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Hi Explorers!

As you may have noticed with last week’s update, Niantic Chat is now cross-game across CATAN – World Explorers and Ingress! We also introduced Niantic Username, separate from your display name, as your unique identity across all Niantic games and products. Your Niantic Username is currently defaulted to the username you selected when you first logged into Niantic Chat. However, we recognize that some of you may want to change your usernames now that Niantic Chat is a cross-game experience, so we are offering all Explorers the opportunity for a one-time username change.

If you’d like to change your username, please fill out this form by Friday, October 22. You do not need to fill out the form if you are happy with your current Niantic Username. These changes will take effect during the week of October 25th. We will be reviewing all submissions, so please do not share this form with anyone outside of the Closed Beta.

With CATAN – World Explorers sunsetting on November 18, we encourage you to reserve the username you’d like to retain so that you may continue to use this username in any other games you play today or in the future. If you are unable to decide on a username before the end of this window, there will be other opportunities in the near future, but this will be the surest way to lock in your desired username before we start extending username reservations to the broader playerbase.

Best,

The Niantic Chat and CATAN – World Explorers Teams

@ReplacedknifeNZ if you love to explore, imwould suggest Ingress if you hasnt tried it yet.

This has definitely shattered my idea of ever playing anything from Niantic, good luck keeping players if you continue taking franchises and discarding them because they are "unprofitable" after a minimal beta release.

I feel that it was the best Niantic game because it actually makes things different and is not repeated content with different graphics.

Greetings Explorers,

I'm going to miss that opener. Alright let's get into it - times are changing and in the time we have left, we want to get back to basics and provide some great final memories of our little game. As you've no doubt seen, Gold is no longer purchasable in the store. You can still earn gold in the game, but we're not going to be leaning on it as hard as we once did. In fact, we're also opening up a number of new ways to spend all those banked up Research Points for a variety of things.

One of our goals is that we want all players to be able to finish out all their research, and after that have the ability to experiment and play more with different systems. We expressly did not want to knock the wheels off and just give everyone an infinite reward pool, but we wanted to try and do our little world right with the tools we have available.

Season 22 Quest

We're doing a short one this go around. Candidly, I wasn't sure how best to tackle this, or even if a season quest was "worth it." However, it's been such a fun part of the experience for the last six months or more that the lack of a season quest would be too great an absence. A one step quest may seem underwhelming, but combined with all of the aspects in the changelog below, I think it'll be a pretty great season.

Season 22 Changelog

General Game-play

• Player Interaction radius 50 -> 80 (totem radius unchanged)
• Max Daily Gold Earnings 50 -> 500
• RP added to location discovery reward (uncovering a new Settlement or Resource Center)

72 Hour End of Season Bonanza

• This event will continue as usual, it's only in this list because some other timed events are noted below.

Catanians

• Common Catanians spawn less often, Uncommon and Rare more often
• Quests: Double Card rewards (this will not display on the quest accept screen, but will display in the journal and upon completion)

Exploration Weekend

• This "first weekend" discovery event has been retired, and the general rewards improved (not double cards though at this time)

Fabled Harvests

• Reduced spawn density
• Free Daily Fabled Harvest Ticket: 1 -> 3 timed tickets

Mayoral Weekly Rewards

• Mayoral Inbox rewards have been disabled as they led to crash conditions we were not able to address properly. Mayorships are still assigned at settlements, but it considered a cosmetic feature at this point. It appears this went live a bit early, and outpaced communications, apologies for that.

Personal Resource Gardens

• Tile cool down from 30m to 5m
• Tile Reward from 5 tokens to 50 tokens
• Tile XP from 5xp to 250xp
• "Reset Garden Tiles" cost dropped from 500g to 50g (still all tiles)
• Now also purchasable via Research Exchange (in store - see below)

Resource Bundles

• Scrolls have a higher chance of spawning
• All bundle types have a higher chance of being a large reward

Resource Centers

• Totem Cost to visit Resource Center 5 -> 3
• Rewards when playing Plentiful Harvest increased significantly (card still says 25%, but give it a shot)
• Max harvests from same Resource Center per day: 10 -> 100

Settlements

• Totem Cost to visit Golden/Community Settlement 15 -> 10
• Community Settlement Timer: 6hr -> 3hr
• Golden Settlement Timer: 6hr -> 1hr
• Personal Settlement Timer: 6hr -> 30m

Store / RP Exchange

• More options, increased redemption chances.
• Random building has a chance to return Fabled Building Cards as well.
• Boost card prices lowered

This is sad... I first hat to sleep over it and let it sink in... Maybe it is because I don't know the board game, but I think that this would have been a really good addition to the other Niantic games. I especially loved the idea of playing in regions and seasons that reset.

It was AND IS a great honor for me to be part in this beta and I think there will be a great emptyness in me afterwards.... I will stick with you until the end. And maybe, if there will be another adventure, I'd love to be part of it.

THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR WORK