Dragon Runner (23/08/28)

OVERVIEW Promotion DESCRIPTION Guide your Dragon though the track, avoiding obstacles and collecting flowers towards milestone rewards. Climb to the top of the leaderboard in an endless race! INFORMATION Started: 28 August 2023 Ended: 4 September 2023 Duration: 7 Days Type: Arcade Prize: Bone Dragon Leaderboard: Burning Dragon Ticket(s):

The event took place during The Deepest Waters Tyrant event series. Dragon Runner Events are limited-time competitions in which players guide their Dragon through a 3-lane running track, avoiding obstacles and collecting event currency for milestone progress.

 See PC Controls for information about keyboard controls used on PC.

Mechanics

Once the event begins, the Trainer's Dragon automatically moves forward, and the screen must be swiped (or keyboard arrows pressed on PC) to move to the next lane to avoid obstacles (twice to move 2 lanes). Each "run" attempt costs 1 Energy, and 1 Energy unit is restored every 30 minutes until the maximum amount is reached (the limit is 4 at event start, gradually increasing with each completed run, up to 8). A progress bar appears during a run, indicating progress towards the finish line.

Energy Amounts

Starting event energy is 10.

Energy Unlock Level	Energy Cap	Minutes to Regenerate 1 Energy
0	8	30

Items and Obstacles

Flowers , Food , and Gold are scattered within the lanes, the first of which accumulates to unlock milestone rewards, and also counts toward the leaderboard score. Some obstacles are destructible, clicking or tapping shoots a fireball to destroy them, while others are indestructible and must be dodged. While fireballs are unlimited, only 3 successive fireballs appear within a very short burst.

Beneficial Items				Obstacles
Item	Amount per collection	Actions		Type	Item Image (and variations)	Actions
Flowers	1	Collect		Indestructible		Dodge
Food	100
				Destructible		Shoot or dodge
Gold	200

Checkpoints & Failures

Flowers collected while running are lost if an obstacle is hit, at which point the run may be restarted for 1 Energy ( Food and Gold are saved at the checkpoints). Alternatively, the Dragon can be revived for 10 Gems, which resumes the run without loss from the point of failure. Reviving also provides 5 seconds of invincibility immediately after revival, indicated by blinking, during which time obstacles can be passed through. When the Dragon stops blinking, invincibility has ended. Furthermore, there are 5 checkpoints per run, crossing one awards 10 flowers and increases the Dragon's speed slightly, which also increases the difficulty.

Finishing

When the running Dragon reaches the finish line (indicated by flags), the attempt is won and rewards given. Collected flowers are multiplied by the win streak (if any) and added to the cumulative total tallied for milestone rewards and leaderboard score.

Win Streak

After two consecutive run completions, a win streak begins (for which there is no timer) and can subsequently be increased, if no losses occur. The win streak, if maintained, acts as a multiplier for collected flowers, starting at a 1x increase and increasing by 1x each win, up to a 5x increase.

Difficulty

There are ten difficulty levels, and five run-difficulties, one of which is selected at random before running starts. Run difficulties include: very easy, easy, medium, hard, and very hard. Each win leads to the next difficulty level, until the maximum level, while failing a run resets the difficulty to Level 1 again. Each level also takes a certain length of time, longer for harder levels, and the number of obstacles also increases.

Difficulty Level	Duration (seconds)	Checkpoints			Run-Difficulty Odds
		Image	Currency Given	Speed Increase (milliseconds)	Very Easy	Easy	Medium	Hard	Very Hard
1	30 sec		10	20 ms	34.48%	17.24%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%
2	30 sec			20 ms	34.48%	8.62%	6.02%	0.00%	0.00%
3	30 sec			25 ms	17.24%	25.86%	6.02%	0.00%	0.00%
4	45 sec			25 ms	8.62%	17.24%	18.07%	0.00%	0.00%
5	45 sec			25 ms	3.45%	17.24%	18.07%	8.33%	0.00%
6	45 sec			30 ms	1.72%	8.62%	18.07%	16.67%	9.09%
7	60 sec			30 ms	0.00%	3.45%	18.07%	16.67%	9.09%
8	60 sec			30 ms	0.00%	1.72%	12.05%	16.67%	18.18%
9	60 sec			35 ms	0.00%	0.00%	2.41%	25.00%	27.27%
10	60 sec			35 ms	0.00%	0.00%	1.20%	16.67%	36.36%

Milestones

On Computers, hold the Shift key while scrolling, to scroll → horizontally. 

	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	3	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	15	15	15	15	15	15	Bone
	50	100	150	200	250	400	550	700	850	1,100	1,600	2,100	2,600	3,100	3,600	4,100	4,800	5,400	6,000	6,700	7,400	8,100	9,200	10,200	11,450	12,700	13,900	15,100	16,350	17,600	18,800	20,000	21,250	22,500	23,700	24,900	26,150	27,400	28,650	29,850	31,100	32,300	33,550	34,750	36,000	37,200	38,400	39,650	40,850	45,000

Leaderboard

The amount of Food or Gold awarded depends on Trainer Level, the highest Level Modifier amount is displayed.

1-5	Burning Dragon   30
6-10	5   20
11-15	3   5
16-50	45,000   2
51-500	15,000   225,000