Halloween Event

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The Halloween Event

Trick or Treat?

From October 20th through November 10th, come celebrate Halloween with Castle Empire! You will be treated to some cool new game features, including resources, buffs, decorations, and frightful buildings. There will also be no shortage of trickery during this spooky season, as you will be able to have a little fun with your friends with some special new buffs.

Hallow’s Eve will soon be upon us, so everyone be sure to enjoy this awesome event! Grab your treat bag, put on your most frightening costume, and let the fun begin!

Event Features

The Halloween event will have many exciting features, including a new resource that you can gather for the duration of the event. This new resource, Pumpkins, can be used to buy exclusive items!

Besides Halloween themed shop items, we will also be offering two exclusive permanent items: the Seeder Building and the Grim Reaper!

http://i1216.photobucket.com/albums/...mpire/pum1.pngNew Resource: Pumpkin

This resource is tradable and is being displayed like any other resource in the warehouses.

http://i1216.photobucket.com/albums/...e/pumfeild.pngNew Building: Pumpkin Field

This field produces the pumpkins as a resource over time. They are available in a limited number and variations in the shop. Only a limited number of fields can be placed; however, when you buff the fields, it can produce more!

http://i1216.photobucket.com/albums/...mpire/dark.pngNew Buff: Darkness

This buff can be produced inside the provision house. It can be applied to any building and creates a larger darkness sphere around the building (overlapping the grid by one tile). It stops the production of the building. Play tricks on your friends!

http://i1216.photobucket.com/albums/...ire/luight.pngNew Buff: A very strong light

This buff can be produced in the provision house and removes the Darkness buff from any building and buffs the target building with a Productivity Buff.

New Sound FX/Music

The event will have new sound FX for the Halloween items as well as a new music track.


Halloween Shop Items

As mentioned above, we will have some Halloween themed items in the shop! These will only be available during the duration of the Halloween Event!


http://i1216.photobucket.com/albums/...mpire/pum2.pngPumpkins

Of course, you can buy Pumpkins in the shop when the production is going too slow.

http://i1216.photobucket.com/albums/...mpire/grim.pngNew Specialist: The Grim Reaper!

This is a specialist with the same values as the Master General, but with a different appearance. This specialist is limited to only one per player!

http://i1216.photobucket.com/albums/...ire/seeder.pngNew Building: The Seeder Building

This building replenishes wheat fields over time. More wheat will be replenished when upgraded. These are limited to 5 per player!

http://i1216.photobucket.com/albums/...ire/zombie.pngNew buff: Zombie

This item buffs production of any building by 3x for 3 hours.

http://i1216.photobucket.com/albums/...ire/meyers.pngNew buff: Mr. Meyers

This item increases recruitment speed of the barracks by 4 for one hour.

http://i1216.photobucket.com/albums/...pire/frank.pngNew buff: Frank and Stein

This buff refills a marble deposit by 1000.

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The shop will be stocked with a few new decorations including ruins and destroyed walls.

New Graphics

We will be changing our logo, website, and banners to have a more spooky feel during Halloween!

Specs for the limits of the new Halloween Items

Small Pumpkin Cemetery:
50 Stones
100 Fir wood planks

Common Pumpkin Cemetery:
150 Marble
200 Hardwood planks

Noble Pumpkin Cemetery:
10 Granite
25 Exotic wood planks

All Pumpkin cemeteries are limited to 3 per user! That means in total you can have max. 9 fields (3x small 3x common 3x noble), but when you have built and depleted 3 of one kind, you cannot build another of the same kind! But you can buff them to increase the productivity. Also note that the production time of the pumpkin is very slow because of the long running-time of the event.


Grim Reaper General
1300 Pumpkins
Limited to 1 per user

Seeder
500 Pumpkins
Limited to 5 per user

Overgrown Ruin
220 Pumpkins

Tomb (decoration item, has an animated fire in front of it)
260 Pumpkins

Zombie
80 Pumpkins
Productivity increased by 4 for 12 hours

Mr. Myers
20 Pumpkins
Recruitment increased by 4 for 4 hours

Collapsed Wall (decoration item, has 2 types facing North and West)
80 Pumpkins

Frank and Stein
60 Pumpkins
1000 Marble refill


Besides that, we have two new Buffs: Light and Darkness.

