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Join us in our Fellowship Adventures!

Marindor

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Dear Humans and Elves,

Or should we say: "Dear Adventurers"? Because from now on, your Fellowship is counting on you to tackle new adventurous challenges! Please join us in our latest feature: The Fellowship Adventures!

What are Fellowship Adventures?
Fellowship Adventures is our first big Multiplayer Event in Elvenar! Together with your Fellowship you work towards common goals. Reaching them will benefit the whole Fellowship and in the end the Fellowships that perform the best, will even get additional rewards based on their position! The Fellowship Adventures will run for about a week each and we're planning on running them regularly. The Fellowship Adventures will bring whole new and exciting game mechanics to Elvenar.

If you're a member of a Fellowship and a Fellowship Adventure is running, you will see a banner when you're in your town:

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Clicking on this banner, will open the Fellowship Adventures map:

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On this map you see several Waypoints (blue, orange, green), each with their own requirements to get passed them. All Fellowship members can contribute to these requirements and once they are met, they will open the way to the next Waypoint.

Some strategical Waypoints, like you can see above, will confront you with 3 different paths to choose from. Discuss with your Fellowship and choose wisely: Will you battle? Rather pay goods? Like to make productions? It's up to you and your Fellowship which way suits your game style!

At the end of each stage there is a "big reward" waiting for you. Unlocking that reward will grant a very nice reward to all Fellowship Members who have contributed something to that stage of the Fellowship Adventures. Also: Picking up that reward will automatically let you (and your Fellowship) move on to the next stage. Therefore, only members with the rank of Ambassador or higher will be able to unlock that next Waypoint. It's a decision that should be taken carefully, because it also means you won't be able to get any more Fellowship Adventures Ranking points for Waypoints that haven't been cleared in this stage.

Wait! Fellowship Adventures Ranking points?
That's right! This is also a new mechanic that will come with the Fellowship Adventures. These ranking points are temporary, which means that they only count to decide your Fellowships place in this Adventure. After this Fellowship Adventure, the rewards will be handed to the top Fellowships - The Adventure Ranking Points will be put back to 0 and that's where everybody will start from in the next Fellowship Adventure. So each Adventure, every Fellowship has the same possibilities from the start again. Depending on the Fellowships position at the end of the Adventure, some permanent Guild Ranking points will also be added.

Adventure Items
Adventure Items are a new permanent event resource which will be needed for the reoccuring Fellowship Adventures. They have no further function than to be used to complete certain Waypoints and they are obtained from doing certain activities in the game. For example: Producing X number of beverages will give you a Dwarven Brewery Badge (Adventure Item) and producing X number of bread will give you a Bakers Guild Badge (Adventure Item). This means it will really come down to the activity of all the Fellowship members to be able to complete all the Waypoints and make your way to the top. You can see your current amounts of Adventure Items by hovering over the Fellowship Adventures icon on the top of your screen when you're in the Fellowship Adventures map.

Here is a list of Adventure Items and their requirements:
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Aditionally:
Wand - Gain 1 good enchantment and gain X planks (based on chapter)
Magic Potion - Gain 1 NH enchantment and gain X elixir (based on chapter)
Witch Hat - Gain 1 Supply enchantment, gain X silk and gain X magic dust (based on chapter)
Wonder Society - Invest X KP in another player's Ancient Wonders
Elvarian Guard - Recruit X units
Sack of Coins - Gain X coins

Quests
Some Fellowship Adventures will come with their own specific questlines as well. Please do keep in mind that this will not be the case for all occurrences of the Fellowship Adventure. Each adventure will be different: Different requirements, different rewards, different setup!

Bottomless Pit
Last but not least: For the really active Fellowships, we also bring the "Bottomless Pit". It will be activated when the last reward is collected in the last stage of the Adventure and it will look like this:

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Infinite reoccuring bottomless pits will be spawn by the game one after another, each with their own pay-in requirements. Active guilds can use these to obtain extra Fellowship Adventure ranking points - making them end up higher in the ranking for that adventure and therefore getting them more valuable end rewards.

