In 2010, GemStone IV is celebrating the 20th anniversary of our official launch.

As a special thank you to both returning and long-time players, we will be amping up our treasure feeder distribution to "Frenzy" level over the next couple of weeks. Over 2,000 unique treasure items are queued up and ready to be released in treasure chests around Elanthia! The more you slay, the better your chances of finding these goodies. (Note: feeder distribution is being altered in prime only at this time. Platinum will have a separate event over the summer.)

Additionally, for a limited time, we are bringing back the GIFTBOX command with new gifts. Why? Because we like you! (And in special thanks for everyone's patience during the recent relocation of our data center and the subsequent *fun pauses*.) Giftboxes will be available in both prime and platinum.

The GIFTBOX command may only be used once per account (NOT once per character), and the gifts within will be attuned to the account. One item in the box is linked to your character's profession AND attuned to the character, so choose wisely!

We hope you enjoy these gifts! (Have you hugged a QCer today?)

~Sirina

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The beatings will continue until morale improves!

When will the hopper be stuffed?

...Also thank you:)

Very nice surprise. Now which to choose! Thanks so much.

Thank you!

>>>Can we choose to GIFTBOX the same character we used for the previous GIFTBOX items? Will they stack? Or should I use it for a different character?

They stack, and it's a good idea--whereas before your +5 stat only became +2 to the bonus you can get the full +10/+5 now. Of course, speaking as archer with the enhancive going to the DEX stat, it was a no-brainer.

This is a very nice surprise.

The original giftbox item for my bard gave +2 to max health and mana on top of +5 to my primary stats, I've not sung to the new one yet but its likely the same setup.

Tal, player of.

The sigil resonates with your voice, indicating that it enhances its owner in the following ways:
It provides a bonus of 5 to Aura.
It provides a bonus of 5 to Influence.
It provides a bonus of 5 to Max Health.
It provides a bonus of 2 to Max Mana.
This item is restricted to use by you!
The sigil looks to have almost innumerable charges remaining.

You sense that the bronze sigil will persist after its last enhancive charge has been expended.

Tal.

The big question now. Are the items that claim the properties transferable?


Keith/Kithus aka "Thumper"

Keith's Emoticons:
;) Joke or sarcasm
=P Just razzin you a little
>=( Grr, I'm all fake mad
=,( You made me pretend sad
0=) Expecting an e-mail from Izzea

They're not transferable in the sense that once the item is keyed to someone (it will be very obvious to you if you've keyed it), it's not transferable in any way. Once keyed, there's a deadline to let me know whether or not you're redeeming it or not.

If you're not eligible to win it, it'll get re-fed. If you're not eligible because you already own another property, you can first take a look through the new property, and then decide which one you want to keep.

~Kaikala

<<In 2010, GemStone IV is celebrating the 20th anniversary of our official launch.

Wow. Time flies when you're having fun. When my first character first drew breath, extremely wet behind the ears, I was fifteen years younger and the next generation of my RL family wasn't even born yet. (Indeed the fact that I need to put the letters 'RL' in front of the word family is a testament to the inpact that the Gemstone has had on me. ;)

Happy anniversary GS and thanks for the gifts... past, present and future.

Incidentally I like the poem on my lantern.... summarised succinctly by Dorothy. "There's no place like home..."



Bremerial - Bar Fly, 3rd Class [Highman Games 5010]
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>>Two private property "items" that are redeemable for two specific existing private properties were put in the feeders this month specifically as a ramp-up to this event. One has already been found in Prime. This means there's one more in Prime. Happy treasure-finding!

Just to update this... someone found and keyed the item for the second private property... but then did not claim it by the deadline. SO - this is going back into the feeders and will remain there until the next person finds & keys it!

~Kaikala

When you receive one of these deeds, there are certain things you have to do, in order to let us know that you plan to utilize the property. They aren't transferrable like normal items.

The property deeds can also turn up in any town, not just in the hunting areas associated with the towns they're located in.

Cheers,
Itzel

Team Plat
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Jaired says, "Stop standing in the way of the artistic picture that I am trying to paint through WORDS."

I'm always amazed at hearing about people who walk away from boxes.

>I'm always amazed at hearing about people who walk away from boxes.

It was probably in one of the enruned/mithril/glyphed boxes that have been sitting in my lockers for weeks.

:D

So....

Tamuz tells it better, but this time (yes, again!) someone actually got the item from the box, didn't look at it at all for more detail, and tried to sell it to the pawnshop.

Upon realizing that the pawnshop would not buy said item, the item was dropped on the floor. And the janitor, of course, swept it up thereafter.

The janitor, being the amazingly honest and good gal she is, handed it in to our little lost and found. She was given a modest raise for her good deed.

I'll be putting the item back into the feeders in the next few days...

~Kaikala

Obviously it needs to show up in one of my boxes so this doesn't happen again.

My hunting partner and I usually wind up lockering our harder boxes until we have 50-100 of them and then get them all picked in bulk as we only know one picker who can get them and she's not around very often.

There are many people who regularly pick the hardest boxes.

Koldeen is 81 and can pick the vast majority of locks, and can wedge open most of those he can't. The only thing he can't open is very-top-end box with a scales trap, which is less than 1 in 100 of boxes coming out of the temple, which has the hardest boxes.

He's 20 levels from cap, and there's a whole lot of capped rogues running around.

My point is, there's no shortage of locksmiths who can open rift / OTF / temple boxes. If you have access to 4WI aka Mist Harbor, or are in Illistim, Koldeen can pick boxes for you. I'm guessing you're on Teras, however, since there's frequently lots of pickers around the EN.

>>I don't see it as a fair situation if the player pops a rare find only to have it taken out of the box because they didn't get it opened fast enough.

I don't see it as fair if an extremely rare thing sits in a locker for who knows how long because someone doesn't open it. It makes sense to have a time limit on this kind of thing so it doesn't sit and do nothing for who knows how long.

If you don't open your boxes (when it's been announced that there's a time limit on finding it and redeeming it, multiple times) then that's your risk that you choose to take.


- Andreas

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Don't feed the troll, it only makes him worse.

I also don't see it fair that a GM has to sit around waiting to work on a very special prize/item just because someone is too lazy to open up their boxes. To me it is like winning a token for alter time and then sitting on it for an extreme period of time. Use it and let the GM get back to other work without having to constantly worry about it in the back of their mind.

I do agree that we all may have different opinions on how long "in a timely manner" is/should be.


-Adam

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