Don't know where to go to get the event item rares? Not sure how to collect the Heart and Red Packet currencies? Confused about how the event works in general? This is the thread where you can find the answers to your questions - or, if you're still unclear, please feel free to ask in the thread and get help from others. :)

Please note that this thread is for questions and answers, bug reports, and event feedback only. General chat should be kept to the appropriate places. If you are simply chatting in this thread, it will be considered spam and removed.

The Valentine's Day and Lunar New Year 2010 event runs from February 11th - February 18th, ending at approximately 7pm Central Time Zone. (Click here to find out what time it is in Central Time Zone right now!)

Table of Contents
0. Introduction & Table of Contents
1. Event Overview
2. Collecting Currency
3. Collecting Event Items
4. Event Items
5. Frequently Asked Questions

Overview
A basic review of how everything works ^.^

• Hearts = Used for trading for Event Item Rares or Red Packets.
• You can get Hearts by posting in the forums, playing Chance! or playing Firecrackers.
• Any currency will carry over day to day until the end of the Event.
• However, unused event currency will disappear after the Event is over!

• Red Packets = Used in the Special Event Store.
• Red Packets are equal to 25 gold (ie: a 100 gold item would cost 4 Red Packets).
• You can get Red Packets by trading Hearts with Li Mei (me!) at the Shrine.
• Unused Red Packets will disappear after the event is over.

• Event Items (rares) will start being released on February 12th.
  

Event Currency Overview
Only two currencies this time. :)

Hearts are used to get Event Items (rares) or to trade for Red Packets. And Red Packets are used in the Special Event Shop. For more information - continue reading!

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Hearts: How to collect them
There are three ways to collect these currencies:

1) Post in the forums.
You will earn 0.40 of a Heart each time you post in the forums.
Spamming will not be tolerated, even if it is an event. Warnings will be handed out the same as on non-event days.

2) Visit the Fireworks game every 15 minutes.
Every 15 minutes you can visit Lise and play Fireworks - you have a chance to earn between 1 and 3 Hearts each time! Good luck!

3) Visit the Chance! game every 30 minutes.
Every 30 minutes you can play a free game of Chance! - and you have the potential to earn between 0 and 20 Hearts! Alternately, you can pay a few Hearts for an extra game.

Red Packets: What are they? and How to collect them.
Once again we will have Event Store Currency for this event - horray!

Each Red Packet is worth 25 gold in the store. You can only pay in Red Packets if you choose to use them, however. You can't pay part in Red Packets and part in gold! In the cases where the price of an item isn't an "even" Red Packets, you may "pay" a little more or a little less while using Red Packets than you would using gold.

To obtain a Red Packet or two, visit me at the Shrine. I'm happy to trade 15 Hearts for 1 Red Packet!

How to Collect Event Items
Please remember that no event items will be released until February 12th!


Step One: Earn currency!
(To check how much of anything you have, just look at the top bar anywhere in the event forum.)

Step Two: Visit Vicktoria at the Festival Booth.
(Say 'hi' for me!)

Step Three: Click on any unlocked thumbnail and solve the clue in the box that pops open underneath the thumbnails.
(If it's locked, it's not released yet!
If you have trouble solving the free clue - an easier clue is available for 3 Hearts. The clues will lead to somewhere on Menewsha.)

Step Four: Visit the page the clue is telling you to go to and click on the chocolates box.
(Scroll to the very bottom of the page. If you don't see a chocolates box there, you've gone to the wrong place! Try again.)

Step Five: Return to the Festival Booth and click on the thumbnail again to collect your prize!
(Enjoy!)



WARNING: On the last day of the event, don't wait until the last minute to collect your event items! Get all you'd like collected ahead of time!

Event Items
This is where we will show the different event items in-full as they are released.
Remember that event items won't start being released until February 12! So you have an entire day to collect currency before it starts!


1) Sexy Heart Lantern

Value: 30 Hearts
Release date: February 12th

Preview:


2) Love Potion no.9

Value: 35 Hearts
Release date: February 13th

Preview:


3) Love Knot

Value: 40 Hearts
Release date: February 14th

Preview:


4) Valentines Fireworks

Value: 45 Hearts
Release date: February 15th

Preview:


5) The Empress's Arch

Value: 50 Hearts
Release date: February 16th

Preview:

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For a complete set of event item rares you need to collect 200 Hearts.