Well, this is it for the main description of this brand new event. We'd like to invite you to try it out and are of course very interested in hearing your feedback about it in this thread!

Kind regards,
Your Elvenar Team
 
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Marindor

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Hi everyone!

Just some upfront info: Next Monday we will run a second round of Fellowship Adventure testing on Beta, including a number of bugfixes and changes based on the first FA feedback and reports. Something which we can already share, is that the ability to store Adventure Items for future FA rounds will disappear. You have already shared your concerns about this and our data has also proved that quite some active Fellowships were indeed doing this, leading to such a head start in a next Adventure that other Fellowships would have a hard time catching up. This means in the next round, you'd better make sure to get rid of your Adventure Items and only produce the ones that are relevant for your strategy because after that round, they will be removed again so in the future every FS will start every FA at 0. When we have more news on other changes, we will let you know but at least you can start preparing for your next adventure ;)

This will by the way, mean that the Masquerade pt 2 will be delayed some more on Beta :)

Kind regards,
Your Elvenar Team
 

Marindor

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New FA Round coming next week



Dear Humans and Elves,

On Tuesday, January 23rd we will start a new round of Fellowship Adventures on Beta! We know it's getting pretty busy right now with the Robert Redbeard QLE, Elementals and the Fellowship Adventures but we do need the time to extensively test the new FA round on Beta, so we ask for your understanding in this. Especially since we made some alterations which need to be well tested:

  • We have new Adventure Items (the Wand, Magic Potion and Witch Hat)
  • New rewards (including Knowledge Points Instants!)
  • New blocking system (if you leave or join a Fellowship during a FA round, you'll lose your progress and will not be able to receive rewards)
  • New rewards mechanics
  • No more confirmation window when declining a quest
  • FA map is updated with tiny animations to help indicate the Fellowship's progress more clearly

We'd also like to let you know that we have heared your feedback about the quest system being annoying this way and we agree with you on that. It is something that has our attention, but we will have to ask you for (a lot of) patience before this can be changed. In order to change this, we have to change the entire quest system and a lot of aspects in the game are connected to this system. It means changing things in the root of the entire game. It's not about finding a fitting design, it's about changing so many aspects and dependencies of the game to make it work and that is not something that can be done fast, even if we would also prefer to have it working differently. So yes, we know about it and will make improvements but it'll take a (long) time before this will be ready.

Postponing all FA rounds until then, is not an option so please have patience with us in the mean time. Thank you for your understanding and for helping us test this new round. Of course we'd love to hear all your feedback in our Feedback Thread and the bugs you'd find, in our Bugs Report section!

Kind regards,
Your Elvenar Team
 

Marindor

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New FA Round coming next week



Dear Humans and Elves,

Due to unforeseen problems, we had to disable the current Fellowship Adventures. We are currently investigating the exact cause and will keep you updated about when a new round will start.

Kind regards,
Your Elvenar Team
 

Marindor

Well-Known Member

New FA Round coming next week



Dear Humans and Elves,

On Monday, February 26th we will start a new round of Fellowship Adventures on Beta! This time we will have a new balancing again and three new quests for Adventure Items:

  • Train X units
  • Gain X coins
  • Donate X KP in other player's Ancient Wonders

As you might know, we've been having some problems with our chat socket server lately and we're planning on replacing it within several weeks, but postponing the Fellowship Adventures until after that isn't an option, since it would collide with other new events which need to be tested then. Therefore, if you encounter any chat issues, please just report them as quickly as possible so we can get to it right away. Thank you for your understanding here.

Also, the fix for this bug unfortunately isn't yet implemented in this FA round.

Of course we'd love to hear all your feedback in our Feedback Thread and the bugs you'd find, in our Bugs Report section!

Kind regards,
Your Elvenar Team
 

Marindor

Well-Known Member

New FA Round coming tomorrow



Dear Humans and Elves,

On Thursday, May 3rd we will start a new round of Fellowship Adventures on Beta! This time we will use the same setup as the second Fellowship Adventures. Besides that, there shouldn't be too many changes compared to the last round. A change in the quest system is still Work in Progress. We know about the feedback around this and are working on it, but we're not there yet :)

Of course we'd love to hear all your feedback in our Feedback Thread and the bugs you'd find, in our Bugs Report section!

