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2015 AOV Christmas Event: Shields Down (December 1st, 2015 - January 15, 2016)

The evil elves are back, and have taken over Santa's village once more. During renovations, evil ninja elves have slipped through, and have managed to use the village's magic to continuously pour in through portals.

Shield generators have been installed in 3 locations to block these portals, but there are not enough elves to keep them fuelled all the time. Your help is needed to do this. They appear as follows:





How to fuel a shield generator: To fuel a shield generator you simply place coal, or cast fire spells on it. Double click coal to light, it will also eventually catch on nearby coal. Several piles of coal can be placed around to maximize the speed at which power level increases. Coal drops on the floor and from dark elves. It can also be obtained by mining anywhere in Sosaria.

Example of fuel generator that is fuelled by coal being placed around it:


Double clicking it will tell you it's status. There are 3 major modes for these generators:

Offline: No protection provided. Dark elves continue to arrive. Double clicking will show you the current power vs the power required to turn on.

Online: Dark elves have more trouble entering, but can still enter. Continue to add fuel. Double clicking will show you the current power vs the full power potential.

Full power: When this point is reached, all evil elves are instantly killed and no longer arrive. Good elves will slowly start to spawn. Good elves may fight any bad elves that happen to remain.

Note: These shield generators emit radiation which is known to the facet of trammel to cause health decrease and in some cases, death. Ask your doctor if the job of fueling these is right for you.

When the coal runs out, the power level of the shield generator slowly drops, at some point the good elves will stop spawning, and bad ones will start to return. Shield generator #3 is a special case where it has no control over evil elves, however once brought to full power it will provide surprise stockings throughout the village.

As well as evil elves, some sith lords whose ship has crashed have also decided to establish themselves in the NSA errr Claus Surveillance Centre. This has prevented Santa from checking to see if people are being naughty or not. It is also where shield generator #3 is, so it may prove difficult to enter until shield #2 is activated at full power.

Few last notes:

- To enter event, there are white gates throughout the world with title "Shields down!"

- There is a quest right at the entrance, it's worth grabbing it if you want some quick Christmas decoration.

- Due to mechanics of spawners and their sleep mode, allow 5ish minutes for good elves and surprised stockings to spawn the first time the cores are brought to 100%. Once stuff starts to spawn, the spawners will speed up. They are all set to spawn a new mobile/object within 30 seconds to 3 minutes.

- Difficulty may be a bit on the hard side due to amount of spawn, a stealther may be useful to get the generators going. Lit coal will also damage mobs, be creative.

Stocking Rewards

Possible Resource Drops:
- Blight
- Luminescent Fungi
- Corruption
- Parasitic Plant
- Muculent
- Diseased Bark
- Bark Fragment
- Perfect Emerald
- Dark Sapphire
- Turquoise
- Ecru Citrine
- White Pearl
- Fire Ruby
- Blue Diamond
- Brilliant Amber
- Scourge
- Putrefaction
- Taint
- Random Runic Tools
- Random Skill Gain Deeds
- Pet Bonding Deeds
- Bags of Sending
- Bank Checks/Gold
- Ash Boards
- Yew Boards
- Bloodwood Boards
- Heartwood Boards
- Frostwood Boards
- Random Magic Items

Christmas Decoration Drops (Drops in Stockings)
Snowman
Wreath
Snowflake
Red and White Poinsettias
Christmas Candle
Mistletoe
Festive Cactus
Snowy Tree
Decorative Topiary
Small and Large Nutcracker
Red and Green Candy Cane

NEW 2015 Christmas Decoration Drops (Drops in Stockings)
Icicles
Christmas Tree Angel
Snow Statues (Seahorse, Pegasus, Griffon, Mermaid)
Snow Globes (Various colors and names. Rare glacial color is 10% chance)
Holiday Bells (Various colors and names. Rare gold color is 10% chance)

Archived topic from AOV, old topic ID:6619, old post ID:38631

do you remember the snow globes and the bells from like...forever ago?? do these exist?? i love them so much

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Ixxie wrote:do you remember the snow globes and the bells from like...forever ago?? do these exist?? i love them so much

Awww and I was THAT close to adding the bells in to the gift boxes this year xD. I hadn't added them in as I had to get the update out quickly for the launch date.

I can add those in as a patch.

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YES PLEASE OMG
i LOVED those

and snow globes. you should see my house right now. it's pretty mad. snowglobes EVERYWHERE.

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Just a heads up the Christmas event will continue until January 15.

There was also a minor update done the other day, I actually forget what it was... but I think it was the snow globes.

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Snow Globes and Holiday Bells have been added to the surprise stockings in the Christmas event.

Snow globes have 5 different snowy hues and are named based on different areas in the game. The snow globes have a 10% chance of being spawned with the glacial hue.

Holiday bells have 15 different hues and have a name tagged to them. The holiday bells have a 10% chance of being spawned with the Europa gold hue.

The top post has been updated with a drop list for the stockings as well as images of the decorations.

New decorations this year are:
- Icicles
- Angel tree topper
- Snow Globes
- Holiday Bells
- Snow Statues

These were first introduced in 2015 and will be collectible in the following years.

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Ixxie get with me we have to go killing all those things again need more goodies

My little Xmas House


Archived topic from AOV, old topic ID:6619, old post ID:38679

Nicely done! Love what you've done with the house!

Archived topic from AOV, old topic ID:6619, old post ID:38680

Nice!

Maybe I need to get you to do Santa's village when the renovations are done.

Archived topic from AOV, old topic ID:6619, old post ID:38681

are we sure the angels have been added in? i haven't seen ONE drop yet...

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Ixxie wrote:are we sure the angels have been added in? i haven't seen ONE drop yet...

Haha I was hoping nobody noticed before I put the patch in .
Yea, they are missing and a patch is ready for the live server.

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Thanks Guys Kind of a Christmas Puked on a house pad but GAUDY IS GLORIOUS.

Hey Wench get with me we will kill shit till we get a Pig Pile of goodies

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The angel patch has just been applied!

Archived topic from AOV, old topic ID:6619, old post ID:38690

Just a reminder that the last day of this event is this Friday, January 15 2016. After Friday, the event will be turned off until next year.

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The event is now over and has been deactivated. Hope everyone had fun!

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