New players: Win some plat or gear!

[Shannacore]

Hi newbies! Welcome to the server~

A few pieces of plat and some items would surely help your adventuring, right? Well dust off your EQ brain and join me in Misty Thicket this Friday for EQ Trivia Night! I have over 10,000 plat and a handful of noob items to give away.

More details here: http://www.project1999.com/forums/showthread.php?t=157313

See you in the Thicket!

[Abner]

Awesome! That sounds like tons o fun! I'll be there!

[friznapbaby]

I'll try to make it there! sounds like a fun time, and what a better way to start off on the server than to see if my memory serves me correctly :P

[Ket]

Sounds fun. I don't like fun. You think this is a game?!

[Abner]

Are all the questions game related then? Or is this a general trivia thingy?

[Dragonsblood1987]

Are all the questions game related then? Or is this a general trivia thingy?

mostly just questions about her twitch streams.



gotta make sure people are actually watching them

[Valdarious]

Sounds fun.

[Shannacore]

mostly just questions about her twitch streams.



gotta make sure people are actually watching them

Don't troll here.

[Shannacore]

Are all the questions game related then? Or is this a general trivia thingy?

Yes! I am only asking questions up through the Kunark expansion. I also opened it up to questions about P99 as a server, but didn't receive any.

[Abner]

Awww man I aint gonna win nuttin! I'm not so versed in lore stuff. I'll still try though. Do you ever do non game related trivia?

[Shannacore]

Awww man I aint gonna win nuttin! I'm not so versed in lore stuff. I'll still try though. Do you ever do non game related trivia?

The first 1-3 rounds will be very easy questions such as, "What level does a druid get meditate?" or "What zone does an Erudite start in?"

You totally have a chance!

[Clark]

mostly just questions about her twitch streams.



gotta make sure people are actually watching them
Go away.

[Swish]

"What zone does an Erudite start in?"

An African erudite or a European erudite?

http://www.angelfire.com/punk4/frenchfry0/images/01-patsy.jpg

[Abner]

An African erudite or a European erudite?



I dunno..... Aaaaaaahhhhhhhh............

[Stormlight]

Sounds fun! As a probable newb-again-to-be, I appreciate it. Presuming my character from 3 years ago still exists, he'll be questing around again tonight, and likely show up in the Thicket tomorrow. *grins*

[Valdarious]

So what level constitutes a newb in these kind of things?

[Abner]

Are we there yet?

[Shannacore2]

It's a scam

[Kidneypunch]

Cant wait to join for the fun tonight! Any idea on the location in Misty where we will meet?

[Shannacore]

Cant wait to join for the fun tonight! Any idea on the location in Misty where we will meet?

I'm thinking near the tunnel to RV, near all of the little halfling huts.

[Shannacore]

I've updated the trivia thread with the categories for tonight's questions. Start studying!

[Abner]

And ya changed it to 8:30! That's pretty late for us lil folk but I'll do my best!

[Shannacore]

And ya changed it to 8:30! That's pretty late for us lil folk but I'll do my best!

Yeah, sorry :c I'm working one town over (right now), so I had to give myself extra time to travel back.

Hope you can still make it!! It's Friday night, you can stay up a little later :]

[Abner]

Yeah, sorry :c I'm working one town over (right now), so I had to give myself extra time to travel back.

Hope you can still make it!! It's Friday night, you can stay up a little later :]

Yeah I was just makin' a short joke on myself. :p

[JRW928]

Thanks for the trivia night. I appreciate the effort, but that was totally not newbie friendly. Even the veteran players weren't getting the answers without Google. Once again, I appreciate that you all were trying to help even if us noobs were totally lost. lol

[Stormlight]

I appreciate the effort as well! I had to leave a bit early, but thanks for the event!

[Panna]

What kind of newbie friendly questions were there

[Zulzephur - Tarew Marr]

What kind of newbie friendly questions were there

Some of them weren't too bad, but even someone like myself that's played since 2000, I didn't know. Then again, I don't keep up on Lore; I just like to play the game.

Even though I didn't win anything, was good to see a healthy crowd there, and glad to see events such as this take place here. Been a good first few days on the server. Hope to see more gatherings like this.

[JRW928]

Some of them weren't too bad, but even someone like myself that's played since 2000, I didn't know. Then again, I don't keep up on Lore; I just like to play the game.

Likewise. I never kept up with lore. What I know comes from quest dialogue and group chat. I admit I'm disappointed I didn't win anything, but I don't really feel like I had a chance to. There were more than a few questions people couldn't even guess correctly and apparently couldn't be found on Google since the question giver ended up giving platinum to the first person to come kiss her. It was funny though. I did have a blast being around so many people. Like I said, I'd have liked to win something so I can stop using my newbie dagger and cloth armor, but I have 53 levels to amass a fortune, so I'll just get back to unsuccessfully stabbing orcs in the neck.

