Christmas Event

**Dall** · 05-01-09

I thought I'ld post my views on the christmas event as it draws to a close this evening.

It was obvious alot of work and consideration had gone into creating the event so in no way take this as a moan thread but hopfully as something positive for the next event.

The xmas map, trees and mobs were a good adition although expecially as it was possible for all levels to gain items and kill the mobs requried although if anything the items were to powerful and items easy to get hold of as a general rule. It was possible to get multiple sets of items within a relatively short period of time.

Once kitted out in full kit it was like having the server run on 2x + experience as users of all levels could hunt very easily in areas where they would normally have been able to go, this would have been great over a short period of time but as we have seen with the event running for a couple oof weeks people have been able to level at a much quicker rate than normal especially with the large amount of exp bars dropping all over the place drastically narrowing the viarety in levels which the server once had.

I know of a couple of players who have out a lot of time and effotr into the event and have managed to get from level 0 to level 70 during the event which will now lead to players without a lot of the items they would normally have built up or the funds to purchase them which may cause prices of items to be sold at a higher level than they should because of the demand (we'll see on that one).

The event description also mention invasions and a fourth map which never materialised although the invasions would have just been a further exp/item boost which wasn't necessarily required.

With the number of orbs that have dropped over the xmas period could we get something added to Khin for a short period of time (I know this was mentioned before) as currently the TM has quite a few orbs and it and this can only lead to the majority of people running around in uber gear or having a load of cash in game. If the orb numbers were dropped we would be able to stabilise the eceonomy a tad although with more people getting higher up the ranks more people will be hunting IT which drops orbs/tokens left, right, and centre anyhoo

On reflection it may have been better in my opinion it would have been better to:

a) Not have made the items as easy to come by.
b) Not have made the items so strong
c) Run the event over a shorter period of time (I know this is difficult due to scheduled reboots)

Bah work calls can't finish this til later on....

**levi** · 05-01-09

Originally Posted by Dall

I thought I'ld post my views on the christmas event as it draws to a close this evening.

It was obvious alot of work and consideration had gone into creating the event so in no way take this as a moan thread but hopfully as something positive for the next event.

The xmas map, trees and mobs were a good adition although expecially as it was possible for all levels to gain items and kill the mobs requried although if anything the items were to powerful and items easy to get hold of as a general rule. It was possible to get multiple sets of items within a relatively short period of time.

Once kitted out in full kit it was like having the server run on 2x + experience as users of all levels could hunt very easily in areas where they would normally have been able to go, this would have been great over a short period of time but as we have seen with the event running for a couple oof weeks people have been able to level at a much quicker rate than normal especially with the large amount of exp bars dropping all over the place drastically narrowing the viarety in levels which the server once had.

I know of a couple of players who have out a lot of time and effotr into the event and have managed to get from level 0 to level 70 during the event which will now lead to players without a lot of the items they would normally have built up or the funds to purchase them which may cause prices of items to be sold at a higher level than they should because of the demand (we'll see on that one).

The event description also mention invasions and a fourth map which never materialised although the invasions would have just been a further exp/item boost which wasn't necessarily required.

With the number of orbs that have dropped over the xmas period could we get something added to Khin for a short period of time (I know this was mentioned before) as currently the TM has quite a few orbs and it and this can only lead to the majority of people running around in uber gear or having a load of cash in game. If the orb numbers were dropped we would be able to stabilise the eceonomy a tad although with more people getting higher up the ranks more people will be hunting IT which drops orbs/tokens left, right, and centre anyhoo

On reflection it may have been better in my opinion it would have been better to:

a) Not have made the items as easy to come by.
b) Not have made the items so strong
c) Run the event over a shorter period of time (I know this is difficult due to scheduled reboots)

Bah work calls can't finish this til later on....

totally agree with the orbs thing in khin... also i know that lone/ares/pen have other stuff to sort but i feel that also khin could do with a update in items that you can sell because some of them now are left behind. take for example the other day we had a heaven sword drop off em n i think it was left behind as its worthless!!

**Lone** · 05-01-09

all makes sense

no invasions happened? >.< i created an invasion script and asked for them to happen im not sure why they didnt

Sorry about that one.

you were supposed to get an invasion and then have santa show up and give out presents as a reward (in addition to the bosses drop)

one of the main focuses of the event was to increase the user numbers and give people a taste of things they hadnt before, which seems to have happened but maybe a little to much

the next event will be for valentines so we can make the suggested adjustments for that one

any other feed back would be good

also i intend on updating Khin as soon as i get some money removal ideas in place

oo yeah i pretty much have the pk vill idea sorted for this reboot

**levi** · 05-01-09

ideas for taking money out of game- ill think of something and see what i can come up with!! just 2 quick suggestions would be to allow people to buy gps and tokens for cash!!

**Dall** · 05-01-09

Originally Posted by levi

ideas for taking money out of game- ill think of something and see what i can come up with!! just 2 quick suggestions would be to allow people to buy gps and tokens for cash!!

