Christmas Event - Phase 1

[Jack]

This is the first installation of our Christmas event for 2014!


New Monsters:




Reindeer Hide Turn-In (for our newer players to get involved)





Turn in Rabid Reindeer hides to tanners to receive Christmas Coins. Reindeer do not count toward the "Christmas Savior" leaderboard, but are a way for new players to obtain coins.


Save the Elves by beating them down!



Knock the elves out of the evil spell that has been casted on them and they will leave behind a gift. Elves have a chance to drop Christmas treasure maps, which will contain additional holiday coins and the chance for a rare item.



Christmas treasure maps do not require any skill in cartography or lockpicking. They are in new locations.

You can not pick up the gift boxes themselves.

After Xmas, the treasure maps will just become regular treasure maps (no permanent ice-white-treasure map-rare).


Leaderboard

For each elf you kill, you will receive a point on the leaderboard. Completing treasure maps or killing reindeer will not increase your score.The top 3 players will receive trophies to mark their achievement. Whoever is the leader at the 25th of December @ 8pm EST, will receive a special sandal dye tub (1 charge).




Purchase Items with your Holiday Coins



Listed prices are placeholder text from testing and do not reflect the actual prices.

[Sauron]

Looks awesome! How long will it run for?

[Jack]

This part of the event will run until somewhere around the 23rd, when we shift into the next phase of Xmas.

[SgtScooter]

Wooooo Christmas!

[Talia]

Ooh man...you just took my weekend. Damn you, Jack.

[Jack]

Ooh man...you just took my weekend. Damn you, Jack.

What I like to hear


I have been adding extra spawners throughout the day, the map will pretty much entirely be covered by the end of the day, so you can look for these creatures anywhere.

[SgtScooter]

Does anyone know why a placedchristmas tree would only be partially covered in lights?

[Jack]

From an official UO screenshot, it looks like this is just what happens when the trees are inside.





I'll take a look to see if I can figure anything out, but it looks like this is a client thing.

[Jack]

Congratulations to Bardic, Goovrick and Jammer for taking home the prizes for this year's Christmas event, and thanks to all who participated!

[Deadulus]

The grinch was a lot of fun, thanks for putting that together. Congrats to the trophy winners and thanks to all those who healed me yesterday