Valentine Event 2023

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## New Cats

Valentine 2023 was a full *Castle Cats* event added in app version 3.11. It began on January 16, was updated mid-event on February 8, and ran through March 4.

The event introduced six new heroes: Dimitri, Vio and Baah, who could be purchased with real money, and three more who could be crafted in Alchemy. All 25 of the previous Valentine cats were also available in various ways.

New guild leader customization options were available in the Event Shop, as were one new and ten 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 progressive rewards as players met objectives based on event activities.

The Lunar New Year mini-event began on January 22 and ran concurrently through the remainder of the Valentine event. The mini-event offered one new premium hero, Bungee, and one returning hero as real-money purchases and three returning heroes for gems. The Lunar New Year materials were available as quest rewards and could be used to craft two returning Alchemy cats.

## Event Quest

The event included an 18-quest campaign featuring the following characters (in order of appearance): Cupcake, Conan, Kyle, Catniss, Rich, Francis, Juliet, Romeo, Dimitri, Ash, Molotov, Pipsqueak, Bob, Curio, Benedict, and Leonard. A transcript of the dialog was recorded as the story unfolded.

## Event Content

### Event Materials

While the event was live, rewards for event-specific, regular and battle quests at quest level 4 and above could include chocolate hearts, red roses, and love letters, Valentine event materials that 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 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 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 Valentine heroes, one new Lunar New Year hero, and one returning Lunar New Year cat as microtransaction (MTX) purchase. Additionally, seventeen returning heroes were available for gems.

 +250VIP XP

### Alchemy

#### Hero Eggs

Three new Valentine heroes offers could be crafted in Alchemy, from the Dual Witch, Friendship Tea, and Sky & Sea Eggs. All thirteen 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, were available again. Players who had already unlocked them could find them in the Alchemy station ready for crafting or, if already crafted, with a green check mark. The Ember "app" could be opened by tapping the pink and white icon at the bottom of the guild hall screen.

Players could use Ember to like, superlike or dislike other Ember participants, who consisted of 33 guild heroes and known allies. After liking or disliking the character showing in the window, a new one would appear. Players got to like only 10 cats and superlike only 1 cat per day. The allotment reset to those numbers at midnight (00:00) local time regardless of how many had been used up the previous day. Players could 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 would indicate that a match had been made. When this happened, players were 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 was taken from inventory. (Note that players who did not have at least 25 of each material in inventory would not be allowed to send anything.) Plushies, including at least four new ones, could be unlocked by liking cats, making matches, and sending materials, as described in the table below.

Also available were five returning plushies from 2022 that could be unlocked while playing Matching Mania and one new plushie involving the tossing of cats.

### Guild Leader Items

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

 Royal Valentine Robe
 Ribboned Sceptor
 Jumpy Pet
 Two-Face Furs
 Totals

The Event and Gold Pass exclusive outfits from last Valentine are also available for 250 gems each.

### Hero Outfits

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

### Event Box

The Event Box was 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 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 played upon purchase is strictly cosmetic; each of the nine items had 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 five gems. The overall prize pool, which could be reviewed 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.
	+ Fourteen previous Valentine premium heroes: Amortina, Charmer, Rich, Venus, Berry, Lou, Shirley, Demaires, Iridessa, Kate, Cyrille, Stillsphere, Komachi and Gordon.
	+ Nine previous Valentine hero outfits, one for each of the following cats: Conan, Catniss, Francis, Purrcilla, Kai, Benedict, Kyle, Romeo and Juliet.
	+ Seven guild leader extras from the Valentine events of 2018, 2019 and 2020.
* The following items each had a Rare (14%) chance of appearing in the box.
	+ Nearly 90 different guild leader items from the Valentine events in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022.
	+ Gems in fixed amounts of 50, 30 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 nand 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 red rose 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, is useful only to players who have made at least $10 USD 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 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 can 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 has been watched. Unused tickets earned in one event remain available for use in the next. The Gold Pass could be purchased at any time to receive rewards retroactively from stages already cleared; the "Claim" button must be tapped for each stage missed.

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