Zu Online (http://zu.igg.com/) team will be holding a captivating event called A Needle in a Haystacke from today.
Every player has the chance to win a fancy gift if they succeed in finding out a word spelled backwards on Zu Online homepage and submit it to zu@igg.com before 01:00am (GMT-5) on May 12th.
Event Time:
01:00 AM (GMT-5) May 5th – 01:00 AM (GMT-5) May 12th
Reward Time:
2:00 AM EST (GMT-5) on May 12th
For more info visit the official Zu Online site: http://zu.igg.com/news/newscon.php?aid=499
Monthly Archives: May 2008
DOMO world, SAPPHIRE, is now open
Aeria Games is proud to announce that the second DOMO world, SAPPHIRE, is now open!!
A whole new world has opened up for those players who would like to start over or join for the first time.
With the arrival of the second world, we are running two GREAT contests where old and new players have an opportunity to win Aeria Points! More information can be found at THIS forum thread.
Enter a world where you can team up with your friends to complete quests, create a wide variety of items using an easy to understand crafting system and create relationships that can last a lifetime.
Voyage Century: Immigration
Are you the boss in your server? Always dispatching your rivals before they have a chance to blossom into a true rivalry? Dont wanna get along with the players in your server anymore? Well, the Voyage Century Team is going to release a new function, Immigration, which will offer you a chance to start a brand new life in another server.
Sign-up Duration: May 5th to May 11th
Original Servers: Columbus-Magellan-Da Gama&James Cook
Target Servers: Columbus-Magellan-Da Gama&James Cook
Service Fees:
If you want to immigrate to Columbus Server, you need to pay 1200 credits for each account.
If you want to immigrate to Magellan Server, you need to pay 600 credits for each account.
If you want to immigrate to Da Gama&James Cook Server, you need to pay 800 credits for each account.
Notes:
1. You should prepare 2 backup character names in case there are duplicates. If there are duplicated names, we will use the first available backup name.
2. Make sure that you haven’t created any characters in the server you want to move to.
3. All your temporary states will be dispelled (Double Exp, Skill Manual effect, Protection Card effect, Blessed Pellet, etc
)
4. After the immigration, your character in the original server will be wiped out. All relations such as guild relations, mentoring relations and friends will also be deleted.
You should also be aware that items you haven’t picked up will also be deleted. (Note: Players should pick up all items bought in the Item Mall to avoid any loss)
5. Immigration will probably be held during the maintenance every Tuesday. You shouldnt log in the game 3 hours before the maintenance; otherwise you may lose some important data. During the immigration duration, please dont log in the game until it has been completed.
Sign-up Format:
Title: VCO Immigration
Content:
From original server to target server
Account:
Character Name, (Backup name 1),-Backup name 2-;
Please use your registered mailbox to send your application in the form of the sign-up format to event@igg.com .
Detailed immigration status will be announced on May 12th, with the first round of immigration commencing on May 13th.
Note: Your account name should match your registered mailbox.
News source: http://vc.igg.com/content.php?news_id=872
Wonderland Online: Video Contest
Why not record your comical adventures while playing Wonderland Online (http://wl.igg.com/)? How can the little Erik Stifler become the popular Dwight Stifler? Why not direct an American Pie by yourself? Wonderland online is going to give you this chance.
Event Duration: (GMT-5) May 5th ~ June 5th
Selection Duration: -GMT-5-June 9th~June 15th
Event Reward:
Top 3 places: 1 Steam Boat for each
Honorable Mentions: 1 2x EXP Silver Card for each
Event Content: Players can make and release a video with [Newbie Guide] as the theme to obtain abundant rewards.