[Panna]

Likewise. I never kept up with lore. What I know comes from quest dialogue and group chat. I admit I'm disappointed I didn't win anything, but I don't really feel like I had a chance to. There were more than a few questions people couldn't even guess correctly and apparently couldn't be found on Google since the question giver ended up giving platinum to the first person to come kiss her. It was funny though. I did have a blast being around so many people. Like I said, I'd have liked to win something so I can stop using my newbie dagger and cloth armor, but I have 53 levels to amass a fortune, so I'll just get back to unsuccessfully stabbing orcs in the neck.

I kinda of figured that's how it would of gone lol

[JRW928]

I kinda of figured that's how it would of gone lol

I kind of figured that, too. I wanted to get involved in the community again and this was a great opportunity. It was an hour and forty-five minute walk from Felwithe to Misty Thicket, but it was worth it if only to get my bearings again in this crazy, unforgiving world of EQ.

[Valdarious]

I left early since I knew I was not going to be able to answer anything. It was almost like some people had things prepped on hot bar buttons for answers for stuff like races and things. I couldn't type fast enough before there was a wall of red text.
Nice to see a coordinated effort at least.

[Clark]

Some of them weren't too bad, but even someone like myself that's played since 2000, I didn't know. Then again, I don't keep up on Lore; I just like to play the game.

[Gregor]

To be honest it was pretty silly for the purpose it was trying to achieve. The people that needed the low end gear had no chance of answering anything. So you ended up making an event for EQ vets to win things like advisor robes and wraith bone hammers. Goes real well with that fungi lol.....

All in all it was better then no event at all but if you're gonna give away low end gear make damn sure new players are likely to get it. Hell you would have been better off just handing it to random lv 5's in neriak then risking it all go to rich vets(which it almost all did).

[Taeoz]

To be honest it was pretty silly for the purpose it was trying to achieve. The people that needed the low end gear had no chance of answering anything. So you ended up making an event for EQ vets to win things like advisor robes and wraith bone hammers. Goes real well with that fungi lol.....

All in all it was better then no event at all but if you're gonna give away low end gear make damn sure new players are likely to get it. Hell you would have been better off just handing it to random lv 5's in neriak then risking it all go to rich vets(which it almost all did).

I agree, that the quiz was not aimed at EQ newbies. But it was, however, aimed at P1999 newbies. These two categories are usually not the one and same. I assume that most people that start playing here are actually EQ veterans and as such, they should've known the answers to some of those questions. Some were definitely too obscure and had to be googled, but there were plenty that even I knew, despite not having played EQ since 2005 prior to starting on this server a short while ago.

[nectarprime]

Yeah it was fun. I didn't win shit though, too slow.

Also mass illusion froglock is not classic.

[friznapbaby]

To be honest it was pretty silly for the purpose it was trying to achieve. The people that needed the low end gear had no chance of answering anything. So you ended up making an event for EQ vets to win things like advisor robes and wraith bone hammers. Goes real well with that fungi lol.....

All in all it was better then no event at all but if you're gonna give away low end gear make damn sure new players are likely to get it. Hell you would have been better off just handing it to random lv 5's in neriak then risking it all go to rich vets(which it almost all did).

This...I saw so many "newbies" running around with twink gear, and they were the ones their trying to answer questions to obtain the plat and gear...I got lucky and answered a couple questions (one of which I actually supplied) otherwise I very well might have left with nothing but the training robe on my back and my starting dagger in hand...

[Zeaol]

I was online when this was going on but when I saw the population in misty thicket I realized that it was impossible that even half the people were actual newbies to the server. I still appreciate the thought for running an event like this, but just like what's been said above, my assumption is the gear would be going to the twinked vets. Those are the people that ruin events like this for the newbies, so again, thank you for running the event in the first place!

A suggestion for next time would be to get a roll call in advance on the forums but only allow people that have posted recently (before your initial post) in the starter forums. Allow those people to receive priority in the event (maybe a 2 minute head start over others).

[Meg]

Unfortunately, I didn't join the community until after this event, but I've heard enough grumbling in this forum about what happened to know that my not being around was probably for the best. These same newbie trivia nights happen in other MMO's I've played and they're always someone's attempt at giving their twinked friends more valuables. It's like Bush and Haliburton after 9/11. That's an extreme comparison obviously, but the basic idea still holds true. In reality a true newbie isn't going to know the answers to 90% of the questions, which means that the people who really need the money and gear are at a disadvantage to the people with knowledge who don't need the money and gear.