Hi,
Gratz to Winners (and their herders and support gunners)!
And
shame to MA for this:
- Holding a very time consuming event just during the most significant holidays in western civilization is IMHO a slap in the face for everyone with a life and a family - 6 hours a day, and the more hours of organization isn't something anybody could do that wouldn't completely ignore social duties and risk serious familiar trouble.
- An event like this, where the overwhelming part of the
EU population has absolute zero chance to win, is IMHO not what we need - further spoon feeding some Ubers might be an incentive to some simple minds to double effort and deposits, but no normal participant these days with a job, a family and some common sense will ever reach the regions to be able to compete. The times these Ubers have reached their Uberness have passed, the possibilities they had aren't available anymore. Only chance would be to burn insane amounts of money - right, this is what
MA wants ...
- This event was introduced as a single hunter competition - it developed into a contest who could organize most efficient mob herders grabbing trox from far away, support gunners to shoot them down to 52% HP, and FAPpers to keep the heroes alive - wouldn't it have been better to simply make a Soc competition of it?
Well, there might have been a nicely filled loot pool during the event (couldn't check, this time of year for me usually belongs to family, not gaming ...) , and at least it wasn't made as the usual lag feast, so we can say
MA has learned something. This might be seen as improvement, so
a little Gratz to MA, too ;-)
Anyway, there would be this much possibilities for
MA to have events pleasing more of the participants! Have made some raw proposals
here, thread went locked - so I'll repeat:
Quote:
In my humble opinion these events are meant well, but very poorly executed, causing anger and frustration more then joy and excitement. I'd like to throw in an idea how this could been done better - guess it's wished we'd be constructive?
So here we go; idea for events that would be more fun for more ppl:
- There would be vouchers for this event, every participant would get one (like christmas presents), and they would not be tradeable.
- MA would have created an "event area", be it another isle, a separated area in Eudoria or Amenthera (one of the domes there?), or something like CP or CND. This place wouldn't be accessible at normal times, only reachable via teleporter when an event is ongoing, requiring the voucher.
- The teleport would transport only a certain amount of ppl at given time, so that there would be for instance max. 50 ppl in the event area. We might have to wait to reach event area, but with a long enough duration this should work fine.
- When teleporting all carried items would go to storage instantly, and you'd get provided with a given set of weapons, ammo and armor. This would make all participants equal, and would make RL skills important.
- There could be all kind of competitions, from "slay most mobs with given ammo" over "slay most mobs in given time" to "get most phat loot while in" , PvP orientated ones like "total carnage" to "king of the hill" - possibilities are endless.
- These events could be hold every month, every week, even every day - it could be a steady stream of entertainment for the participants, usually yielding smaller incentives, nice (L) tools for instance. At special occasions there might be better wins, might be possible to have to pay entrance for these - but then, too, it should be assured that all have same chances to win.
Let's go one step ahead - do some high entrance fee events once in a while, with high prices, and show them on the screens all over Calypso ... Oh, guess maybe some of our beloved Ubers would not like to been seen performing without their Uber gear they sold their wife to arabian bordello for ... Well, let's forget - but maybe it would be a nice possibility for well skilled "med ppl" to get some nice piece of gear!
Above mentioned mode of events would, once implemented, give a steady stream of entertainment, fun to ppl and thus PED to MA. Happy ppl deposit more ... And it would be easily repeatable over and over once the initial work is done. MA should not forget, IMHO, the other story line pushing events - "Ahh, the egg" is an example how to do not!
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(reformatted, lists seems not survive quoting ...)
Raw ideas, right, and there might be better ideas to improve these. Would very much appreciate Marco would open a thread about events, and a community brainstorming helping to develop. I'm here since late 2005, and I have never ever seen a single event I had been able to participate that hadn't been a pure waste of money. Ok, missed the Robots and the Feffos. But everything else I have seen was massive lag, and mobs this far out of my range ...
My over 10K (only in primary weapon skills) make me too much nOOb for this, and I guess a lot lesser skilled players are puking 24/7 - but who cares of them, they're just about 80% of our population ...
Have fun!