The Halloween event in Aion did not impress. Hopes for Christmas / New Year events were not high either. In stroke of genius NCSoft provided a giant piano in front of the Christmas tree in the capital cities for their Solorius Festival event. Since there is no ciontent like user created content, some great videos have surfaced featuring the aforementioned piano and some highly synchronized players . Here’s a few videos for your enjoyment:

As part of their “we’re going on Christmas vacation” post on the official site Aion community managers revealed what they are planning for Aion’s immediate future. One of the programs is the paid account service. For a small fee you will be able to change your character’s appearance, gender, name or your Legion’s name. The exact pricing and service info should be available in February, and the service is scheduled to become available in the first quarter of 2010.

There’s also a promise of new content updates (“a great deal of new content” is what is said in the post), but they are still not ready to reveal any details.

The support services will be working during the Holidays, and everyone else returns to the NCSoft offices January 4th.

Edit: Ah yes, the image of Mr. T in Santa clothes is provided to you completely randomly and has nothing to do with the news post itself. Yes, we are that cool (ed. NOT).

When you start, you’ll have 27 cube slots + 1 extra inventory slot for Quest item in your inventory bag. Although it may appear like a lot of space, soon you’ll realize that you need additional slots. You can expand your Cube by visiting a Cube Artisan in most towns or villages and paying a fee. Your default Cube, 27 inventory slots, is 3 rows of 9 slots.

When you expand your Cube to the next level you will add another row of 9 slots. Different Cube Artisans can help you to expand your Cube for 5 levels. When you raise your inventory Cube to level 5, additional rows can be added by quests or as a Veteran Reward. You can have a maximum of 4 Cubes: one default Cube and three Expanded Cubes.

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Refer a friend to play Aion, and you will get a free month credit* of Aion game time! All you have to do is log in to your NCsoft Master Account, enter some simple contact information for you and your friend, and click the Refer a Friend button.

Aion Online will send an e-mail containing a free demo serial code to your friend. If your friend buys a new standard account and pays for a subscription for at least one month of Aion game time, you will be automatically credited with one month of free game time!

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And finally, something that NCSoft hasn’t announced in the latest patch notes but all Spiritmasters have been waiting for and has been already announced in Korea - Spiritmaster Pets now have the ability to fly. Congratulations!

Aion servers have been brought down for about 3 hours to apply the latest patch. Some of the major poinst are:
Holiday Event (The Solorius Festival), restored timer for deleted characters, searching items in the Auction House is no longer case sensitive

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NCsoft has released a statement to the community about character progression with some interesting solutions:

1. Implementing double experience weekends over the next three weeks for levels 1-35
2. Soul Healing will be less expensive for characters of all levels
3. Increasing the experience bonus that Energy of Repose bestows for levels 20-44

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The Aion Community Team has announced that the Aion servers will be down from 3:30 a.m. PST, December 17, 2009 (more) for an update. Downtime is estimated to take no longer than 3 hours.

This weeks the maintenance will coincide with the release the latest patch, which will include the Solorius Festival, the first double experience weekend, and a few additional gameplay changes.

After 20 levels of beautiful and friendly PvE zones, my first contact with PvP zone wasn’t very successful. No mater if you die because of a monster or unfriendly Asmodian/Elyos hand, the result is the same – you are dead. Usually you can resurrect immediately at obelisk spot, but it is much more convenient to be resurrect by someone at the current spot, so you don’t have to run all the way back. If you cannot find anyone to resurrect you within 30 minutes you have to use your obelisk resurrection.

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Aion’s official Korean site announced that a couple of Aion players got married last week. The couple met in-game during the Korean beta phase and after three years got hitched. Korean Aion community extended their congratulations on 6 pages of comments along with the Korean community managers. Whether they did some PvP in the Abyss during their wedding night or something else remains undisclosed *wink wink nudge nudge*.

News spotted @ MMO Site
Official news article @ Aion Korea