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Winter is Coming

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Dear Kings and Queens,

You’re in for a "Frosty" welcome when you enter your city this weekend. On Sunday, December 1st, Frosty the Snowman will make a return visit to your empire, bringing with him new quests and missions for the winter season.

Each day in December brings a fresh challenge you can complete in exchange for some of our seasonal currency – Winter Stars! As tasty as they look, hold on to them because you can use the Stars to open presents in our winter window.

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Every day brings a new set of presents containing goodies such as Forge Points, blueprints, units and buildings… and there’s also a special prize every day, which is displayed in the top right corner of the window and can be found in one of the presents… the prize could be extra stars, a building from previous events, or even a brand new winter bonus building!

Each day you’ll have 24 hours to open presents from a selection. You’ll see the presents – all open – which you have to shuffle to get started. After shuffling, every present you open costs 10 Stars. When the countdown runs out, the presents reset and a new special prize takes the previous one’s place, so make sure you don't miss out and get your present before it disappears! If you do happen to miss a special winter bonus building you simply have to have, then it can be bought the next day for Diamonds.

Special tiles

In addition to the regular gifts, there’s also a chance you might stumble upon a special reward tile when you open a present. These are:

Shuffle all
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Presents are reset and must be shuffled again. You also gain 10 Stars when pressing the start button.
Double payout
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The next reward is doubled... even buildings are given out twice!
Show 2
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The contents of two unopened presents are revealed (but not taken).


New, unique buildings and avatars

Two new festive avatars are available to be snapped up in this year's winter event, and we've got eight new winter buildings to collect throughout December and into early January... plus if you reach the end of the questline, you'll have the chance to upgrade one of our previous event's bonus buildings to something new and improved!


Gate
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Snow globe
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Festive tree
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Winter market
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Log cabin
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Gate statue West
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Reindeer paddock
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Gate statue East
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This year's bonus buildings look great on their own, but they're designed to work with each other, too. For example, you can arrange the each of the gate pieces to form a larger, more impressive monument:

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The Winter Event ends on January 2nd, 2014.

We hope you enjoy the event, and we wish you all the best for winter and the coming new year.


Sincerely,

The Forge of Empires Team.
 
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