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I'm sorry I haven't updated the blog in the last couple of days, about the ongoing situation. To be honest I just haven't had the time, even though I've been in-game and grinding. Now though, the grinding has come to an end. In typical Acclaim fashion the servers were switched off with just a few hours notice, and if you didn't happen to be online at the time, you didn't get the message.

No doubt many of you are wondering about the promised 10x event that was planned for tonight. Ravenclaw/Kane started that event last night at midnight and let it run until the server shutdown at midnight PST. Not fair to many of you, but that is Acclaim. Sometimes I get the feeling that Acclaim has been run by this guy...



That guy is about to cook a chicken, and the chicken isn't even scared. Maybe the chicken knows more than the cook? You could probably say the same about Acclaim.

Anyway, so where are we at now?

We don't have a game to play, and I sincerely doubt that anything can be done to fix the situation today, tomorrow, or even this weekend. The people at G1 have a team building fun day going on today, even though I know many of them are actually at work trying to deal with this situation. From what I understand, it's all in the hands of the lawyers right now and no one can say what will happen in the near future.

And I'm sorry to say, that's all I know. Normally I'm better informed than this and I'm just as unhappy as the rest of you. Please check in here at least daily because I will post what I know or find out, and if you want to chat please join us in the IRC channel. There is a link on the top bar that will get you an almost instant connection.

Stay happy people, and maybe go do some real life stuff for a change. My wife and I are going to the movies tomorrow night! And if you really have to do something game-related, I'm going to leave the league deco contest open at least until G1 reopens the game.

- SpearDriver

Yo Disconnecters. The Hermit has said that we will get a new patch tomorrow, which most likely takes away valentine event quests and gives us a new NPC. This NPC allows us to exchange those bugged Valentine quest rewards like Blood Essence, Golden Threat and Flowstone into real tradeable ones.

Update: The Patch will not be on Saturday, but rather late Sunday night, early Monday for we who play on Bardo. This is from a post by [GM]Fugen in this post.

so far we have milked this much information out of TheHermit:

Vagabond Event 2010 facts

- Level requirement: EC4 (this is stated in one of his replies)
- Participating: sign up at forums (referring from previous vaga event)
- Location: CC5 (referring from previous vaga event)
- Mission: most likely to kill Bosses from nearly all dungeons (referring from previous vaga event)
- Rewards: more than one skill and vagabond items (this is stated in one of his replies)
- Event patch: no, this is made solely by Acclaim (this is stated in one of his replies)

Other Vagabond facts

- Peng You Lightfoot: stays permanent atm (this is stated in one of his replies)

Me, "Anything I can report on, on the blog?"

GM, "Huge Patch. hint, hint"

My brain is whirling...

Chinese New Year? Tibet? A few bug fixes?

And then there is this from the Hermit, in the forum...

Event should patch Thursday evening PST as it does not begin until Friday PST for us. It runs two whole weeks so fear not, much fun is on the way.

This translates into Friday morning for Bardo players.

- SpearDriver

The Hermit and Historian have publicly said on the forums that the current version of tradeable XP cards will be on sale, 50% off, until midnight PSD. Very soon after that the XP cards from the coin mall will not be tradeable. For us on the Bardo server that means, sometime Monday morning or possible Tuesday morning, we're getting a patch. I can't quite believe that Indy21/Acclaim would put out a patch for just this. There may be more coming.

(Update: The price on XP cards in the coin mall was just raised to stupid levels, to prevent people from buying them. The patch is obviously not quite ready.)

From a few reliable sources I've got a couple of possible items. For starters there is a long list of bugs to be fixed and both Indy21 and Acclaim are aware of them. This new Master and Disciple system is near and dear to the Hermit's heart. I'm sure he's wants to get that system working properly.

Also, Chinese New Year is on the 14th of February this year, and "Chinese" New Year is not just for the Chinese. It is more of a lunar new year festival that is celebrated all across South-East Asia and for them it is just as serious as Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years, all rolled into one. This is the one time of year that families make a serious effort to come together. The programmers and developers at Indy21 will not allow the kind of fiasco we saw with the Christmas patch. The new year will be the Year of the Tiger, by the way. It should be a cool looking hat.

Also, the Hermit has said that he's hoping to have the Tibet map patched in, in February. One of the priorities to get that running well, will be to lift the PS1 level cap, fix the chi breathing bug from Hermit12 to PS1, and decide what to do with the PS level players who have apparently gained experience. I suspect that many of those PS level player are not going to be happy with the decision, but I'll wait to say what I think is going to happen.

And the last rumor I want to share tonight, the Tibet map will have mobs in the low Little Master levels, and DAMN I'm happy about that. I might be able to avoid the palace grind completely. That place is absolute murder for a warrior these days.

- SpearDriver

Some of us have heard good news for this week's compensation events. For Example today's lucky cricket will be better than just 2x for 2 hours and we will see some nice buffs too.

