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January Promotion 2015
ANNOUNCE NEWS #2357
Date: 1/15/2015 at 16:58
From: Razmael, the Synthesist
To : Everyone
Subj: New January promotion
Cryptic Chests (and the 25% credit sale) are sadly leaving us, and for the rest of January we have a new promotion in place - the evolving artifact! Purchasing 100cr will get you the riding crop artifact which has various powers related to mounts.
At just 100cr, the riding crop will only have one power, but as you purchase more credits, the crop will gain additional powers. This is cumulative with all your purchases throughout this promotion, so purchasing 100cr now and 400cr later will you get all the powers up to the 500cr threshold.
If the riding crop is undesirable to you, you can trade it in for 25cr multiplied by the number of powers it has. e.g. if your riding crop is at the 500cr threshold, you can trade it in for 125cr (5 powers*25cr).
Here's the thresholds and what power it gets you. These thresholds are based off your base credit purchase, so any bonus credits (e.g. from the membership) do not apply. These powers will work for whatever mount you currently have out and active:
100cr:
Gets you the riding crop + its base power: Your mount is immune to fearing abilities.
200cr:
You can now ORDER EMOTE
300cr:
If your mount is attacked when you're not in the room with it, it'll panic and roam out of the room, making it harder to kill. If you are online you'll be alerted that your mount is being attacked, but not by who.
400cr:
Your mount will take 10% less damage from attacks.
500cr:
Riding your mount gives you an extra +1 to your maximum moves per second.
600cr:
Who said you shouldn't beat a dead horse? Your mount's corpse will go to your inventory if killed and you can revive your mount by pointing the crop at it. Only works once per Aetolian year so if the corpse decays while it's on cooldown you're out of luck!
700cr:
Leaping over someone blocking an exit while on your mount will cause your mount to kick them to the ground as they pass by, dealing damage, stun and prone.
800cr:
Your mount will take 30% less damage from attacks.
900cr:
Your mount has a 15% chance to intercept NPC attacks upon you, blocking it. This can only proc once every 5 minutes.
1000cr:
Mounts equipped with saddlebags can now sell the goods they have in them! Use PRICE MOUNT , and people can ASK WARES/BUY FROM like a normal NPC seller. Saddlebags are sold from the city stables and allow your mount to hold 15 items. Items return to your inventory if mount dies. This does not support most of the features an actual shop has and is a simplistic one item at a time system. Things like kegs, shelves, price policies, cache, etc are non-existent. Items will also still decay.
1100cr:
You gain a new Horsemanship ability to have your mount track you to any outdoors player on same continent/plane instantly. Only works once per Howling.
1200cr:
You'll now be told the name of the person attacking your mount, if you're online.
1300cr:
You can CRACK CROP to gain a monolith effect for 10 minutes. Only works once per Howling.
1400cr:
Track ability now works once per four hours.
1500cr:
If you are offline and your mount is attacked, it will flee to the stables.
1600cr:
Saddlebags can now hold 30 items.
1700cr:
Your mount's chance to intercept an attack is increased to 30% and has a 2 minute cooldown.
1800cr:
Track ability now works once per hour.
1900cr:
Your mount will take 50% less damage from attacks.
2000cr:
Saddlebags can now hold 50 items.
Date: 1/15/2015 at 16:58
From: Razmael, the Synthesist
To : Everyone
Subj: New January promotion
Cryptic Chests (and the 25% credit sale) are sadly leaving us, and for the rest of January we have a new promotion in place - the evolving artifact! Purchasing 100cr will get you the riding crop artifact which has various powers related to mounts.
At just 100cr, the riding crop will only have one power, but as you purchase more credits, the crop will gain additional powers. This is cumulative with all your purchases throughout this promotion, so purchasing 100cr now and 400cr later will you get all the powers up to the 500cr threshold.
If the riding crop is undesirable to you, you can trade it in for 25cr multiplied by the number of powers it has. e.g. if your riding crop is at the 500cr threshold, you can trade it in for 125cr (5 powers*25cr).
Here's the thresholds and what power it gets you. These thresholds are based off your base credit purchase, so any bonus credits (e.g. from the membership) do not apply. These powers will work for whatever mount you currently have out and active:
100cr:
Gets you the riding crop + its base power: Your mount is immune to fearing abilities.
200cr:
You can now ORDER EMOTE
300cr:
If your mount is attacked when you're not in the room with it, it'll panic and roam out of the room, making it harder to kill. If you are online you'll be alerted that your mount is being attacked, but not by who.
400cr:
Your mount will take 10% less damage from attacks.
500cr:
Riding your mount gives you an extra +1 to your maximum moves per second.
600cr:
Who said you shouldn't beat a dead horse? Your mount's corpse will go to your inventory if killed and you can revive your mount by pointing the crop at it. Only works once per Aetolian year so if the corpse decays while it's on cooldown you're out of luck!
700cr:
Leaping over someone blocking an exit while on your mount will cause your mount to kick them to the ground as they pass by, dealing damage, stun and prone.
800cr:
Your mount will take 30% less damage from attacks.
900cr:
Your mount has a 15% chance to intercept NPC attacks upon you, blocking it. This can only proc once every 5 minutes.
