Dev's Diary: Easter Event 2014

[Gwalben]

I didn't get anything (except a village school, which I wisely ignored the naysayers about) on my very first event because I started playing while it was happening, but two months later for Christmas, I got everything. Easter has been a lot rougher because the supply of eggs is not there relative to the price increases and addition of a very costly new general. I was hoping for single digits, but that's clearly a pipe dream. Now I'm just hoping for it to dip into the teens. At the rate I'm going, I think I'll be able to just barely afford everything I want, which is everything other than watermills since they are a joke at these prices.

[Snacknado]

This is my 3rd easter event, i would suggest people to aim for these items in this order- Scout (to find more eggs), Floaters (limited item and probably NOT be added to already limit in gem shop after event), MMA general, then Vet gen. watermills after that if needed. Reason i put floaters over the gens is because those generals will most likely be added to gem shop after event but i do not think the floaters limit will be raised. With the scout/explorers i would recommend to use book/skills in- increase finding of all loot in all treasure hunts- shorten very long treasure hunts (2/3)- shorten search of ALL hunts (includes treasure adventure and artifact) and then a skill in artifact. During event times send out all your explorers/scouts to find event items on treasure searches and during non event times have them find buffs on artifact searches. I have 18 explorers all maxxed out with these skills- i have not bought/traded for ANY eggs yet and i already finished buying everything i needed for this event (Floaters, Scout, MMA and Vet) and i have +1k eggs left with explorers still bringing them back. IMO eggs/event items lose value in price towards middle/end of event when the majority of the BIG spenders meet their quota on items, so expect at least a slight decrease in price of eggs (could be wrong, you never really know market). Anyways, i hope that helped, happy rabbit hunting
-GUN aka TH

[Buff-Me]

It is time to break bread if you want those eggs hommie.

[Gwalben]

The market is definitely weakening. I've been seeing them for 22 today. Still too much for me unless I want to dump some resources, but it's getting more reasonable.

[Jani321]

Will the shop category be removed in tomorrows maintenance? First post in this thread claims that it will remain in removal phase I, but release notes thread says that it will be removed already tomorrow. Two phase removal makes no sense if you are not able to spend eggs after tomorrow.

[Ezequiel_Sarkar]

Like I said, I wish I had a lot of fast explorers, and I wish I had lots of manuscripts and tomes, then I probably would be able to easily bring in a lot of eggs. I just would hate to have to wait until next Easter, before I have a chance to get the MMA, keep in mind, that while Settlers Online is a patience game and long term game.

A lot can happen in a year, odds are I could be dead next Easter event, so even if I save enough for almost a Veteran, and wait until next year for another chance, I could be hit by a car or a bus, I could get cancer, and I could die.

So even if would like to be here next Easter trying for that MMA general, no guarantee it will happen, but I guess that's just the nature of the game and life.



Well, a couple problems with this:

1. I haven't even reached said 105,000 yet on certain resources, as I just recently upgraded a lot of my level 3 Storehouses to that level.
2. I have been doing this for some resources by using the trade office, sure it may not be as streamlined as your suggestion, because if the trade fails, and you're not quick enough to fix it, it'll be awhile before you can fix it, by sending it to the trade office.

Every year this happens, regardless of when you start. Each event starts off high with price of eggs. What did it this year was MMA/Veteran/Floaters/Explorer. That's a lot of items that are wanted by everyone. When phase 1 occurs, usually phase 2 price on eggs drop drastically. If your not a gem user, then getting the eggs without trading is even harder. If your part of a guild, there are several guilds out there who help guildmates out by being active. I remember my first event (halloween) a few yrs ago, I didn't get everything I wanted, then a year later it was a bit easier and then the following one became easy peasy. It just takes time to get to where players are hoarders and able to afford to buy several eggs easily without worry during the event.

[Ezequiel_Sarkar]

Will the shop category be removed in tomorrows maintenance? First post in this thread claims that it will remain in removal phase I, but release notes thread says that it will be removed already tomorrow. Two phase removal makes no sense if you are not able to spend eggs after tomorrow.

Shop should be removed on Phase 2 not Phase 1.

[psaltery]

We really need a clarification on this!!!! Patch notes and Dev. diary have conflicting information.

[jackrack500]

bad bb

[dman_dustin]

Every year this happens, regardless of when you start. Each event starts off high with price of eggs. What did it this year was MMA/Veteran/Floaters/Explorer. That's a lot of items that are wanted by everyone. When phase 1 occurs, usually phase 2 price on eggs drop drastically. If your not a gem user, then getting the eggs without trading is even harder. If your part of a guild, there are several guilds out there who help guildmates out by being active. I remember my first event (halloween) a few yrs ago, I didn't get everything I wanted, then a year later it was a bit easier and then the following one became easy peasy. It just takes time to get to where players are hoarders and able to afford to buy several eggs easily without worry during the event.

I hope to be able to buy quite a few fast explorers (with gems) over the following year, I think I can manage maybe 3 (plus a building license or two), assuming I don't spend my gems on other items.

But I would suggest an event explorer. Someone who can bring in event items throughout the entire year (it will definitely bring more during said events however), but just make it so it doesn't give you that much, maybe 1-5 event items per day, so that over a period of year at most, if you were INCREDIBLY lucky, it would give you 1825, that would be the maximum total and they could change the formula to prevent that many items to maybe only 500 items. This event explorer could be expensive as heck or whatever but it would be extremely useful.

As for "during event" days, the event explorer could bring in double the biggest stack using whatever search, whenever it does bring specific event items, otherwise it still would bring alternative event items, at that low stack number.

The explorer could be called the "Holiday Explorer" or something. And because it is a special unit, it would have its own abilities as in it would have ONE search option (Event Search), and it could take ONE day for it to find event resources. Or maybe if that is too much of a hassle, tweak an explorer, call it an Event Explorer, give it a unique art design, and tweak it so it can (at a % chance) bring in a small stack of event resources along with the usual items it can find.

I'd prefer a Holiday Explorer specifically, but I wouldn't mind merely a tweaked event explorer.