Happy Holidays!

Merry Christmas, Happy Hanuka and any other type of celebration you and your family care to do today! =).

I hope everyone has a great holiday, and a safe one at that.  Keep those who are not with us anymore or lost their life before they can celebrate this joyous day.

This will also be the last Christmas we will be spending with G1, many people I'm sure are excited about that =P.  But, in the end, I would rather not hold any animosity towards G1 even if they do deserve it.  Therefore, Merry Christmas G1 and thank you for the Christmas Box!.

From the VantzmartS family to yours, Happy Holidays!
 

(P.S. If you got a remote control plane, hopefully you do not crash it and break the win off in less than ten minutes like I did rofl; super glue ftw!)

One Event Ends....Another Begins! (Tip Inside)

Well we all know that collecting ABC boxes is no longer possible, but they have left the kiosk so people can still exchange their letters, and they should!

First off, lets start out with the new event.

Raiden has the event notes here: Christmas Event

I think its alright, I hear there are some nice CS prizes, and a few good costumes.  I currently only have 2 coins :P (Apparently you AFK for the coins just like the ABC boxes, yet another afk event? :P)

Hopefully people are able to stock up on some CS items, or use many alts to spam the instance that drops some nice (TRADEABLE) soul crystals and trump fillers!

So I wish everyone the best with that event, I won't post to much about it, since I am not really doing it.  However, if I find any little tricks that many people know about, you'll for sure know it will be posted here ;).

Secondly, for the kiosk event.

Do not forget to visit: Raiden - Kiosk Trick~

In order to always get your Raiden Angel box with each letter!  People might say its a bug, maybe it is, but it has been reported many times and with each maintenance, it remains the same.

However, instead of JUST collecting Raien boxes, I suggest also making room for those Elite Treasure Boxes, for the feso of course.  (Browse through my blog to find the importance of spending your feso now).

Although, collecting JUST Raiden boxes is nice, no lollipops or pesty Amritas, it does come to a cost.  Dragging each letter in, getting that pop up message, well that just creates another event in its own self now doesn't it :P.

Maybe this small tip will help, I give the credit to my clan mate exosia:

While your turning all your letters into the 8-10 different Raiden boxes that you have, and only into Raiden boxes, you'll keep getting "Inventory Is Full" blah blah...

Some people even have thousands of letters x.x so this can be pretty time consuming if you want each letter to be a nice Raiden Angel Box and / or Elite Treasure Box.

Therefore, while your turning them in, just simply hold DOWN your enter key button (ignore the chat box) and drag your invetory window really close to the KIOSK and just spam drag as much as you can.

So instead of hitting enter every time, you just hold it down :P, its a pretty simple idea, but can save an individual a lot of time!

Well hope this helps people, thank you again exosia, it really helped me to get rid of all my dam letters hahah, hopefully it helps the reader~

Were Still Here!

So who would have ever guessed that the prediction, which never existed in the first place, would actually not come true? =O

Normally this is the point where I say that man kind has learned its lessons on trying to base the "End of the world" based on a rock (a rock calender), but were just as dumb as a rock :P.  I laughed, every time I watched the History Channel.  I am slowly losing respect for the history channel, they seemed to create all these predictions themselves.  The Mayan calender ended.  That was all, it just ended.  There was noting at the end of that Mayan calender that said major earth quakes would appear, polar shifts would switch, solar flares, super volcanoes, aliens, or even universal alignment creating a dysfunctional on Mother Earth so horrible that it would indeed, end the world.

Its as though people are presented with a breeze of a prediction from some sort of "genius" ancient culture or individual, and create the most, horrific scenarios, then they go ahead and just express freedom of press and create the most, radical delusions.  I can almost guarantee you, actually I can, Isabel Taylor, she hung herself due to this 12/21/12 theory.  I have heard story's of parents shooting their children and themselves based on the economy, don't you think people would be doing the same if this "12/21/12" theory got so much publicity?

