Just a reminder, Esior's Cove and the Summer Festival Forum Games will all close tonight at midnight. The rest of the Summer Festival features will remain open through Sunday, 9/15.

Additionally, there will be an Eggling Auction scheduled for sometime this upcoming weekend. Keep an eye out for the announcement on probably Thursday or Friday.


Lastly, in regards to Sculptures being auto completed at the end of the Festival - this will be the criteria:

1. The Sculpture must exist! In other words, you have to actually start a sand box and place a Catalyst into it.
2. The Sculpture must be at least 16% (or 10% for a Majestic Catalyst) completed OR the Sculpture must have a [Prismatic Pearl].

If you have a Sculpture that matches the above criteria after Sunday, that Sculpture will be auto completed and awarded to you as is sometime in the week the following.

How long do sculptures take to reach 20% (assuming no sand supply help)?

Link: https://www.sylestia.com/forums/?thread=79397&page=8#72 Author: Hawkins Time Posted: 9/9/2019 at 3:44 PM How long do sculptures take to reach 20% (assuming no sand supply help)?

Infinite. Sand Sculptures only progress with the use of Sculpting Agents.

Yikes.

Is there any way to obtain sand sculpting agents once the Cove closes? I have nineteen boxes at 0 and another 14 I hired from others, most of which have gold pearls and lots of additives. I have put a very high amount of effort and cost into these and I don't think it's possible, between now and midnight, to earn the hundreds of agents I'd need in order to be able to get them all to 20%.

How many agents are needed to get one to 20%

It takes five, since each adds 4%

Link: https://www.sylestia.com/forums/?thread=79397&page=8#74 Author: Asviloka Time Posted: 9/9/2019 at 3:55 PM Yikes. Is there any way to obtain sand sculpting agents once the Cove closes? I have nineteen boxes at 0 and another 14 I hired from others, most of which have gold pearls and lots of additives. I have put a very high amount of effort and cost into these and I don't think it's possible, between now and midnight, to earn the hundreds of agents I'd need in order to be able to get them all to 20%.

Agents can be found from Beach Treasure Seeking or bought directly from the Festival Shop or Diamond Shop. And of course also bought from other players.

I trust that we'll at least be refunded the hundreds of tokens spent on the boxes, and the hundreds of thousands of gold spent converting pearls, if you're going to destroy all our effort in the final week?

Link: https://www.sylestia.com/forums/?thread=79397&page=8#74 Author: Asviloka Time Posted: 9/9/2019 at 3:55 PM Yikes. Is there any way to obtain sand sculpting agents once the Cove closes? I have nineteen boxes at 0 and another 14 I hired from others, most of which have gold pearls and lots of additives. I have put a very high amount of effort and cost into these and I don't think it's possible, between now and midnight, to earn the hundreds of agents I'd need in order to be able to get them all to 20%.

*points* Considering how many people are stuck in that boat (myself included since I'm renting my boxes out to a friend) I think the 20% is a little harsh seeing as the supply of additives will be next-to-nil as soon as the fest zone closes up.

If you add to that that it takes 100 diamonds / 200k gold / 300 tokens just to GET the sandbox, 5k for the sand, and who knows how many people only recently got their majestic/fabled catalysts they've been hunting for through the fest or how many were saving those for LAST since they tend to take the longest....

Yeah. 20% requirement or LOSE your investment and get nothing? That's... that's brutal, man.

To be clear, I do not disagree with the decision. I do, however, vehemently oppose it being sprung on us in the 11th hour like this. If I'd had warning and time to prepare, I could deal with it. At this point, though, it makes me very, very angry.