Today and tomorrow we will get 4x event, but no-one hasn't been so sure that how long it will last and when does it start. Now we have found out that event will most likely start already at 3PM GMT (1 hour earlier than usual dxp events).

There is a new patch in the testing stage, but no date on it for release to us. According to the Hermit there is new quest material at the very least, probably related to a Halloween event. I'll keep you updated as I get more information.

Update: The candles and pumpkins will drop from all mobs in all maps, but right now that drop rate is really, really low. Still, this means you don't have to chase the ghosts in Hefei except to do the Wan Day quest for the pumpkin hat.

You can trade the candles and pumpkins for sweets or even a Carnival of Souls mask that is both permanent and sellable. Take your candles and pumpkins to the Master of Hats for that trade.

Even with BluFlash gone, the rumors keep coming in and we've never been wrong yet, so here comes the next one. There is a new patch coming. It's being tested now but there is no delivery date on it yet.

One comment was, "higher level players will be happy". So maybe they are getting some new material, or perhaps a new dungeon. The other comment was, no "there isn't a new map with this one." So we'll just have to wait and see. One of these days I might even be one of those high-level players.

- SpearDriver

Hey all, I'm proud to say we FINALLY have a 5x event!!!
I know OMG ^^
Okay here's how it goes, this big event is split into 2 events;

1st event is 3hours of 2x exp, very nice ^^ running from 4GMT to 7GMT(PM)

2nd event is 1hour 30min of 5x exp, i know what you are thinking got to bring cards and pill, get ready for some serious grinding. This event will begin after the 3hour of 2x exp: 7GMT to 9:30GMT(PM)

But there is a twist. Instead of the VGMs grinding the 5x exp like normal players, they will go around the maps killing people, pff that's acclaim for you, so watch out, VGMs wont be on Hefei or any of the clan maps.
So if you know what's good for you bring some pancreas or for non-prem users check in at an inn near-by.

I plan to bring exp cards, pills, some KGs/EMs, and pancreas.
How have you prepared yourself?
Good Luck in the AMAZING EVENT
I for one thank Acclaim.
,,\/, =(^_^)= Peace out.

Update:
Hello all, here's the update:
Basically we got hour 3hrs of 2x, fair enough then they shut Bardo down to load the 5x event...
Which as you may know took an hour so we had 30min left. When i logged in the exp rate wasn't on so they never started it. But maps became PvP maps for limited time, but has been put back to normal.
http://phpbb.acclaim.com/9dragons/viewtopic.php?p=712894&sid=4e63c260c2ddfa5445db892ff8480936#712894
From what i understand we will get boosted exp event tomorrow. I didn't do too bad in the 3hrs of 2x, but i bought a lot of stuff for the 5x so I'm kinda disappointed.
Final outcome to be confirmed.

Update 2#:
Okay, Basically they announced the event will be held off until tomorrow and this event will be repeated next week. And for the lucky players who stayed on to find out the final outcome, we got a free 5x event for 1 hour, without PvP maps enabled. I am very satisfied.
To conclude:
Tomorrow we will have a compensation event
Next week the event will be repeated
For people who waited they got 1hr of 5x.

Thank you very much acclaim. This has been an amazing event and i hope next week's one will be just as good.
,,\/, =(^_^)= Peace out

Update 3#:(lol?)
Compensation event will be on Sunday 20/9,
You will have normal 2x exp for 2hours commencing 4pm GMT lasting over a 2hour period.
Following that we will get the 5x exp for 1hr 30min, Yey!
I don't know if the server will enable PvP maps again so be flexible.
Edit: PvP will NOT be enabled on Bardo, so good grindings all!
,,\/, =(^_^)= Peace out

The End?
Hm? As i have mentioned before, the notice in the late hours of Saturday said we will have this event repeated... I ask roar asking if that was going to happen but no reply so i will await some form of confirmation as to whether it is on or not.
About the 5x for 90min above, Raven roared we will get another 15min of 5x after that extra 15min we had a notice saying we had another 15min giving a total of 30min making maximum use of my card. I got 3hrs of 5x, after playing for 1 year i finally see a 5x event and a nice one too. VGM Belle caught me twice with poison but lost no exp 'cause of my pancreas. I made some nice levels overall. Best I've ever done :D
Nice weekend, thank you very much acclaim!!! Amazing event but if you read this please confirm whether the notice on Saturday if confirmed.
Now I'm off to bed i got work experience tomorrow :O ^^
,,\/, =(^_^)= Peace Out
How well was your grind? Make many level? Or did u level your buffs to the max? Post a comment and see you in game.

I keep my laptop open on the #9dragons channel for a reason. Every so often we get some great tips and information from the Acclaim management team. It's not hard, just be polite with them. You can be critical, and even sarcastic too. They will accept that, but at all times be polite.

This is what I learned tonight;

There is a new patch coming, probably this week, but there will be no new PvP material.

