We've been thinking about how we can make the checklist and the secret mission of the day more interesting and less monotonous. With more variance and a goal to work towards, we believe that motivation can be increased to devote oneself to daily tasks and to no longer view them as a necessary evil.
We have set the following requirements for ourselves in the development of the event:

• The checklist and the secret mission of the day should be completely replaced by the new feature.
  
• The tasks of the checklist should remain.
  
• Every game feature should be depicted and packaged into tasks.
  
• There should be fixed, daily tasks, as well as randomly generated ones with various goals, which should be comparable to the secret mission of the day.
  
• The rewards of the daily tasks should be based on the "secret mission of the day" and also scale with the heads of the Hydra.
  
• In addition to the daily tasks, there should be varied tasks that the player can fulfill over an event period from Monday to Thursday each week. This should give the player the opportunity to work towards something and make the gaming experience more varied. These tasks should mostly have an overarching theme.
  
• The rewards of the event tasks should depend on the respective event. However, the player should be able to earn another beer if enough tasks have been completed.

Here you get a small glimpse of the tasks that can be completed: {LINK REMOVED}https://bit.ly/DailyTasksBeta.

It has been a while since server merges were discussed and enthusiastically announced. Due to the challenges we had to face during and after the backend migration, the topic of server consolidation fell somewhat into the background.

We are all the more pleased to announce that we have not been idle over the past few months and have been working on a concept together with community representatives. Now, as the first test merges look promising, we would like to provide you with more detailed information.

The goal of the server merges is clear. After 14 years, naturally older servers are not as active and by merging these servers we hope to ensure more rivalry and activity in the daily gameplay for the players who are still active there.
Next, we briefly introduce our concept. Both technical aspects and aspects to ensure fair competition have been taken into account:

• Any number of servers can be merged.
  
• All characters will be transferred to a new server, the following rules apply:
  
• For each origin server, one character can be played on the merged server.
  
• Characters below level 10, which have not been active for a year and for which no money has been spent, will be deleted.

In the case of multiple characters with the same name, these characters will be renamed. The following conditions apply:

• The character's name can be renamed once at the first login according to the usual rules.
  
• The rename is possible by using the old character data + old game world for a certain period of time to log in. If a character is connected to an S&F account, the login is done via this.

Guilds will be transferred, provided there are still members after the character deletion (see above), but they must have a unique name.

If several guilds have the same name, these guilds will be renamed and can be renamed once by the guild leader.

The guild's honor corresponds to the old honor, but can be at most as high as the smallest honor value of a migrated top-1 guild.

If a guild leader is deleted, the officer with the highest level becomes the new guild leader; if there are no/further officers, the guild member with the highest level becomes the new guild leader.

• The calculation for the Heroes' Hall of Fame is as follows: Honor/2, but at most as high as the honor value of the top-1 player of an old server with the lowest honor value.
  
• For all other Halls of Fame, the honor of the old server is adopted.
  
• The income that can be earned per day through Hall of Fame battles is limited to 100 million gold to prevent abusive behavior when multiple characters of a player have been moved.

On servers where a merge is imminent, a pop-up will be displayed daily for a certain period, pointing out the server merge. In addition, there will be an in-game message.

On the day of each server merge, a world will be frozen at midnight. As soon as the work in the background is completed, the characters on the new server will be released again.
We will initially merge all US servers and the Canadian server. This is likely to happen at the end of July.

We will merge the aforementioned servers in a test merge, with the origin servers remaining parallel so that a data comparison is possible.

Creating a new character will not be possible on the new server during the test.

Important! We reserve the right to make changes to the concept if it should be necessary for compelling reasons!

Welcome, brave heros! The NEW WORLD EU5 which launches today has been waiting for fearless adventurers like you. Defeat grotesque beasts, build an impenetrable fortress, refine your skills and climb the ranks of the Hall of Fame from 16 CEST: https://s5.sfgame.eu



Join our Twitch stream from 16 CEST and get started on the new world EU5: https://twitch.sfgame.net

Have a nice weekend!

Hello heroes!

Please take our LEGENDARY DUNGEON SURVEY by next Wednesday, 15 CEST. Your feedback will help us shape the game's future: https://forms.gle/T4kFeg6pA7f6vy37A



Thank you!

Hello heroes!

