Easter Event 2013

[Jenalya]

Today we had a Content Release that among other things introduced this year's Easter Event. And actually not only this year's ...
The event is annual, that means it can be done every year, similiar to last years After-Halloween event.

The Easter Event will start on March 22th and run until April 25th every year, though the rewards you can find will change during the years. It was conceived and scripted by Pjotr Orial/argul, and I did some modifications after two group testings on the testserver. Thanks to everyone who helped with this, especially Nard who did a great job to organize the group testings!

Starting tomorrow, watch out around Hurnscald for some hidden Easter Eggs!

[Dude]

CAN'T WAIT!

Thanks to all the devs, artists, et al.

[tsukinokage]

The Easter Event will start on March 22th and run until April 25th every year,

I saw no easter egg around Hurnscald, so I read the code, the code is exclusive for the two days, so it's really from March 23th to April 24th, I suppose this is a bug regarding the intension.

[Ginaria]

Hello Manaworldians :)

I wish you all a happy easter egg hunting :)

Event will start tommorrow :)

Probably little bug, if it should started really at day 22...
file: annualeaster.txt
code line: 155
code:
if ((gettime(6) == 3 && gettime(5) > 22) || (gettime(6) == 4 && gettime(5) < 25) || debug)

fix or probably its fine like it is:
if ((gettime(6) == 3 && gettime(5) > 21) || (gettime(6) == 4 && gettime(5) < 26) || debug)

(or use >= and <=, i would prefer this, its better to read)

[Ginaria]

Hello Manaworldians :)

I wish you all a happy easter egg hunting :)

Event will start tommorrow :)

Probably little bug, if it should started really at day 22...
file: annualeaster.txt
code line: 155
code:
if ((gettime(6) == 3 && gettime(5) > 22) || (gettime(6) == 4 && gettime(5) < 25) || debug)

fix or probably its fine like it is:
if ((gettime(6) == 3 && gettime(5) > 21) || (gettime(6) == 4 && gettime(5) < 26) || debug)

(or use >= and <=, i would prefer this, its better to read)

Bug fixed, enjoy Easter Rabbit Egg Search event today :)

[Jenalya]

Bug fixed, enjoy Easter Rabbit Egg Search event today

Ha, you were faster with posting the news!
Sorry for the confusion everyone, it works as intended now.

[ali.footballist]

i found a good way to find easter eggs i guess u can find them better if u do this:i press f two times then it shows the places i can t go so then i can see beheind trees and even under wheats ;]

[Villain]

Pink egg shell hat discrimination is not cool

[Fortunato]

Is the chance of finding a colored egg seriously 1 in 750, meaning 0.001% (as mentioned in the wiki http://wiki.themanaworld.org/index.php/Easter_Eggs_Hunt)?!

[bekka]

Well makes the search more interesting. I think it is fair, though, regarding that this Ite will be a bit special i think

[Jenalya]

Is the chance of finding a colored egg seriously 1 in 750, meaning 0.001% (as mentioned in the wiki http://wiki.themanaworld.org/index.php/Easter_Eggs_Hunt)?!

The colored eggs are drops from Easter Fluffies and were part of the Easter event in 2008, where you had to collect all different colors. They're just included in this event as a small bonus if you're lucky.
It seems due to the the item description of the eggs ("A <colored> easter egg. Find all six different easter eggs to win a prize."), there was the misunderstanding that you need to collect them for this years' event. I'm sorry, we simply didn't pay attention to the item description.
I'm going to adapt that to avoid any more misunderstandings.

[Fortunato]

So they are useless and you don't get a prize (Bunny Ears?), if you find all of them, right?

[Jenalya]

So they are useless and you don't get a prize (Bunny Ears?), if you find all of them, right?

Right, their only value is their collector value on the player market. Sorry for the confusion.

[Fortunato]

Ok, thanks Jen for clearing that up. Now I'm glad I didn't spend hours grinding for those eggs

[Jenalya]

We just had a server restart to bring in some fixes on the Easter event:
- the item description of the easter eggs was changed
- when interacting the first time with one of the eggs after login, you get only a single green apple, so fast login/logout isn't worth it anymore
- a particle effect is displayed when getting an item from the eggs, so acitivity is visible
- the required level was raised to 40 and the character doing the event needs to be created at least 5 weeks ago