What I'd like to see in events.

[grimjim]

Good points actually well made dagger.

As a long time P&P GM I agree, planning these things isn't hard, but having struggled with Vampire: Redemption and NWN to try and make modules I appreciate its harder to do with computers and, having GMed large scale LARPs its harder to do with larger numbers of people too!

[aylwyne]

Make sure you tell them not to do that token grindfest anymore. This isn't chuckeecheese!

I agree that the grindfest was pretty ridiculous and detracted from the event for a lot of people. However, I think even that could have been minimized if they'd have made the objectives of the event clearer in the beginning.

When the event first started, people talked to the NPCs and there was some talk about bringing crafted goods in exchange for tokens. But it wasn't clear at all that the whole point of this was to create guards to fight the invasion. I think it was about 2 days into the event before we (the community) put all the pieces together and figured out how the whole thing worked.

Because of that, people initially thought the tokens were the point of the event. Of course, the quickest way to get tokens was to go out and farm low-level kitin for 40 claws each. So everyone ignored what we were really supposed to be doing and rushed out for all the claws, thus getting into a clickfest.

I'm not saying that the token system doesn't need improvemet, it certainly does. I just think the failure to make the goals of the event clear to us, steered us more towards the clickfest, thus tainting the event for a lot of people.

[lawrence]

Thanks a lot for your comments and ideas guys.

Please note however that it is always best to post any feedback regarding events over in "The Saga" forum section, which is dedicated to in-game events.

Our events staff regularly reads and posts on those message boards. I'll make sure they take note of this forum thread, but just generally speaking it's easier to post in the event forums directly.

Link: http://www.ryzom.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=35

[helbreat]

anychance you could move the topic then too so devs can see it too if they read the forums ;P

[aylwyne]

Thanks a lot for your comments and ideas guys.

Please note however that it is always best to post any feedback regarding events over in "The Saga" forum section, which is dedicated to in-game events.

Our events staff regularly reads and posts on those message boards. I'll make sure they take note of this forum thread, but just generally speaking it's easier to post in the event forums directly.

Link: http://www.ryzom.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=35

Thanks for the acknowledgement that this feedback was noticed. As it was primarily meant as feedback to the event designers, I appreciate that it will be brought to their attention.

I guess I didn't post it in the events forum as I viewed that more as a place to discuss and announce actual events that are happening but I'll make sure and post this type of thing over there in the future.