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Event Fall Event 2017

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Get apples from quests and from trees planted when other players aid you. Use them to get fantastic prizes!


It's harvest time! Farmers in your kingdom are busy reaping the crops, collecting the results of their hard work. Greva Darn has already proven to be a real all-rounder! Last year she helped you out with harvest and she'll be keen to take on the task this year, too!

When you first login to the game, apart from the usual infoscreen, you will see a new button indicating that there is something going on:
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Click it and you will get right to the event window:
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As you can see this fall it is all about apples! You need to collect as many as possible in order to open the baskets that contain rewards!
The content of the baskets will remain largely the same over the course of the event, but every day there will be something different and valuable in them. What's more, on every third day two items from both baskets will be chosen and displayed below them. If you win them once from the baskets, they will be unlocked and you can then buy them directly with apples as many times as you wish! So keep an eye on the event to make sure you get your most desired reward :).

In addition to quests (this year we have a lot more of them, with a lot more apples that can be obtained there), you can also get apples via social actions. When you aid your friends, guildmates and neighbors, there's a chance to plant an apple tree in the wilderness around their city. They can then collect apples from the trees you planted (up to 5 apples per tree) and spend them on rewards! Every time you successfully plant a tree, you will also receive an apple for yourself.
That's how they look like:
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Make sure you check the wilderness regularly, as the trees expire after 24 hours!

We are aware that this mechanic was flawed last year. The problem was that by hopping guilds and friends it was possible to obtain virtually unlimited amount of apples. This was also a design problem, because the game was rewarding repetitive and boring actions as the correct way to play the event. Please be aware that this issue was patched for this year's edition and the maximum amount of apple trees you can plant and get is now capped (on a 'per day' basis). We set the cap high enough that it still makes sense to aid everyone you can, but constant switching guilds and friends won't be beneficial any more.

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In addition to a some of our most desired event buildings and special items you can get, you will also have a chance to improve your Cider Mill (or - if you don't own one yet - get it and then improve it). You can get Upgrade Items either by spending apples or from the Fall questlines.

To upgrade your Cider Mill use the Cider Mill Upgrade Item on the Cider Mill that is already situated in your city. Its upgraded version will be then placed in your inventory and the original Cider Mill will disappear from the city (note that the upgraded building will be from your current era, even if the old one was from one of the earlier ages). This process will be also explained in-game, where you can click an Upgrade Item in your inventory and view stats of all four Cider Mill stages by hovering on them:

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As mentioned, all the apples that you spend count towards the Grand Prize, which is the Upgrade Item (progress is represented by a bottle with apple juice). If you're active enough, you will get an Upgrade Item to make your Cider Mill better! You can win it multiple times and thus upgrade multiple Cider Mills.

Upgraded Cider Mills are multi-producing buildings that produce different things depending on what production time you choose. The final version (Bountiful Cider Mill) lets you choose from supplies, coins, medals, guild power, goods or Forge Points.


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We hope you enjoy the Fall Event! Let us know what you think in the feedback thread, and please also report any issues you spot.
Note that this event is only available via browser in its Beta stage, but of course it will be fully cross-platform once released live :).

Thank you for playing the game!

Yours,
The Forge of Empires Team - Team Beta
 
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