Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-34343471-20180802155327/@comment-35606019-20180802230421

@Agi In answer to your questions:

1. Yes, in all the updates I've had so far, the updates are staggered across different platforms. The problems are when they start the event before everyone gets the update. The events have a specific start and end time regardless of when the update becomes available to you. They do not extend it to compensate players who got a late start. However they have been really late before and gotten a lot of complaints that they end up compensating players on late platforms. That happened to me a couple events ago and I got a large number of access passes and 2 grilled chickens.

[extra on old event rooms] First I'll explain what happens to old event rooms. For the duration of an event the new room requires access passes (is a premium room) and the level required to open the room, the energy required to play it, and the # of exp pts and coins earned for playing it are significantly reduced. It essentially temporarily becomes a low level room so that even fairly new players can participate.

[extra on old event rooms] When the event is over, the next update will update the old event room, making it the new highest level location on the map and altering all its stats to reflect that. (I have old event rooms that took less than 20 energy to play at the time but that jumped up to 80+ after the next update) The room stays open for players who unlocked it during the event, regardless of their level and the new level of the room.

2. Now for your actual question, if by "special items" you are referring to the access passes, to keep a reasonable ratio of premium and non-premium rooms, only some event rooms will keep the access pass requirement after the update and most event rooms lose that requirement. If it loses the access pass requirement, the obsolete passes will disappear from your inventory. I'm pretty sure they get converted into different access passes. If you mean the unique banishing tool, in this case the bell, any unused ones will disappear from your inventory. I have not noticed any compensation for losing those but I've been using them up first after my first event. If you mean the fixers you got from banishing the event monsters, those just sit in your inventory. I have old fixers from every past event I've played. They don't have any use that I know of.