Kind regards,
Your Elvenar Team
 
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Marindor

Well-Known Member

New FA Round this Thursday



Dear Humans and Elves,

On Thursday, May 17th we will start a new round of Fellowship Adventures on Beta! This time we will use the same setup as the third Fellowship Adventures. Besides that, there shouldn't be too many changes compared to the last round. A change in the quest system is still Work in Progress. We know about the feedback around this and are working on it, but we're not there yet :)

Of course we'd love to hear all your feedback in our Feedback Thread and the bugs you'd find, in our Bugs Report section!

Kind regards,
Your Elvenar Team
 

Marindor

Well-Known Member

New FA Round this Wednesday



Dear Humans and Elves,

On Wednesday, August 8th we will start a new round of Fellowship Adventures on Beta! This time we will have something brand new: Trophy buildings for the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4-10th Fellowships, providing your cities with extra culture and population!

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Just for your information: A change in the quest system is still Work in Progress. We know about the feedback around this and are working on it, but we're not there yet :)

Of course we'd love to hear all your feedback in our Feedback Thread and the bugs you'd find, in our Bugs Report section!

Kind regards,
Your Elvenar Team
 
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Marindor

Well-Known Member

New FA Round this Thursday



Dear Humans and Elves,

On Thursday, September 6th we will start a new round of Fellowship Adventures on Beta! There won't be any new things to test this time, just an extra incentive for anyone who wishes to participate. A change in the quest system is still Work in Progress. We know about the feedback around this and are working on it, but we're not there yet :)

Of course we'd love to hear all your feedback in our Feedback Thread and the bugs you'd find, in our Bugs Report section!

Kind regards,
Your Elvenar Team
 

Marindor

Well-Known Member

New FA Round this Thursday



Dear Humans and Elves,

On Thursday, November 8th we will start a new round of Fellowship Adventures on Beta, in setup D! There won't be any new things to test this time, just an extra incentive for anyone who wishes to participate and a change in rewards compared to last time with this set. A change in the quest system is still Work in Progress. We know about the feedback around this and are working on it, but we're not there yet :)

Of course we'd love to hear all your feedback in our Feedback Thread and the bugs you'd find, in our Bugs Report section!

Kind regards,
Your Elvenar Team
 

Marindor

Well-Known Member

New FA Round this Thursday



Dear Humans and Elves,

On Thursday, January 10th we will start a new round of Fellowship Adventures on Beta, in setup A! There won't be any new things to test this time, just an extra incentive for anyone who wishes to participate and a change in rewards compared to last time with this set. A change in the quest system is still Work in Progress. We know about the feedback around this and are working on it, but we're not there yet :)

Of course we'd love to hear all your feedback in our Feedback Thread and the bugs you'd find, in our Bugs Report section!

Kind regards,
Your Elvenar Team
 

Marindor

Well-Known Member

New FA Round this Monday



Dear Humans and Elves,

On Monday, March 11th we will start a new round of Fellowship Adventures on Beta. There won't be any new things to test this time, just an extra incentive for anyone who wishes to participate. Improvements for the quest system are planned, but not yet implemented for this version.

Of course we'd love to hear all your feedback in our Feedback Thread and the bugs you'd find, in our Bugs Report section!

Kind regards,
Your Elvenar Team
 

Marindor

Well-Known Member

New FA Round this Tuesday



Dear Humans and Elves,

On Wednesday, July 10th we started a new round of Fellowship Adventures on Beta! This time we will introduce to you our totally new quest system for the Fellowship Adventures!

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In this new quest system, all quests are bundled in one overview and you can work on several quests simultaneously! There is no more need to keep declining quests to get the quests that you want.

Of course we'd love to hear all your feedback in our Feedback Thread, and any bugs you encounter in our Bugs Report section!

