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a year ago Aug 17,2023, 14:04:41 PM

Humankind 2nd Anniversary Community Challenge

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Hey everybody!


Humankind was released two years ago today, so it's time for a little celebration. Just a little one, though, as we’re quite busy working on the next update. :) 

For those of you who haven't been following our regular news, here's a little summary of what we've worked on in the past year:




We know many of you are excited to get your hands on the trade rework, improve naval combat, and poaching ability, but that’s not quite ready to ship yet. (Don't worry, it's not that far off now. You'll get a hold of it next month.)

To get you in the mood to mess with your enemies once the new update hits the waves, we prepared a little community challenge: From today (August 17th) until next Tuesday (August 22nd), we’ll be tracking the number of districts all of our players ransack together. As you burn and pillage more districts, you will progressively unlock Humankind-themed rewards, alongside a few hints about the final in-game reward.


  • Goal 1: A hint of what’s to come 
  • Goal 2: New G2G Badge
  • Goal 3: A second glimpse of the future 
  • Goal 4: New Humankind wallpaper 
  • Goal 5: The final clue 
  • Goal 6: New free in-game content 



The hints will be revealed as you reach the goals, but all other rewards will be delivered with the naval update. 


EDIT:

You've done it! All the clues and rewards have been unlocked.

All rewards will be delivered with the naval update, and we will reveal what the final reward is soon. Until then, I hope have fun speculating about it. :)

And since there seems to be a bug with the reward containing the final clue, I will include it here:



Have fun stealing your neighbor’s riches! 

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a year ago
Aug 17, 2023, 2:51:57 PM

Let's GO! Time to pillage and plunder our enemy's. To the victor goes the spoils!

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a year ago
Aug 17, 2023, 4:28:21 PM
Judgemental_Soldier wrote:

Is am Amplified Account required in order for the community points to be added to the total?

No need of an account. The data is taken directly from the game

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a year ago
Aug 18, 2023, 12:59:27 AM

Seems hype, I'll get to ransacking!


Assuming, for now, that the co-ordinates 41°52'26.183"N 69°55'5.602"W are a reference to the contested rights between Canada and the US over the Gulf of Maine, until someone better at geography or history can correct me.

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a year ago
Aug 18, 2023, 2:19:23 AM
Daarkarrow wrote:
Judgemental_Soldier wrote:

Is am Amplified Account required in order for the community points to be added to the total?

No need of an account. The data is taken directly from the game

Sweeeeet.

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a year ago
Aug 18, 2023, 4:21:13 AM

First clue is a set of co-ordinates (41°53’26.183’’N 69°55’5.602’’W) that seem to indicate a location just off the coast of Massachusetts. Given there are no islands there, and the image used for the background for 'Treasure Hunt Hint 1' looks kind of like a pirate's treasure map I looked up the location of shipwrecks in the area and the closest I could find is the wreck of the Whydah Gally - the ship of pirate Captain Samuel Bellamy and his second-in-command, the better-known Edward "Blackbeard" Teach.


If I had to guess the final reward of this event is going to be unlocking Blackbeard as an avatar for all players - which seems kind of fitting seeing as we'll be getting the naval content rework soon.

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a year ago
Aug 18, 2023, 2:02:09 PM
GrendelHime wrote:

First clue is a set of co-ordinates (41°53’26.183’’N 69°55’5.602’’W) that seem to indicate a location just off the coast of Massachusetts. Given there are no islands there, and the image used for the background for 'Treasure Hunt Hint 1' looks kind of like a pirate's treasure map I looked up the location of shipwrecks in the area and the closest I could find is the wreck of the Whydah Gally - the ship of pirate Captain Samuel Bellamy and his second-in-command, the better-known Edward "Blackbeard" Teach.


If I had to guess the final reward of this event is going to be unlocking Blackbeard as an avatar for all players - which seems kind of fitting seeing as we'll be getting the naval content rework soon.

Nice catch, best I could guess was it was off the coast of plymouth rock and thought maybe a pilgrim culture was getting hinted at.


