Monthly Archives: July 2010

Aion Free Character Transfers Canceled

Aion team has decided to suspend character transfers in order to re-evaluate their strategy for server balance.

While maintenance goes I want to make it clear that transfers are not permanently canceled, we are working to improve and bring them back. – aion_ayase

One of our responsibilities is to provide balanced servers for you to play on. To work towards a more enjoyable play experience we’ve decided to suspend character transfers in order to re-evaluate our strategy for server balance. Once we’ve finalized our new strategy, we will again re-enable free server transfers, however with certain limitations to prevent an excessive amount of transfers that specifically contributed to server imbalance.

Race balance is something that we take extremely seriously and we are committed to creating an exciting environment for all of you to enjoy.
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Because of the latest decision to suspend character transfers, in the first wave of Fight on the Right Side all active players can expect rewards, regardless of race conflict status.

Do all your characters on your account get the Items for Fight on the right side event? – yes, all characters will be eligible to get these items aion_ayase

Aion Free Character Transfers Canceled

Aion team has decided to suspend character transfers in order to re-evaluate their strategy for server balance.

While maintenance goes I want to make it clear that transfers are not permanently canceled, we are working to improve and bring them back. – aion_ayase

One of our responsibilities is to provide balanced servers for you to play on. To work towards a more enjoyable play experience we’ve decided to suspend character transfers in order to re-evaluate our strategy for server balance. Once we’ve finalized our new strategy, we will again re-enable free server transfers, however with certain limitations to prevent an excessive amount of transfers that specifically contributed to server imbalance.

Race balance is something that we take extremely seriously and we are committed to creating an exciting environment for all of you to enjoy.
[Source]

Because of the latest decision to suspend character transfers, in the first wave of Fight on the Right Side all active players can expect rewards, regardless of race conflict status.

Do all your characters on your account get the Items for Fight on the right side event? – yes, all characters will be eligible to get these items aion_ayase

KOTOR vs SWTOR: Player ships dissection

To try and understand to the full extent some of the announced aspects of SWTOR, we have decided to play Knights of the Old Republic, Dragon Age and Mass Effect series and try and draw conclusions on what we can expect in SW: The Old Republic.

Aion free reactivation weekend with Double XP, July 30, 2010 !

Today Aion team has announced that from Friday, July 30th at 11:00 a.m. EDT, all inactive Aion accounts will be reactivated until Monday, August 2nd at 6:00 p.m. EDT. During this period you will be able to level up much faster than usual – double XP is additional bonus.

Greetings Daevas,

Tell your friends, family, and former Legion mates about the upcoming “Double Your Fun” reactivation weekend! All inactive Aion accounts will be reactivated to coincide with this weekend’s incoming Double XP goodness. During this weekend of double fun, you can enjoy playing with friends you haven’t seen for aeons and level up twice as fast as usual!

The Reactivation and Double XP Weekends start and end at the same time, as found below:

* Starts: Friday, July 30, 2010 at 8 a.m. PDT ,11 a.m. EDT, and Saturday July 31, 2010 at 1 a.m. AEST.
* Ends: Monday, August 2, 2010 at 3 p.m. PDT ,6 p.m. EDT, and Tuesday August 3, 2010 at 8 a.m. AEST.

Aion 2.0 Pets

Aion’s free expansion Assault on Balaurea is announced for September 7th. Among the huge list of new features in this enormous update (about 3 or 4 gigs of new content) was the mention of Aion Pet System.

We’ve also introduced our pet system, and just from reading all the comments from the players on the forums, that’s something that they’re really looking forward to. Pets won’t just be cute and cuddly — they will be — but they’ll also have functionality. We have an inventory pet, so basically it’s your pack mule that carries around all your items for you. We have a production pet, so when you go around the world and find junk loot that you don’t want, you can feed it to your pet and it’ll produce a better item for you to use. I usually say you feed it and it poops out a prize — it’s a whole new meaning to “world drops.”

There are also alert pets, that actually alert a player when something is sneaking up behind you. We have multifunction pets that are a combination of the ones that I just mentioned, and that’s our pet system.

[Spotted on Massively.com]

Before you can buy a pet, you have to finish Pet-related quest – That you will take the pet. You can obtain a pet praise skill book after completing the corresponding quest. You can purchase, sell, or abandon pet eggs through the Pet Manager Uranos and Armis (Elyos Sanctum) or Katin and Erudil (Asmo Pandaemonium).

Each pet has a unique function. There are 5 types of pets in the new Aion Pet System:

  1. Decorative pets: unique appearances but no game play value.
    Aion Pet 1 Aion Pet 2 Aion Pet 3 Aion Pet 4 Aion Pet 5
    Aion Pet 6 Aion Pet 7 Aion Pet 8
  2. Alertive  pets: Warns its master when an opposing race character approaches within certain range
    Aion Pet Alertive 1 Aion Pet Alertive 2
  3. Productive pets: When you feed it you may receive an enchantment  stone, manastone, aether, balaur material, ore, jewel, dye, hairpin.
    Aion Pet Productive 1 Aion Pet Productive 2 Aion Pet Productive 3
  4. Warehouse pets: Owners can use a warehouse type storage space while it is the active pet. The storage they can hold is 6, 12, 18 and 24 slots.
    Aion Pet Warehouse 1 Aion Pet Warehouse 2
  5. Multi Type: A pet with more than one function.

Aion Pet PriceFunctional pets can be purchased with Kinah, or be obtained as quest rewards. You can select 3 accessories when you purchase a pet but you cannot choose the pet’s color. You can check pet abilities through the pet information screen. Double-click on the summoned pet from the pet list screen or by using the shortcut key ‘[‘. You can feed the pet by registering the item that it can eat or by dragging and dropping the desired item onto the pet. Through emotion study, your pets can learn to bow, flirt and even fly with you!