The Darkness Buff can be bought and can be used only on people in your friends list. It completely stops production for 2 hours!

The Light Buff can be bought and used only on your own settlement to dispell the effect of the Darkness Buff. It will increase production 4x for 2 hours!

In other words, you can coordinate with your friends to increase the productivity of your own production buildings. In the long run, it is cheaper than other buffs out there!

Darkness (Buff)
5 Pumpkins
2h =0

Light (Buff)
5 Pumpkins
2h x4

Some nice features! Thanks for keeping us updated.

Halloween has always been my favorite holiday, THANKS FOR THE FUN :)

Some Halloween FAQ's

Pumpkin fields

- Will they require a building license ?
NO

- Does it have to be placed next to a farm?
NO, they work like a well, i.e. simply deliver pumpkins

- Does the player keep them after the end of the event?
NO, when the field is empty it gets deleted. As you only have access to a limited number of fields the max number of pumpkins you can make is limited

Seeder Building

- Can only be bought with gems?
NO, with pumpkins!

Pumpkins

- What happen to the remaining pumpkins after November 24th?
As with the easter event the players keep them.

- What will be their use? Create Halloween buffs / Pumpkin fields?:
They are the currency which you use to buy Halloween items in the shop! Also the Halloween dark/light buffs use pumpkins in the provisioner.

Grim Reaper

- Can only be bought with gems?:
NO with pumpkins only!

General Comments:

Each player can buy a limited number of pumpkin fields in the shop with NORMAL resources (that’s important!)
Each of those fields produce pumpkins over a long period of time. The number of pumpkins they contain is limited, depending on level of the field (3 levels available)
Yes you can buff the fields to produce MORE pumpkins per production time.
These pumpkins you can use to buy items in the shop or produce the darkness/light buffs in the provisioner to annoy your neighbors.

General questions

- What happen to the buildings after November 24th?:
The fields run out over time and never come back. The buildings you buy with the Pumpkins in the shop are permanents and stay forever.

What elements stay and what elements disappear after November 24th?:
Pumpkins stay in the warehouse, the shop will have all items you can buy with pumpkins for another week after the event

AWESOME!!! I want a seeder! (or 2 or 3)

I cant wait for a Christmas update...or winter holiday. Make little elven work shops to make toys or something like that instead of pumpkins.

Nice FAQ Kate.

can't wait...thanks for the teaser :)

Sweet, this seems really nice. I can't wait for it.

very exciting!

Really Nice!!!! Im so excited.

Can I gift pumpkin fields to other players?

I h34r7 Halloween!! What a fun way to kick it off this year in the game. Thanks to the Devs for this one -- and thanks, Kate for a great update/FAQ !

I'm going to be honest here: I think the "dark buff" is a monumentally bad idea. With this game, it is critically important to have viable production chains. One "mis-fired" de-buff (even from a friend) can seriously hurt the recipient of that de-buff, especially if that recipient is away from this game for any extended period of time. Since production is so important in this game, perhaps there should be a way to "opt out" of these kinds of buffs? I can just see major arguments and flame-wars erupting in the chat rooms of people yelling, and accusing at each other of tactical de-buffs as cruel practical jokes.

On the flip-side, I think the pumpkin-as-currency is a good idea. Permanent buildings and character types would be rather cool. However, this aspect depends on how quickly the pumpkins can be harvested.

Blah blah blah. I'm heading off before I ramble.

Looking forward to a Grim Reaper, that'll be good times.

I also with Snugglenuts (didn't think I'd ever be saying that), I'm taking anyone off my friends list for dark buffs lol.

Very cool, I have been highly anticipating this(esp the grim reaper general and seeders)!!

I have 3 questions tho:

1) The original post by you Kate says the event runs until November 10th yet on your FAQ post it keeps asking about the date of November 24th, just want clarification if the contest does indeed run only until 11/10 or why the 24th is of significance?

