For the month of May, we have a couple things for you to take advantage of and look forward to!
We'll be having a 30% credit sale, meaning you'll get an additional 30 credits for every 100 purchased!
Double XP Tuesdays will help you get to your experience/essence goals.
And lastly, we'll be holding four separate auctions throughout May. The first auction will start Friday evening EST at the weave and run for one week, followed by 3 more auctions throughout the month. The first and third auctions will be gold auctions whilst the second and fourth auctions will be credit auctions.
We'll be auctioning a homestead that won't be required to be within an organization territory, several customizations for emotes, demigod entrance and exits, teleport messages, typecasts (for orgs/clans), stoles/costumes, dolls, ikons etc. Some of our big ticket credit items will be available as well as past auction items that are not generally available. We also have a couple new artifacts going up for auction based on some of your feedback so we hope you enjoy them!
One new custom item will be a shop by the Grand Junction that will be up for auction. It'll act as a homestead with a shop attached, though what you see there now is what you're buying initially - there is just room to expand in the future. The shop will be linked to the aetherplex, and comes with all of the storage upgrades. The shop is available for you to check out now!
Here's what will be auctioned each week currently. We may add items throughout the month if there are loud requests for them (like artiesigils maybe?).
Week 1 (Gold Auction)
Gloves of Harvesting
Gloves of Mastery
Hammer of Clangorum's Mastery
Magic Pantograph
Magic Poisoner's Gloves
Magic Scribe's Quill
Magic Spatula
Silver Spoon
Magic Tailor Shears
Silver Jeweler's Hammer
Silver Tattoo Needle
Cubix
Doctoral Tam
Changeling Intaglio
An Endowment of the Arts
Pliers of Clangorum
Zombie Skin
Sempiternal Libram (new!)
Custom Emote
Custom Entrance/Exit
Custom TeleportMsg
Custom Typecast
Custom Stole/Costume
Week 2 (Credit Auction)
Non-org Homestead
Custom Emote
Custom Stole/Costume
Custom Entrance/Exit
Custom TeleportMsg
Custom Ikon
Thinking Cap (new!)
Vellum Starchart (new!)
Piercing Eye (new!)
Gnomish Scentomatic 3000 (new!)
Sempiternal Libram (new!)
Cement Socks
Boots of Shanth
Chaos Hamster Plushie
Shears of Atropos
Cloak of Thorns
Wand of Ice
Wand of Illusions
HyperPyramid
Week 3 (Gold Auction)
A twisted Censer of the Tainted Earth
A shadowy Censer of the Merciless Crow
A pale Censer of the Majestic Hart
A burning Censer of the Sacred Flame
A misty Censer of the Clouds
An icy blue Censer of the Shifting Seas
Ring of Rubeus
Sempiternal Libram (new!)
Cubix
Doctoral Tam
Changeling Intaglio
An Endowment of the Arts
Pliers of Clangorum
Zombie Skin
Chaos Hamster Plushie
Shears of Atropos
Cloak of Thorns
Custom Emote
Custom Entrance/Exit
Custom TeleportMsg
Custom Typecast
Custom Stole/Costume
Week 4 (Credit Auction)
Non-org Shop
Custom Emote
Custom Stole/Costume
Custom Entrance/Exit
Custom TeleportMsg
Custom Doll
Thinking Cap (new!)
Vellum Starchart (new!)
Piercing Eye (new!)
Gnomish Scentomatic 3000 (new!)
Sempiternal Libram (new!)
Cement Socks
Boots of Shanth
Chaos Hamster Plushie
Shears of Atropos
Level 4 Crit Rune
A Great Rune of Solid Mass
Amulet of Resurrection
Vampirism Ring
Pentagon Puzzle
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Comments
Promos for people who don't contribute money to the game are also nice, though. Not everyone can afford to shell out a bunch of money to take advantage of things like 30% credit sales or auction artifacts that, quite frankly, are going to be won by people who don't need more artifacts...
Idk. Just kind of disappointed that not everyone is given the opportunity to participate in this Promo. It feels like we've had a lot of those lately. February and April were also for people who spend real money on the game, and didn't really include people who don't, aside from giving us a special Critical/XP day.
