Anniversary Event 2023

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## New Cats

Anniversary 2023 was a full *Castle Cats* event added in app version 4.0. It began on June 12, received a mid-event update on July 5, and ran through August 4. It was the 7th annual such event, marking both the 7th anniversary of the game's initial early access release in 2016 and the 6th anniversary of its official release a year later. It was also regarded, as usual, as Conan's birthday.

The event introduced six new heroes: Amanda, Emery, and Scifur, who could be purchased with real money, and three more who could be crafted in Alchemy. The 22 previous Anniversary cats were also available in various ways.

New guild leader customization options were available in the Event Shop, as was one new and twelve returning hero outfits. Items from past Anniversary events were available in the prize pool of the Event Box. The Event Badge and Event Pass offered progressive rewards as players met objectives based on event activities.

## Event Quest

The event included a 14-quest campaign that featured the following characters (in order of appearance): Conan, Adelaide, Catniss, Curio, Francis, Mortimer, Kyle, Rich, Mewton, Edward, Beans, Purrcilla, Dimitri, Molotov, Pipsqueak, Ash, Nolan, Juliet, Romeo, Charmer, Purrcis, Benedict, Kai, and Lumoz. A complete transcript of the dialog is now available.

## Event Content

### Event Materials

While the event was live, rewards for event-specific, normal and battle quests at quest level 4 and above could include party hats, cakes and presents. Anniversary event materials could be used to craft hero eggs and plushies and acquire new guild leader items. These materials could also be purchased as microtransactions in the Event Shop.

 Event Pack:  1000 of each Anniversary material,  300 gems and Snappy | $9.99 USD
 1000 of each Anniversary material
 500 of each Anniversary material

The quest selection screen included a materials boost button offering the option to watch an ad and get double event materials from quest rewards for 30 minutes. Alternatively, purchasing a new premium hero for real money would double event materials from quest rewards and purchasing two or more microtransaction cats would triple them. These boosts lasted for the duration of the event and replaced the ad boost option.

### Premium Heroes

The Event Shop offered three new Anniversary heroes as microtransaction purchases and eleven returning heroes available for gems.

 +250VIP XP

### Alchemy

#### **Hero Eggs**

Three new Anniversary heroes could be crafted in Alchemy, from the Cyberrider, Magpie, and Barbel Eggs. Eleven crafting cats from previous Anniversary events were also available.

#### **Plushies**

*Note: Plushies can only be unlocked in guilds that have reached level 50.*
Balloons were once again floating across the guild hall. Players who unlocked last year's plushies by popping balloons found them ready for crafting in the Alchemy station or, if already crafted, indicated with a green checkmark. Two plushies could also be unlocked by playing Matching Mania, and another by shaking heroes for gold. *\*There were no new plushies for this event.*

### Guild Leader Items

The following new guild leader customizations were available in the Event Shop.

 Dragon Mane
 Fruit Sword
 Dragon Fur
 Dragon Face
 Totals

The Event and Gold Pass exclusive outfits from the previous Anniversary were available for gems.

### Hero Outfits

One new Anniversary costume for Saito and twelve returning hero outfits were available for purchase in the Event Shop.

### Event Box

The Event Box, shown in the final tab of the Event Shop window, could be purchased for 50,000 coins every two days or for 60 gems otherwise at any time. Players got a free box at the start of the event and could also earn free box tickets by completing certain stages of the Event Pass. For each box purchased, a player received one of the nine prizes shown in the window, chosen at random. Note that the animation that plays upon purchase is strictly cosmetic; each of the nine items has an equal chance of being selected.

The prize pool refreshed automatically every day at midnight (00:00) local time. It could also be reset by watching an ad and then by using Refresh tickets, also earned as Event Pass rewards, or if no tickets were available, for successively higher gem prices starting at 5 gems. The overall prize pool, which could be viewed by tapping the question mark icon at the top left of the box, featured collectibles and resources with varying odds of appearing in the box, as described below.

* The following collectibles each had a Mythic (2%) chance of appearing as one of the nine potential prizes in the box.
	+ All previous Anniversary premium heroes: Dorothy, Saito, Basil, Minerva, Calli, Krystal, Opal, Fafnir, Heen, Cherry, and Alicia.
	+ All previous Anniversary hero outfits for the following cats: Conan (2), Catniss (2), Francis (2), Luna Sparkle, Nyadra, Purrcis, Bob, Curio, and Purrcilla.
	+ Five guild leader extras from the Anniversary events of 2019 and 2021.
* The following items each had a Rare (14%) chance of appearing in the box.
	+ All of the guild leader outfits, furs, weapons and faces from the Anniversary events of 2019, 2021, and 2022.
	+ Gems in fixed amounts of 50, 35, and 20.
	+ Reputation tokens in fixed amounts of 12, 9, 6, and 3.
* These resources each had a Common (84%) chance of appearing in the box.
	+ Event materials in fixed amounts of 300, 200, 100 and 50.
	+ Rare embers in fixed amounts of 5 and 3.
	+ Common embers in fixed amounts of 10 and 5.

### Event Badges

Players could earn up to ten event badges by acquiring new event content and completing event quests. Prizes were awarded for obtaining 1, 3, 5, 7 and 10 badges. Progress was tracked and prizes could be claimed in the Event Badges window accessed by tapping the cake icon at the bottom of the guild hall screen.

#### **Requirements**

*Note: Real-money purchases were required to earn the Recruiter badge, which is fitting given that the reward for earning all badges, a 14-day VIP ticket, was useful only to players who have made at least $10 in real-money purchases.*

### Event Pass

The Event Pass awarded prizes as players collected event materials; additional rewards were available to players who purchased the Gold Pass for 450 gems. Materials requirements increased as players advanced through ten stages and acted only as criteria, not costs; that is, no materials were taken from inventory as prizes were claimed. The Event Pass window could be found by tapping the cake icon at the bottom of the guild hall screen and then opening the third tab on the right.

#### **Requirements and Rewards**

Rewards included tickets that could be used to open the Event Box  and to refresh the prize pool of the box  after the "Refresh" ad had been watched. So far, unused tickets earned in one event remain available for use in the next, although the *Castle Cats* developaws have considered imposing an expiration on unused tickets. The Gold Pass could be purchased at any time to receive rewards retroactively from stages already cleared; the "Claim" button would need to be tapped for each stage missed.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/castlecatsgame/posts/1484246391597535/ *Castle Cats* Facebook post announcing the original Anniversary Event, June 29, 2017.

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