Dear Settlers,
The Dev Diary for Summer Event was just published and we can't wait to hear your initial impressions and overall feedback.
Thank you,
BB_Odhran
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Dear Settlers,
The Dev Diary for Summer Event was just published and we can't wait to hear your initial impressions and overall feedback.
Thank you,
BB_Odhran
Does the event start the 25th or the 26th? It says 25th on the main page but the 26th in the Event Schedule of the dev diary.
Looking forward to my first Summer Event, a little break from the normal routine.
"Lucky Explorer per-event limit reduced from 2 down to 1"
Well that makes me sad, was looking forward to picking up two more to go along with the only 1 I have. I even made (and saved) enough books for two.
"Added a new quest chain"
"Added a new highest tier/level range, starting at level 56, for the daily event quest"
When you say added, does that mean they were not part of the testing on the Test server? If so that's a little exciting, the unknown.
Another lucky explorer is always welcome.
I like this new geologist better than the last. I would probably use him exclusively as my marble searcher and a nice complement to my jolly geologists for granite.
Looks good, with a good balance of rewards for old players and new. There will no doubt be kvetching, lol. All booked, the iron geos are proving to be a good addition, so I'm looking forward to putting the stoned cold geos to work. Granite deposits twice as large will be a welcome addition.
*Rebalanced event loot from non-event adventures
When will a list of soccer ball rewards from non-event adventures be available?
They have never in the past published such a list, any such lists you have seen in the past have been generated by players themselves based upon what players have discovered on the test server.Quote:
Originally Posted by JonWarDan
Is kind up already: http://settlersonlinewiki.eu/en/even...ip-event-2018/Quote:
Originally Posted by Dorotheus
However was based from test so probably not all correct.
Question for BB: Will there be select x2/3 loot adv for this event like some previous?
Obviously I like many will be disappointed there has been a reduction in Lucky Explorers but I do understand why this is done. A must get for all players really.
New Geo looks good, for me would be hard to use with Granite due to current search schedule, yet this can be looked at once fully booked. However great for stone / Marble straight out of the box. Will be sure to get these.
Snack stand... not sure it's any use for me as I get more than enough of those from my Lucky already, if it did Rainbows then I would happily change my Lucky explorers to adv search. On the back of this, it would be nice if BB updated the list of explorer buff drops to include more of the newer buffs... should be a simple yet welcomed (hopefully) change. Will get anyway as may come in useful in future.
New tasks... will have to wait and see, would be nice to have some challenges other than what has become the normal resource sink tasks... getting over these quickly!
An additional football pitch to reduce cooldown 100% is very welcome, guessing that means it is halved. (still for me 100% cooldown reduction means its got no cooldown at all now, lol which would be nicer :) However, it would be better if this could be placed ontop of the previous one to increase its level rather than it taking yet more ground space up. This also goes for any other buildings as such like the ones from Mountain Clan Campaign.
I can see the Wave buff being useful for those who get the new fish buff thing from Mountain Clan Campaign or for those who want to speed up some tasks such as produce water for gemstone ... for me presonally not useful just yet.
Football patches: Thought BB said a while ago in chat it was only flags of teams that qualified... lets see here lol
Overall for me nothing screams out OMG I REALLY WANA GET THAT!!! (Like the COA gens) Which is a shame in a big event. As BB's do play the game I do think they need to start looking at events and thinking for those that have played awhile.. is there anything there that gets me excited.. if not maybe take another look.
Just some of my own reflection as everyones wants / needs will differ. Good luck to all (who still play) on event!! :)
Is there any way you could stop using time zone abbreviations and spell them out so there is no confusion please? Thank you!!!
Question for BB - will the soccer matches drop event resources (i.e. soccer balls)? Why are these no longer part of the event?
I mean the old "The Opening Game" "Game two" "Game three" "Game four" "Game five" and "The Final Game" adventures.
Um, yes, hello? BB, this is a MONSTROUS question!Quote:
Originally Posted by Kadlin
Could we not just get a 2 or 3 day countdown clock till event starts?? That way time zones wont be an issue.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kadlin
It will start on the 26th. It was meant to start on the 25th, but a few errors pushed it a back a day as we worked to fix them before the event went live.Quote:
Originally Posted by Raubhautz
All events will always be Eastern Time. Seems like this one always comes up and I'm a bit lost on why since it has always been Eastern Time zone.
