We’ve recently received an interesting e-mail with a pretty large attachment. This one comes to us from Freestyle along with a quick description: Have you seen the latest fashion?
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, along with your name and we will post them out here and give you the credit.
Nicki Faulk of the Aion Fanlisting fame used some great programming skills to help the Aion community. Presenting a unique plug-in for those of you using Firefox to browse the internet – Aionfox. After installing this plug-in you’ll get a new menu in your browser with shortcuts to all things Aion related. The plugin is localized for NA (US), UK, DE, and FR NCsoft sites and works with Firefox 1.0-3.5.* . It is still in the experimental phase, but I’ve been testing it for weeks now without a problem so I can recommend it to everyone. You can find and install the plugin at the official Firefox add-ons page:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59196/
You might also want to checkout her iGoogle widget that shows the current Aion server status on your iGoogle page (or any website for that matter). The widget and JavaScript code can be found at :
http://www.nickifaulk.com/aion-igoogle-widget/
On a related note, a new iPhone app for Aion was released yesterday: “Aion U” by Lovellasoft. It’s a simple character lookup app, but hopefully it will evolve with more features. (News tip by Nicki Faulk as well – what can I say – she’s a champ!).
We received some feedback on this particular post and I wanted to clarify a few things concerning NCWest security.
Aion team has announced today new Double Experience Weekend starting this Friday, January 22nd, at 8pm for both EU and NA players:
Who’s ready for another Double Experience Weekend?! That’s right! It’s time to once again stock up on caffeinated products in preparation for a weekend without sleep. This Friday, January 22nd, at 8pm (server time), we will enable double experience. The experience bonus will run through the weekend before ending on Monday at 8am (server time).
To put the start time into context, we’ve broken down what time the double experience will start on each server. Plan accordingly and enjoy the double experience! J
East Coast Servers – Start Time is 8:00pm EST
Israphel, Zikel, Triniel, Lumiel, Meslamtaeda, Azphel, MarchutanWest Coast Servers – Start Time is 8:00pm PST
Siel, Vaizel, Kaisinel, Yustiel, Ariel, FregionOceanic Server – Start Time is 8:00pm AEST
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Pictured to the right is Chris “Kinslon” Hager, the new producer for Aion West. He was previously an associate producer when Aion launched and has been with NCSoft West since 2005. We, at Aion Life, congratulate Chris on his new appointment and wish he keeps Aion going even stronger in this new year. He had this to say about his promotion (source):
“I’m really excited about Aion and the direction for the upcoming year. Last year was a massive undertaking getting Aion launched, and this year we are really going to focus on making sure we are communicating effectively with the community, giving players the best experience possible, and are looking forward to some exciting new things coming up this year with updates and events.”
You can check out Chris’ linkedin page for all of his credentials.
There have been questions about what happened to the previous producer – Brian Knox. His departure was never talked about in public. Seems that Brian left in November to an unannounced company to become a senior producer (according to his linkedin page). Brian was one of the major driving forces behind the Aion launch hype machine (along with Lani) and the last thing he had to say to the Aion population he partook in making was:
“Welcome to the team @aion_tamat !!” (his last Tweet on Twitter).
There is speculation that the severed hand Chris Hager is holding in the above picture might have something to do with Brian’s “disappearance”. Neither of them were available for comment :P.
A few days ago Aion team has announced the winners of the Solorius Festival Video Contest. This contest was launched in December 2009 with the goal to let us show our talent and creativity during the Festival. It was obviously a hard decision for the jury, because of a large number of great submissions.
Without further delay, the winners of the contest are:
Apparently, we’re always looking for drops with better stats, but when we finally get them, it usually turns out to be of wrong armor or weapon type. Aion designers have provided a remarkable option that can solve this problem.
If you want to change your armor type you have to buy Daevanion’s Light for ~59,400 kinah. For Elyos go to Sanctum and buy it from divine accessory vendor Ophenes or Perena. For Asmodians, divine accessory vendors Gerad and Olda are located in Pandaemonium.
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One of the most exciting features in Aion is flying. Unfortunately the same feature is usually the cause of XP loss. If you fly too high the wings on your minimap will turn purple which indicates that you will not survive the fall. When the wings are blue you will land safely (The image above demonstrates the wing color difference).
If your flight timer runs out while your wings are purple, don’t try to fly or to glide again before you are very close to the ground. These few seconds while falling down will be enough to get few flight ability seconds and you will be able to spread your wings just before you hit the ground and survive the fall.
At level 20, when you finish the quest A Sliver of Darkness (Elyos) or No Escaping Destiny (Asmo) you will be able to equip your first Stigma Stones. As a reward you will get your first Stigma Stone for free and 300 Stigma Shards. Two Stigma slots will be available and after that you will unlock new stigma slot every 10 levels.
