Halloween Event

[BB_Katealyst]

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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!

New Resource: Pumpkin

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

New 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!

New 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!

New 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!


Pumpkins

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

New 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!

New 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!

New buff: Zombie

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

New buff: Mr. Meyers

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

New buff: Frank and Stein

This buff refills a marble deposit by 1000.

New Decoration Items

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

[KR11396]

Some nice features! Thanks for keeping us updated.

[Cthulhubob]

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

[BB_Katealyst]

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

[Draxxon]

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

[Paul1088]

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.

[KR11396]

Nice FAQ Kate.

[Jigsaw]

can't wait...thanks for the teaser

[Such]

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

[Eliya]

very exciting!