"Question for BB: Will there be select x2/3 loot adv for this event like some previous?"
;) There could be!
-BB_Odhran
Unfair to build hopes up from the uk version just nowQuote:
Originally Posted by BB_Odhran
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Originally Posted by BB_Saqui
Well..... there goes my will to live........
Snack Stand, Production time: 71h
really? 71h to make one Stadium Snack? if so, what's the point? Explorer's bring way more snacks.
Anyone able to finish Championship Scout quest (find soccer resource from treasure search)?
Yeah i had same issue, my explorers arrived back after event had started but before the quest was started so didnt count, even though they brought back close to 500 collects your next lot will. Maybe just send on a short search if that works for you to get quest done.
So are there select x2/3 loot adventures?Quote:
Originally Posted by BB_Odhran
NOPE there is ZERO with x2 or x3 loot ...your BB was taking the michealQuote:
Originally Posted by Tatianna36
Still haven't answered my question lol
Answered in:Quote:
Originally Posted by KingHomer
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Originally Posted by BB_Odhran
The balls are crazy out of balance toward treasure searches vs. adventures. A measly 10 scouts/luckies sent out just twice a day pull in more soccer balls than doing 20 low level adventures? Relatively new players are horribly screwed by this system. And the more attention spent on the explorers the imbalance goes completely off the scale. Why design a system that so heavily favors doing almost nothing (sending out explorers occasionally) vs. actually playing the game doing adventures?
Totally agree, the only option for newer players is to play 24/7 or to buy gems, or they will just sell their event resources, which is not that bad, but not so fun. They may not have the patience to spend a couple years before they can really enjoy the events. This game is becoming a pay-to-win. However, the problem is that nobody is winning anything...Quote:
Originally Posted by Rhallmire
I was referring to combat adventures from the 2012 or maybe the 2014 event. I just decided to run one last night, it paid 90 balls + 45 from premium. Too bad everyone doesn't have access to one set of these each soccer event.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mod_Emerald
While it is still early in the event, there was one thing that jumped out on the second day. I feel it is fairly safe to say that the least favorite daily quest for people is "The Library". I would base this on the forum threads complaining about it and even requesting it to be removed. My general practice is to delete the quest, with similar reported by many other players. Therefore, I would have to ask what the thought was behind making a similar quest mandatory for the event?
You have to eat your meat! Or you won't get no pudding!!
All in all you're just another brick in the wall. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Perwyn
I wasn't overall happy with summer event. I don't need double buildings like training field and snack stand, why couldn't you just make them upgradeable to improve them instead of making us look for spots for them? Is two going to be the limit?
Also, could you not think up new buffs for a new building (snack stand) instead of using ones that have been around for long time and lucky explorer finds? I'm sure if you looked through the "suggestions thread" you would find dozens of alternatives.
Although I got all I wanted from event, I didn't not enjoy doing adventures for the piddly amount of balls we got. I feel bad for the new players and ones that didn't have premium time to help them out. It had to be tough to decided what to get with the balls they managed to gather.
This was probably the one event in 7.5 years of playing this game that I participated the least, it held that much interest to me.
My main complaint is with the "collectibles". Well after the last match was done, we still were getting daily quests which required giving up valuable resources (gunpowder for red color? seriously?) for supplies which we couldn't use anymore. Most folks didn't need them, and they were hard to sell after the last match. Then, all the stuff we made w/ them + the left overs gave us no compensation in the end. All that time searching the island, and using the PH/RPH to make stuff with the collectibles, and nothing at the end to show for it. It would have been nice to get an achievement from completing all the daily quests (many of us just stopped doing them), and it would have been doubly nice to get something for our efforts from the match buffs & left over banana peels, etc.
I didn't even finish the event achievement this time around. I think it is the first event since I was a newbie that I didn't bother trying to complete the achivements.
The snack stand is a nice idea, but terribly implemented. Why make me find two (getting harder to come by) building slots for them? Why can't I just upgrade it like other buildings? 1.5 days to create 1 buff (and that's if I am lucky enough to have both snack stands)? If it were a rainbow I'd almost understand. But this isn't even as good as that. I may send those buildings to star after a while if they aren't adjusted in a future maintenance. We can get better efficiency out of RPH with other buffs right now.
