There is apparently a contest going on in NCSoft’s offices to determine who has the best Halloween themed desk. Who has the best looking decoration? I vote for the Spider guy.

Via Twitter @lblazier

Official Aion sites have released several news items I’d like to reflect on here. New patch 1.5.1 is in the works and Aion_Tamat was kind enough to let the community know what we can expect. There are some anti-griefing mechanisms included, item modifications and more anti bot/spam mechanisms introduced. We have put up our page for the 1.5.1 patch preview; please note that these are NOT final patch notes. We’ll keep you update if any other important notes are added.

There will be a small invasion on Dreamhack Winter, the well known LAN party held in Sweden, by the Aion community and staff. There’s a plan of introducing 16 fully decked out Aion gaming stations for anyone who hasn’t yet tried the game. Aion PvP tournament will also be held at the venue and prominent Swedish Legions and fansites will be present as well. Read the full news here.

In community news … I have come across this great little guide to Aether gathering with included macro for easing the gathering process. The guide is written by Adrian_dps and can be found here.

NCsoft has announced last opportunity to upgrade your standard edition version of Aion to the full collector’s edition:

If Due to an internal error that caused availability of the Aion Collector’s Edition Upgrade to end early, we’re restoring the ability to upgrade between 12:01 a.m. PDT on Thursday, October 29, 2009 to 11:59 p.m. PDT on Friday, October 30, 2009 (more). Please keep in mind that this will be the last opportunity you will have to upgrade to the Aion Collector’s Edition.

During the above listed 48-hour period, upgrades to the Aion Collector’s Edition will cost $10.00 USD and will include the digital in-game items found in the physical Aion Limited Collector’s Edition box.

Exclusive in-game items included:

- Black Cloud Wings (gives 40 seconds of additional flight time)
- Black Cloud Earring (gives an HP and an MP boost)
- Special character title (Settler of Aion) with stat boost
- Rich purple dye to tint 10 in-game items
- Two character emotes

Keep your eye on the NCsoft store this Thursday for your chance to upgrade to the Aion Collector’s Edition!

In order to provide better services for our visitors we have decided to move our website to a new server. Migration will start on Monday 26th October 2009. During this time, you may have difficulties accessing us while the DNS propagates. Many thanks for your understanding and apologies for any inconvenience.

Following today’s maintenance we learn that a new patch has been applied to the servers. The patch brings more restrictions to low level players with hopes of suppressing spam by Kinah sellers. They will have to work harder now to be able to advertise. Also, several language corrections have been applied. Jasdemi, in his blog, covers all of the changes much better than we could, but we have the changes posted on our patch notes page.

If you got an email about renewing your Aion subscription, don’t worry it’s not a spam. This is an official newsletter and all of us will get the veteran rewards during our 2nd month of Aion regardless of which version of the newsletter we have received.

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I am not a fan of large gaming network sites. They tend to be to impersonal. They tend to put their heart into the game only if its very successful and pays them big bucks. You can see bursts of activity on a particular subject when most advertisement bucks are spent and then everything seems to quiet down. There are, however, some high quality writers engaged in this process and they write for only the biggest networks out there. Great writers = great articles. I came across two very fun articles at MMORPG.ocm and TenTonHammer.com that every Aion player should read in their spare time.

MMORPG.com Aion correspondent, Joshua Price, writes a list of 8 interesting ways to kill another player in the game’s PvP combat. With sentences like:
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How does it work?

Aion team is updating the Chat Spam Filter constantly and every time you launch the game it’ll patch in the background. The downside to this is that the longer you stay in the game the greater the risk is that you’ll see variations of RMT sites popping up, since the filter might become out of date. It means you don’t get the latest version of the filter in real time while you are playing.

[Ayase]

If you like in game events be prepared. Aion team has announced Harvest Revel Event from October 25th – 31st. There aren’t much details yet but here is what we know so far:

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Aion team has finally responded to the in-game petition about better GM support. As Ayase has announced it’s coming very soon. We hope this will solve some major problems particularly those related to gold spammers.

For those of you using in-game petitioning – We will have 24/7 GM support very soon.

[Ayase]