Christmas Event

[Ninjet]

i am more than bummed i am furious about this there is no reason for it and no reasons given to us so what is up with that

[sango]

so instead of the 6th you say it's on the 8th now?

did not even give an official announcement, just simply edited the thread without letting anyone know who was preparing for the event. but hey what's 2 more days anyway right?

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I knew it was weird they were updating on Tues. When we get updates on Thurs. Anyways here's the change log from the German site (google translator).
*Note the change in experience rate & enemy units on some maps like 'island of pirates' and 'secluded experiment'


Changelog 12/06/2011 - Christmas!
Changelog 06.12.2011

NEW FEATURES
- Christmas Event!
- New quest book!
- Daily Quests!
- Adjustments of adventure and military units!
And much more!

1) NEW QUEST BOOK:
The quest window has a new design. Below are you now following quest areas:
(Tutorial) Quests
Daily quests
Current Adventure
Upcoming Quests
These can also be evaluated using selection index in a small (observed quests) Show. The overview is also movable!

• The adventures are now no longer to be found in the friends list but always in the new Quest Guide and the Quest overview! The adventure can start over here and visit.


2) DAILY QUESTS:
The Daily quests are available from level 10. Every day (every 24 hours), it now gets a new daily quest, which must be met.
You can have up to a quest in the queue, that is 24 hrs. after starting the first quest you can start right away with the next quest, provided you have completed the previous one.

• Daily quests will not stop automatically but must always be completed on the new quest and the book, Finish 'button!

Currently, limited the number of daily quests even at 3 per level range (level ranges: 10 - 17, 18 - 25, 26 - 35 36 - 50).
Therefore, for the duration of the Christmas events often repeat your daily quests.

We are currently working on new quests and hope to see you at the beginning of next year to provide new and much more daily quests.


3) CHRISTMAS EVENT:
There's extra for the Christmas event, a new great resource - presents!

Gifts you can buy over the man under the category purchase Christmas'. For successful completing of the new daily quests you get neat gifts and of course bring some luck to your explorers in search of treasure and again with some.

When you buy the man gifts you can swap in new items.
Those mysterious boxes keep 'several surprise gifts ready for you.

• The overall beer production, including beer as a commodity is changed and mulled wine for Christmas.

• The food store offers a new feature with which you can convert your marble to granite. With, granite transformation 'can convert their 500 marble and granite 20 to 50 gifts.

4) A new adventure - especially for the Christmas event in snowy winter look
The Christmas adventure you can only be one of getting daily quests!

5) The duration of specialist search is can now be halved through gems
The search time of specialists (geologists and explorers) is now halved for precious stones.
By clicking again, the professionals employed in the star menu the user can open an overview of what you can cut the search time. Apply more than once!

6) rewards that exceed the storage capacity of your land, now in the star menu.

7) friend requests can only be sent once every 24 hours to a person.

8) adaptations of adventure and military units
Soldiers and elite soldiers were faced with the archers and horsemen. In addition, the rider now protected by all melee units, which means riders will no longer be attacked first.

The reward of the adventure was adapted (mostly increases).
Experience gained at the following units was increased by: Maat, bandits riders, soldier bandits, bandits recruit.

The experience was enhanced by the following adventures:
Solitary Experiments, Island of the Buccaneers, the Victor Sly, The black priests, sons of the steppe, a mother's love

In addition, the following adventures have been changed:
Solitary Experiments:
- Reduction of the units (Maat)
- Reduction of the camps
- More tactical options
Island of the Buccaneers:
- Reduction of the units (Maat)
In addition, the adventures were divided into three types, to provide information on the main reward: raw adventure, experience adventure and epic adventure.

Raw adventure:
Band of robbers, the Victor Sly, The Island of the Buccaneers

Experience adventure:
Swamp witch, semi hard, traitors, the black priest, cutthroats, sons of the steppe, Norsemen

Epic adventure:
The Dark Brotherhood, Old friends (you get an adventure reward), a mother's love (as an adventure you will get a reward), The Black Knights, Solitary Experiments

Commodity adventures bring a lot of raw materials and little experience, experience adventures bring a lot of experience but little raw and epic adventures are combined with heavy losses, but the opportunity to bring much gold and epic loot, such as Dekogebäude rare.

9) Known bugs:
- Showing the next quest currently only works if you already have a daily quest, and this has not yet been completed on the first day


Bugfixes:
- Improved synchrony of Koopabenteuer
- The Avatar attack message has been fixed in Koopabenteuern
- Incorrect display of building permits (75 or -1) when logging should be fixed

Settle happy!

[BB_Katealyst]

So x-mas event isn't starting till the 8th now?

Sorry about that guys,

Our maintenance is every Thursday morning at 12AM PST. I didn't realize when I posted the event info that it was the German time. It was my fault I will be posting a new Christmas Community event soon though!

[JimSoxfan]

Can't wait ..... 'cause I've been a very good boy this year !

[sango]

Seems like there will be issues with the update. German players are complaining about no more gold parrots and no more 'island of pirates' map frag purchase in the store.

[apoth]

complaining about no more island of the pirates...?

[LadyTerra]

Seems like there will be issues with the update. German players are complaining about no more gold parrots and no more 'island of pirates' map frag purchase in the store.

No More Golden Parrots!!!!! WHAT??
Guess I don't need to buy gems anymore.

[EpsilonSilver]

Oh, the drama.

[sango]

complaining about no more island of the pirates...?

They change the Rewards and now you can't buy the map frags in store:

http://www.siedlertools.de/wiki/Die_...der_Freibeuter
(The top is the new rewards & bottom is old rewards)

[Goodcrow]

I want to know if the new recycling building will still be there after the Christmas event if we get one!