Selection Rules:
1. The officials will choose several good videos and then players can vote for the winners.
2. The officials will choose the Top 3 videos with the best effects.
3. Players can obtain an Honorable Mention Award if they release their videos in 3 or more video websites.
Note:
1. Players should post the video link in the Event Zone of the forum.
2. Players video should contain the WLO website.
3. IGG reserves all the copyrights to the works submitted and all rights for final judgment of the event.
4. There is no limitation to the videos.
For more information, please visit: http://wl.igg.com/news/newscontent.php?aid=419
Angels Online: Marriage Quest Introduction
The first expansion of Angels Online (http://ao.igg.com) from IGG is coming around the corner, and the new marriage system has drawn lots attention of players. Today Angels Online Team will give us a brief introduction on marriage quest in new expansion Eden.
1. Marriage Quest:
After the releasing of expansion, players can get this quest from the Marriage Angel in the Angel Lyceum. There are two different quests for the groom and bride.
a) Groom Quest
You should talk with the Star Soul in Cactus Plain and get the quest. You will be given Sunlight Tear as a reward after finishing the quest. Then submit both the Sunlight Tear and Dew Crystal from your beloved to the Marriage Angel to get the necessities for the wedding.
b) Bride Quest:
Look for the Dewy Flower and help her to deal with her difficulties to get the Dew Crystal. After that, you need to give the Dew Crystal to your beloved.
2. Wedding Process:
1) There are two different wedding ceremonies: Simple Wedding and Luxurious Wedding. To make a Luxurious Wedding you should buy special item from the Item Mall while holding a Simple Wedding does not. But both of these wedding ceremonies will be held in the church.
For more information please visit us at: http://ao.igg.com/news/news.php?aid=796
Treasure Hunt Event Guide
Elf Online (http://elf.happymmo.com/) Treasure Hunt Event happens every wednesday, from 19h to 22h(EST – GMT-5) and if you wish to make the Dream Armors Quest or the Imaginary Armors Quest you need to participate in it. It consist in solving some easy quests to collect posters and exchange for items you’ll need later.
Signing In
To attend the event you must be at least level 20. It’s possible to attend it in a party, but everyone must be at least level 20. When you talk to Meng Da(Sunset Prairie – 1626 1222) or Wu Xiaohu(Tranquil Seacoast 1 – 867 1593) you have 3 or 4 options:
Hunt for Treasure
The first thing you have to do is choose this option. After doing it you’ll get a message informing which manager you should visit in order to get the posters you need to collect. Some error messages might show up if there’s something wrong with one of your party members.
Player X has too many posters: This means that person has to exchange his posters before visiting another manager. Let him talk to the npc to make it and then try choosing the option again.
Player X has already started a quest: This means that person choosed this option before and didn’t finish his hunt(or maybe the person was in a party that started a hunt and didn’t finish). That person might visit the appropriate manager to finish his hunt and then be able to start another hunt in a party.
If everything is ok, then no error message will be shown. A green message informing the manager you have to visit shows up. Go to that manager and do your hunt in order to be able to get back to this npc and get another hunt.
Exchange for Bullet-proof Vest
If you have 4 or more posters(obtained by finishing hunts), you might be able to exchange 4 of them for 1 bullet-proof vest. This item may protect you from mine explosions when you try to find treasures in the managers with a map(that you get sometimes). Always have at least one of this in your inventory before trying to find a treasure.
Exchange for Equipment Fortifier
If you have 15 or more posters, you might be able to exchange 15 of them for some equipment fortifiers. This item is necessary for the dream armors and imaginary armors quests and it’s the reason people do the treasure hunt event for(besides getting extra experience, of course).
If you’re a first class character(Scholar, Magician, Rover or Soldier) you may only change 15 posters for 4 Ordinary Armor Fortifiers, but if you already did the class advancement(available at level 40) you might choose between ordinary armor fortifier(same trade ratio) or exchange 15 posters for 10 Hero Armor Fortifiers.
Ordinary Armor Fortifiers are used in Dream Armors Quests and Hero Armor Fortifiers are used in Imaginary Armors Quests.
When you trade your posters for fortifiers, you might get by luck some Treasure Maps, Mines and Mad Dog Wheels.
Treasure Maps allow you to use the option Find Treasure in the managers, just check the map number and go to the corresponding manager to do that.
