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[* The KEYS To a Good Holiday Season...

Postby Jaykobell » 01/10/2013 10:20 PM

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... Is, of course, a whole bunch of breeding keys! Am I right? c:

While this was meant as a holiday 'event', so to speak, we ended up doing other things, and with buying gifts and Christmas itself, I didn't get around to this special little thing. What is it, you may ask?

Consider this a sort of Evelon gift of sorts. In order to let people have some breeding fun with their brand new spankin' pretty customs, we're going to have a HUGE breeding key release!

Oh, but not just ONE big release... No, my friends. Not just one.

I will give you guys FOUR (4) Breeding Key Releases!

Oh yes. Four. That's 2 + 2 = 4, peeps. Is your Keystone wallet ready for this? Better yet, is your body ready for this?

I sure hope it is.

How is this going to work? Well, we have some special rules this time around too, so make sure to READ THEM. Or else I'll be sad with you.

OHBOY I'M SO EXCITED!

I sure am too! So let me tell you how it's going to work.

When? This weekend, on January 12 AND January 13, we will have TWO (2) releases a day. That means 2 on Saturday and 2 on Sunday.

The times are below. Please refer to these since I might not have the ability to post them in the topic itself.

JANUARY 12, 2013:

Release 1: 6:00AM EST (the night from Friday to Saturday EST)
Release 2: 18:00 / 6:00PM EST


JANUARY 13, 2013:

Release 3: 12:00PM / Noon EST
Release 4: 12:00AM / Midnight EST (the night from Sunday to Monday EST)


24 / 4 = 6 hours! So each release is roughly one morning - one evening both days! I hope the morning times will help the users in Europe and timezones 6+ hours ahead of EST time to grab some keys.


Now that you know the release times, what changes in terms of rules? Well, all STANDARD RULES still apply! However, we do have some exceptions to certain rules!

So let's review our rules and see which ones have some added exceptions this time around!

.: RULES :.

* You may ONLY post a room if you have a key for that type of room on hand; you may also only be in ONE (1) type(Kuhna, Lucain, Paragon, Diosol) of room at a time. If you finish with your room you may move on to use another room type.


* You may only buy ONE of each key type per restock.

EXCEPTION!: While you still cannot buy more than 2 keys (1 per type) for yourself throughout this event, that doesn't mean you can't buy keys for FRIENDS! You can even buy them at the same time as you are buying YOURS! So yes, you CAN buy 4 keys (2 of each type) during a single release... BUT, ONE of the pairs MUST go to a friend!

If you do NOT specify that you are buying a pair for a friend, you post will be VOIDED! Example:

User A: "I would like to buy two (2) Lucain Keys and two (2) Paragon Keys!"
^ VOIDED. You are buying two pairs for YOURSELF, which is forbidden!

User B: "I would like to buy two (2) Lucain Keys and two (2) Paragon Keys! One pair should go to User C!"
^ ACCEPTED. You are clarifying that one pair is going to your friend, and that's A-OK!

In that same vein, however, please do note that your friends cannot buy more pairs for YOU, and vice versa! What does this mean? Well, if you have bought/are buying keys for yourself, your friend cannot buy you any extra keys! The same rule applies backwards: you cannot buy keys for your friend if they've already bought/are buying for themselves! We are applying this in order to avoid abuse, because then rich users could just keep enriching themselves, or cliques could just keep buying keys for themselves between each other.

Furthermore, please don't use this rule to control the traffic of keys! Be nice and don't just buy all 6 pairs for yourself and 5 of your friends. Ultimately, those people can't buy them themselves afterwards, but the different release times are to help international players and others to have a good chance. Don't ruin it for people who can't make it to all four releases! Just be respectful and understand that everyone would like a fair chance.


* You have fourteen (14) real days to complete a breeding. There will be NO exceptions to this time limit since you use the room when you feel is a good time.

* Keys will be released with a time delay; you may not claim a key before the time specified. Times will be randomly rolled.

* If you ask for a key without roleplaying (full 5 sentences) your post will be ignored.

* If you wish to gift or sell your keys to a user, please notify us here and the transaction will be recorded. By notify, we obviously mean roleplay that (5 sentences) your key is going to someone else.

* Please remember all times are posted in Evelon (Eastern) Standard Time.

And finally, the best thing about these special releases!

CHEAPER PRICES!!!

While it's not a HUGE drop in price, for these releases the keys will be 95KS or 4GT! It's not the biggest drop of all times, but it's still something!


I believe that's all I can think of. If I'd wanted to include something else that I forgot, I'll just announce the new thing here!

