Gem Cutting Event

A Controller run event that shows up on the calendar.
Watch for news and winners' listings in the Events chat.

Click on the Calendar icon and scroll.
Click on the Eye icon on the left under the title of the Event to see a small story and prize list.

Set your Time Zone correctly because the calendar time for event start also uses it.

You must manually change your Time Zone back one hour in the spring and forward one hour in the fall.
For the USA Eastern Time is 0500 (March 8th thru November 1st for 2020) for EDT, but then during EST has to manually be changed to 0400.

Lapidary Skill 0 from your faction's University of Art to build a Gem Cutting Table.
A Gem Cutting Table.

Once Lapidary opens in any faction, a special recurring Gem Cutting Event will happen every 60 hours Egyptwide.
Collect 75 Cuttable Zircons at the School of Thought.
First place winner will win a random Huge Gem.
Second place winner will win 40 random Cuttable Gems.
Participants will win 1 Cuttable Gem (random type).
Event scores for first and second place winners will reset.
All other scores will roll over to the next event.
Each contest lasts 3 hours.

Instructions appear in the Events chat:

A Gem Cutting Event can happen at any time and will have certain prize categories and many more possible prize items and amounts.
Collect your 75 Cuttable Zircon (1/3 of the gem catalog list) from any School of Thought at any Chariot Stop or next to any University of Thought at any time.
Each player can only use their own collected Cuttable Zircon and may not use more from another player.
Cuttable Zircon can only be used during the event.
Scoring is below. First unique cut gives 50 points, Second unique cut adds 33 more points to your score, etc with a max of 19 of the same unique cut per Cuttable Zircon.
Example:
- First Zircon is your first Amanti finished cut....adds 50 points on score.
- Second Zircon is your first Bastet finished cut...adds 50 points to score.
- Third Zircon is your second Amanti cut............adds 33 points to score.
- Fourth Zircon is your first Cat's Eye cut.........adds 50 points to score.
- Fifth Zircon is your third Amanit cut.............adds 25 points to score.
Uniqueness is more valuable in this event, meaning you will get a higher score for finishing many different cut gems. The difficulty or rareness of the cut is not rewarded.

See Cut Gems wiki page to see the Cut Gem Catalogue. To view a particular gem cut, load a gem on the table.

Because of the incrementally lower score points, strategy based upon uniqueness can be more important than skill.

Knowing all of the rare flaws and being able to spot them will still help.

Winner's Reports will be in the Events channel.