The Olde Foxbury Jousting Tournament
Posted by Mat on 15 May 2017, 12:47 pm
Minstrel says:
My goodness, it is SO exciting to bring you this event! The Jousting Tournament is always my favorite time of year, and I'm thrilled to see how each of you do.
Click here to visit the tournament grounds and sign up for the tournament!
Here's how it works: the tournament is villager vs villager, so you'll get to test out your awesome builds against others! As you win battles, you'll be given Valor Points and ranked against the other villagers with similar records. You can see the leaderboard there on the tournament page, as well as your Valor Points total. You may have noticed though, fighting other villagers is not the only way to earn Valor Points!
These old robots have been fighting in the Jousting Tournament's Festival Training Grounds and Festival Advanced Grounds for time immeasurable! Well, for me, at least.. they've been around much longer than I have.
Some of them are kind of scary looking...
And this one is downright terrifying! But at least there's a benefit to fighting against the tournament robots, huh? When you fight against our robots, you're able to earn Valor Points and there are some cool items that you can get from the battles too! So it's kind of like hitting around a pinata, sometimes something cool will come out!
So you might be wondering, what can you spend your Valor Points on when you get them? Well, to start! There are all these awesome weapons exclusive to this year's tournament that you can spend your points on in the Tournament Shop. They look pretty neat, don't they? You also have a small chance of having one drop when you smack around robotic monsters in the Festival Advanced Grounds!
There are also English Pointers, for all your hunting needs! (But don't hunt anywhere near me)
These Leoclaw are specially trained to be swordsmen also!
As for these, well... Mayor Polaria's granddaughter wanted to contribute something, and I didn't have the heart to say no... and I'm sure you'll love them anyway!
One last thing about Valor Points - most of the Valor Points you'll earn will be after the event. You can earn up to 1,000 Valor Points during the event (500 from PVP and 500 from the battlegrounds) but the lion's share of your points will be awarded based on your PVP ranking at the end of the event - you'll get 1000 - 2500 points based on your rating. You can purchase items immediately if you'd like, but it might be better to wait for your final total! 
There are a number of really neat folks that have come out of the woodwork for the tournament. What can I say, these exciting matches draw furs from all around the globe! You can encounter these folks when you're exploring Olde Foxbury, and they might give you something (including magical plush toys to make yourself look exactly like them... how's that for doppelganger magic?). Why don't you try meeting them all?
If you're from a different village, come visit us for the festival so you can meet all these neat folks too! I've made it free to move to Olde Foxbury, and it'll be free to move back to your previous village when you're done here! (But only once for each!)
Hm... what else... oh yes! Some lovely new bovines have come to Olde Foxbury!
That is quite wonderful, don't you think? I've even heard some feathery friends are coming later in the tournament...
Ah-- yes!! One last thing, trophies!
Defeat 1,000 Tournament Battlegrounds Monsters for a Gold Battle Trophy!
Defeat 750 Tournament Battlegrounds Monsters for a Silver Battle Trophy!
Defeat 500 Tournament Battlegrounds Monsters for a Bronze Battle Trophy!
This one's a bit more complicated because it depends on ranking in the tournament itself, but the highest ranked players will receive the gold, second highest will receive the silver, and everyone who participates in the tournament will receive a bronze trophy!
Admin note:
The tournament event officially ends May 29, 2017. Be sure to get all PVP and PVE battles in between now and then!
All tournament minipets have a 7 day breeding cooldown. The tournament minipet species will become infertile on July 1, 2017.
Reason for this is some folks may want to buy their minipets when the final points are distributed.
so not only do we have to be level 5 to enter (which many of us aren't), you have to move to a village where none of us have medicine mastered OR the plants to make medicine, the PVP and PVE systems don't make any sense and are totally skewed, but we also can't even buy all of the items?!
I'm honestly really getting tired of these events. I hate the new warrior system. all of the mechanics of this game require you to have massive amounts of money otherwise you're out of luck and can't even participate in anything. I was TOTALLY NOT compensated for all of the stats you wiped from my warriors for the new system, and this new system is horrible. It's expensive and, like always, the only people who can take advantage from any of this are the ones who are online literally all day.
I'll say this again, as I say every fest. EVERYONE should be able to have at LEAST 1 full set of fest items. Festivals SHOULD NOT be a cause of stress for everyone. It's supposed to be FUN, REMEMBER? This is honestly just all too much. I can't believe the way this is all turning out, it's seriously giving me a headache.
You have to be level 5 to enter??? That's not cool man
"Most users will get 2500 points"
A full set of plushies is 4500, and that's not counting familiars. This is disappointing.
are training grounds not giving vp?
it's worded like it would
I really want a cow.
So...Um... I don't mean to be 'that person'... but... I couldn't help but notice that... I've fought a few battles with the training grounds... and still have no VP....Yet the news says it's supposed to give VP too... Is that like... a random chance thing? Are we fighting Ye' old RGN gods again?
I mean... If that's the case... eh. Guess I'll be trying to buy the loot off the market place, because I am kind of sick of that. I mean. I don't mind the occasional drops for like, weapons and stuff. That's expected... but if the VP is RGN too...Kind of takes the joy out of fighting for it, knowing that you can go up against any level monster and many of those levels will kill you...
If its not, It might just be a bug? Please let it be a bug. *Fingers crossed*
I like/ok with most of the event, but there are two things that i seriously dislike:
1) That I had to move to Olde Foxbury, free move doesn't help all that much, when you don't have medicines mastered
2) Prices in the fest shop in comparison to how many points maximum we can earn.
I love the idea, but the execution wasn't great
A max if 1000 points when most of the stuff is about half that, not good everything will be super expensive
All enemies in the pve no matter the level or difficulty only give out 1 each
No level groups most level 5 warriors are getting their buts beat by level 14s, it's no fun when you know fron the moment it starts your going to loose
There should be more ways to get points from like exploring or recycling
wait if we can only get 1000 points how are we supposed to get all the stuff we want?
do the trophies go on userpages or villager pages
and does PVP only count for the second trophy? lame