Post by Emiliana on Jul 29, 2021 15:38:28 GMT 1
It's Lokust Season Again!
Check out the results of 2019's Lokust event, won by Falsiion!
Check out the results of 2020's Lokust event, won by Kyri!
The Agonian Lokust is one of the most fascinating insects on the island. It is a hermaphrodite, hardshelled, 4-legged creature with dorsal spines and a pair of deadly front mandibules. But their most interesting feature is not related to their morphology but to their behavior. They are solitary insects during the major part of their life cycle, but once a year, when the days start to shorten, they become more abundant and change their behaviour and habits, becoming gregarious. This part of the cycle is called the swarming phase.
Thousands and thousands of lokusts will group together and swarm over the fields and crops, eating every vegetable bits on their way. Their growth during that phase is spectacular.
The younglings are as big as a rat, and not much more dangerous than one either. But in a matter of days, some lokusts can reach the size of a bull and become deadly invaders.
The Event
- The event starts Monday, August 9th afternoon Server/Paris time (between 4 and 5pm)
- The map will be instantly covered with lokusts everywhere, on every tile! It is your job to eradicate them!
- The lokusts will give very high XP
- At the beginning they are very weak, with low health and low damage (a newly created character can kill them easily)
- As time increases, they get bigger, more dangerous and their XP also increases significantly
- This event focuses on teamwork, pathing strategy, and territory control
- The event will end when 99.5% of accessible lokusts are killed!
The Rewards
To participate, use the EVENTS link on the main page in game and join up, and you can monitor your ranking throughout the event. After the event ends and rankings are final, you can claim your reward through the very same EVENT page.
- You will receive a mix of main weapon XP, leadership XP, and gold coins based on your ranking, the higher you are ranked the higher the reward. Rankings are GLOBAL.
- However, a very large chunk of the reward is the valuable XP that lokusts give directly upon fighting them.
- Ranking is solely based on the number of Agonian Lokusts killed during this year's event, with a few modifiers.
- Nuruk have a 10% penalty to their kill count.
- Newcomers under 6 weeks of age have a 50% bonus to their kill count.
- Newcomers between 6 weeks and 12 weeks of age have a 25% bonus to their kill count.
- Top 30% of player rankings get 1 Ancient Relic
- Top 10% of player rankings get an additional Ancient Relic, a total of 2.
- The very best lokust hunter, ranked #1, will also receive a Tier 4 Weapon of their choice.
You have until end of the month to claim your reward (if you benefit from the newbie bonus though make sure to claim the reward before you are too old).
Have fun everyone!
The Lokust Event is usually a hectic and violent time, but greatly rewarding! We wish you all the best of luck and hope it's an enjoyable event!
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Bel & Em & Dspe
Check out the results of 2019's Lokust event, won by Falsiion!
Check out the results of 2020's Lokust event, won by Kyri!
The Agonian Lokust is one of the most fascinating insects on the island. It is a hermaphrodite, hardshelled, 4-legged creature with dorsal spines and a pair of deadly front mandibules. But their most interesting feature is not related to their morphology but to their behavior. They are solitary insects during the major part of their life cycle, but once a year, when the days start to shorten, they become more abundant and change their behaviour and habits, becoming gregarious. This part of the cycle is called the swarming phase.
Thousands and thousands of lokusts will group together and swarm over the fields and crops, eating every vegetable bits on their way. Their growth during that phase is spectacular.
The younglings are as big as a rat, and not much more dangerous than one either. But in a matter of days, some lokusts can reach the size of a bull and become deadly invaders.
The Event
- The event starts Monday, August 9th afternoon Server/Paris time (between 4 and 5pm)
- The map will be instantly covered with lokusts everywhere, on every tile! It is your job to eradicate them!
- The lokusts will give very high XP
- At the beginning they are very weak, with low health and low damage (a newly created character can kill them easily)
- As time increases, they get bigger, more dangerous and their XP also increases significantly
- This event focuses on teamwork, pathing strategy, and territory control
- The event will end when 99.5% of accessible lokusts are killed!
The Rewards
To participate, use the EVENTS link on the main page in game and join up, and you can monitor your ranking throughout the event. After the event ends and rankings are final, you can claim your reward through the very same EVENT page.
- You will receive a mix of main weapon XP, leadership XP, and gold coins based on your ranking, the higher you are ranked the higher the reward. Rankings are GLOBAL.
- However, a very large chunk of the reward is the valuable XP that lokusts give directly upon fighting them.
- Ranking is solely based on the number of Agonian Lokusts killed during this year's event, with a few modifiers.
- Nuruk have a 10% penalty to their kill count.
- Newcomers under 6 weeks of age have a 50% bonus to their kill count.
- Newcomers between 6 weeks and 12 weeks of age have a 25% bonus to their kill count.
- Top 30% of player rankings get 1 Ancient Relic
- Top 10% of player rankings get an additional Ancient Relic, a total of 2.
- The very best lokust hunter, ranked #1, will also receive a Tier 4 Weapon of their choice.
You have until end of the month to claim your reward (if you benefit from the newbie bonus though make sure to claim the reward before you are too old).
Have fun everyone!
The Lokust Event is usually a hectic and violent time, but greatly rewarding! We wish you all the best of luck and hope it's an enjoyable event!
---
Bel & Em & Dspe