Join us in the adventure and let us know what you think!


Kind regards,
Your Elvenar Team

Disclaimer: Please keep in mind that there can always be differences in event layouts, balancing and prizes between Beta and Live release.
 
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Marindor

Well-Known Member

New FA Round this Monday



Dear Humans and Elves,

Brace yourselves! On Monday, August 26th we will start a new round of Fellowship Adventures on Beta, so get your Fellowships together and grab some nice rewards!

Of course we'd love to hear all your feedback in our Feedback Thread and the bugs you'd find, in our Bugs Report section!

Kind regards,
Your Elvenar Team
 

Marindor

Well-Known Member

New FA Round this Thursday



Dear Humans and Elves,

Brace yourselves! On Friday, January 3rd we will start a new round of Fellowship Adventures on Beta, so get your Fellowships together and grab some nice rewards! This time we'll introduce a brand new play set.

Of course we'd love to hear all your feedback in our Feedback Thread and the bugs you'd find, in our Bugs Report section!

Kind regards,
Your Elvenar Team
 

Marindor

Well-Known Member

Fellowship Adventures Path Highlighting





We will add a cool feature to the Fellowship Adventures soon!

With Path Highlighting, we allow Fellowship members with higher ranks (Archmage and Mage) to set new path options within a Fellowship Adventure. With this, we want to add a new way for Fellowships to easily coordinate what path to take during a Fellowhship Adventure.

Once a path has been selected, each team member can see it, so everyone knows where to invest their badges to help the Fellowship in the best way.

  • Fellowship members ranking Archmage or Mage can see and select Path Options to set up a new path to guide the Fellowship.
  • Paths have four highlight options: Orange, Blue, Green and None.
  • Once created, the whole path will be highlighted for all Fellowship members to show the waypoints the Fellowship is aiming to complete.
  • When a stage is completed, the path selection will be reset to "none", until it is changed again.
Of course, following a set path is not mandatory, and all members can still decide on their own what path seems best for them.

Path Highlighting will be available in this week's upcoming Fellowship Adventure. Please let us know what you think about this new feature in our Feedback Thread!

Kind regards,
Your Elvenar Team
 

Marindor

Well-Known Member

New FA Round postponed



Dear Humans and Elves,

Due to unforeseen technical difficulties, unfortunately we had to postpone the FA round that was announced to start today. We expect to be able to activate it later this week and will make sure it doesn't affect the actual time you have to complete it.

Our apologies for the inconvenience caused. If you wish to respond, of course you are free to do so in our Feedback Thread.

Kind regards,
Your Elvenar Team
 

Marindor

Well-Known Member

New: Reward Selection Kit



Dear Humans and Elves,

In the Fellowship Adventures round that will start today, you will be able to acquire a Reward Selection Kit instead of the usual Artifacts as a reward. With this kit you will be able to choose if youwant to receive this year's Halloween Artifact (for the Witch Summoning Circle) or the one from last year (for the Witch's Hut). Mobile App version 1.140 will be needed to display everything properly.

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Kind regards,
Your Elvenar Team
 

Marindor

Well-Known Member

New FA Round this Thursday



Dear Humans and Elves,

Brace yourselves! On Thursday, March 3rd we will start a new round of Fellowship Adventures on Beta, so get your Fellowships together and grab some nice rewards! This time we'll introduce a set of much requested improvements:
  • Progress towards Fellowship Adventure Badges is no longer capped. That means that any progress that surpasses a badge's requirements will not be lost anymore and instead count towards the following badge of the same type.
  • We have added a section with participation information to the Stage Rewards window in Fellowship Adventures. This will make it easier to assess which players have yet to contribute to a stage to receive its rewards.
  • Fellowship Adventures will also have a start countdown, similar to other Events (already visible in the game).
  • From now on, a significant amount of Fellowship Experience will be added to the FA Ranking Rewards.

Of course we'd love to hear all your feedback in our Feedback Thread and the bugs you'd find, in our Bugs Report section!

Kind regards,
Your Elvenar Team
 
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