Did you start playing TSTO during an event?

I started playing right before Clash of Clones. I had no idea what an event was and was unbelievably confused as to what I was supposed to be doing first. All of a sudden my game changed and I had no idea what was going on. Creeped this forum for a while before I joined. This was back when the forum had a fair bit of "jokers" and I mistook the sarcasm... ended up NOT following the advice to leave my town for 4 hours based on a couple posts warning that people were saying this to get you to leave your town undefended... :) Also had no idea if elixir carried over, so I hoarded instead of getting lots of stuff. Still want more nerds :) :). Glad I got it figured out in time for Halloween though!