Maintenance 2013-11-25

From the Maintenance Notes:

All Servers GM Applications are still open. Read it completely and if interested, apply! [Fixed] The exchange npc for halloween rewards now allows you to exchange Hyzo Hat, Loli Ruri Hat, and Imp Wings. Due to this, the NPC will be around for 1 week longer. [New] The 2013 Christmas Event has started. If there's no information on the wiki, give it time and one will be added. The relevant NPCs are located in, where else, Lutie, the Christmas town. Loki [New] A sale has started for Premium items. Each day for 7 days, certain premium items will be on a discounted sale to celebrate Black Friday. The items will change at exactly 23:59:59 each night (server time). However! On Black Friday and Cyber Monday, certain "requested often" items will be on sale. What are they? You'll have to wait and see, but act fast, because these sales will end very soon. [New] "Homunculus Care Guide" can be purchased from the Vote Point Redemption NPC in prontera. It costs 15 vote points and when used, will give your homunculus between 5 and 10 intimacy [Fixed] Hall of Abyss properly resets the investments 2 hours after woe, rather than wednesdays at 5pm server time. [Fixed] The skulls (31450) can now be sold to the NPC for 0 zeny. [Fixed] The "Secret of the Tears" quest was fixed and is no longer repeatable.. [Changed] Authoritative Badge (12262) has been made tradable [Changed] The "effect" item from Donor Rewards which did nothing but an effect over and over has been replaced with a multi-functional item (Rewards Box) that can give various good bonuses that last between 5 - 45 minutes (something that can actually be used and has a purpose). With this however, the item is no longer an infinite use item. Once used, the item will go away. It is tradable. [Changed] The status effects given by the Rewards Box, with exception to skill buffs, no longer are removed upon death. [Changed] The tax rate on vending has been increased to 3% (was 2%). This is primarily to assist in removing excess zeny on the server but can also be related to the Conquest System. To put in reference how much tax that is, if you sold an item for 1,000,000,000 (that's 1 billion zeny, the max amount), before you would lose 20,000,000 or 20 million zeny as a tax. Now, that would be 30,000,000 or 30 million zeny. In relation to credits, the current vends are sitting around 60m. Before, you would lose 1.2m in taxes. Now, that would be 1.8m. It's not a huge jump, and in fact, most people will not notice it.