So this blog post has some awesome new; firstly about Christmas!!
Christmas is here
But as always, the rite of passage to Astro-Santa’s goodies is sending him your letters!
That’s right! It’s time for our annual Astro-Santa Christmas letter competition. Send Astro-Santa (or maybe the Astro-Elves) a heartfelt (or hateful) letter, for what things Astro-Santa should get people, or just to raise (or ruin) their Christmas spirits.
You have until Friday 19th of December, 00:00 server time to get your entries in.
Five winners will be chosen later that day and prizes will be handed out during the event.
Prizes:
- A unique item (permanent holoprojector or soundprojector).
- Their letter added to the game.
- 5 Kotonjatas
- 5 Candy Mints
- 5 Triple-Chocolate Candy Cane Kisses
- 5 White Chocolate Candy Pretzels
- 5 Gigantic Stockings
- 5 Good Deed Tokens
- A collection of holoprojectors and soundprojectors
Dates:
- Entry deadline: 19th December (midnight server time).
- Winner’s announcement: 19th December (or later that weekend).
- Event start: At Winner announcement time
Rules & Judging:
- Entries should be posted to the forum thread titled ‘Astro-Santa Letter Competition Entries’ (link is at the bottom) before the end date.
- The submissions will be judged on creativeness and relevance to the holiday and of course, bonus points for Star Sonata themes.
- Your letter must be original work belonging to you; if found otherwise you may be disqualified.
And secondly, December!
We’re 10!
That’s right; Star Sonata is 10 years old! For those of you who’ve been with us since the start, you may know that this actually occurred a few months ago around the same time we were being plagued by memory corruption issues.
It was decided that we’d delay the celebration until December, to wrap it up with Christmas and New Year’s celebrations.
From now through till the 5th of January; we’ll have various bonuses for you in game and as time progresses, some special party items.
The bonuses will start small and stack up over the month, some bonuses will be temporary, check here for current details
The bonuses:
- +25% mod chances
- Green Goons
- +50% artifact mod chance
- +100% experience
- +100% worker speed
- A respawn of Astro-Santa