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a year ago
Aug 19, 2023, 3:00:31 AM

Just copying this here from the other treasure hunt thread in the main forums in case anyone misses it:


Second set of co-ordinates (101001°101’100010.1110000111’’N 1001000°110’11010.100010’’O) is in binary - which, if I calculated it correctly should be 41°5’34.903’’N 72°6’26.34’’W (I'm assuming the 'O' = 'Ouest' ('west in French)). If so, the location given is Gardiners Island, just off Long Island, New York - a place where Captain William Kidd buried some treasure just before his death the following month (the treasure was actually dug up and used against him as evidence of his piracy in his trial). So yeah, in combination with the last set of co-ordinates indicating the resting place of the Whydah Gally, and this whole event being a treasure hunt where we make progress by pillaging, taking place just before a big naval update, the reward has to be something pirate-related.

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a year ago
Aug 19, 2023, 8:01:48 PM
chasethecw wrote:
GrendelHime wrote:

First clue is a set of co-ordinates (41°53’26.183’’N 69°55’5.602’’W) that seem to indicate a location just off the coast of Massachusetts. Given there are no islands there, and the image used for the background for 'Treasure Hunt Hint 1' looks kind of like a pirate's treasure map I looked up the location of shipwrecks in the area and the closest I could find is the wreck of the Whydah Gally - the ship of pirate Captain Samuel Bellamy and his second-in-command, the better-known Edward "Blackbeard" Teach.


If I had to guess the final reward of this event is going to be unlocking Blackbeard as an avatar for all players - which seems kind of fitting seeing as we'll be getting the naval content rework soon.

Nice catch, best I could guess was it was off the coast of plymouth rock and thought maybe a pilgrim culture was getting hinted at.


That could be something interesting to view, indeed.

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a year ago
Aug 20, 2023, 4:26:54 PM

No it keeps asking me how am I going to download it built the button does not activate.

The statement sounds more like a threat now

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a year ago
Aug 20, 2023, 10:04:42 PM
Ryansinbela wrote:

No it keeps asking me how am I going to download it built the button does not activate.

The statement sounds more like a threat now

Same here. It just gives an arrow pointing backwards and nothing happens. I have even unpacked the latest wallpaper pack, but darn if I can find anything hidden in that either. In a way I kind of like it. It's a mystery. :)

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a year ago
Aug 21, 2023, 9:47:45 AM

The reward should be working now, but just to be sure I have included the image in the blogpost itself.


Have fun looking for the clue and speculating about the reward until we reveal it! :)

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a year ago
Aug 21, 2023, 6:46:54 PM
The-Cat-o-Nine-Tales wrote:

Hey,


Thanks for the reports about the broken reward. I'll look into it as try to get it fixed as soon as possible.

No worries.

I'm so looking forward to the naval update. I have always liked exploring the seas, find new continents and have a decent-sized navy. I have often used it to block opponents from getting out on the oceans to try and get a foothold on my turf (after I have wiped out the opponents on my continent). Kind of having a fleet stationed around their continents/lands, with some hexes inbetween each ship, so I get a full view of the tiles and the attack their forces as soon as they try to embark. Getting some new mechanics and stuff to do with the naval forces, plus improved naval combat is a win win.


Btw, that map looks like a map to El Dorado. I like it. :)

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a year ago
Aug 21, 2023, 10:34:45 PM

Thanks for the challenge, I went down a couple of difficulty levels and picked assyrians, goths, mongols and inca and just burned down the world :)


A fun interaction I noticed is that you can build/buy out mongol hordes for 2k each (so 8k for 4) and convert four of them into an outpost, which you can then merge cheap/free due to the terrace farms.

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a year ago
Aug 22, 2023, 2:54:15 AM

Looking forward to the naval update.

Was going to log in tonight (only night I have time to game) but it stalls and won't load

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a year ago
Aug 22, 2023, 1:17:51 PM
FaeBriona wrote:

Looking forward to the naval update.

Was going to log in tonight (only night I have time to game) but it stalls and won't load

If you are having problems like that, please do remember to open a thread in the bug reports section, so I can ask our QA to investigate.

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