a coal deposit
Price: 145 Stripy Eggs

Name: Buff Surprise
Type: Mystery / Surprise Box
Description: Provides a randomly chosen buff (amongst others: coal/iron/gold re-filler, Rabbit Lucky Charm, Cookies, etc.).
Price: 89 Gems

Name: Omniseed
Type: Refiller
Effect: Adds 250 to a deposit of choice
Price: 30 Stripy Eggs

Name: Small / Big Easter Egg Basket
Type: Resource
Description: Contains 65 (small basket) or 260 (big basket) Stripy Easter eggs.
Price: 99 Gems (small) / 395 Gems (big)

*: Important information about the item limits:
Limited to the given amount per player for this year's event. If you already own the item (regardless of the amount) from a previous event, you can obtain the given amount of the item again this year.

Update: The following buildings will be tradable, the description was adjusted: Watermill, Improved Butcher and the Improved Silo.

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The Easter event will be deactivated in 2 steps. As known from previous events, most of the features are not available any more in Removal Phase I. Removal Phase II equls the complete event deactivation (including the shop).

Removal phase I: 5th of April 2016 around 00:01 CET

• Easter quests will be deactivated except Easter guild quests. As soon as the Guild Quest has been changed (midnight), no new event guild quests will appear. Instead, regular guild quests will re-appear.

• Achievements will no longer be obtainable, and the final score of the obtained Easter 2016 achievements will be the one that determines the strength of the event building.

• The achievement category will disappear for anyone who has not done any progress on the event.

• The first spawn of collectibles after removal phase I won't provide Stripy Eggs any more

• Explorers won't find Stripy eggs any more:
  Update: In very rare cases, when returning shortly after the Removal Phase activation, Stripy Eggs will still be found.

• Adventure and Expedition loot won't include Stripy Eggs any more if completed during Removal Phase I. Starting them before has no effect on the loot.

• The Easter design will be removed from the loading screen

• The Event window will be deactivated

• The Event shop will still be available

Complete deactivation: 12th of April 2016 with a game update

• The Event shop category will be deactivated

• New trades containing event currency cannot be offered anymore.
  Existing trade offers containing event currency will be invisible until they expire.

• Stripy Eggs will be removed from the game and exchanged to Gold Coins.
  Eventually the exchange will be conducted one week later, see "Stripy egg exchange"-info below for details.

With the Easter event deactivation (Removal Phase II) or one week later

All Stripy eggs will be removed from the game and converted to Coins (1 Stripy Egg = 1 Coin).
Please keep an eye on the game update / maintenance news for details.

• Every player will receive a message in the game

• If there were Stripy eggs in the Mayor's house, they got exchanged to Coins.
  These Coins will be attached to the message

• In case there were no Stripy eggs left to exchange, the mail includes no Coins

• Stripy Eggs in the Mayor's house will be automatically exchanged to Coins and sent via in-game mail

• Stripy Eggs in the Star Menu will be exchanged to Coins and appear as Coin buffs in the Star menu

• All running trade offers and requests will be removed from the trade.
  The invested resources will be sent back attached to an in-game message
  including Coins instead of Stripy eggs

• Stripy Eggs as message attachment (e.g. from adventures or Explorer searches)
  will be exchanged to Gold coins. The mail will remain unchanged but contain Gold Coins instead of Stripy eggs.

Update: New information added to removal phase I and II