Ditto with the footie pitch. Just let us upgrade the existing. I now have 4 slots taken up that could very feasibly be 2.
I also like getting drops from adventures, but there was no incentive to run any. Drop rates were awful for the time investment. One of the recurring trends I've seen over the last few events is a migration away from events that encourage player interaction. I get it that BB wants to revamp the co-ops and try to get people playing them, but the reality and nature of this game and the current player base is that it is much more difficult to find 2-4 players online at the same time who want to do a co-op than it is to run a 2-3 player adv and sell it as a loot spot at the end. Not BB's favorite thing and nothing they ever designed the game to be, but it works, the player base likes it, why try to prevent it from happening? You even (failed miserably) to try to build a fake event around these adventures being used like this.
Stop trying to fix what is broken. Give us good drop rates, allow us to have 1 or 2 3-person adventures (BK is just fine to mine for events--really!) to build around in addition to the co-ops. It is also a great way for new players to build XP and economy when they're trying to gain a foothold in this game.
Overall I liked the event and am pleased with it. I did think the items in the shop were a bit expensive compared to the availability of footballs. When I saw the list of football payouts from adventures on the wiki sites, I decided it would be better for me just to sell off resources from my island and buy footballs in the Trade Office rather than dedicating an extraordinary amount of time trying to do adventures. But if everyone had decided to do this… Well… I was concerned whether there were a sufficient number of balls in circulation among the players. (A player would have to run Arctic Explosion about 350 - 400 times in order to buy the snack stand.)
The new geologist is fantastic.
The snack stand: I absolutely love the design of it. It's really cute and I like having it on my island. The description in the event announcements though was misleading—by getting a second snack stand, I don't actually have a second independently functioning snack stand. If I had two independent snack stands, and they both still benefited from halved production time, that would be nice. But the three-day production time for stadium snacks is insane. I will never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever be producing stadium snacks in my snack stand. I will be making the red flying settlers as often as possible.
I wasn't sure if the poll accepted multiple answers. I did vote, but there doesn't seem to be any way to check which if any of my answers were counted. So here's my response: I love the geologist, I like the Snack Stand, and I had no difficulty with the achievements. Getting balls from adventures was a huge challenge, much more difficult than in any other event I've taken part in. On the server where I have a lot of explorers, I did manage to get everything in the event. On another server where my account is newer and has fewer explorers, I didn't manage to get everything. And that was despite devoting a LOT of time to adventures over the past 3 weeks. I really feel sorry for newer players and lower levels, I would think the event must have been pretty frustrating for them.
edited to add: I did enjoy the event, and would love to have a summer event every year.
I am the one person who will be making Stadium Snacks around the clock. I have no use for RFS, so keeping my castle buffed constantly at little cost is perfectly suitable for me.
This Event was Skewed toward Senior Players with lots of explorers, huge numbers of generals, and lots of time....The Bad Part was my pet peeve from the last 3 or 4 events. Everyone ends up running Solo Adventures cause they provide the best return. You do not Provide a decent Adventure that everyone likes to run like Black Knights or Roaring Bull with decent drops. Just bumping them up about 25% would make both of these much more appealing and provide interaction in the guild rather then everyone mumbling how sucky the loot spots are during events....
There is a difference between upgrading a building a building a second of the same type. This "co-operative" building offers a new dynamic and gives purpose to exclusivity.
If you want to improve a special building that you cannot upgrade, you will have to come back to that same annual event and participate in it.
This is a two pronged effect.
This benefits TSO in holding a player, and gives you something to do and reason to keep coming back.
Win win.
That aside, I will now give the apology that BB won't give us.
I am sorry to see the beginning of the end of settlers.
But that's okay! It's not too late to fix things before it get's worse. Much much worse.
As I have explained the difference between a building which you can upgrade and building multiples of a building. We have a new dynamic introduced which is actually nice. This shows us the BB effort to keep introducing new functions to this free to play game. And they are trying to implement more and more for legacy players to grind for and keep us coming back with something else to do other than do more dam BLT and WC.
First I will address snack stand. The most utterly useless building ever released. If I did not have so many free squares on my island I wouldn't even have put the one free one I received on my island.
The building to me is insulting. And seems to be delivered without forethought.
I can see the determination to release the first test of having a potential 2 of this same building type. Field testing the functionality of stacking buildings on the live servers for the first time.
