Seven Winds Reward Lamps
by Kassadee_Marie, HSM team writer
We all love it when a developer comes out with something that we find to be unique, fun or interesting for Home, or when they offer us a great new experience there. And we all love rewards, although which rewards are our favorites changes over time. It makes us feel appreciated as customers of Sony, Home and the specific developer involved. The Chamber Apartment is a favorite for a lot of people who were lucky enough to receive it, way back when, at least in part because it’s an exclusive item. Even a tee-shirt could be a favorite reward, in the right circumstances. For instance, I would love to have earned a Home first anniversary tee-shirt and be able to wear it now during Home’s fourth anniversary. However, my current favorite rewards will very likely remain my favorites for a long time. These are the djinn lamps given to us as rewards by Juggernaut through its Palace of the Seven Winds space. They are truly unique and wonderful.
I was shown each of the lamps and how they worked before I received any of my own, and I coveted them immediately. I’m sure my whole face looked like one big WANT. There are four of these incredible djinn lamps, and it’s obvious that great care was taken in their design, as well as their functionality. Even their names seem to have been chosen with care. These are not the “Fire Lamp”, “Wind Lamp”, “Earth Lamp” and “Water Lamp”, as they could so easily have been named. The visual design of the lamps also includes hints about their functions. Look closely at each of them, and you’ll see what I mean.
The Lamp of the Inferno is described this way: “This active item will unleash a fiery conflagration that follows you throughout your apartment.” It’s my least favorite of the four, though I admit that it’s been fun to watch people set their avatars on fire and not know how to put out the flames. Almost everyone has the same response — screaming “Arrrrgh!” and running around. I always have the urge to say, “Stop! Drop! And roll!” But instead I tell them just to use the lamp again. This lamp is colored reddish gold, with a reflection of flames moving across its surface and smoke drifting from the end. It uses ten furniture slots, and is awarded for entering the personal space, the Palace of the Seven Winds, for the first time.
The Lamp of the Zephyr is described as follows: “This active item will release a horde of roaming Djinns.” It made me laugh out loud the first time I saw it in use, and I still enjoy seeing the four (or is it five?) fat djinns floating all over whatever estate you set them “free” in. They go amazingly far and high in a large space like the Palace of the Seven Winds, and stay bumpingly close in a small space like the Harbour Studio apartment. Being bumped by a fat djinn and watching your avatar twitch a little is rather funny too. The lamp is silvery blue and full of carved swirls with wisps of air around it and coming from the spout. This lamp takes only three furniture slots. It is also awarded for entering the personal space for the first time.
The description for the Lamp of the Terra is, “This lamp is imbued with the essence of the earth, granting any space a vibrant beauty of a garden paradise.” This djinn lamp is almost tied for my favorite of the four. It can be amazing to watch the beautiful plants sprout up in new places all over an estate, and disappear again only to turn up in other spots — sometimes in very unusual places, too, such as balanced on the backs of chairs. This lamp is much more successful in a small space where you can see multiple plants coming and going. In a large space, they are too spread out. This golden-toned and jeweled lamp pours a continuous stream of earth from its spout. It takes up 14 furniture slots, and is awarded for entering the clubhouse of the Palace of the Seven Winds for the first time.
My favorite lamp is the Lamp of the Deluge and I love, love, love this reward. It makes rain, awesome rain, in any personal space. My friends and I have experimented with this lamp in many of the personal spaces in Home. I like it best in an outdoors space like the Sunlit Meadow, where it looks realistic and the sunlight makes the distance look misty. One of the spaces I saw it used most effectively was the Tropical Escape, where it was positioned to stop raining right at the edge of the bungalow, as it would in reality. “This active item will unleash a epic storm within your apartment,” is the simple description of this lamp. This lamp is designed with swirls in blueish green and has water-like reflections moving over its surface. This lamp is the most difficult to obtain because it requires you to be present in the maxed out personal space or clubhouse, which means 12 people in the estate or 32 in the club. I was able to obtain my lamp thanks to Y2David, one of the Home Community Volunteers. It also takes up 18 furniture slots, but is very much worth it.
If you do not have these marvelous reward items, I strongly suggest that you make the (mostly) small effort required to obtain them, because each one is a marvel and fun to own, use, and experiment with. I believe that the people at Juggernaut really appreciate their customers, and they are fast becoming my favorite developer. I just hope all this praise that I’m giving them doesn’t swell their heads. I only have praise left for them, as I’ve already gladly given them all my money.
December 15th, 2012 by Kassadee Marie | 3 comments
Home is endlessly entertaining to this California girl. Kassadee has been in Home for about four years, and loves almost everything about it (with a few notable exceptions). She spends way too much money there, and perhaps too much time... Someday she will travel the world and write about the people she meets and the places she sees.
I LOVE the Lamp of Deluge. VERY innovation, yet serene once put in the right personal space.
Very innovative and creative courtesy of Juggernaut Games.
Lovely article, Ms. Kassadee.
I enjoy the Deluge Lamp too. I use it at Sunlit Meadows and also at my Dolphy space and a couple of others.
Other places, I wish it didn’t rain inside but so it is.
It’s not that easy to get it as even though with a lot of friends have apparently had trouble getting it. Earlier today someone posted again on the PS3 forum that they were trying to get it.
The Chamber is indeed unique. I’m glad I have it. Too bad there wasn’t a door to take one directly to the Wizards Den which is also quite a place.
Nice article Kass, each of them lamps are unique in their own way.. and that Deluge Lamp is my favorite too… when I first received it I was so amazed on it and still am when using in certain spaces. Juggernaut sure did nice.