Summer Event 2023

**Copyright Notice:** *Much of the content below was captured or copied verbatim from* Castle Cats *and is therefore copyrighted by PocApp Studios AB.*

## New Cats

Summer 2023 was a full *Castle Cats* event added in app version 4.1. It began on August 7, received a mid-event update on August 30, and ran through September 23.

The event introduced six new heroes: Hyla, Lyric, and Musa, who could be purchased with real money, and three more who could be crafted in Alchemy. All 24 of the previous Summer cats were also available in various ways.

New guild leader customization options were available in the Event Shop, as were one new and six returning hero outfits. Items from past Summer 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 an 18-quest campaign that featured the following characters (in order of appearance): Catniss, Francis, Newt, Kyle, Nyadra, Mai, Kai, Conan, Edward, Selene, Sabrina, Harbour, Juliet, Aslan, Romeo, and Benedict. Mai was an unrecruitable main character. She and any future unrecruitable event characters may become available at a later time. A complete transcript of the dialog is 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 watermelon slices, seashells, and tubes of sunscreen, Summer 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 Summer material,  300 gems and Sandra | $9.99 USD
 1000 of each Summer material
 500 of each Summer 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 Summer heroes as microtransaction purchases and all twelve returning heroes were available for gems.

 +250VIP XP

### Alchemy

#### **Hero Eggs**

Three new Summer heroes could be crafted in Alchemy, from the Safety, Lime, and Stingray Eggs. Twelve crafting cats from previous Summer events were also available.

#### **Plushies**

*Note: Plushies can only be unlocked in guilds that have reached level 50.*
Three returning plushies could once again be unlocked by collecting pearls. Players who unlocked them in previous years would find them in the Alchemy station available for crafting or, if already crafted, with a green check mark. Pearls spawned once a day near the arch in the guild hall and only when skies were clear. The rain returned when a pearl was successfully collected, and the next pearl would not appear until the rain stopped. Four more plushies could be unlocked by entering battles and collecting bonus loot in quests with the beach and/or desert backgrounds. *There were no new plushies for Summer 2023 and may not be any new plushies for future events until the developaws "figure out something more fun to do with them."*

### Guild Leader Items

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

 Bejeweled Outfit
 Sun Staff
 Leopard Fur
 Glowing Eyes
 Totals

The Event and Gold Pass exclusive outfits from the previous Summer became available again for gems.

### Hero Outfits

One new Summer costume, for Harbour, and six 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 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.
	+ All previous Summer premium heroes: Wetbeard, Harbour, Starsky, Sunset, Steve, Sundae, Lewis, Dandelion, Glaucous, Adelaide, Veronica, and Maahes.
	+ All previous Summer hero outfits for the following cats: Conan, Catniss, Francis, Nessie, Newt, and Edward.
	+ Guild leader extras from the Summer events of 2020, 2021, and 2022.
	+ Three guild leader outfits from the Summer event of 2017.
* The following items each had a Rare (14%) chance of appearing in the box.
	+ Guild leader outfits, furs, weapons and faces from the Summer events of 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022.
	+ Gems in fixed amounts of 50, 35, and 20.
* These resources each had a Common (84%) chance of appearing in the box.
	+ Reputation tokens in fixed amounts of 12, 9, 6, and 3.
	+ 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 watermelon 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 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 watermelon 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://discord.com/channels/697368878246002749/745264663222157412/1143887896898707496 Developaw Robin commenting on Discord about the unobtainable characters in both *Castle Cats* and *Dungeon Dogs*- "We feel it didn't make sense for them to join (yet)."
2. ↑ https://discord.com/channels/697368878246002749/745264663222157412/1147635948675416155 Discord post by developaw Robin about new plushies being put on hold, Sept. 2, 2023.

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