The Snowball Fight!


The Snow battle relies on the same concept as the latest waterballoon fight, but there have been adjustments regarding all the feedback we received.



There are UFOs of Snow balls flying around and containing gifts.
When you catch a UFO you have to choose between:
- keeping the gift and losing points in the rankings
- throwing the UFO further to another player (declining the gift) and progressing in the rankings.

It is important that you choose so that you can receive UFOs again.


Adjustments

- The chance to find a UFO has been increased
- The rankings are in real time and will still be available when the contest ends
- Some gifts have been adjusted so that more players can win interesting gifts



Jackpots
- Arion for the top 5
- Xanthos from 6th to 15th

We tested the Pinata using the current pass system. We are testing the next promo the Cards using the new pass system. If the promos end and start as expected the Pinatas end Nov 5th and the Cards will start on the 8th of Nov. My best guess is the new system will come either the 6th or 7th ( in between the two promos). It should be noted that ALL sales will be cancelled and because of that alone I am assuming we will all get a PM announcing when the change will occur.

I found it took 30 Titan's Challenge to fill the fairy dust gauge

Really! That's not helpful at all. That's awful. Is that supposedly because we are getting more bang for our $? This is still bad.

Christmas Sleigh


This year we get a brand new contest for Christmas: we’re going on Sleigh rides with reindeer to get gifts.

How does it work?


You own a sleigh that you have to equip with reindeer to go on a trip to get a gift.

There are several levels of destinations, that you unlock as you progress during the contest – the value of the gifts increases with the levels.

Each level also unlocks an additional Reindeer slot, for a total of 4 slots.

Every day you can open the Christmas Chest to get bonuses or aging snowflakes for the contest.

There are bonuses that you can use to travel faster.


Reindeer
There are 5 reindeer in total, including last year’s Blitzen, and several ways to obtain them: tutorial, contest, daily chets, Advent calendar, special offers.

Going on trips uses up their vitality (and time). You can refill their vitality by: feeding them, giving them to drink, feeding them a candy cane and stroking them. These also also take time and can be performed once per reindeer day.

Once they don’t have any energy left and you have used all the refill options, you can put them to bed.

If you don’t want to wait until the next update, you can wake up your reindeer by using Aging Snowflakes. You can get these Snowflakes in the daily Christmas chests, when you take your horses on Mountain rides (3/day) and on the Black Market.

When you have more than 1 Reindeer slot, the order in which you put them to bed is important and affects their vitality regeneration. For example Donner gives Blitzen 10% vitality and vice versa, Cupid gives 10% to the reindeer in front of and behing her. Check out the contest help page for all the details. You’ll have to see which strategy you want to use.

Note: during the contest, you cannot go to your Reindeer through the breeding farms, you can only care for them on the contest page.

They’ll stay on the player’s game after the contest ends, but won’t bring any bonuses.



Bonuses

You can use bonuses to accelerate the trips you take/reduce the vitality required.

Speed skis: You double the kilometers you travel on a specific trip.

Padded Horseshoes: It divides the required vitality consumed on a specific trip by 2

Additional Reindeer: It gives an additional +10 Km progress and saves 30 vitality points on a specific trip.

The North Star:
If your reindeer are too tired, you can rely on the North Star and they will progress by 35 kilometers without using up any time or vitality.

How to get Bonuses:

- take your horses for rides

- open a christmas chest every day

- from the Advent Calendar

There are 4 possible levels of destination but the number of reindeer required goes up the more valuable the prizes are

Gingerbread and Honey-spice bread belong to the pastries divines. They can have foals of the following breeds:

Thoroughbred, Gipsy Vanner, Hackney-only on versions INT, FR, DE.

The male version can be won on level 3 and the female version on level 4 in the contest.
These horses cannot be sold.

There are 4 levels and we do get to keep the reindeer. Pictures later.

If someone already has Blitzen does that mean they can get two Blitzens if they choose?

Prancer is on the gift list but I will do a double check for you.

The reindeer...Prancer is the one in back, I'm guessing Cupid is the one with the red blanket, Donner is the (in my opinion) really cool looking one with the lightning-like antlers in front of Cupid, and Comet is the one in the very front

DonnerCupidCometPrancer