Summer Festivities 2020!
The Summer Festivities have officially begun!
EVENT DURATION AUGUST 21ST TO SEPTEMBER 5TH
EVENT DURATION AUGUST 21ST TO SEPTEMBER 5TH
- The event can be accessed through the button above or by going to the community drop down menu!
- For the first few days, an additional new task will appear each day for a total of 8 different tasks.
- Tasks refresh on a set timer, for example the Gather Refreshments task can be completed every 2 hours (12AM, 2AM, and so on)
- Overtime reward details will appear if the main bar is filled before the event ends!
- A seasonal quest related to the events of this year's Summer Festivities will unlock if the bar is successfully filled by the end of the event!
- This quest, if unlocked will be enabled for the duration of September after the event ends.
- The leaderboard is just for fun and does not include any bonus prizes for high scoring users!
Event Related Item Drop
- The Shimmering Ember is an event specific item that is now obtainable by completing daily errands for Louise Hill NPC's (Both positive and negative paths)!
- All shimmering embers are account bound and will disappear at the end of the event.
Happy Summer, we hope everyone has fun while staying safe!
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aka: "We're never actually going to get to overtime because as soon as the people who put the most time and dedication into the game reach it we're going to bump the bar back to punish everyone just like usual."
I'm just really hoping that the new tasks have a high enough point reward to make it possible for more casual players to *at least* reach the gold tier without stressing. ;.;
As it is, I'll be trying, but between work, and starting college I seriously can't see how I'd be able to reach even 20k points without ruining my (frankly terrible) sleep schedule even further/pulling all-nighters just in order to even have a shot at gaining a set of the items.
Can't wait to start playing!
To any Staff who read messages, I'd like to post a couple of things I enjoy about the event. I really love the art someone drew on the event page; coloured lineart/lineless is a big favorite of mine! Fantasia and Lilia look beyond adorable! ! ! !
I am also a BIG fan of the countdown-timer on the festival page, so I don't have to constantly refresh to see when I need to click on the button again. This is such a useful feature. I joined in July (so I do not know what was done before). I also really like the highlighted COMMUNITY > SUMMER FESTIVITIES tab you've added too!
I am looking forward to seeing what these two-weeks have planned~ (also I didn't comment about it before, but thank you so much for the storage option. I needed somewhere to put my NPC food. I ate some against my will before and had to go out to the tradesmarket and buy more lol)
I believe they said that they will be adding 4 more buttons as the event progresses, and with more buttons, there will be more points to be earned at each time you check. The build up is like starting a grand adventure, first you have to get dressed, pack, tie your shoes. . . it stacks, then you're on your way with 1000s of friends to pat pets, and donate food for the Summer Festivities! Who knows what else they will need, and how many points that will give? We have unlocked only 50% of the event (as of this post)!
(Also to my understanding. I may be wrong!)Good luck to everyone! Remember to get rest, eat, walkies, and entertainment! *waves goodbye*
You don't get more points the more often you do tasks. You're awarded the same amount of points each time, as you can see in the notification at the top of the page when you complete a task. Under the "Your Tier" segment, you see you ACCUMULATED points for each task. This is all of the points you have earned for each task overall. I think you're getting your accumulated points mixed up with how much each task gives you. Interacting with your pet gives you 5, every time.
Now come any leaderboards that may give prizes or whatnot for being in a certain tier, staff needs to not be allowed. I saw someone mention the thing where a company may have a contest or whatever and they seem to always not allow workers to partake, and that's the exact feeling I get with this. DV staff could even have the own leaderboard, that I'd be fine with and would actually much prefer. Then us players can just play against each other, and then staff can do that between themselves as all, so it's not cutting them out of the fun.
I'm gonna wait until the event goes on a bit more, but I'm almost feeling like the 30k points is a bit high too. I feel like event prizes shouldn't be extremely hard to get where you need to not have a life and only play the event to get it. But perhaps points will get easier to get and it won't be too hard, but I of course don't want it super easy to get.