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
Find out more …
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
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.
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
We just noticed that Aion support sent this warning out, via their Twitter account:
WARNING! Because of Bot Bans, RMT is now hacking PPL to get money back. Do not share your info with anyone (even us!) And don’t buy gold!^^
You have been warned …
It took us a while but we finally updated our quests database with patch 1.5.1 data. I tried explaining to the developers that there is a deadline and that they are way past it, but all I got as the response was the above image. The fact that I am the developers and that I was exchanging post-it notes with myself did not help the situation one bit. I hope that the updated information will help you though.
There is a bug with the quest reward items currently and it should be fixed in the next couple of hours. We all hope that future releases will be much faster and smoother and we hope you enjoy the new data.
While upgrading our quest database to the latest patch we were able to notice a couple of nice statistical regularities. We thought we share them with the Aion community.
The following quests have had their drop rates increased:
[Group] Hairpin Ahoy!
[Group] The Pirates’ Pouch
[Group] Plunder the Pirates
[Group] Hat of the Steel Beard Pirates
[Group] Black Cloud Ledgers
[Group] A Present for Father
305 quests have had their XP increased. The increase is an average of 416688XP points per quest. The quest that had its XP reward increased the most is [Alliance] Reshanta’s Hero (2715525XP points).
If you have a need for any other cool facts we’ll try and dig them out for you. Just leave a comment with what you’re interested in.
Korean Aion players owning an Iphone have a chance of checking out their character and even do some Auction House trading on their phone. The application is called AionTem and you can purchase it for $4.99 at the appstore. It even has a monthly subscription of its own ($1.99).
To see the application in action watch the video after the break
Since we haven’t been posting for a few days (some sweet family affairs to take care of) here’s a compilation of the most important happenings in the Aion world (community and official alike).
The problem that removed the Right Click Block function from the game has been fixed. You can block your favorite kinah spammers once again (hooray).
Lobnite Cream Pasta is created in real life (what is that?) by the Aion community team. Full article with images can be found here.
The biggest official news is, of course, the banning of another 26000 confirmed bot accounts. Is that close to 50k banned in a week? If these numbers are correct, we can than assume that 5-10% of all accounts were bots, which is mind boggling. No wonder the community was pissed.
In community news …
AionPodcast.com is doing a recording of their Episode 13 tonight and they will be interviewing Aion’s very own Tamat (Andrew Beegle). Make sure you check out their podcast once it’s posted on the site.
Thulf is back at his blog giving out handy tips to Aion players. This time he helps you create custom map markers.
Massively.com is holding the best MMORPG of 2009 vote on their site. There are several categories you can vote in and we encourage you all to partake. Aion seems to be leading in almost all categories (even the most disappointing category – which is contradictory – but meh … ).
Have fun Daevas and we hope we bring you our promised database update by Monday.