1000cr:
Mounts equipped with saddlebags can now sell the goods they have in them! Use PRICE MOUNT , and people can ASK WARES/BUY FROM like a normal NPC seller. Saddlebags are sold from the city stables and allow your mount to hold 15 items. Items return to your inventory if mount dies. This does not support most of the features an actual shop has and is a simplistic one item at a time system. Things like kegs, shelves, price policies, cache, etc are non-existent. Items will also still decay.
1100cr:
You gain a new Horsemanship ability to have your mount track you to any outdoors player on same continent/plane instantly. Only works once per Howling.
1200cr:
You'll now be told the name of the person attacking your mount, if you're online.
1300cr:
You can CRACK CROP to gain a monolith effect for 10 minutes. Only works once per Howling.
1400cr:
Track ability now works once per four hours.
1500cr:
If you are offline and your mount is attacked, it will flee to the stables.
1600cr:
Saddlebags can now hold 30 items.
1700cr:
Your mount's chance to intercept an attack is increased to 30% and has a 2 minute cooldown.
1800cr:
Track ability now works once per hour.
1900cr:
Your mount will take 50% less damage from attacks.
2000cr:
Saddlebags can now hold 50 items.
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Also... I fixed it for you:
If the riding crop is undesirable to you, you can trade it in for 30cr multiplied by the number of
powers it has. e.g. if your riding crop is at the 500cr threshold, you can trade it in for 150cr (5
powers*
25cr30cr).- Do saddlebags decay? If so are there arti versions? What happens to the stuff inside when they decay?
- does the riding crop bind to a specific mount or is it applicable to whatever mount you have out? I have a script to summon a random mount each time - would the effects work on each one?
- Does the mount take damage when intercepting npc attacks? Carni hounds do and that means they fall asleep nonstop. If your mount falls asleep you can't move which could get frustrating...
- Does the leap effect proc through shield? Does it do damage to icewalls?
- Are ents losing the ability to emote?
Edit: ugh why does mobile version of forums not respect line breaks anymore...
Edit 2: ok I think it's formatted now. Sorry for wall of text...
Just a bit confused on the process sorry and thank you in advance.
Abhorash says, "Ve'kahi has proved that even bastards can earn their place."
Just a bit confused on the process sorry and thank you in advance.
Afraid not. The trade-in is all or nothing.
Also no worries, it is not a huge thing.
Abhorash says, "Ve'kahi has proved that even bastards can earn their place."
I mean, the promo is neat and the mini shop thing looks cool. But there is no way I could pull $300 together in two weeks just after christmas. So it just becomes, eh.
Food for thought!
The money money money becomes exhausting, especially when it doesn't really fit around the biweekly pay schedule. The things like cryptic chests and giftbags and grabs are fine more frequently because any range is equal. The tiered ones are where it becomes an issue.
However, I don't know what kind of data up upstairs looks at when working on promos, and how much the -average- pay schedule and the annual cycle with hills and valleys are considered or planned around.
Also, if you're going to buy 2k credits, it's basically just wasting money if you don't buy it in one go, given how credit prices get cheaper the more you buy. So starting to buy may extend the promo, but it's also a straight waste of money.
End of the day, it's my money and your business. I'll have my money free when it's free. I'm not going to throw extra money at you guys earlier to extend the promo. If the promo gets cut off before my money is available, then I just won't spend anything.
I *want* to give you guys $600. IRE, up top, is making that hard to happen. I also would have given you guys $600 a month ago had the November promo extended into December. Please pass this on - people want to throw money at you, but the short duration is making it difficult and discouraging us from doing it.
In the future when we next run this kind of tiered sale, we'll be giving people the option to resume their progress on their riding crop artifact.
We've also decided to extend the promotion until the middle of February, so you have a longer timeframe to get in on the promo this time around.
Personally, I'm ambivalent about this one. I like the concept though (apparently you had another evolving arti one last year, but I wasn't around at the time so for me this is a new concept).
Edit:
The bonus movement/sec at 500cr is cool though. Mounts already give +1, so with the extra from the crop, + celerity and divine speed it's a whopping +4 moves per second. And iirc the base movement speed is 3.
- 5.8secs from the Bloodloch Pylon to the tear of lleis without crop
- 5.7secs from the Bloodloch Pylon to the tear of lleis with crop
Test two all mounted:- 3.5 from the Bloodloch Pylon to the tear of lleis with crop, xons slippers, vamp celerity and divine_celerity.
- 3.9from the Bloodloch Pylon to the tear of lleis with crop, xons slippers and vamp celerity.
- 5.8 from the Bloodloch Pylon to the tear of lleis with crop and vamp celerity.
- 5.9 from the Bloodloch Pylon to the tear of lleis with nothing but mount and vamp celerity.
@Razmael @Oleis the mount +1 from the "riding crop" seems odd as it is only 0.1secs difference, is it meant to be faster?Abhorash says, "Ve'kahi has proved that even bastards can earn their place."
Distance to The Tear of Lleis: 51.
Path: w, n, ne, ne, e, e, se, se, s, e, e, s, ne, ne, se, e, ne, n, ne, nw, w, u, u, sw, s, e, u, u, u, w, ne, n, se, se, se, s, s, se, s, e, se, e, sw, se, se, se, se, sw, w, sw, nw
Use PATH GO to travel there.
Then click path go to gallop there.
Abhorash says, "Ve'kahi has proved that even bastards can earn their place."