October 13, 2010 :: The Haunting of the Ghastly Ghouls Event & Patch Notes!

[Kilconey]

What's this? What are those two things?

It would appear, Flyffers, that male and female ghouls have started appearing throughout Madrigal. Early, preliminary analysis of these eerie creatures reveals a few things: they are highly dangerous, they seem to be infected with some kind of weird and highly contagious virus, they oftentimes drop phat loot. They have also been sighted several times in pretty much all continents of Madrigal.

One such ghoul that Demian Saint Morning Guards managed to capture alive simply had this to say, "Apocalypse, apocalypse, the end is nigh." The guards were told that they can keep the phat loot.

So there you have it citizens of Madrigal, there's some new weird undead monsters floating about. While it would be appreciated that any and all adventurers go out and rid the land of these unsightly undead things, it would be advised that you wear face masks to avoid contracting whatever disease these monsters are carrying. Keep yourself clean, and stay sanitary...no one quite knows what this disease is capable of...

(Event lasts 2 weeks, "Oct 12, 2010 - Oct 26th, 2010.")

tl;dr - Zombies are roaming, kill them for a chance at one of these items.

Items:

Spoiler

3 Lollipops
3 Star Candies
3 Pumpkin Pies
1 Giant Mr. Pumkin Trans
1 Giant Aibatt Trans.#
1 Purple Cotton Candy (event) = +3 Sta for 6 HOURS (short time yeye)
1 Green Cotton Candy (event) = +3 Dex
1 Pink Cotton Candy (event) = +3 Str
1 Blue Cotton Candy (event) = +3 Int
1 Super Star Candy
1 Love Chocolate
1 Baby Aibatt (7days)
1 Baby Bang Box (7days)
1 Pumkin Mask Box (3days)#
1 Pirate male set (14 days) -> female too?
1 Vampire Set Female (14days) -> male too?


Female Box is called
Bloody Mary's Favor

Maintenance Patch Notes:

Spoiler

Events:

* The V16 Primer: Level-up + Power-up Event continues.
* The Haunting of the Ghastly Ghouls event begins. For two straight weeks, (Oct 12th - Oct 26th, 2010) two kinds of strange, otherworldy and highly dangerous ghouls will begin roaming the lands of Madrigal. Rumours abound that these creatures are spreading some kind of strange disease. Those courageous enough to hunt them will receive phat loot. Stop them before it's too late! Is this an omen of something worse to come? Check out the official forums for more details.


New Sales:

* The Amplification (50) and Azria (7 Day) Bundle is back in the cash shop at 50% OFF. Now is a perfect time to grab one as Amps have been changed to stack up to 5x instead of 3!!! This bundle will only last through the next 7 days.


Client Updates:

* Items: Several more items were added in preparation for upcoming events. More details to come when we are ready to run said events.
* Scrolls of Amplification now stack up to 5x instead of 3. Stacking 5 Amp Scrolls results in a 3.5x Exp gain.
* A change has been made to Ddukguk: Max HP has been increased from 20,000 to 99,999. Cooldown time has been increased as well, from 10 seconds to 15 seconds.
* Text: Minor text changes.

Yayyyyy. Also upcoming second half of the zombie event, basically unrelated to the first half though.

[iSingh]

Some notes regarding second part:

Spoiler

Quest 1:
Talk to the NPC Romero to get the first quest. He'll ask you to get 10 Gas Cans which will drop from normal mobs. Return to him to receive a Chainsaw. This quest is repeatable and available to anyone 1-129.

Quest 2:
Talk to the NPC Frankenstein to get the second quest. He complains that all the zombies being whacked to pieces are being wasted and he might be able to make some use out of it. Collect the different body parts and return to him. He puts it together and out pops a Little Zombie CS Pet that now adores you, so you get to keep him. The quest is NOT REPEATABLE and is available to anyone 1-129.

Quest 3:
Return back to Romero. He asks you to take care of the Zombie problem now that you have a weapon worthy of such a task (Chainsaw). He'll ask you to kill 100 Zombies and in return he will give you a Zombie Hunter Token. This token can be redeemed at some NPC for items, I'm sure you guys could roughly guess what... This quest is repeatable and available to anyone 1-129.

I believe for the second quest mobs may drop zombie remains which you open up for a random body part, I'm not 100% on that though.

[XTX_antihero_XTX]

Where is NPC Romero?

[Kilconey]

He won't show up until next week. Right now this week is merely a repeat of previous events: hunt down mobs that randomly spawn and kill them.

[XTX_antihero_XTX]

Ahhh, that explains my inability to find him. Thank you.

[iSingh]

I got a permanent ban for posting that on officials, pretty funny if you ask me. No warnings, nothing. They waste everyone's time with this starter event then throw a hissy fit when I point out its not what they're expecting?

[Kilconey]

.... lmfao seriously? Permanently banned for that? I'm actually more impressed you haven't been banned for everything else you've posted so far.

[iSingh]

Yup, just for that. Probably because this event seems to be the love child of Poly, which is fair enough. But no warning, nothing, talk about unprofessional. That rule was never once enforced, you set a precedent of lax policies then people are going to follow those. 95% of V16 information was pulled from files, I posted up about half of that, not a single warning. I tell people they get a CS pet next week and all the other items they're looking for and I get a perm ban. Oh how I love Gala, its lexi all over.

Damn they banned an ingame char too, whatever will I do, oh yeah, I don't play...

[Luciana]

Originally Posted by Kilconey

.... lmfao seriously? Permanently banned for that? I'm actually more impressed you haven't been banned for everything else you've posted so far.

This!!!

So basically, the 2nd part of the quest wasn't supposed to be announced until the next week, but since you did so, they banned you, and permanently? Without a warning too? z_z
That's just dumb... if they dont want people to figure out whats coming, then better find a way to "hide" it from them. Maybe they should've patched these files the next week's maintenance or something? Did you send them an e-mail to ask why exactly you got banned? I'm curious to know what kind of answer you'll get.

[demonslyer]

Originally Posted by Luciana

This!!!

So basically, the 2nd part of the quest wasn't supposed to be announced until the next week, but since you did so, they banned you, and permanently? Without a warning too? z_z
That's just dumb... if they dont want people to figure out whats coming, then better find a way to "hide" it from them. Maybe they should've patched these files the next week's maintenance or something? Did you send them an e-mail to ask why exactly you got banned? I'm curious to know what kind of answer you'll get.

I am also curious as to what they will say.

I do agree it was unprofessional to ban without any warning