Only problem with allowing people to buy tokens for cash is that you are then opening up the purchase of 4x/5x unless, the cost of tokens would go up dramatically which would then change their value completely as you would be opening up a lvling frenzy

But then this discussion is a completely different topic to opinions on the christmas event...

Any clue as to what items we can swap out xmas/christmas kit for ?

**Lone** · 05-01-09

As previously discussed it will be a Shield and an orb. (1 christmas shield and 2 crimbo shields and a couple of orbs.)

the only problem was that we werent able to add AC/AMC to the shields so they will have different stats on them

you will need to trade the items for the christmas tokens and then the tokens can be traded for either the shields or orbs.

Ne0Fargus · 05-01-09

I think the event was good, not that I have anything to compare it too. It's a shame I got so drunk yesterday and went to bed at 8pm, would have been nice to have one last bash at it

Ah well, time to find me some kit to wear!

**KONG** · 05-01-09

event kit was too uber =(. i think it was fine that it was easy to get cos then u could benifit over the holidays but ppl got too much of a boost that they wouldnt normally have got. (ie hw aka nev) is now in the 90's and thats due to xmas kit, doubt his norm kit would survive long in et 2nd.
was ok event but lacked depth really, after u got the kit there wasnt ne thing else to do =(

ideas for valentines day.

Valentines maps (heart shaped ofc) that has alot of lvl 30 mobs! this is important so ppl can lvl up noobs to round 40 but after that the mobs only give 1exp.

maybe make special valentines medals n stones but thats it, no other kit. make it easy to get them so every one can enjoy a slight stat boost for a couple of days of event and then take them out, also once out make them useless and dont trade in for tokens cos thats silly, event items are for event, not to be stashed so ppl can use them to beg for tokens cos they too lazy to get them the old fationed way.! ne ways i digress.

also on this map could have some sort of loved up boss that appears every 2 hours or something. would drop the event medal n stone every time and then some sub standard rare. (nothing uber)

basically an event that could help noobs on server (and encourage them to stay) and an odd bit of fun for a couple of days for other peeps.

also as a final thought, ne news on the pk map with boss spwans? that will be uber soon as it goes live and i think will add to server =). also how bout the token boss spwan mob thingy as well?? i know its crude but hows bout disable one of the noob event maps, make it no pk, make the npc take tokens, tele u to map, and spwan boss, think that would be a laugh for minimal coding effort =)

Dave123456789 · 05-01-09

Terrible event in my personal view. The kit just completely destroyed any level structure and allowed wizzies to go off their tits in ET, and taos to level like warrs. It was pretty much like a test server, have best kit and go wherever.

As mentioned in other thread, i didnt play the event on the principle that i didnt wanna take advantage of the items which were shockingly over-statted and go on a leveling bender. I'd prefer to earn my levels, than do a stint of 30mins on a white map n get sick kit n go mental.

The economy, not that there even is or was one, has been destroyed in the Medal / Charm sector. 6/7 weeks ago i dragged the Orb trade well below the 1m barrier by flooding TM with hard earned orbs from IT ranging from 400k to 1m for U's on my orb store char OrbStorb... Now TM is flooded with U's at 199k and even norms at 300k ....

Simple fix for future events though, consider what affects everything will have on NORMAL play. It only takes one un-considered thought on an event to wreck even an established economy on en established server.

2/10 for me.

Rant over..

*Stands on the firing line*

Load up!!

**Mephitsu** · 05-01-09

Echo alot of the thoughts here.

I worked, or was away during most of Xmas - and having thought I was doing well getting to level 55 before Xmas I then saw people starting the game and then overtaking me up to level 70+ just on the back of the Xmas event.

Bit of a slap in the face in that extent after working so hard over the past 3-months or so to then be back to being a noob

I also thing the economy has taken a battering. Stuff I was saving up for (such as Crimson Plate as just one example) is now totally scarce and overpriced and I will be starting January at level 62 with most of my kit at level 45-51 - doesnt give me much of an incentive to come and play that that much... but I will persevere

Dont get me wrong, I used the Xmas kit and levelled up myself in areas such as Yims - but with work and family - managed 2 levels and a bit through whole event.

But on the flipside - I enjoyed the Xmas map - the orbs were good (got some of my items upgraded a bit), but perhaps a little too readily dropped - and I think that we might have avoided flooding the TM if we had moved Orb upgrade guy to BW for the event so that those U could have been upgraded - would have taken cash out the game at same time. Exp bars and Medals werent the best idea, GP worked well tho - future events could just be GP drops from event mobs - with some uber rare items like Orbs / Bene's

I think that it was well thought out initially, but I dont think the long term events could have been predicted and I hope that the server settles back down again now to normality.

Future events would be appreciated, but perhaps more along the lines of invasion type events - perhaps with a penalty for players.... Maybe we could invade BW and if the players dont kill all the mobs within say an hour, then the Mobs capture BW and the store/telepor prices in game are raised by a certain amount - thinking out loud - but seems the most fun way of doing an event without flooding the market, penalising those who cant play loads and damaging the balance the server has.

Bit of a long one, and I hope I dont offend anyone - just got in from work so these thoughts are straight off top of my head.

Keep up the good work (any news on the mace graphics