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Summer Event 2013
Dear Kings and Queens,
Summer is heating up and Greva Darn is proudly parading her new straw hat through your city streets. The summer casino is in town and there are prizes to be won in your neighborhood... including special bonus items from previous events! If you missed a previous event, now you have the chance to compete with your neighbors to claim some of those old event items, plus you can win other prizes and even brand new summer event items, too.
The event runs from Wednesday, August 14th to Wednesday, September 4th.
To take part in the summer casino you need tickets, which Greva is more than happy to help you with... in exchange for completing tasks, of course. There's also a special prize waiting at the end of the questline, if you can make it through all her challenges.
To access the casino, click the summer casino bar at the top left corner of your screen:
You will now see the summer casino window, containing a casino wheel, a neighborhood spins bar, a neighborhood actions log, and some buttons to spin or refresh the wheel.
Spinning the wheel
In order to spin the wheel, you first need to earn tickets. Greva Darn will help in this area, as she has a series of quests you can complete in exchange for tickets to spend in the summer casino. If you're advancing very quickly through the questline there are also a few bonus quests which you might activate, which are more difficult and will provide a slightly bigger challenge, for a chance at an extra ticket. You can also use Diamonds if you just can't resist waiting for that next spin!
One spin costs one ticket, and results in one prize. Alternatively, you can "refresh and spin" to call up a whole new set of prizes for your neighborhood.
Prizes
The prizes displayed in the wheel are available for every player in your neighborhood to claim, with 4 of each displayed prize being available initially (you can see how many of each item is left in the circle surrounding the wheel items). The prizes are random but, don't worry, every wheel always has something special that can be won by up to 4 lucky spinners. If, for example, you win one of a specific prize where 4 are available, it is removed from the wheel and only 3 of them will be remaining for your neighbors to win. This goes on until all the prizes in the wheel run out, at which point the wheel is automatically refreshed with a fully stocked new set of prizes. It is also possible for any player in your neighborhood to refresh the wheel.
As mentioned already, you have a chance to win old event items, such as the wishing well and the confectionary. There are also items available that have only ever been available via special marketing campaigns, which you can now also win from the wheel.
There are also special avatars to be won from previous event, as well as some new ones for summer. Can you collect the full set?
And of course, the event wouldn't be complete without something new, so we've also got a few summer-themed buildings for you to spin for:
Refreshing the wheel
You can refresh the wheel at any time to call a whole new set of prizes to your neighborhood's wheel. After a wheel refresh, every player in the neighborhood will have a refreshed wheel with a complete set of new prizes to be won. If all prizes are won from the wheel, it is automatically refreshed.
Shared neighborhood prizes
In addition to the individual prizes, every spin, or refresh and spin, is counted towards a total of 77 spins in your neighborhood. Once your neighborhood reaches the magic number of 77, every player in the neighborhood gets 20 medals. After 77 spins the counter is reset and can begin again, for a chance to win more medals.
Neighborhood actions log
To keep track of who's winning what, there is a neighborhood casino actions log. You can keep an eye on who's winning what, and see who is helping your neighborhood gain medals through lots of spins.
We hope you enjoy participating in our Summer Event. If you'd like to discuss the event, please see the discussion thread.
Thank you for playing Forge of Empires!
Sincerely,
The Forge of Empires team.