Valentine Event 2022

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## New Cats

Valentine 2022 was a full *Castle Cats* event added in app version 3.4. It began on January 10, received a mid-event update on February 9, and ran through March 5. An update to app version 3.4.1 was released on January 20 to fix bugs related to the event packs and some translations.

The event introduced five new Valentine heroes: Cyrille, Stillsphere and Komachi, who could be purchased with real money, and two more who could be crafted in Alchemy. All 20 of the previous Valentine cats were also available in various ways.

The Lunar New Year mini-event began on February 1 and continued through the remainder of the Valentine Event. One new Lunar New Year hero, Pax, was available as a real-money purchase, and all five previous Lunar New Year cats returned, two in Alchemy and three in the Event Shop.

New guild leader customization options were available in the Event Shop, as were one new and nine returning hero outfits. Items from past Valentine events were available in the prize pool of the Event Box. The Event Badge and Event Pass offered prizes for players based on how much of the event they completed.

## Event Quest

The event included a 17-quest story campaign, which featured the following characters (in order of appearance): Rich, Catniss, Conan, Francis, Berry, Cyrille, Cupcake, Romeo, Juliet, Curio, Molotov, Pipsqueak, Kai, Sandy Claws, Benedict, Amortina, Astrid, Leonard, Demaires, Aya, Curio, and Bob. A full 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 chocolate hearts, red roses, and love letters, Valentine event materials 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 Valentine material,  300 gems and Purrcis | $9.99 USD
 1000 of each Valentine material
 500 of each Valentine 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 doubled event materials from quest rewards and purchasing two or more microtransaction cats tripled them. These boosts lasted for the duration of the event and replaced the ad boost option.

### Premium Heroes

The Event Shop offered three new Valentine heroes, one new Lunar New Year hero, and one previous Lunar New Year hero as microtransaction purchases as well as thirteen returning heroes—eleven Valentine and two Lunar New Year—for 200 to 300 gems each.

### Alchemy

#### **Hero Eggs**

Two new Valentine heroes could be crafted in Alchemy, from the Sweets and Heart-broken Love Eggs. All eleven crafting cats from previous Valentine and Lunar New Year events were also available.

#### **Plushies**

*Note: Plushies can only be unlocked in guilds that have reached level 50.*

Ember, Catania's version of the friend-matching app Tinder, and its five related plushies that debuted in the Valentine Event 2021, are available again this year. Players who have already unlocked them will find them in the Alchemy station ready for crafting or, if already crafted, with a green check mark. The Ember "app" can be opened by tapping the pink and white icon at the bottom of the guild hall screen.

Players can use Ember to like, superlike or dislike other Ember participants, who consist of 33 guild heroes and known allies. After liking or disliking the character currently showing in the window, a new one will appear. Players get to like only 10 cats and superlike only 1 cat per day. The allotment resets to those numbers at midnight (00:00) local time regardless of how many had been used up the previous day. Players can get five additional likes by watching an ad and additional superlikes for 25 gems each as often as desired after using their daily allotments.

Sometimes after liking a character, Ember will indicate that a match has been made. When this happens, players are offered the option of sending "Sweets", a "Letter" or "Flowers" to their match, and a random amount (estimated to be between 5 and 25) of the corresponding event material will be taken from inventory. Plushies can be unlocked by liking cats, making matches, and sending materials, as described in the table below.

New this year are five plushies that can be unlocked while playing Matching Mania.

### Guild Leader Items

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

 Checkered Cape
 Teddy Bear Bag
 Heart Tattoo
 Disapproving Face
 Totals

### Hero Outfits

A new Valentine costume for Kai and nine returning hero outfits were available for purchase in the Event Shop.

### Event Box

The Event Box is shown in the final tab of the Event Shop window. It 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 as well. For each box purchase, a player received one of the nine prizes shown in the window, chosen at random. The prize pool, which refreshed automatically every day at midnight (00:00) local time, could also be reset by watching an ad and then by using Refresh tickets (see the Event Pass section below) if any are available, or if not for successively higher gem prices starting at 5 gems.

The overall prize pool for the Event Box included:

* All eleven previous Valentine premium heroes: Amortina, Charmer, Venus, Rich, Lou, Berry, Shirley, Demaires, Kate, Iridessa and Gordon.
* Eight previous Valentine hero outfits, one for each of the following cats: Conan, Catniss, Francis, Purrcilla, Benedict, Kyle, Romeo and Juliet.
* Seventy different guild leader items from the Valentine events in 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021.
* Various resources in the following fixed amounts:
	+ Gems: 75, 50, 25
	+ Reputation tokens: 15, 12, 6, 3
	+ Event materials: 400, 300, 200, 150
	+ Rare embers: 7, 5, 3
	+ Common embers: 10

### Event Badges

Players could earn up to nine event badges by acquiring new event content and completing event quests. Prizes were awarded for obtaining 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9 badges. Progress was tracked and prizes could be claimed in the Event Badges window accessed by tapping the red rose in the bottom left of the guild hall screen.

#### **Requirements**

*Note: Real-money purchases are required to earn the Recruiter badge, which is fitting given that the reward for earning all badges, a 14-day VIP ticket, is 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 red rose in the bottom left 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 (pink with gold star) and to refresh the prize pool of the box (blue with circular arrow) 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 during the event to receive rewards retroactively from stages already cleared.

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