Get ready for the following WEEKEND EVENTS from Friday to Sunday: Exceptional XP Event, Epic Quest Extravaganza & Sands of Time Special.



Moreover, you can already create a character for the upcoming NEW WORLD EU5 which will be launched on Friday at 16 CEST. Point your browser to https://s5.sfgame.eu or click the link in your inbox.

Last but not least, here are the results of our Hellevator "Trojan Horse" survey:

Thank you for participating in the survey regarding the "Trojan Horse" issue concerning the Hellevator event, namely players leaving a guild just before the event ends to lower the guild's ranking.

Below, we would like to briefly present the survey results and inform you of the conclusion we have reached based on them.

Survey Result Analysis
Approximately 30% of participants could agree with preventing guild departure, but a significant 54% were against it. The suggestions regarding the Hell Tokens being kept entirely within the guild or splitting them between the player and the guild when a player leaves got roughly 40% support each: 41% opposed the idea of keeping them entirely within the guild, while 25.5% opposed the idea of splitting them between the player and the guild when a player leaves.

Despite the aforementioned issue, the majority of the community seems to prefer the current system: nearly 48% favor the current system, while only 18% appear to disagree with it.

Conclusion
We believe this is a clear vote in favor of maintaining the current system and not making any changes.

Once again, we would like to thank you for your input!

The new game world EU5 is ready to launch next Friday. What are you waiting for? Register today, get your preferred name and receive a whopping 25 mushrooms for validation before launch: s5.sfgame.eu



We wish you a lot of fun!

We recently changed the class icon of the Berserker, which might have caught you a bit by surprise. In the following, we would like to explain our reasons for doing so and also present a few more concepts and suggestions, about which we would love to hear your opinions!
The redesign of the class icon stems from the desire to better represent the unique ability that distinguishes each class.

The Berserker's axe, which can also attack with all other hand weapons, does not capture its class; its defining ability is to mercilessly strike at its opponent in a state of frenzy, and we want to try to visualize this.

In the Hall of Fame, it's desirable to make the icons in the smaller version more readable and intuitively recognizable, so that at first glance it's clear which opponent one chooses.
The icon of the Berserker is a special challenge because it is about representing an emotion, namely frenzy, which we associate with heat and fire, without giving the impression that the Berserker has a fire attack.

In addition to the class icon, there is the option to also adjust the effect if this better represents the effect of the ability, we tried to avoid this in the first step, but we do not rule it out!
We are aware that the community has gotten used to a certain icon and it's unfortunate to have to relearn this icon for each class with every update, so we are now taking this path to better consider your feedback in the redesign process and to arrive at the best possible solution.

We would be pleased if you could take a look at the new icon ideas and their associated effects, and let us know what you like best. For this, we would like to ask you to participate in the following survey:

Voting for New Berserker Class Icon

Here is a sneak peak at what class icons we've come up with:

The BIRTHDAY PARTY continues! The Legendary Dungeon "Shady Birthday Bash" is still open till Sunday 20 CEST, and we will have this looong list of awesome events from Friday to Sunday: Crazy Mushroom Harvest, Glorious Gold Galore, Lucky Day, Witches' Dance, Fantastic Fortress Festivity, Assembly of Awesome Animals, Forge Frenzy Festival, Days of Doomed Souls & Tidy Toilet Time.



Wait, there is more! The NEW INTERNATIONAL WORLD EU5 will be launched on July 7 at 16 CEST!
You can create a character from Friday 10 CEST, and you'll receive 25 mushrooms if you connect it with your S&F Account before the server launches.

The portal to the Legendary Dungeon is now open with the bang of a party cracker and all party guests are welcome! Enter the distorted parallel universe and grab the new Legendary items as well as the birthday cake!



Check out the official teaser now: https://youtu.be/-c4dzRDt0zg

You can get more information about the special actions from the bartender in the tavern!

Join us on Twitch! To celebrate the 14th anniversary of Shakes & Fidget and the milestone of 50,000 Twitch followers, we are having a giveaway of 10x5,000 mushrooms from 16 CEST: https://twitch.sfgamen.net

To celebrate the milestone of 50,000 TWITCH FOLLOWERS and the 14th anniversary of Shakes & Fidget in style, we will have a giveaway of 10x5,000 mushrooms in our Legendary Dungeon stream on Friday from 16 CEST: https://twitch.sfgame.net



Thanks for following and playing the game!