The day before 12/21/12, which would be 12/20/12, the history channel premiered"2012 The World Ends Now!"  I guess it was one more last push to really try to sell this idea that the world would be ending in multiple scenarios, to X type planets, to the "Mayans" returning with aliens, but then again they never left, but the history channel knew that right?  The only reason the history channel but so much effort into this "theory" is because, do you think people will sit and watch a bunch of rainbows and lollipops?  No, people want to see action, death and destruction, the history channel was able to provide that easily, without understanding the consequences.  They even aired the Mayan End of the World shows during the same day the end of the world was suppose to occur.

At first, once I first very heard this, whole Mayan thing, I was actually a little worried.  That was during High School.  Ever since then I did my own little research.  First off, land can not sink into the ocean like in the movie 2012, its to buoyant, you would need a large amount of the water to rise up in order for it to be completely submerged.

Secondly, there is no such thing as "Nibiru", and if there was, wouldn't you think we would be able to see something in the sky?  Or does it just wait until 11:59 PM 12/20/12 to just speed right over here from Pluto to collide?  I don't think so.  Same thing for planet X.

Thirdly, the whole "polar shift", that's something that takes thousands of years to complete, its not like the next day, all of a sudden the entire earth just completely turns upside down...

Fourthly, the "super volcanoes", which would be Yellowstone, is still not due for a good ninety thousand years or so, and by than, if humans are still on Earth, I'm sure we will be smart enough to create some sort of vacuum to solve that issue :P.

Fifthly, even if Earth and the Sun lined up with the center of the universe or w/ solar system (which happens, but not DIRECTLY), and even if it did, its not as though anything horrible happens.  Any solar alinement has zero negative affects on the Earth what so ever, and it happens pretty frequently, ranging from alinements with our own planets to other stars.

Lastly, the Mayans never predicted the end, their calender ended.  How people can come up with all these horrendous beliefs based on a rock calender ending is beyond me.  Many people took these predictions serious, some spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on bunker type shelters, to flying to "safe zones" to even ending their own lives, all based on how TV and the media has projected the whole "End of the World".

Even Samuel L. Jackson had a show about it, I mean I guess the only way to get the History Channel any good ratings these days is to talk about anything ending life.  However, I have noticed near the end of these entire "Doomsday" shows, they always end with a "But it probably wont happen anyways", I'm telling you, they tend to say that ALL the time, watch for it :P.

So next time some one tries to tell you that the end is near, or to believe the next new prediction, which there will be many, find the facts, and create your own assessment.  It seems as though to many people are unable to do their own critical thinking, hell it does not even take critical thinking to understand the facts.  Even the people themselves whose calender ended, the Mayans, thought this was ridiculous.  Any who, I'm glad its all over, but sad to see it end due to watching a new one begin shortly I'm sure, anything that heavy commercial stations can get their hands on in order to throw a scare into the world to produce another dollar I suppose.

Then again, if planet X did come yesterday, and there are suppose to be "Gods" on this planet, maybe it wouldn't have been so bad :P.  

The Stop Clock...

I was thinking of something while in Caebolan CA...and looking at my pass...

I wonder, why do we not have the ability to stop the timer on our passes / wings / anything timed?  I think it would be a lot more, beneficial for the player, if people could stop the time on their passes, when their not using them, and just simply re activate them once their going back to which ever area they were at.

Same with wings.  If I open up a 30 Day Rose wing, and I have to go away for a weekend or go away for a week, I wouldn't mind being able to stop the timer on that period that I wont be using the rose wings for.

I really see no con in this "timer stopper", its not like anyone can use this to forever have an undying pass or rose wings that never run out of time, unless a bug occurred when they implement the idea.

I might just post this idea under the suggestions thread on the T3Fun forums, would be nice if they already looked at our suggestions instead of using that specific area to just make the players feel as though they have a voice :P.

Rest In Peace...

So I was laying in my bed, thinking about some of the most meaningless things, had the TV off...just the normal type attitude I would be in before officially waking up...

Until my mother comes in and tells me about how a man went to an elementary school and shot up a bit of kids.