But yes. I hope people are excited! And it goes without saying, but NO WHINING. This is meant to be a cool thing, so don't be sore losers! That's four releases at a very different time ranges, so there's no timezone excuse, and they're both happening on the weekend, when people (typically) stay home, relax, and do not work. So please try to keep the complaints to a minimum!

If you have any questions or are confused about any of the special exceptions, post here!

Meanwhile, you have the rest of tonight and tomorrow to RP like crazy to get all the money for all the keys. C: GO!
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Re: [* The KEYS To a Good Holiday Season...

Postby Shieba » 01/10/2013 10:31 PM

This is SO COOL! But I'm so confused! xD;

I'm not sure if I understand correctly...is it that we, for ourselves, can get one Lucain key and one Gon key? Because you said that if we get a Cain key with the first release and would try to get a second with the second release, the order would be voided. o3o So basically, all four releases are treated in this regard as one big release in terms of buying keys for ourselves? How does that factor in the friends-thing? As in, can we buy one key each for ourselves in the first release and one key each for a friend in the second release then? What if the friend had already gotten keys for himself? (As in "Hey, let's make a deal - each of us buys her own keys during the first release and during the other three, we buy keys for each other"?)

Maybe it's just because it's so late, but yuh. Confuuuusion. XD;;;



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Re: [* The KEYS To a Good Holiday Season...

Postby MillietheWarrior » 01/10/2013 10:31 PM

This is awesome~ Thanks!

Just to clairfy: Out of the four releases, we can buy only one of each key (One paragon, one Lucain, period) right?

And the times PST are 3AM and 3PM for the 12th, and 9AM and 9PM the 13th? Just wanted to be sure since sometimes I mess up with times.

EDIT:
Ninja'd. Shieba asked already. XD

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Re: [* The KEYS To a Good Holiday Season...

Postby Jaykobell » 01/10/2013 10:42 PM

I... am so confused why you guys are confused. x'D

What I meant by that rule is that sometimes, some people don't buy both keys. They might not breed Lucain, or they might have money for only one key. So while we sometimes release 5-5 in anticipation that everyone will buy one of each, if someone only buys one key type, then it becomes 4-5, making it impossible for someone else to buy both at the same time.

If that does happen and you cannot buy, say, that Lucain key you wanted because User A bought it, you can still participate in another release (at whatever time you can participate in) to try to get it.

The standard rules still apply, so yes. You can only buy for YOURSELF, one (1) Lucain Key and one (1) Paragon Key. You cannot buy a pair each release. That would defeat the entire point of having a gajillion releases all together, since you could just keep making yourself breeding-richer. I'm hoping the very big majority of Evelon will be able to get keys this way, including those who have very little luck or time to snag them, like the timezone peeps at 6+ hours.

You can buy for friends who cannot buy for themselves. Say I get caught up in this massive trip with my folks this weekend and, the horror, no internet connection! Fortunately, I know that I'll be gone, so I ask you, Shieba, to please grab me some keys while I'm gone, since I cannot buy them myself. So long as you specify that they are for me, you can participate in order to buy '4' keys.

But, you cannot buy keys for me (or I for you) if I buy them myself. If I do get on this weekend and buy myself my two keys, you can't buy me two more.

People still plan trips and projects on the weekends, so it's really for those people.

And Millie, yes. I do believe they're the right times. EST times are three hours ahead of you, so 6AM = 3AM, so on and so forth.
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Re: [* The KEYS To a Good Holiday Season...

Postby Thunder » 01/10/2013 10:45 PM

Only one question, about the timing. When you say "6:00AM EST (the night from Friday to Saturday EST)" for January 12, I'm confused because January 11 is a Friday. What does this "night from" part mean?
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Re: [* The KEYS To a Good Holiday Season...

Postby Jaykobell » 01/10/2013 10:50 PM

Lol. Thunder. That means it's the morning that goes from Friday to Saturday. The same concept as the midnight on January 13 is the one that goes on to January 14, the Monday. The release still really happens on the 13th regardless.

The 6AM release is still the Saturday. It's just in the night from the Friday that leads to Saturday morning. It's mostly for international folks since calculating hours can be tricky.
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Re: [* The KEYS To a Good Holiday Season...

Postby MillietheWarrior » 01/10/2013 11:32 PM

I think I'm a little tired right now because I'm still confused...

So, release 1; buy a pair. Release 2-4, cannot buy a pair. But you can buy one or the other for each release?
Or for release one: buy a pair, releases 2-4: cannot buy anything.

Just wanna be sure. x3

I love adventurous tales like that. That uplifting feeling that comes from seeing unknown lands and the knowledge that you came across—nothing can replace it! It opens a path from which self-confidence, experience, and important friendships—from the sharing of life or death situations—are born! But hearing it just isn’t the same. I want to create my own magnificent story!



