Gawibawibo and 'Valentines' Day events!

This week we've continued the Valentines Day event and also started the Gawibawibo event! Wasn't anyone else curious what the heck Gawibawibo meant? I had to look it up, but it's the Korean name of their variant on rock-paper-scissors. What's the difference between the styles? I have no idea.

If you haven't kept up with the Valentines Day event, it goes like this:

1. There's two people in Flaris who are looking for hearts, one good, one evil.
2. They each need 100 heart pieces from the masquerpet Love Thief.
3. In return, they'll give a you a ticket. Whichever side has the most hearts will get a greater box for each ticket, and the other side gets a lesser box for each ticket.
4. You'll also be given a Chocolate of Friendship for each 100 hearts you turn in

The Love Thieves are everywhere. I'm not exaggerating. I was collecting hearts earlier and I had to take screenshots of the chaos:

and then when I got a bit closer to the pile of them..

I picked up about 50 hearts from this one single pile of Love Thieves!

So far I've invested all of my hearts into the good side; I hope I'm lucky, haha. (Note: It would be a good idea to get rid of all your hearts before February 23rd. That's when the event ends!)

Oh yeah, here's a bit of information about the Chocolate of Friendship:

Total Chocolate of Friendship: 15
Last updated February 20th, 2011

Item	Total Found	Percentage
Heart Cracker	2	13.33%
Event Sunstone	4	26.66%
Event Moonstone	4	26.66%
Chocolate Cookie(x2)	2	14.33%
Chocolate Milk(x2)	3	20.00%

Now on to the newer events!

100k profit.

Dice Roll: Ever wanted to feel really broke? Gamble your money here! Even if you win, later you'll probably gamble that away too. Generally if I play it, it's just for fun, and I play it only once.

I look at playing dice like this:

given that you bet evenly on the dice and the probability is the same as a normal die:

1 die  - 1/6 success rate - 400% profit

2 dice- 1/3 success rate - 150% profit
3 dice- 1/2 success rate - 66% profit
4 dice- 2/3 success rate - 25% profit
5 dice- pointless for this case
6 dice- pointless for this case


I may try writing it up later seeing if there's an optimal amount of penya and spread to bet on, but one thing is for sure, this thing is designed to take more money than it gives. I still like it though. The fact that the GM's try to fight inflation is good new to me.

Rock-Paper-Scissors: I'm not one for gambling my money away, but I do enjoy the Rock-Paper-Scissors. Here's how you actually go about getting the tickets:

1. Go fight masquerpets above level 15 that is near your level.
2. Take 5 of the snowflakes and 100,000 penya to the Mayor in Flaris.
3. Trade in the snowflakes and money for a RPS coupon.

You can play the Demian standing next to the mayor in Rock Paper Scissors.

There's always a few items down on the list that I find useful (like the Mysterious Pills or Scrolls of Sprint) and I can farm and sell the snowflakes too. The sad thing is that you have to gamble your current wins in order to progress!

No structural damage done to rock. :P

You can expect that the chances for winning per ticket will be:

1 win     - 50%
2 wins   - 25%
3 wins   - 12.5%
4 wins   - 6.25%
5 wins   - 3.125%
6 wins   - 1.562%
7 wins   - 0.78%
8 wins   -  0.39%
9 wins   - 0.l95%
10 wins - 0.097% 


or 1/2^n where n is the number of wins


I went and earned about 200 mysterious pills and 75 Scrolls of Sprint with out 80 RPS tickets; otherwise, I just sold the tickets or snow crystals. Enjoy these events, they provide a really nice way to rack in (and lose) money!

Happy FlyFFing!

Also, It's Sol Not Hibiki provided a cool post on the event; I encourage you to check it out!

Love or Hate and Saphyryan events!

Two more item events  -- it seems like that's really common nowadays!

Love or Hate event:
 I wasn't sure how much I was going to enjoy the Love or Hate event, mainly because I don't like collecting items from special monsters (Rampaging bull, zombies, etc..), but I didn't mind this one so much. Why? There are tons of those Love Thiefs around! Unlike the rampaging bull, these spawn like crazy and run around in flocks. Don't believe me? Check the picture!

I spent maybe 25 minutes looking for the thieves along with the other monster, and I believe that I ended up

The Saphyryan was created by kitkate. So far I've liked
every user created masquerpet.

getting about 75 hearts (I never seem to use Treasure Hunter or anything when I do this, so I could have doubled it.) It also seems like the  drop rate for the hearts are 100%.

What to do with the hearts:

I haven't decided if I'm going to trade them in or not. You can trade the hearts, and so the hearts can be sold.

But, the entire box thing seems like fun, although, I'll probably just sell the boxes, so maybe it won't matter, haha.


Saphyryan:
The Saphyryan looks really nice. It's actually pretty big! As far as I know, these don't spawn very often, and about half the time, they drop nothing! The first one I killed gave me (Monster Ball (C) 2x) and well as (Ball of Crown (35) 2x). Then the next few dropped nothing.

And there are TONS of people hunting these. I was flying through spots with 2 or 3 people camped, or actively searching. It was hectic!

So I'm not sure how much I'm going to try hunting these, but I figure since it's the weekend, I should give it a shot.


Happy FlyFFing!