Merry Mayhem - UPDATED

[Westy]

I think not mate. IMO..
korss/amp and exa young/mature will raise more points. Simply because..
Trox take longer to kill
Mulaak'f will not spawn quickly enough and PK'er(even nuisance ones) will interupt the flow.
Many will accidentally/intentionally breach the 6 hours. But then i'm more the miner these days so i'm probably wrong. But thats what I think is the go. Exa's.

I suspect that some rare items exa's and Trox drop are being released this 10 days.

Originally Posted by ~ thebuzz ~

How to win this event: (as rules are NOW)

1. Grab an Unique Dub & McCormick Terminator
2. Position you in an landgrab - standing solid on same spot with 5000 ped ammo.
3. Get a lot of friends being runners and dragging tons of trox youngs to you.
4. Kill 'em all
5. WHAM U made yourself an landarea
6. Same goes for 2nd price, just a bunch of Svempa XT (L) and ammo
7. and same for 3rd price...

[Chief]

Originally Posted by Lykke

<<other games>> .... along with sex, lundry, carwashing, playing with kids or friends or wife, seeing people, shopping, read a book .. not necessary in that order ....

hehe ur so funny looool

[baxter]

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[Lykke]

look at this from your own economical point of view also!!! Who can afford to constantly kill mobs 6 hours+ in a row/day anyway ???? (hands down skalman ... )







(those of you who can and have TOO much money left now because you can't spend them all in 6hours ... I can be your personal assistant helping you off with your burden! And I wont even charge you for it )

[Nazbrat]

Sir would you please care to comment on the Rules and Clarify them for us. Theren Strange made a Great point and so have many others

[Nexia]

Hmmmm, difficult to state ones opinion without being called a 'whiner'. But what the ****, I'll do it anyways .
And I share my opinion with most dedicated (read: hard core) players.

It's Christmas holidays for me now, and I was looking forward to skilling up, go for hunts, practise my make-up (),..
When I saw the event at first, I was really excited: a goal I can work towards. Hey, I even have a chance, since I can play quite a lot now!

But the 6-hour time limit will cramp my style (, I can finally use that expression!). Yes, I know, some of you will say 'Get a life'. But I just like EU better than spending hours in a pub, or go to Christmas parties to talk to people I haven't seen in a year (because I really don't like them....), or watching really bad movies (which they always seem to save up for the holidays ).

So indeed: why not monitoring 6 hours of play for the event, and then you can do whatever you want (but no more points for the MA-event awarded). I'm a big girl, I know when to drink, eat, sleep, clean and whatever. I do go to the toilet instead of keeping empty bottles and a bucket for you know what. I still have great sex and I still play with my boyfriend (how nice if you both have the same hobby :-p). My hair is nicely washed and I even have time to put on real life make-up.
Point is: I want to compete for the event AND have the option to play more than 6 hours a day.
I have a couple more hours to decide what to do, but I just wish I didn't have to make that choice... .

I've aired my opinion, thanks for reading if you did .

Regards
Nexia

[timmmers]

Originally Posted by unionova

To me the new and improved rules doesnt make sense.

First of all, if someone has nothing better to do than play 20hrs/day throughout the ENTIRE holidays, then oh my god please give him/her a LA, god knows s/he probably didnt get any other xmas gifts.

Second, die from EU? Cmon. If they wanna push themselves to that, then that's possible during other times aswell, not just during this event, and it's a choice you as a participant make and not on Mindarks responsibility. And it only goes to show that natural selection is alive and kicking.

Third, a Virtual Universe (in my book) would equal social interaction of sorts. Limiting a participant to 6hrs playtime per 24hrs means that those 6 hrs will be completly devoted to hardcore hunting (with a minimum of chat, min of trade, min of chilling, min of browsing), followed by an immediate logout and then login to another game most likely. Oh the joy of being part of a virtual online experience where you're limited to the amount of time you can spend online w/o being disqualified from the (afaik) the highest prize contest so far. The change to the contest rules are not only alienating participants from the developers due to badly implemented restrictions but also from other participants due to said rules.

If account sharing is such a big issue, then set a 10 day activity cap instead of a day cap. For 10 days the sleeping time needed would normally be 60-80 hrs. Minus 30 for dedication, and you end up with say 40 hrs of minimum sleep. So just set a 10day cap of 200 hrs, and let people stay up for 2 days straight hunting or spread out their hunting as they please. Even with the 6hrs/24 hrs this is badly needed - give us a 60 hr counter and let us see how much time we have left until we're disqualified.

In conclusion, if Mindark feels the need to restrict the event-gaming to 6hrs/day then by all means: their contest, their rules. But to disqualify people from the contest because they enjoy Mindarks product and want to spend time using it? Thats a magnificently stupid move.

Awesomely well thought out ...get a job at MA event planning.

+rep for that one.

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[EyeContact]

It's certainly an improvement. 6 hours per day is a nice amount to hunt.

Everybody has to understand they can't make any set of rules to please everyone.

It's unfortunate that this is all so last minute. It would have been awesome if they had been able to implement a daily 6 hour timer for every individual.
You start the timer once every 24h period and then it counts down from 6h to 0. After that the killed mobs don't count anymore, but you could still play, sell loot, prepare for the next day, chat with other participants, etc.

What I wonder is why they haven't thought of the health issues etc. when they were planning this event. MindArk, consider asking advise from experienced players next time to prevent things like this.

Another way to get more players involved in the event is to offer some random prizes in addition to the top 3. Maybe hide some special loots in the mobs, or give out a prize for every 100.000th mob killed (overall), stuff like that.

[Nazbrat]

Hey MA Your player base has a Knack for brainstorming Utilize it

[Rayne Jade]

Originally Posted by unionova

To me the new and improved rules doesnt make sense.... EDITED... sorry....In conclusion, if Mindark feels the need to restrict the event-gaming to 6hrs/day then by all means: their contest, their rules. But to disqualify people from the contest because they enjoy Mindarks product and want to spend time using it? Thats a magnificently stupid move.

I agree with your points. It is my time to do with as I choose, but thanks to the "woe is me" whiners, support cases and online polls / petitions the event got changed. I don't think those people understand just how much they bent themselves over. The magnificently stupid move was to demand that MA be Mommy and Daddy to us and dictate how long we can play. Does this mean that on Jan 1 2008 it will suddenly be OK to kill trox for 20 hours a day? Since there is not a LA at stake I guess no one will care anymore who dies infront of their PC playing EU? Give me a break... It is either an issue or it isn't. No one comlpained about this during the Glowbones Quests. No one complained during previous landgrabs. I am not saying they should have - not at all. I am just saying that if you cannot control how long you spend at a computer game you have serious problems. And there is no reason to ask the game maker to regulate your use for you. That is like taking McDonalds to court because the coffee you ordered was actually hot and it burned you when you put it between your legs. What is next? Should the XBox be made with an automatic shutdown so that people remember to eat and take a crap? There is no self-responsibility anymore. There is always "someone else" to blame for the stupidity in the world instead of the ones that are stupid.