Replacements For Lag Outs/Server Crashes

[Ares]

There will be a new procedure put in place which will hopefully be more successful in compensating players for down time and loses of pets, gold and/or exp increases.

In the future we will be holding a mini event for to compensate for any server issues that result in the server going down.

We currently have 1 event in creation (nearly completed - Lones adding the final touches as I type)

You will be given a short amount of notice before this event takes place (the down time should be enough warning though :P) so if you have lost anything you get a chance to to be on line, have some fun and try to gain back what you had lost.

If you have read previous posts you may be aware that each time replacements need to be given out I have problems from players trying to claim what they are not entitled to, not being able to reach the players that are entitled to replacements as we don't get in game at the same times or players that just didn't realize that they can get anything back.

Hopefully this way it will be more suitable and reach all of the players that have lost out, give new players something to take part in other than the normal leveling and generally give everyone a bit of fun in the annoyance of the server going down.

These mini events will not interfere with main events such as the up coming Easter Event. They may run at separate times but hopefully you will be able to enjoy both.

Due to the down time that has happened recently there will be a mini event taking place soon. the details of which will follow.

Please be aware that the mini events may not happen the moment the server comes back on line, it will depend on the situation that caused the down time (if it went down over night then the mini event will start at roughly the same time the next evening etc.).
Also scheduled reboots will not qualify for a mini event.

What Does The Mini Event Consist Of?


A new script has been created that a GM can run from the GM Room.


This script allows the GM to spawn either 100, 200, 300, 400, 500 CompoBoxes around various provinces.

The boxes can drop the following items:-

10GPScroll
Blackthreadbundle10
Redthreadbundle10
Whitethreadbundle10
Spiderwebbundle10
Token
Platinum
ZTEgg
WTEgg
IWTEgg
IZTEgg
KSEgg
DDEgg
BoneLordEgg
OLEgg
ELEgg
DICEgg
HMTEgg
OKSEgg
BenedictionOil
PetRentalTeleport


These items should help to cover all the various issues that people have when the server crashes,

- Gamepoints for those that have teleported somewhere.
- Tokens for those that have used them for pets
- Plat ore and Pet Rentals for those that have bought pets
- BossEggs for those that were at a boss when it went down.
- Then BenedictionOils and Booty for fillers

As time goes on the drops may increase depending on what new items we bring into the game.

The boxes will have 2000exp and will be kill able by anyone from noob to high level.

What Are The Eggs?

The eggs are something to collect up - Due to the nature of the game we cant simply double click them and spawn a boss in front of the player thats doubleclicked it

So what we have decided to do is when you collect an egg you will be able to spawn that boss, but you will need to trade it over to a GM, this GM (Myself or Cronus) will then teleport you out in to a random area of one of the provinces or event map (somewhere out of the way) and we will take the egg and spawn the boss for you to kill and take the drop.

Alternatively, you can collect one of each egg to trade in for one of the following bosses for yourself or your guild:-
CylonGuardian, Or GreatFoxSpirit, Or BichonLord Or OmaKing.

The first of these events should be held this afternoon and probably through the evening and maybe a late night spawn or 2 for the late night players (thats for Cronus to decide on though as he normally covers the night shift.)

I hope you enjoy this new scheme I know it will save me a lot of hassle trying to work out who is fibbing and it will also save Lone a lot of time when double checking logs.

[levi]

What about evil mir? People are there when lag happens will there be a evil mir egg?

[Ares]

You can collect the GamePoints to get back to EvilMir.

[Cronus]

this thread is a hour old now so i guess lone has done the drop files for the boxes !!

he could maybe add

GmOrb
Gmtoken
GTGmToken

???

also lone do you know when the event(GmMob will be in place)


Nice idea ares if you or lone can tell me what to do for the night players il happyly do it (i dont want to spwan to many boxes)


cheers

[ozzy]

what about those of us that might not be able to get on due to real life, work an such if there is an event going on and say you lost gp an tokens miss the event how is that fair?

i know its a free server and you guys try your damned hardest to keep things running smoothe but this idea seems to me to have its flaws

1. if you miss the event you dont seem to get comped
2. if you get to the event but the lvl60+ guys farm all the boxes even if they werent there when you lost everything

please dont think im having a go im happy to be playing a decent mir private server and i hope i dont get flamed or come across an @ss hole but i think you can see my point?

[Lone]

what about those of us that might not be able to get on due to real life, work an such if there is an event going on and say you lost gp an tokens miss the event how is that fair?

i know its a free server and you guys try your damned hardest to keep things running smoothe but this idea seems to me to have its flaws

1. if you miss the event you dont seem to get comped
2. if you get to the event but the lvl60+ guys farm all the boxes even if they werent there when you lost everything

please dont think im having a go im happy to be playing a decent mir private server and i hope i dont get flamed or come across an @ss hole but i think you can see my point?

well with this type of event the boxes will be spawned and then its a case of going to find them - if you arent online for the specfic period when the event is on the boxes wont be removed so you will always have a chance to find one (and i did set the script to have 100/200/300/400/500 boxes spawn - if you miss it, it will only be a click of a npc script for the GM to spawn a load more )


as mentioned we will try to give warning to players about the events before hand and we will try to get the events happening at the right kind of time that the server went down.

so we will as you say do our best to compensate everyone but some times its just not possible.


If you do end up missing the compo event then we are still able to replace the pets/tokens

this just helps to cover all the various people that end up going But i had xxxx and lost this and lost that and this and that.....

(It takes quite some time to replace pets for everyone when the server goes down so this was more about helping out the masses - if there are individuals that need replacements at some point then we are still here to sort that out )




And Cronus

your GMMob event is all ready to go :P im sure you replied to the pm where i told you that.

[ozzy]

hehe ok then that shut me up :P i am only a lowly n00b ya`know

[U4ea]

You can collect the GamePoints to get back to EvilMir.

You can collect gamepoints and get back to any of the other bosses. However, as EM takes longer to kill than the other bosses (when you include the walls) you're more likely to be half way through killing it and lose out. Also EM is hunted so much at the minute there'll probably be someone there when you want to kill it.
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ILoveLove

[Lone]

Lol nps :P we were all lowly noobs once



Sorry we cant give you EM spawns because the only place it actually spawns is in the EM room, so sorry thats a no can do.

plus we've never replaced the EM teles in the past so sorry its probably always going to be a no

[Cronus]

And Cronus

your GMMob event is all ready to go :P im sure you replied to the pm where i told you that.


yup yup soz errr think the npc needed GIVE bits sorting(as didnt know the exact names in DB :P) and take a bit outa the script or add 9-10 letters to it ! then move it from test to the correct npc then away we go

do we have all 4mobs in the DB now and i remember you saying u need to sort out dropfiles

i cant remember if i pm you/shir/ares what the GMtokens/GTGmtokens are for ?? if so not then il sort that out