Easter Event 2013

The Event

The Hesperides have done it yet again (though thankfully not with a Golden Apple). On 29th March, all of the players will be entrusted with a special chicken from the Garden of the Hesperides. The chicken has the ability to lay golden eggs, and you can exchange these eggs for favors from the gods and for special rewards in-game.

Like all good Easter chickens, in order to lay eggs she will need to be well fed. Your chicken enjoys eating grass, worms and grain, so send out your population and let them search for food. The probability of finding a specific chicken feed depends on the duration of your search. Once your chicken has laid some eggs they can be used to buy items in the Easter Store. Some items are only available with eggs, others only with gold; but most can be bought with either gold or eggs.

We hope that you enjoy this new way of celebrating the arrival of Spring

Your Easter Chicken

In order to ensure that your chicken is well fed, you need to first open the chicken coop. This can be done by clicking on the Chicken and Egg icon in the lower right of the screen. It looks like the image to the right. This will open up your chicken coop and from there you can either go to see how your chicken and eggs are doing or to the Easter Store.

The Chicken Coop

From here you can keep track of how many eggs your chicken has laid, and how much feed you have. It's important to ensure that you have enough feed to keep making those lovely golden eggs.

Searching/Collecting Feed

In order to feed your chicken you will need to search for the various types of food that it likes to eat. As these chickens are divine in nature, they are quite picky eaters. Not just any worm, grass, or grain will do. You will have to send your citizens out to search for the food. The search will not affect your resource production or impact on your free population.

There are 4 options that you can choose from and each one will yield varying amounts of feed. There is no guarantee that your citizens will bring back food, but as long as you keep searching, you will find enough to keep that chicken happy.

You can also cancel your search, but if you do this you won't get any chicken feed! After the search time is over, you have to collect the feed you have found. It's not automatically given to your chicken!

Egg Productivity

There are three different types of feed you can collect to feed your chicken (grass, worms and grain). Each type of feed increases your chicken's egg production by a specific value:

Image	Name	Number
	Grass	2
	Worms	4
	Grain	6

Each piece of food will keep your chicken satisfied for one hour. After one hour, it's gone and your chicken will be hungry again. You can feed your chicken up to 8 times in a row to extend the feeding time. To feed your chicken, click on one of the three Feed (x/8) buttons. When the limit is reached (8/8), the button will be deactivated. After one hour the counter will decrease and you can feed your chicken again. A progress bar and countdown on the screen show the current filling level of your chicken.

• Hint: You can feed your chicken 3 different types of feed at the same time (eg. grass, worms and grain).

Second chicken

You can add a second chicken to your chicken coop by paying 200 gold. If you feed both chickens you can double your egg production! Two chickens can produce a maximum of 24 eggs per hour.

Easter Store

The Easter Store is where you can redeem your eggs for various special gifts or divine favors. In addition to using the eggs, you can also use gold to make up the difference to earn the rewards.

As you can see there are a number of items which can be purchased using the eggs. The following table lists what they are and their benefits:

Image	Price	Name/Description/Effect
	150	1 Culture Point: You are given 1 culture point.
	600	5 Culture Points: You are given 5 culture points.
	80 or 80	Heightened Senses:A supernatural energy flows through the bodies of your troops and allows them to fight with sharpened senses during the next few hours. Effect: Battle points for the next 12 hours are doubled. This applies to all cities.
	40 or 40	Myrmidon Attack: Myrmidon Attack : A Myrmidon army veteran visit your city and passes on its extensive knowledge of the battlefield to your warriors. He is an expert in coordinating attacks but however has gaps in his defensive knowledge. Effect: For the next 12 hours, your attacking land units will be 10% stronger. However, when defending your land units will be 10% weaker.
	40 or 40	Trojan Defence: You become a specialist in defending fortified cities. You put traps around the city walls and order more warriors to watch over the walls of your city. Effect: For the next 12 hours your city wall is increased by +1, and you gain an extra 5 militia for each farm level up to level 25.
	15	10 Grass: You receive an additional 10 grass to feed your chicken.
	30	10 Worms: You receive an additional 10 worms to feed your chicken.
	45	10 Grain: You receive an additional 10 grain to feed your chicken.
	50 or 50	150 Favour: You are given 150 favor. This can be bought once every 2 hours.
	35 or 35	Happiness Spell: Increases the production of wood, stone and silver by 50% for 12 hours, this is applied to the city that is currently selected.
	20 or 20	Call of the Ocean: Increases harbour construction by 100% for the next 12 hours, this is applied to the city that is currently selected.
	20 or 20	Population Growth: Increases barracks training time by 100% for the next 12 hours, this is applied to the city that is currently selected.
	100 or 100	Wood: Wood : You get 5000 wood. It applies to the currently selected city.
	100 or 100	Stone: You get 5000 Stone. It applies to the currently selected city.
	100 or 100	Silver: You get 5000 Silver. It applies to the currently selected city.

• The timings above are for a speed 1 world. I.e. The 'Heightened Senses' bonus will only be active for 4 hours on a speed 3 world.

Timings

The Easter event is only available for a limited time, between March 29th and April 9th 2013. The henhouse will close 4 days before the Store, on April 5th. The remaining time is always visible, displayed as a countdown centered at the top of the Easter event window. After the henhouse countdown runs out, it won't be possible to feed your chicken any more. It will spend all given food, however you are able to buy items in the Easter Store until the Store closes on April 11th!