2) Your 1st post at the top lists that Zombie buffs do 3x production for 3 hours but if you scroll down further where it shows the Zombie buff costs 80 pumpkins it says it will do 4x for 12 hours, so which one is it or are there 2 different Zombie buffs?

3) Again with the Mr. Meyers buff it initially is listed as increasing barracks speed 4x for 1 hour but further down in the post where it shows his pumpkin cost of 20 it says it does 4x speed on the barracks for 4 hours?

Maybe I'm just crosseyed but I wanted to be sure which one is accurate or if there is indeed 2 different buff types for each. Thanks :)

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Originally Posted by Snugglenuts

I'm going to be honest here: I think the "dark buff" is a monumentally bad idea. With this game, it is critically important to have viable production chains. One "mis-fired" de-buff (even from a friend) can seriously hurt the recipient of that de-buff, especially if that recipient is away from this game for any extended period of time. Since production is so important in this game, perhaps there should be a way to "opt out" of these kinds of buffs? I can just see major arguments and flame-wars erupting in the chat rooms of people yelling, and accusing at each other of tactical de-buffs as cruel practical jokes.

On the flip-side, I think the pumpkin-as-currency is a good idea. Permanent buildings and character types would be rather cool. However, this aspect depends on how quickly the pumpkins can be harvested.

Blah blah blah. I'm heading off before I ramble.

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Just wanted to clarify as I too initially thought this was a bad idea until I reread it. The whole point is more interaction with your friends, NO friend should blindly be putting the darkness buff on and if they do I'd be quick to unfriend them. You coordinate with a friend if you have a light buff as thats the only way a light buff can work and if you purchase both they are cheaper than the other buffs so its a matter of getting more involved with friends and working together.

I'm sure this may lead to some problems but if someone is investing in darkness buffs just to hurt a friends production it doesnt make much sense to waste them on that and be isolated as well as miss out on utilizing the pumpkins to swap darkness/light buffs as well as seeders and the grim reaper general.

Yeah Wallstreet, I'm hoping to be able to get some planned darkness buffs set on me so I can increase productivity with a light buff.

sounds real good keep up the good work

Sounds like a very fun time

How many pumpkins does each field create by default (without buffs)?

I have a question:
1. Will each pumpkin field need settlers to tend to the pumpkins?And if so does that mean we need to build near a storage?

Question:
Are there player level constraints on the Pumpkin fields? In other words: do you have to be a certain level to build the noble field? Or can you build it at any level as long as you have the resources?

In Game Description (Differ from what Kate posted, * denotes change)
Grim Reaper General
1300 Pumpkins
Limited to 1 per user (Recover 2x as fast, Travels 2x as fast)

Seeder ('Silo',refills wheat field)
500 Pumpkins
Limited to 5 per user

Overgrown Ruin (Decoration)
220 Pumpkins

Tomb (decoration item, has an animated fire in front of it)
260 Pumpkins (*350 Pumpkins)

Zombie
80 Pumpkins
Productivity increased by 4 for 12 hours

Mr. Myers
20 Pumpkins
Recruitment increased by 4 for 4 hours (*Increase recruitment by 4x for 1 hour)

Collapsed Wall (decoration item, has 2 types facing North and West)
80 Pumpkins (*100 Pumpkins)

Frank and Stein
60 Pumpkins (*75 Pumpkins)
1000 Marble refill

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Small Pumpkin Cemetery: (produces 50 Pumpkins, 8 hours for 1x - which is 400 hrs/24 =16 days 16 hours)
50 Stones
100 Fir wood planks

Common Pumpkin Cemetery: (produces 85 pumpkins, 4hours for 1x which is 340hrs/24 =14 days 4 hours)
150 Marble
200 Hardwood planks

Noble Pumpkin Cemetery: (produces 100 pumpkins, 1hour for 1x, which is 100hrs/24 = 4 days 4 hours)
10 Granite
25 Exotic wood planks

Total pumpkins produced unbuffed is (50+85+100)*3= 705

*Each pumpkin patch uses a settler so 9 settlers will be used.
*Overall production is still either 1,4, or 8 hrs (the workyard and storage shows delivery time, but isn't really counted) means storage location in not in effect.