So I looked a bit more into it, seems 20 kids, between the ages of 5-10 died.  As well as 6 other individuals.

How can a monster, pack a gun and load it with bullets and walk into an elementary school and just lay down fire upon a group of innocent, little, adorable, beautiful souls...

I won't make this post long, cause, not much to say about this event...

All I can do is pray for those who have been affected by this deeply, and pray for those who got killed, especially those innocent children...

I will also pray that the man who did this, the man who forcefully removed twenty souls  from this earth, will burn in the deepest, darkest, most painful level of hell.

I really hope people take the time out of their daily sword lives to acknowledge this event and say a little something in their mind regardless if they believe in a higher being or not.

For any of those people out there who are trolls or wish to try to make this event some...laughable cause...or have zero respect for these children and their family's, then I'll loose all the ounce of respect I ever had for you.

Once again, rest in peace, a pretty...horrific day here in America but also in the world, any human being I know who does not feel sadden about a group of children getting murdered, then I truly question their humane side.

If you have money...

If your one of the few with a nice chunk of change, or has the ability to obtain a reasonable amount of vis before the transfer, buy great stones.

I said this before, and I am not entirely sure if I can stress it enough, but buy great stones in order to stock up on lollipops.

If you have the ability to stock up on more than just 1k pink lollipops, do so.  Think big, think large scale, the amount of money you spend today, you could end up making double that, if not more, far down the road.  Lollipops are something that will be a "timed" investment.  Once we transfer, tons of people will still have thousands of lollipops.  But people will continue to use those lollipops every day.  Especially if the server is divided into two alliances with one pvp alliance; in a lollipop able zone, they'll be spamming pink / red / blue as if it was candy, just to try to over come their opponent on that specific raid; therefore, dimensioning the amount of lollipops in the server and slowly raising the demand - slowly.

People say well "There will be events for lollipops", that is true, yes, but I doubt these events will offer the ability to stock up on thousands of lollipops, probably only a couple hundred if that; as long as there are no bugs in being able to obtain 100% lollipops from these events.

So over time, lollipops will slowly disappear, it might take months, but the price for lollipops will rise.  It is all based on supply and demand; these lollipops are enormously valuable, that's why they were removed in the first place.  IMC created the lollipop and transformed it from a "need" to a "desire".  Lollipops in the end, can be pretty game breaking if you look at it.  It removes the need for speed, and speed is the need for dps, and dps is the need to win those high end raids (if you have the proper racial gear that is). 

Therefore, according from the information that I know of, my best advice is to just continue stocking up on lollipops.  In Orpesia, normal enchants in the market manager are now above 3.5m, yet great stones are still around 5-6m?  Better buy them now before its to late!

Just Kidding

Seems after the maintenance, people were still able to get boxes, which was not suppose to happen.

At first I thought maybe G1 was being nice or was having complications to separating the event itself, but in reality, they just forgot to remove it lmao...

You would think, since last week, after Raiden said that this week would be the last week for boxes to drop from mobs, that maybe, just maybe, the removal of the boxes would be on the top list of things to get rid of during the maintenance.

However, there is some positive side, the madness from this AFKing event is over.  Maybe before the end of G1 and Sword 2, people will try to put in some more ToC squads to crank out those Greek Cromas, or participate in Xworld in order to obtain just a little practice before the transfer.

So, where there is a con, there is always a pro, and this pro out weighs the con.

A good amount of players came back to this game, but eventually, just did exactly what they were doing when they weren't playing, which is to just afk and eventually flow off into the light of interactiveness as before; so really, nothing has changed during the event, actually made activeness and the ability to find random raids even harder.  But I would be lying if I were to say the loot and the rewards were well the effort. 

However, through this event, people were able to obtain goodies, so in the end, it has actually helped those to prepare for the 10.23 patch, as well as to bring back some remaining players for the end of G1, which will really help the opportunity for random raids to occur within the server until the beginning of T3Fun!~

All in all, I give the afking event : 8/10 - an A-!