Christmas Gift Exchange.
Items Required: LOTS of gralats. You MUST have a Player House.
Items Obtained: gifts from friends
Items Obtained: gifts from friends
Some information may be inaccurate, and I also lack images here. So I will have to work on this page next December.
Christmas is one of the major highlights on GraalOnline Classic fill with fun and joy. But you will need to prepare well beforehand. You need to estimate how many gifts you plan to give. Gifts cost 600 gralats each (this may be inaccurate. The system changed a little last year, so I forget). This means you will need to save up a lot of gralats. I suggest you start saving in September or even earlier, and only spending gralats on Halloween in between. Look at the "Making Gralats" section to read how to get gralats fast.
To give a gift to a friend, guild member, or whoever you are feeling generous to, open their profile, tap More Options, and "Give Gift." Then you will choose which gift type to give that person. Before the gift is sent, you can write a message on the gift tag. Tags with no message will default to just "Merry Christmas," so be sure to write more thoughtful and creative messages to your friends. Reading the messages on Christmas Day is part of the fun.
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You can send a maximum of 5 gifts to a single player. You can receive a maximum of 5 gifts from a single player.
There are four gift stands with four different types of gifts. The items inside the gifts loosely fit into the four categories. You can tell which gift is what type by looking at the pattern on the paper (the bow and the color do not matter):
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Secret Santa
The Secret Santa booth is in front of the Graal City church. I think there is a 10 gralat fee for each gift. To participate in this, you must give a gift to the elf at the stand. Again, be sure to write a friendly greeting on the gift tag. This gift will be given to a random person in the Secret Santa queue. In return, you will also receive one gift from a random person. You won't know who until it is time to open gifts. You may only give/receive a maximum of 10 Secret Santa gifts per day.
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Christmas gifts can contain just about anything: hats, furniture, items (juggles, hulas, jump ropes, bouncy balls, umbrellas, pogos), morphs, mounts, food, or gralats.
2011.
This was the first year this Christmas gift exchange system came to GraalOnline Classic. Almost all of the scripting was done was Fp4. This was a huge surprise because it wasn't released until Christmas Eve, so we only had 2 days to give gifts. Originally, the gifts were either regulars (400g) or "supers" (800g). Regular gifts mostly contained gralats and eggnog and a few hats. Super gifts had a higher chance of being good stuff.
2012-2013.
I think 2012 was when they publicly announced that players can submit their own graphics to be used to fill the gifts (see below for details). I think Rufus handled the player submissions these years. "Gift4Gift"-ers and scammers were a huge problem these two years. Also, the event is prepared well in advance, so now we have more time to give gifts.
2014.
The Secret Santa booth was introduced this year to help end the scamming. Gift4Gifting sadly still happens. Also, the regular and "super" presents were eliminated and now all gifts are just 600g.
Player Submissions.
Hey! If you are a talented graphics artist, GraalOnline Classic gets a lot of help from our own players to fill gift boxes. Several of the hats and other things that come from Christmas presents are created by players.
If you are interested, every year a "Christmas Submission" thread is usually posted on the Graalians.com Forums (go to Classic section) around the beginning of December. That thread will have instructions on how to submit your own graphics (usually it is by emailing the Graphics Team Admin).
If your graphic is accepted, you will have the choice of having your own hat/item, or being given 10,000 gralats.
If you are a talented graphics artist, but have never made a hat or item for Graal Classic, click here for templates. See the list of possible gift items above; other graphics (heads, bodies, etc.) are not accepted for Christmas.
If you are not good at making original graphics on your own, then don't bother submitting. Crap is instantly weeded out. Obvious recolors and edits are rejected. And it is illegal to steal someone else's graphics to submit as your own. That will get you banned from the game.
If you are interested, every year a "Christmas Submission" thread is usually posted on the Graalians.com Forums (go to Classic section) around the beginning of December. That thread will have instructions on how to submit your own graphics (usually it is by emailing the Graphics Team Admin).
If your graphic is accepted, you will have the choice of having your own hat/item, or being given 10,000 gralats.
If you are a talented graphics artist, but have never made a hat or item for Graal Classic, click here for templates. See the list of possible gift items above; other graphics (heads, bodies, etc.) are not accepted for Christmas.
If you are not good at making original graphics on your own, then don't bother submitting. Crap is instantly weeded out. Obvious recolors and edits are rejected. And it is illegal to steal someone else's graphics to submit as your own. That will get you banned from the game.