Does the Grim Reaper disappear after November 24th? Take a long time to get all those pumpkins, didn't want to spend and see it go to waste just as I got one :P

Monitor your fields, at max you can get:
2x3x50 = 300
2x85x3 = 510
2x100x3 = 600

1,210 pumpkins totaled. Enjoy guys. Btw, a tip is to use fish plates only for common & small pumpkin cementaries. the noble ones are either basket/sandwich (whatever you can do for buff swamps or receive from others)

If you don't buff them you get at max: 705 pumpkins. (your cheating yourself out of 500 pumpkins in general)

Grim Reaper or any other building you purchase will not disappear after Nov 24th.
If your still here in a year time (or if even if I am) they may just bring back these items. (I don't know what their plan is and it depends on the staff in one year)
Only things that become useless one week after Nov 10th to my knowledge is possibly the buffs.
After Nov 10th, I believe the pumpkin cementaries become useless. (not sure tbh) however I know I'll be done by that time hopefully.

Ah sweet, very cool.

CRAZY, i HATE Halloween

MrGrimm, Katealyst, please beg the devs to increase the number of fields to 5...

(we'll beg if you want)

So does the "seeder" works similar to, or the same as a forrester? Does the level 1 seeder say replenish 1 field and they replenish more fields as you level them up? i.e. 2 fields at level 2 and 3 fields at level 3 etc.?

How exactly does the Seeder/Silo building work? I don't see any wheat fields being auto-replenished or new wheat fields in my Star menu.

The silo replenishes 1 wheat every 12m plus the travel times just the same as a farm so it can keep up with 1 farm of the same level as it is.

Hmmm. With Farm comsuming 1 Wheat every 13+ minutes; over time, my 5 silos should build up enough wheat to keep up with farm consumption.

Sorry. They will have to upgraded to Level 2 to over-produce Farm consumption.

My noble pumpkin patches just ran out and I tore them down. Now I can not buy 3 new noble patches. Are we limited to 705 grown pumpkins for this event?

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Originally Posted by a7777777122

My noble pumpkin patches just ran out and I tore them down. Now I can not buy 3 new noble patches. Are we limited to 705 grown pumpkins for this event?

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Small = 50 x 3 = 150 Pumpkins
Common = 85 x 3 = 255 Pumpkins
Noble = 100 x 3 = 300 Pumpkins

Total = 705 Unbuffed Pumpkins

If you had buffed your patches before they produced pumpkins a7777777122, then the max you could have gotten was: 1,410 pumpkins. Otherwise to get more you need buy pumpkins.

If you plan to be here for a long time (about a year or more) then you can save your pumpkins for next year and see what this staff has to offer with pumpkins. (hopefully it will be the same type of pumpkins too)

My question is... does the pumpkin cementaries run dry (no longer pickable before Nov 24th) or do we have until nov 24th to buy & pick all the pumpkins we can?

Just a note to say," I LOVE the seeders/silos!" They have made a really nice difference in my daily island maintenance. Have 4 now, and am working on getting the last one. The 4 I have are all upgraded to L3, and I will be upgrading them all to L4 soon. Am hoping that these will show up in different incarnations for other holiday events.

Happy to hear you are enjoying the new additions for the holiday.

sooo 1 lv 1 silo produces 50/50 with 1 lv 1 farm?? upgraded to level 2 silo it now produces at a 50/50 for 2 level 1 farms or 1 lv 2 farm???

sooo in essance for 5 lv 3 farms i would need atleast 3 lv 3 silos and 1 lv 4 to produce 50/50??

cause i have noticed my first silo really is not producing much at all.. it takes it longer to produce then my 4 lv 3 farms. while it is lv 3 i still wind up with my fields empty soo im guessing i should rebuild all 9 of my farms in to 1 massive farming complex???