We produce a vast amount of content that does not require or expect that you spend money on Lusternia. All of our events, code improvements, quests - everything like this is content that can be used by everyone. This represents the vast majority of our output. Orael talked about this a bit on the livestream recently - we spend a very low percentage/proportion of our time preparing promotions. Most of the time we're working on things that are accessible to everyone.
Yes, promotions are designed to make you spend money. We are a business, and we do need to make money to survive - to keep servers running, to pay staff, to maintain things like our website and Nexus and so forth. We are not going to run monthly promotions aimed specifically at people who can't or don't wish to spend money, because that is what the remaining 95% of our production already goes towards.
Hopefully this helps explain the way we approach promotions a bit more, so that you can understand why they are set up this way.
Something to that effect would mean that auctions aren't dominated by only a few folks.
Anyhow - excited to see what these new items are! Thanks for putting it all together!
This basically would mean that newbies would end up paying a few hundred credits at most while older people would be paying a few thousand for the same artifact.
Also, I'm sorry if this has already been asked, but can you bid on behalf of another player? Or all biddings are for yourself only? (example:someone needs one of the trade tools v badly and I want to try to win it for them them cheaper than it would be to get at the arti shop)
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No bidding for others. But for gold, since it requires gold on hand, you can just give the friend the gold.
Agree with just making new things available for sale.
This comes from the fact that we don't have regular auctions or new artifact releases. A lot of older players have all that they need and their credits keep piling up over the many years between auctions (last auction was 2017 I believe).
Ah well. Bring on the next microtransaction promo. I end up spending a lot more on those months, usually. It's rare that I feel like I have the money to shell out the larger amounts to make the straight credit purchases feel worthwhile.
Thank you all for all that you do - the last four months of promo haven't really been the kind of thing I'll spend money on.
* Disclaimer: I may have bought a membership and a few packages in that time. But the micros are where I really feel comfortable with it. Auctions make me sad.
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*****************************[ Current Auctions ]******************************<br>Id Status Max / Min Title Winner Days<br>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>1 WON 1050500/ 1050500 Gloves of Harvesting Aurik 0<br>2 WON 2200500/ 2200500 Gloves of Mastery Noira 0<br>3 WON 700500/ 700500 Hammer of Clangorum's Mastery Ciaran 0<br>4 WON 1000500/ 1000500 Magic Pantograph Ayisdra 0<br>5 WON 1500500/ 1500500 Magic Poisoner's Gloves Ayisdra 0<br>6 WON 2200500/ 2200500 Magic Scribe's Quill Ayisdra 0<br>7 WON 1001500/ 1001500 Magic Spatula Aishe 0<br>8 WON 1100500/ 1100500 Silver Spoon Aishe 0<br>9 WON 2010500/ 2010500 Magic Tailor Shears Noira 0<br>10 WON 2012656/ 2012656 Silver Jeweler's Hammer Gabe 0<br>11 WON 1001500/ 1001500 Silver Tattoo Needle Mjoll 0<br>12 WON 4400500/ 4400500 Transplanar Cubix Aishe 0<br>13 WON 6000500/ 6000500 The Doctoral Tam of the Anomaly Ixion 0<br>14 WON 5000000/ 5000000 A Changeling Intaglio Llani 0<br>15 WON 9000500/ 9000500 An Endowment of the Arts Syamira 0<br>16 WON 3635746/ 3635746 Pliers of Clangorum Ayisdra 0<br>17 WON 2000000/ 2000000 Skin of a Zombie Freja 0<br>18 WON 7800500/ 7800500 A Sempiternal Libram Steingrim 0<br>19 WON 3510500/ 3510500 Custom Emote Afollia 0<br>20 WON 6000500/ 6000500 Custom Entrance/Exit Kaizynne 0<br>21 WON 3000000/ 3000000 Custom TeleportMsg Aramel 0<br>22 WON 6537536/ 6537536 Custom Typecast Aleyah 0<br>23 WON 8050500/ 8050500 Custom Stole/Costume Evette 0<br>*******************************************************************************<br><br>