During the last few days a fair amount of attention was drawn to Aion 2.0. Pet System which we covered in our latest guide Aion 2.0. Pet System Part 1. The upcoming free expansion Aion: Assault on Balaurea introduces an entirely new pet subsystem to explore. You will have access to functional pets capable of storing goods, assisting with crafting, acting as guardians by alerting their masters to nearby enemies, and of course those simply designed to make their masters look good.
Today Tamat has announced that the free transfer signups will be reactivated on Monday, August 16 at 8:00 a.m. PDT, with the first transfer set to begin on Wednesday, August 18.
We realize that many of you are anxious to hear an update regarding character transfers. The development phase of the improved character transfer system has been completed and is currently undergoing testing to ensure that future transfers will help balance server population. The dynamic system that we’ve created will allow us to reopen the transfer service with automatic safeguards in place to prevent mass transfers negatively affecting server balance.
Our current plan is to reactivate the free transfer signups on Monday, August 16 at 8:00 a.m. PDT, with the first transfer set to begin on Wednesday, August 18. We realize some players were separated from their friends and family after the first wave of transfers. This process will provide an opportunity for those players to reunite, and we’re dedicated to helping those of you who are currently isolated from your friends. However, because these transfers will be automatically controlled based on faction population balance, trying to reunite with your Asmodian friends on Vaizel or your Elysean friends on Zikel may not happen right away.
Here at NCsoft, we’re passionate gamers just like you, and because of this, we hold ourselves to an extremely high standard for Aion. The first round of character transfers didn’t go as well as we had hoped. For that, we’d like to express our sincerest apologies. We very much appreciate your patience as we restore the game environment to a state where you can reunite with your friends and transfer more successfully moving forward!
If you are wondering why the Aion Public Test Server is down, here’s the answer:
The NA Public Test Server (PTS) was brought down this past week to prepare for testing of Assault on Balaurea, the free upcoming Aion expansion often referred to as Aion 2.0. The PTS database will be reset completely as a part of this, and all PTS characters and Legions will be removed. Keep in mind that the progression rates on the PTS have received a significant boost compared to the rates of our regular servers.
The PTS will reopen its majestic gates on August 18th 2010, with the new expansion ready for some testing action. Aion: Assault on Balaruea will be available across all servers September 7th 2010.
For instructions on how to access the PTS, please head on over to the Public Test Server PowerWiki page or the Public Test Server forum. Don’t miss the opportunity to help us test this major content addition before it hits the live servers!
Tamat is currently working on the top secret project and he needs your help. He wants your opinion about which character model you like more. Just to clarify, this character model is not our 1-year reward. (the 1 year veteran reward will be epic). Check out the newest Tamat post for all the information and don’t forget to vote!
If you missed out on the last iPad giveaway, here’s another chance to win one. NCsoft has teamed up with J!NX for another iPad giveaway. In the next few days from 7/28/2010 to 8/10/2010 you could win a 16GB iPad with Wi-Fi! Follow the steps below, and you’ll be entered to win.
Aion team has decided to suspend character transfers in order to re-evaluate their strategy for server balance.
While maintenance goes I want to make it clear that transfers are not permanently canceled, we are working to improve and bring them back. – aion_ayase
One of our responsibilities is to provide balanced servers for you to play on. To work towards a more enjoyable play experience we’ve decided to suspend character transfers in order to re-evaluate our strategy for server balance. Once we’ve finalized our new strategy, we will again re-enable free server transfers, however with certain limitations to prevent an excessive amount of transfers that specifically contributed to server imbalance.
Race balance is something that we take extremely seriously and we are committed to creating an exciting environment for all of you to enjoy.
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Because of the latest decision to suspend character transfers, in the first wave of Fight on the Right Side all active players can expect rewards, regardless of race conflict status.
Do all your characters on your account get the Items for Fight on the right side event? – yes, all characters will be eligible to get these items aion_ayase
Today Aion team has announced that from Friday, July 30th at 11:00 a.m. EDT, all inactive Aion accounts will be reactivated until Monday, August 2nd at 6:00 p.m. EDT. During this period you will be able to level up much faster than usual – double XP is additional bonus.