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Re: [* The KEYS To a Good Holiday Season...

Postby Indigo » 01/10/2013 11:35 PM

Millie: I believe it is the latter. You can buy a total of one of each key for the entirety of releases 1-4 for yourself; any keys beyond those two can only be bought for other people.

Anyway this is exciting.



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Re: [* The KEYS To a Good Holiday Season...

Postby Jaykobell » 01/11/2013 12:40 AM

x'D You guys. I said standard rules apply. No, you can't buy BEYOND one key of each type. There are four releases for the following reasons:

1. To release keys for the international players. People like Shieba (Germany) and Kreepy (Australia) aren't just a few hours ahead or before EST time, but 5-6 and 14 hours ahead. With having many releases, it's meant to balance this out so timezones do not become a problem.

2. More releases = more people get keys. Again, it would defeat the point of this holiday event if, say, I (Shrewd) could buy a pair of keys (or even singular ones) every single release. That's way too many keys to a single person way too fast. The idea is that, with so many keys released (we're talking 4-6 each release here, not just 2 per) even people like Silverin or kabuto, who don't get keys very often, will be able to obtain them.

What I'm trying to explain is that you don't have to buy both keys during the same release. If you have KS for just one key comes Saturday 6AM, then buy just one key, RP all weekend, and then buy the second key Sunday Midnight. Does this example make more sense?

I've updated the first post earlier with those details. Point is, regardless of everything, you still can't buy more than 2 keys (1 of each type) for yourself, as per a normal release.
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Re: [* The KEYS To a Good Holiday Season...

Postby Jaykobell » 01/12/2013 4:55 AM

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I don't have the energy to do a full RP post in the Breeding Area, but just posting here to say that the first release scheduled for 5AM EST is just around the corner!

It is currently 3:55AM EST! the release is just almost just an hour away!
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Re: [* The KEYS To a Good Holiday Season...

Postby MillietheWarrior » 01/12/2013 5:01 AM

Isn't it scheduled for 6 AM? Or has it changed?

I love adventurous tales like that. That uplifting feeling that comes from seeing unknown lands and the knowledge that you came across—nothing can replace it! It opens a path from which self-confidence, experience, and important friendships—from the sharing of life or death situations—are born! But hearing it just isn’t the same. I want to create my own magnificent story!



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Re: [* The KEYS To a Good Holiday Season...

Postby Redd » 01/12/2013 5:10 AM

... It's still 6am, as far as I know. xD I asked her in the IRC just before she left. She probably just derped because it is 4am. :'|

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Re: [* The KEYS To a Good Holiday Season...

Postby Shieba » 01/12/2013 7:19 AM

I think I understood the rules wrong? D8 I was under the impression that you couldn't buy more than one key each per release, no matter if they go to you or a friend, because these are the standard rules and you said they still apply. Seemingly, I was wrong because two people did just that. XD; I'm so confused by these special rules, yo. I'm dumb. 8| I thought it was
Release 1: Buy one key each for yourself
Release 2: Buy more keys, but for a friend
so that people couldn't essentially double their chances if their friend and themselves post for both of them at the time of the release. 8|



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Re: [* The KEYS To a Good Holiday Season...

Postby MillietheWarrior » 01/12/2013 7:22 AM

I re-read it and I saw buy only two keys for yourself, cannot buy two keys for yourself if your friend already did, can buy two keys for a friend, cannot buy more than two keys for yourself period.

I don't think it specified if you could or couldn't buy for a friend AND yourself in your post, but it did specify everything else. ^^;

I love adventurous tales like that. That uplifting feeling that comes from seeing unknown lands and the knowledge that you came across—nothing can replace it! It opens a path from which self-confidence, experience, and important friendships—from the sharing of life or death situations—are born! But hearing it just isn’t the same. I want to create my own magnificent story!



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Re: [* The KEYS To a Good Holiday Season...

Postby Shieba » 01/12/2013 7:23 AM

Yeah, see, that happens when English and me clash with each other. XD; I just don't get things right. I'm dumb. D8 Thanks for the clarification. ^^; I thought the "standard rule thing" applied, where you can only buy two keys total, no matter who they go to, so that more people have a chance. Specifically, from here:
So no, sadly, you CANNOT buy a pair of keys EACH RELEASE. You can still only buy one (1) Lucain Key and one (1) Paragon Key!

It doesn't say for whom there, just one key each, so I supposed buying two each wasn't allowed.
But then again, I suppose it doesn't matter since the same amount of different people gets keys this way. Guess I'll just have to find someone to help me as well. XD; Thanks!



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