I see what you did there. That's fine.
But stadium snacks? really? Just.. really?
You want me to spend meat on a 1 day buff which I would only use in a rare circumstance on a rare resource building.
When.. I have lucky explorers teched to bring back up to 2 rainbow snow giving the same buff power over 4 days.
Without meat cost.
I, like many low level players, have dumped many crystals into tier 1 letters.
which has given me many quests to do.
including annoholics which gives me a you guessed it, stadium snack.
Without a meat cost.
Because of this common crystal use to acquire gems for free.
I have built up a nice stack of 50 stadium snacks I never ever ever not one time will ever be using.
Because I'm not gonna drop a 1 day X4 buff on my lvl 6 FT castle and then know to come back at same hour the next day to do it again.
I'm just gonna drop a snow on wednesday, and come back sunday to turn the castle off.
Completely avoiding the meat cost, and saving myself the potential of missing 3 buff drops.
Stadium snacks used to be a rare buff, difficult to find, and had a niche for using high end resources (salt, ***, gunpowder) for that single day when you cannot afford 4 day's of running the same building.
That's well and good and all.
But us legacy players find it too easy to acquire resources to acquire such resources, and are still able to make 4 day runs at any time we want.
Stadium snacks are completely useless.
Barazek however, remains to be my most sought after buff.
I need those dam manuscripts from RPH. I need that RPH pumping out as fast as possible.
But here's the kicker.
I can't get barazek from the excelsior. I have to run AB level adventures and utilize elite units to complete, for chance at getting a bara drop.
But wait! Now that I am past level 65 and have been playing for over 6 years.
You want me to now start in on the impossible to complete nords adventures. Thanks for that by the way.
So this elite barracks, which runs painfully slow. Comes with the cost of having to consistanly acquire skunk gen just to keep the build rate livable.
And by livable I mean weeks, literal weeks. To get the troops to play in Nords venture line.
But I need those troops to run Third thief for bara.. so which is it? I cannot advance to the next adventure set if I am stuck on the AB set.
Here is where the game falls apart for me. This is the digging of the grave.
The buff issue, I can deal with. Thankfully I have 300k coins in pocket and a steady supply of everything that I can utilize the TO and get whatever I want.
I am the bruce wayne of settlers.
Well not really.. but I can afford what I want.
Onto nords! Or as I like to refer to it "are you &#%!%&#% kidding me !?!?".
Usually to do something, anything, we have to see the reward of doing so or we aren't going to do it.
People go to the gym because they see the reward. Put time in, get healthy. Makes sense. So if you wanna get healthy, go to the gym. Right.
These adventures promise me the reward of uh.. getting kicked in the nuts. That's about all you get out of it.
Well there is this. "Ice Swimming Reduces recruitment time in Elite Barracks about 500% for 4 hours"
You know, after you spend nearly 10k obsidian Ore. Which will take exactly how many elite units deaths to acquire?
In no way, not even remotely close not even just.. NO!!
This reward is so far disproportionate to the cost.
This is horribad, so bad. Just NO!!
Oh but wait, we can get this.
" Barracks Celebration Increases the recruitment speed in Barracks and Elite Barracks about 100% for 4 hours
Cooldown: 48 hours 14.000 + 9.600 + 175
Provisioner Banquet Increases the production of Provision House and Rarity Provision House about 100% for 4 hours.
Cooldown: 48 hours 13.500 + 9.200 + 135 "
Also.. too high of a meat cost for no reward.
You do realize that I can buy a 12 hour skunk for less than 2k coins right?
Ok, so we've established that nords ventures off zilch for reward. Nothing for anybody. We are level 65, we don't need stadium snacks.
The elite barracks buffs sure. But if you want us to have enough meat to sustain our steak builds, we need deerstalkers. You want us to use these barracks buffs we do need, well guess what. it is now costing us more meat. Yay..
And in the end this 4 hour buff is going un noticed to us players who constantly have a 30 day build time sitting in elite barracks. What do I do when I need elite units?
I spend a couple day's playing BLT adventure for profit. I don't cry about not being able to do nords venture.
Ok. Rewards suck. But what of the cost?
Ridiculous. Joke. Astronomical and unjust.
Here is the issue you have created.
Blue byte does not support the use of guides. Publicly this is "cheating, skipping intended content by use of blocks".
