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    Dev's Diary: Premium Accounts

    Premium accounts: Information about an upcoming feature - premium accounts.

    Dear Settlers,

    This developer's diary entry is related to a brand new feature: Premium accounts! More information can be found below.



    While the premium account feature is active on your 'The Settlers Online: Castle Empire' profile, you'll gain following advantages:

    • 50% more experience points (loot)
      Each adventure gives you 50% additional experience points. Experience points
      acquired thanks to a premium account are displayed in a separate row in the loot mail.

    • 50% more loot from adventures
      You receive 50% more resources from each adventure. Resources acquired thanks to a premium account are displayed in a separate row in the loot mail.
      Important: This bonus does not affect buildings and adventures gathered with adventure loot.

    • Additional building queue slot
      While your account is active as Premium, you have one additional building queue slot.

    • Increase of buffs' time on friend zones (+10%)
      While your account is active as Premium, all buffs triggered by you on friends' islands last 10% longer than normally.

    • 2 regular daily quests per day
      Each player with a premium account active can have two regular daily quests
      at a time and two regular waiting daily quests.
      Important: Daily guild quests and special event quests are not affected by this.

    Information: The premium account buffs purchased in the Shop can be traded and gifted.



    Activating the premium account is pretty easy: After you acquire a premium account buff, just open your Star menu and click on it.
    A special window will show up - all details about the premium account will be included there. Just click on "Accept" button and it's done!


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    With the premium account feature, several changes will be implemented to the game:

    • Interface: Avatar menu
      In order to provide you a comfortable overview of the premium time, the interface below your avatar will be modified.
      Now it will display the remaining time of the premium status.

    • Quest book: New quests
      With the implementation of premium accounts, a few new quests will be added to the game.
      This way, you will get a proper introduction to this feature.

    • Shop: New category
      The premium account buffs will be purchasable in the special Shop category, directly in the game.

    The game version featuring premium account buffs will be implemented on the test server in the near future.

    Happy settling!
    ~BB_Effiluna

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    So, how much is this Premium Account going to cost those of us who want to try it out?

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    you know whenever someone does not tell you how much it costs, the answer is always too much

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    well now i want a platnum premium gold account ;(

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    Oh boy. More "you have to buy gems" stuff.

    But it is nice.

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    This is a good way to raise money for the developer without hurting the game experience for those who don't want to spend the gems on it.

    It lets a more casual player get to level 50 faster by spending gems but it doesn't really unbalance the game in favour of those who spend gems.

    And those who chose not to spend gems aren't penalized in any way and don't miss out on any of the game content, they just have to play a bit more to get the same things.

    Good move by the developer, nothing to complain about here.

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    Ya after reading and thinking it over, there isn't much bad here.

    As long as the prices are low and it improves on the over all, i think it will be a decent update.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mystica View Post
    So, how much is this Premium Account going to cost those of us who want to try it out?
    The dev diary contains all the information I have on this upcoming feature at this time but premium accounts should be on the test server soon so players will be able to try them out.
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    Glad to see the focus on getting casual players to level 50 so they have nothing else to do also.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mystica View Post
    So, how much is this Premium Account going to cost those of us who want to try it out?
    The picture they have there looks like it's what's going to be in the shop, the top of it says 100 Gems.
    If that's the actual cost, they worked it pretty well.. 7 day buff, and we just happen to get 100 Gems every 7 days.

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