Mines can be landed in managers to avoid other players to get treasures; beside getting experience(and maybe some mad dog wheels) when you land the mine, you don’t get rewards when someone get caught by your mine.
Mad Dog Wheels are useful items that avoid fights with low level monsters for 10min(which is good for this event, so you don’t waste time killing sunset and tranquil seacoast monsters). Only party leader must use it.
Exchange for Magic Crystal (Available only for players who already did the class advancement)
If you have 15 or more posters, you might be able to exchange 15 of them for 6 magic crystals. This item is also necessary for the Imaginary Armors Quests, but it can be obtained from tutor quests as well, so I recomend you use your posters for the fortifiers instead.
The Managers
There are 10 managers that only show up during the event period. 5 of them are located in sunset prairie and the other 5 are in tranquil seacoast 1. Here are their locations:
Manager 1: Tranquil Seacoast 1 – 697 1008
Manager 2: Tranquil Seacoast 1 – 1711 2782
Manager 3: Tranquil Seacoast 1 – 2857 580
Manager 4: Tranquil Seacoast 1 – 3060 3357
Manager 5: Tranquil Seacoast 1 – 2439 1656
Manager 6: Sunset Prairie – 1860 2004
Manager 7: Sunset Prairie – 864 258
Manager 8: Sunset Prairie – 3702 1326
Manager 9: Sunset Prairie – 3342 2970
Manager 10: Sunset Prairie – 396 2922
When you talk to them you have 3 options:
Hunt for Treasure
When you choose this option 1 out of 2 things may happen: The manager will ask you some questions or he’ll ask you to go talk to a certain npc. If he asks questions, you have to answer them correctly in order to get the posters. Each right answer gives you one poster in the end of the questions. If he tells you to go to certain npc, accept his free teleport to the npc’s city and find that npc to start a fight. At the end of the fight you get 5 posters and maybe a mad dog wheel. After getting the posters, go back to Meng Da or Wu Xiaohu(any of them, you don’t need to choose always the same) to get another hunt.
Land Mine
If you got a mine when you exchanged your posters for fortifiers, you might land them in any manager. You get some experience and maybe some mad dog wheels when you do that, but you’re not rewarded when the mine explodes on some other player. There are 2 kinds of mines: Normal and Super Smelly. The Normal can be avoided with one bullet-proof vest, the Super Smelly can’t be avoided.
Find Treasure
If you have a Treasure Map of the corresponding manager, you might choose this option to get some prize(experience and random items, sometimes rare). I highly recomend having a bullet-proof vest in your inventory before choosing this option, ’cause if there’s a mine in the manager and you don’t have protection, you don’t get the prize.
Tips
– Always attend the event in a party as big as possible. Every team member get the same number of posters(they are not divided) and it’s easier to win the fights you eventually have to do.
– Use your mad dog wheels you get to avoid common battles, that makes you save some time and get more posters.
– Ask your friends for help when you don’t know the answer for one of the questions, they might know. Guessing an answer may make you lose a poster.
– Before choosing the Find Treasure option, make sure you have at least one bullet-proof vest in your inventory and then land a normal mine in that manager(or ask one of your friends to do so). You will lose one vest, but that’s better than having the chance of finding a Super Smelly mine and losing not only all your vests but the prize you were trying to get too.
– Exchange all your posters 20min before the end of the event(it’s announced by the system) and start going to the managers whose maps you have. When the event is over, the managers vanish and you have to wait a whole week to be able to use your map.
For More detalied information about Elf Online, please visit http://elf.happymmo.com/
Patch 1106 Released to Rename Visual Effect
We are happy to announce that patch 1105 and patch 1106 will be released on April 28th at 0:00 PDT. With patch 1106, the visual effects of crowned Eudemons will be renamed as below:
Gold crown — Divine
Silver crown– Legendary
Blue crown— Epic
Red Crown— Heroic
Violet crown– Honoured
New Composing Method Coming Soon
As everyone should be aware of by now, composing is an important aspect to raising and using Eudemons. Now, there is a new type of composing method coming soon to Eudemons Online. There are three periods to this new method: Blue Orb Composing, Green Orb Composing and Golden Orb Composing. This will allow you to add up to 80 points to your major Eudemon! More details coming soon…
Whispers in the winds
There are still some details and minor adjustments to work on, but very soon, Black Moon Chronicles – Winds Of War is going to be launched officially. You can come and join the last few days of the beta-test now!