I do not know if this is still your current stance. But it is one I disagree with, as I see blocking as a risk skill move. It has inate risk associated with it and the reward is unit efficiency.
This reward is bestowed upon players who seek this information. Why would you downplay rewarding players for putting time into researching your product?
But I digress.
I used to be able to into adventures and beat them without use of guide. I had no elite barracks. And how the heck am I gonna get star coins to buy arrows when I'm just a level 42 barely even knowing what FT adventures are?
Nords ventures have turned TSO into a wiki-game.
You cannot go into the adventure without the use of a guide. Your just gonna waste far too many resources, and time, and take on too much risk that it isn't worth it.
And us players being conditioned for years to use guides.. you know we are gonna do it.
Now we have to. There's no getting around it.
But that's not enough! Our generals cannot just be teched our way to enhance them the way that we want. no no.
If your generals are not specced exactly as the guide calls for, your attacks will fail. you're done. you're dead. you're wasting resources.
Do you know how many times I have had to arrow a boss because there is no way around it?
It's a good thing I have my generals teched to get star coins.
But wait.. I can't have my generals teched to get starcoins and grind.. they have to be powerhouses.
So.. I can... huh.. well.. yeah.. use those arrows up I guess. Yay.
So I can get very slight elite barracks buffs. So that I can run nords?
I would not mind new content taking a side step. I would prefer if released content were an actual step forward.
But this.. this is a step backward more than anything.
If you continue to release content in this manner your legacy players will not latch on to new content and you will be losing old players which are who keep this game running.
Do you honestly think new players would stick without our guidance and resources? I am not just talking about myself and the impact I make within my own guild.
But I do happen to be the highest level player in my guild, the most experienced, i rain resources and information downward and the appreciation is real.
You need players like myself, to keep the new players going.
But you need to give US players something to keep US going.
There was nothing in the shop I really needed to try hard for. Only one lucky, really? The geo was good and I picked up another friary. other than that, there was nothing I was willing to work for
This event seemed to be designed to be impossible to get all the stuff available no matter how active and regularly you were online.
shame that a team sport didn't encourage team adventures, why are events geared toward solo play instead of working with others, drops from 2 and 3 person adventures should be better than single player.
I was pleased with the football drops from adventures and variety of ways of getting drops. I did get everything I was after, although I was surprised I could not afford a friary when all was said and done. As far as adventures, they were a bit of nice filler but too low to make much impact. It didn't help that the snack stand was so expensive. I'd guess I got enough out of them to buy a stone cold geologist. Worthwhile, but I wouldn't have chased after them at that pace. I just did the adventures I always would do.
The snack stand is useless to me. I have hundreds of snacks and use maybe one a week. Still, I could see where for some people this would be a helpful building to have. I don't expect to get much, if anything, out of it in its current state for me personally, but I still got them anyway.
I was happy to get even just one lucky explorer, but the resolution to the gem purchase oversight was a welcome surprise. I guess given the time frame, this was the only possible solution that could have been implemented, but it is a nice way to make things fair and right.
Stone cold geologists are very helpful. Much more useful than the iron one. I don't usually have more than a couple of either deposit type down because the quantity lasts long enough that I have the time to find them. I could probably double down and add some more masons, which I may do, but for the most part I am just going to stick to it and search a lot less. This has relegated jollies to gold searchers, which also makes that a lot easier. I'm looking forward to the next guy who finds double gold mines. That would make them just about pointless, but that's progress.
I got all of the achievements and found them doable just through the normal course of doing what I was going to do anyway.
The quest for the second snack stand was very welcome. There was a lot of complaining, but I didn't feel it was warranted. A couple hundred soccer balls and some elite troops and resources netted me 2 million XP, 50k coins, some buffs, and a snack stand priced at 4250 soccer balls. I don't see what's to complain about. Well worth it. Perhaps tweak it based on some of the feedback, but I hope this sort of quest line returns in the future.
I really didn't understand the soccer ball cost of 880 balls for 5 building licenses offered through the event. Flat gem price for 10 licenses is 650 Gems. Using approximate figures and the in-game merchant exchange of 250 balls for 200 gems, this is roughly 3.5 packages... ergo, 700 gems for 5 building licenses.
This seemed grossly out of proportion. It hasn't always been completely true, but most holiday events the gem cost and event resource costs are at least somewhat related.