Dear Settlers,

BB_Alex (Game Design Team) provides a Summer Edition of the Dev Blog aiming to answer your most frequently asked questions.

Details on rebalancing and the current ruleset are also revealed.

Read the complete entry on our forum.

BB_Nevephel

Dear Settlers,

A game update is scheduled for Wednesday.

• Worlds: All (1-2) closed
• Day: Tuesday, June 29th
• Start: Approx.  4:00 am EDT // 1:00 am PDT
• End: Approx. 6:00 am EDT // 3:00 am PDT
• Adventures & Premium: Times will be extended

This update aims to restore the buffs taken at the beginning of the Soccer Event. 

Happy Settling!
BB_Sarrunah

Dear Settlers,

Update 2: The Survey has been restarted. Players who voted before will not see a new popup yet due to a website issue. We expect this to be solved early next week.

Update: The Recycling Manufactory is not tradeable.  To provide every player a fair chance at voting, all surveys will be reset to 0.  A new survey will appear within the next 2 hours.  Anyone who has already voted will be able to vote again.

The offer in the Guild Market section will be changed with one of the next game versions. The communities all over the world are invited again to vote for the preferred items. The vote starts between 15:30 and 16:30 (CEST).

Please check the forum for further details.

Happy settling!
BB_Sarrunah

Dear Settlers,

A network maintenance task might result in disconnections or unavailability of the game.
Please plan your game activities accordingly.

• Day: Tuesday, 21st June
• Timespan: 2:00 - approx. 6:00 AM EDT // 11:00 pm (20th) - 3:00 AM PDT
• Game: Disconnections or unavailability possible during the mentioned time span
• Affected: The game and web services might not be available or disconnections will occur.

Happy Settling!
BB_Sarrunah

Dear Settlers,

a new version of the Star Menu will be available for testing soon.
The long awaited sort, filter and search functions will be implemented.

Read more about it in the latest Sneak Peek!

The game version will most likely be deployed on Thursday around 16:00 CEST on tsotesting.com!

Have fun testing,
BB_Sarrunah

Dear Settlers,

Together with our partner Paysafecard, we would like to offer you a special opportunity during June to get some coveted Gems for The Settlers Online.

Starting 01.06.2016 until 30.06.2016, you will find a special package within our web-shop that comes with an exclusive 50% bonus.
Each player can purchase this package once.

Enjoy your shopping tour and have fun spending the Gems!
Your “The Settlers Online" Team

Dear Settlers,

a game update will be conducted soon.

• Fix: Buffs won't be removed when finishing or cancelling a football adventure such as “Practice Match”
• Removed buffs will be restored in 1-2 weeks
• Removed Recipes will be restored (the amount is always "1")
• Football Event buffs were not removed at all

It will probably take one or two weeks to do so as we won’t roll back the whole backup. Extracting the information from the complete backup is very time consuming. First, we want you to receive a working football event version without further losses. All game worlds will be shut down all asap:

• Day: Tuesday, June 14th
• Worlds: All closed
• Start: Approx. 11:00am BST (12 CEST)
• End: Approx. 13:00am BST (14 CEST)
• Adventures & Premium: Times will be extended

Your
"The Settlers Online" team

Dear Settlers,

when finishing a football adventure, the according event buffs are supposed to vanish, similar to a Scenario. By mistake, also regular attack buffs (i.e Assassins) will disappear along with the event buffs and some regular buffs (i.e. Love Potion).

Please don't be afraid - all buffs will be restored!

We are working on this fix and restore script and aim for a deployment around noon (12:00 CEST). Please keep an eye on this news.

BB_Sarrunah

Dear Settlers!

This year's Summer Event is all about Soccer once again. Play non-combat Special Event Adventures and collect as many soccer balls as you can. Event Achievements, new Tacitical Resources and a brand new type of building are waiting to be discovered!

The Event Dev Diary explains all new and changed features in detail.
You can find it in our forum.

Have fun kicking! 
BB_Sarrunah

Dear Settlers,

Update 1: the downtime has been extended. New end time: Approx. 7:00 AM EDT / 4:00 AM PDT

A game update is scheduled for Tuesday.
During this time the game will be unavailable.

• Worlds: All (1-2) closed
• Day: Tuesday, June 7th
• Start: Approx.  2:00 am EDT // 11:00 pm PDT (June 6th)
• End: Approx. 6:00 AM EDT / 3:00 AM PDT
• Adventures & Premium: Times will be extended

Here is a broad overview of the upcoming changes:

• The Guild Quests are now activated every day at 12:00 (noon) GMT
• A conversion script will be executed for Summer Event buffs
•  Shortcuts are now available for the Archipelago Islands

Further details can be found in the > Change Log <

Happy Settling!
BB_Sarrunah