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Frequently Asked Questions

This space will be filled with commonly asked questions you guys might have about the event. Staff will edit in the answers to questions that seem to be asked a lot.

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Q. How long will this event last?
A. Until approximately 7pm Central on February 18, 2010.

Q. Can you collect event currency by posting in all forums or only in the event forum?
A. You can collect them in all forums except the Word Games forum.

Q. Can I buy or trade event currency with other users?
A. No. You'll have to earn your currency on your own!

Q. What time does the next event item rare come out?
A. They should come out at midnight Central Time Zone, but this may vary due to unforeseen circumstances. Just hang tight if it happens!

Q. Is there a limit to how many event item rares I can collect? Do they have to be collected in a specific order?
You may collect as many of the gifts as you have currency for, as many times as you like, whichever order or item you like. (For example, if you only wanted to collect the third item, you do not have to collect the first and second as well.)

Q. Who did the artwork for the event?
A. ToriKat and HamletSpamlet did the artwork for the staff thread banners (and HamletSpamlet put together the banners).
YanYan13 and Omi did the artwork for the event forum layout.

Q. Who did the pixeling for this event?
A. Wish04 and puchistar both contributed to the lovely event item rares and commons. :)

Q. Why isn't [specific feature] working for me?
A. Please post your browser (ex: Firefox), browser-version (ex: 3.1), and operating system (ex: Windows Vista) and let us know what problem you are experiencing, if it happens in all browsers you try; etc. Posting screenshots may also be useful. We'll do our best to troubleshoot - but we need more information than just, "this isn't working. :c"

Please feel free to ask questions and so on now!

Please remember that chatter will be deleted from this thread as it is considered off-topic.

Because of the current clue system - you may not post the answers to clues in this thread. Your post will be edited or deleted if you do so.

I didn't get any hearts for the posts I just made, is the currency not enabled yet?
o:

Also: CHANCEOMG HOW I MISSED IT <3

I'm having the same issue as Rainbows
I've been posting, but have gotten no hearts from it as of yet

Where do we find clues?

Medu, you'll find clues Here I'm pretty sure, when they start coming out.

Please remember that no event items will be released until February 12th!

Yan, does it work?
0:
-pokes test-
... no hartz garr :l

Sorry about the hearts not working for posting. We're looking into the issue. :)

Thank you, CK and staff members who are working but aren't CK! n___n

We're all CK. Beep.

LOL xD @ Juru ~

Oh, I wanted to ask; When the first event item is released Friday,
will there be the esitmated amount of currency posted to get a Complete set of the event rares? <3

Omigawsh! o_o!
-pokes the CKs, even the ones with faces that make me gigglesnort-

Miro, you need 200 hearts for a complete set 0: It says so.. Well.. somewhere in there..

Event Items
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For a complete set of event item rares you need to collect 200 Hearts.

Is there a reason, I'm not earning any hearts for the posts that I am making?

Rei Ann, they're looking into it n_n

Thanks, Rainbows. I didn't catch the release date for the clues until you mentioned it.

Oh, will we get any hearts for the posts we already made or are they lost?

Wow. 200 Hearts.
That is a lot!

Must be really great EI's.

Thank you guys for looking into the hear thing.
We appreciate it.

Thanks, Rainbowz! <333 I guess I overlooked it when I was reading the rules.

No - we can't retroactively award hearts, I'm afraid! But at least you're still earning gold for your posts. ;)

Originally Posted by CK

No - we can't retroactively award hearts, I'm afraid! But at least you're still earning gold for your posts. ;)

Yes, which is good for my questing.

Hey there, the event looks very promising (it's my first one here). I'm really excited about it this far!
I'd like to point out a couple of things that I've noticed that I am not sure if you're already aware of..
1) Replying in this forum by regular and quick reply is acting a wee bit buggy - I got a couple of notices against double-posting / being told to wait 15 seconds before posting again when I had made only one post
2) The avatar that shows up in the top right of the Events forum but not on the rest of the site (even after saving and refreshing my avatar on the avatar editor page), appears to be from a few hours ago, plus the features don't look quite right - I'm not sure if this is specific to me and something that I've been doing or if it's related to the way things got coded for this forum's layout?