There are some new quests coming, from the Black Market of all places.

The Coin Mall will start to offer permanent deco's, but I didn't get any further details on that topic. I would love to have permanent 2 slot deco. I mentioned that it would be nice if these were tradeable. If they are cheap enough I'll do quite a bit of testing too.

Bluflash also mentioned the words "golden box spawns", and gave no details, and also mentioned CoC guild passes...

Bluflash also said that no changes were planned to refinement rates, and there were no changes planned to the Ice Map mobs, which means that warriors can continue to wait until something else freezes over before they can grind again.

There are some plans for a master/student game relationship, where a higher level mentor accepts a lower level student. In exchange for advice and in-game help, the master gains as well. No more details were given on this idea, but I like it. We do this sort of thing in league all the time.

There were a couple more items, but nothing that was confirmed. Quite frankly, if half of what was talked about actually comes to us this week, I'll be too busy explaining stuff to people, so please continue to read the blog.

- SpearDriver

As you know, a few us meet in the #9dragons IRC channel regularly, where we get to chat with the VGM's and sometimes a GM or two will stop by. Even BluFlash makes it a habit to check in and see what's going on. He's actually a fairly nice guy if you just stay polite with him. If you do that, you might hear a whole bunch of stuff from the staff.

The latest rumors are that we are getting an Independence Day Event. That's this Saturday, the 4th of July. It's not confirmed but a couple of the staff have said that a good discount at the coin mall is highly likely, and that we're probably going to get a nice XP event as well. A whole day event with 2x for experience and 4x for skills is possible too. That would be really nice considering what we've been getting from Lucky Cricket lately, and we have a lot of manuals available if you need a few.

Other rumors include news on the Jade Separator from the coin mall. It's not released yet, but should be released "soon". "Really Soon", said one of the VGM's. This item will not add a slot to a blank weapon. It will "double the number of slots to a maximum of 4". So if you've got a one-slot weapon, you'll get a two-slot weapon. If you have a two-slot weapon, you'll get a four-slot weapon. A Hermit three-slot weapon can only be improved to a four-slot weapon, because that is the maximum.

As of right now that Jade Separator cannot be used on refined weapons, and again, rumor says that GM Acid is trying to get that changed. This might be why the Jade Separator has not been released yet. Nobody has mentioned what these are likely to cost, but I wouldn't count on them being cheap.

And for our last piece of news, we're going to try to do our own league event on Sunday the 5th of July. I would like to arrange a Karma Event for our members on both sides. Lowby characters often have a hard time to get good or bad karma because it's often hard to find people to trade with. If we all meet at the event stage at 1400 GMT (2 hours before the normal XP event...), we can try to match people up and off you go to BP to trade some karma. I'll be there with masks if people need them, and we'll try to bring the two donor characters as well. Maybe we can give away a few items from there as well.

If anyone has an idea for an event please let us know, and if there is anything in particular you need, like an elixir or two or a better weapon, don't be afraid to ask. We might not have what you need, but it never hurts to ask.

Oops! Change in play!!! Get your XP or Drop Cards cheaper this weekend. [I'll be buying XP cards!]

UPDATE: Sat, July 4th – 50% Off Exp. and Drop Bonus Item Cards
- Level up faster with these experience and drop boosters!
- One day only!

Second Update: For 24 hours on Saturday July 4th, we'll have a 2x experience boost.

- SpearDriver

According to rumors in the IRC channel tonight, there is a new patch coming. Actually, it's overdue. We're supposed to be getting a new premium package, but no one quite knows what we'll get in that new package. There will be a promotional package to go along with that premium idea, and for that reason I might take my laptop with me on my vacation.

Oh yeah, I'm going on vacation for three weeks, starting Monday. I probably wont check into the game, but I will probably check this blog once in a while.

BluFlash has also been working on making mall items tradeable too, and according to rumors the XP cards should soon be tradeable. I wish that Dragon Scales and Dragon Tears were directly tradeable. One of our League Members got scammed for a very nice weapon, by someone who was "selling Dragon Scales". The scammer ran off with a Wan Daye GB Spear, the last HP Return weapon in the game.

There is no need to put a league level KoS on that guy. The GM's will do their best to return the weapon, and the scammer will be banned. My advice to all of you is simple; Don't give a precious item to anyone, unless you know that they have no reason to cheat you.

I once gave my HP Trink to RedCross so that he could use it on his Vagabond Sword character. And why not? RedCross found that trink for me in the first place. At the time I gave that trink to him for his vaga, he simply couldn't find one to buy, even though he had the money to buy one.

I'll be around for two more days, and two more events before my vacation. If you need help with anything, please speak up. After that, I'm leaving this league to the bandmasters and senior adult members. I already know that they all talk with each other when I'm not around, so that they can get things done. That's why we rock.

Disconnected Rocks!

Because we all take our turn, when it comes time to lead the way.