Merry Mayhem - UPDATED

[Queen]

I am one who is very grateful to MA for going thru the trouble of putting together these events. This proves they listen to us and are working hard at boosting moral. Way to go MA.
I hope everyone has a great time and again thankyou MA for all your hard work and commitment to the comunity.

[Echo Biatch]

OK this is how MA's response has read to me....

MA threw the event in there thinking...UBERS WILL BE OUT IN FORCE YAY

Suddenly the PLAYERS bring to light the whole avatar sharing deal and MA think hmmm that is true we cant see who is playing.....

Then they read the responses to the first MERRY MAYHEM in which many of BIG names in game tell the community that they dont have the time to make the hrs needed to win....due to christmas commitments

suddenly MA reduces the hrs we can PLAY not compete and the ubers who only had limited hrs are now back in the ballgame...

[Ben Cobra Boner]

ther just ned to spend sum time making the event

and ther woden be a problem


and all event wod be grat

[safara]

I like it

Certainly fairer than it was before

[ShadowPhoenix]

I have to say even though I'm not playing anymore really, and not competing in this event, I would like to give a huge +rep to mindark for their rule regarding the health of their players. This gives me quite a bit of faith in them that was lost before, and with the development team recently telling a couple clues about the decay formula, wow.

[thoreau]

I think MA lawyers suggested this change. In the past, when a gamer had a marathon session and died the game company wasn't blamed. But with an event like this, MA could be accused of 'encouraging' a marathon session that lead to a players death.

That being said, it's still a bad event.

1. The players that can kill mobs the fastest benefit. Those that can kill the fastest and most economical benefit the most. If you own a Imp MK2 you are at the top of the list. While an Exo is a 'noob' mob, MA is rewarding those that can kill the fastest. Hunting with an Opalo isn't going to win this thing.

2. In the past MA would have a 'kill this kind of mob event' and attach some sort of storyline to the event. We don't even get that here. No storyline. Just go spend as much money on decay and hopefully you'll win.

It would have been far better if MA did the raffle system that was suggested in another post. For every Exo you kill you get 1 raffle ticket. At the end of the event a drawing is held to award the prize. Those that kill the most have the biggest change - but everyone has at least a chance.

[StrongMinded]

They surely need to clarify if there is a max play limit for all people.

Let´s say you don´t want to participate but enjoy just being online, chatting, trading etc. I know i have done more then 6 hours ingame alot of times and especially during a 24 hour period. With the christmas leave and all i wasn´t going to sleep as much coz i have the possibility not to.

If i play 3 hours when i get home and then go to a pub and then come back and play another 3 hours.... Am i no longer able to logon for the next 24 hours in order to not disqualify myself... I´m sure i won´t be able to track that...

[Nadie]

Originally Posted by Bertha Bot

Merry Mayhem - UPDATED
between Friday December 21 18:00 UTC and January 1 00:00 UTC.

This also needs clarification I think:

Do the 24 hours run from:

18.00 (fri) - 17.59 (sat) - 24 hours
18.00 (fri) until 00.00 (fri/sat) - 6 hours not 24

If 18.00 (fri) - 17.59 (sat) then the last day is only 6 hours again and not 24

Now I've totally confused myself

and as I guess most people in the UK/Europe will be out for New Years Eve this last day is totally null and void anyway

[neomaven]

Originally Posted by Scarlon

because it's fking xmas dude... if u want to do something wonderful for this community, do it ffs.. if not, just pick the ubers from a top list, give them some gifts (Land Area, Shadow set :P ) and that's it, don't bull sht everyone with this crapy "event"

I fail to see how a 6 hour event structure favors high skilled avatars with the best equipment any more than a 24 hour event structure does.

An advantage in killspeed is an advantage in killspeed regardless of the time frame involved. If you dislike the fact that some participants kill faster than you, then invest more time and/or money in your avatar. Also, as others have suggested in this thread, Mindark structured this event with some very common mobs that players of all skill levels can hunt, and scoring is not dependent on maturity level (though using a sliding scale of points for mob maturity actually would have been a more fair way to do it, and would have added more strategic dimensions to the event, in my humble opinion).

Hmmm, maybe this is the point behind some events, Mindark encouraging people to enhance their avatar's abilities and equipment for the long term...

Finally, if you think this is a "crappy event" then don't participate. Seems pretty simple to me.



[Off Topic]

Originally Posted by Rayne Jade

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.

This actually happened:

Liebeck v. McDonald's Restaurants - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[/Off Topic]

[Phil Surtees]

6 hours a day? On my days off it's not unusual for me to be on more than 6 hours, but I don't do it in 1 session. Usually 2-3 hours for 3 sessions or so.
If MA wants us to spend less time online, they should make it so that we don't have to work like crazy to make a ped.