Halloween '17: Final Week Changes

Greetings Saviors,

We would like to make an official announcement regarding the Halloween '17 events. 

Our goal was to create new, light-hearted and easily enjoyable PvP content. We then decided to try out this new content with the season of Halloween in mind and created Creepy Klaipeda. However, as the event progressed, it was clear that the Halloween Dungeon contained systematic issues and a lack of balance. Therefore, after taking into consideration our players’ thoughts, we worked to improve the dungeon during maintenance each week.

After the scheduled maintenance on November 14, 2017, we will be moving into the fourth and final week of the Halloween Event Dungeon.

Although not perfect, we do believe that, through these continuous enhancements, the Dungeon has improved since its first appearance. Yet, we understand that, because of the issues mentioned above, the Certified Trick-or-Treater ranking and prize system we had in place was not set in a level playing field. We have also paid close attention to the concerns raised by our players about this issue.  

Because of this, we have considered how to properly deal with the rewards in a way that would satisfy our players. We have decided that not handing out or changing the Certified Trick-or-Treater rank prizes would go against the promise we made in the initial event announcement and this would be unfair to our player base. However, since we wish to ensure that the rewards received in the fairest way, we have decided to change the event’s ranking system. 

Our solution is as follows:  

Instead of the previous “top 3 of teams with the most Odd Candies exchanged selected per server, per week” we will be selecting “the top 12 teams with the most Odd Candies exchanged during the 4 week period." as our Certified Trick-or-Treaters from all servers. 

Like this, players will be able to receive the Certified Trick-or-Treater rewards based on their total numbers. Yet, we understand that there are still issues that can be raised because of this. Therefore, for the last 4 weeks we have improved the Trick-or-Treat and Creepy Klaipeda Sweet Treats and Odd Candy rewards. 
 

1. Simply participating and completing the Halloween Dungeon: Creepy Klaipeda, will now grant players 30 pieces of Odd Candy after exiting.  

2. Sugar Treats received in the Halloween Dungeon will be multiplied by 3. This includes the additional 30 pieces of Sugar Treats mentioned before. Meaning players will receive the 30 Treats bonus plus 3 times the candy. 

For example: If you acquired 50 pieces of Sugar Treats in the dungeon. After exiting you will receive (50+30) x3 = 240 pieces of Odd Candy.

3. The Event NPC, instead of handing out only 30 pieces of Odd Candy, will randomly hand out between 50~100 pieces. 
 

Through these reward improvements, we believe that this will have a huge effect on the rankings at the end of the fourth week. 

We have also added improvements to the Halloween Dungeon:
 

In the Dungeon, if you have less than 30 pieces of Sugar Treats, you will be protected from other players' attacks. 

This is for players who are not used to the “aggressive” nature of PvP but are still participating in order to acquire candy. 
 

Once you have more than 30 pieces of candy, you are now free to attack and be attacked by other players. 

For example: Once you obtain 31 pieces of Sugar Treats, you will be able to attack and be attacked. However, if your amount of treats is reduced to 25 due to an attack from another player, you will once again be in a neutral state - unable to attack or be attacked. 
 

And, as a way to apologize to our players for any conveniences caused we will be granting each player 2,000 pieces of Odd Candy.  

Last, but not least, we would also like to announce that we have a new system in place to prevent future "speed-hacking" cases. If there is any sign of hacking in Creepy Klaipeda, a message will be sent out in-game and the account kicked off the server. After this, the player's account will be investigated and proper action taken. 

We hope that, with these changes, you will be able to fully enjoy the Halloween Dungeon. What is most important for us, of course, is for our players to be able to enjoy the event. We would like to once again apologize to our players for any inconveniences this may have caused and we are preparing these various rewards for you to enjoy in the final week. 

Thank you.