Greetings Daevas,
Tell your friends, family, and former Legion mates about the upcoming “Double Your Fun” reactivation weekend! All inactive Aion accounts will be reactivated to coincide with this weekend’s incoming Double XP goodness. During this weekend of double fun, you can enjoy playing with friends you haven’t seen for aeons and level up twice as fast as usual!
The Reactivation and Double XP Weekends start and end at the same time, as found below:
* Starts: Friday, July 30, 2010 at 8 a.m. PDT ,11 a.m. EDT, and Saturday July 31, 2010 at 1 a.m. AEST.
* Ends: Monday, August 2, 2010 at 3 p.m. PDT ,6 p.m. EDT, and Tuesday August 3, 2010 at 8 a.m. AEST.
Massively had an interview with Aion’s web producer Lani Blazier about Aion’s free expansion Assault on Balaurea announced for September 7th. We made an interview summary and you can find out more on massively.com:
Two new areas one Asmodian and one Elyos. When you get into it, there are fortresses and artifacts on ground level that players have to capture, and they’re contested areas.
When you capture it, a passage to a canyon will open up, which is the only way you can cross over to the opposing faction’s area. When you cross over, and you successfully capture fortresses and artifacts on that side, it unlocks an amazing boss that’s going to take hundreds of players to take down.
We can expect eight new instances, two of which are soloable.
When Aion was launched team focused a lot on the player factions, the Asmodian and the Elyos. Now they are focusing on the Balaureans
The level curves have been analyzed – are there levels where players are getting stuck: levels 18-23 were kind of sticky, levels 38-41 were sticky
They fleshed out the endgame, added more content
A free expansion is about 3 or 4 gigs of new content
With 2.0 the level cap has been raised from 50 to 55
A pet system will be introduced. There are alert pets, that actually alert a player when something is sneaking up behind you.
Silentera Canyon is a new 53 – 55 level instance with entire map dedicated to it. It’s an underground corridor connecting Gelkmaros and Inggison shared by Elyos and Asmodians. Players may enter the opposing race’s region through Silentera Canyon. Silentera Canyon contains three exits to each race’s region. The instanced dungeon Beshmundir Temple is in Silentera Canyon. Kisk installation is not permitted inside Silentera Canyon.
If a race conquers both fortresses in their own region, a gate to the Silentera Canyon opens. When the Elyos conquer both fortresses in Inggison, Silentera Eastgate opens. When the Asmodians conquer both fortresses in Gelkmaros, Silentera Westgate opens. A system message announces when the gate opens, and an icon appears on the map.
During the last Aion server maintenance some unexpected problems occurred, which caused the character transfers to fail. The NA servers will be down on Friday July 23, 7:00 am PDT again to transfer those players that had queued prior to yesterday’s maintenance.
Official announcement:
We have corrected the unexpected problem that was causing the transfers to fail. We are planning to bring the servers down again, to transfer those players that had queued prior to yesterday’s maintenance.
We will be bringing down the NA servers on Friday July 23, 7:00 am PDT. The maintenance is expected to take 5 hours.
If you queued prior to the 21st of July your transfer will go through, there is no need to queue again. Please make sure that your character meets the transfer requirements before the maintenance.
You cannot transfer a character that is a member of a Legion. Your character must leave any Legion it belongs to before you transfer it to a different server.
You cannot transfer a character that has more than 200,000,000 Kinah.
Items in your account warehouse will not be transferred.
You cannot transfer a character that has any items that are up for consignment with the Trade Broker.
Please remove all mail containing money from your mailbox.
Aion is a visually stunning massively multiplayer online roleplaying game (MMORPG) where your character wields devastating powers and sweeping wings to explore a celestial world of breath-taking beauty and epic adventure. It features cutting-edge imagery, gorgeous environments, and a unique fantasy world. Your character plays a pivotal role in the fate of Atreia, where the enemy is not only the other player faction but a deadly ancient evil as well.
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