TURBINE and Codemasters Online gaming to unveil book 13: Doom of the last-king FOR THE LORD OF THE RINGS ONLINEÂ
2007 MMO of the Year* Introduces Fifth Content Update for Subscribers
WESTWOOD, MA April 24, 2008 – Turbine, Inc. and Codemasters Online announced the details of the fifth content update for subscribers to The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar. Book 13: Doom of the Last-king continues the epic story of The Lord of the Rings Online, adds an entire new region to the world of Middle-earth, a new Monster Play class and the introduction of the hobby system. Book 13: Doom of the Last-king will be available to subscribers of The Lord of the Rings Online on April 24, 2008 in North America and is coming soon in Europe.
The Lord of the Rings Online has grown dramatically in scale, content and the size of our community in its first year of operation, said Jim Crowley, president and CEO of Turbine, Inc. Weve received a very positive response from players about the new region of Forochel and the long-awaited addition of fishing that adds an entirely new level of fun and enjoyment to the game. Its been an incredible first year and we are hard at work finishing up Book 14 slated for release this summer. All of us are very excited for our journey this fall into the Mines of Moria.
NEW FEATURES:
- New Region In the far, frozen north of Eriador lies Forochel, a land unlike any other in Middle-earth. This new region lets players see the ocean for the first time and introduces several new temperature based landscape effects. Players will need to be mindful of the cold due to a new damage type frost. Frost will slowly damage their character until they find a source of warmth in the form of shelter or a campfire.
- New Faction Beneath the brooding skies of Forochel dwell the hardy tribes known as the Lossoth. Suspicious of outsiders, they have long warred against other folk especially the Guaredain, bloodthirsty wolf-loving barbarians in league with the forces of Angmar. Players can earn favor with the Lossoth by helping them in the struggle against their ancient enemy in this latest addition to The Lord of the Rings Onlines (LOTRO) reputation system. Lossoth reputation rewards include unique armor sets, weapons, a new mount, housing decorations, and class specific items
- Introducing the Defiler The first new class for Monster Players debuts in Book 13. The Defiler is a healer that will round out any War Band in their quest to dominate the Ettenmoors. The Defiler uses new healing skills such as Fertile Slime and Fungal Bloom to aid its party in battle and has a host of new Debuff skills including Curse of the Lethargic Heart to defeat their enemies.
- The Hobby System The player hobby system is introduced in Book 13. Fishing is the first hobby being introduced in LOTRO. From the Midgewater Marshes to the Shores of Evendim, players will find fishing to be a relaxing, entertaining and beneficial pastime. Players can earn deeds and traits as they improve their fishing prowess and captured fish can be used to cook in recipes or be mounted as trophies in a players house.
- The Epic Continues! At Elronds urging, players venture into the frozen wastes of the north to continue Laerdans search for the remnants of the ring Narchuil. Aided by the Snowmen of Forochel, players will uncover the fate of an ancestor of Aragorn and strive to thwart the terrible aims of Angmar.
- Over 100 New Quests The story continues for players as they aid the Fellowship and encounter new adventures in Middle-earth.
The Lord of the Rings Online is an award-winning massively multiplayer online role-playing game that delivers an interactive experience brimming with life and filled with the familiar people, places and monsters from the most beloved fantasy adventure of all time. From the picturesque surroundings of the Shire to the upcoming expansion to Moria, the most fearsome underground realm ever imagined, players will experience the world of Middle-earth as never before. LOTRO is available for purchase at major retailers across North America and Europe. For more information or to download a free trial, visit www.lotro.com or www.lotro-europe.com.