What sort of event would you find fun?

[Amelinda]

Ohai guys.

As a senior guide i have very limited powers. I can't spawn mobs or summon loots but I might be able to coerce Rogean into helping me with some of that.

I am curious as to what sort of event you guys find the funnest. I'd like to run an event but I want it to be something people are likely to want to attend.

I'll add a poll to this and if you have another choice to add you can let me know and i'll have Nilbog or Rogean add it in.

Info I am looking for is like....

What sort of event interests you?
What sort of reward would interest you?

group v group pvp events
scavenger hunt type events
flavor/quest based type events
Large scale pve encounter type events

[Autotune]

Ohai guys.

As a senior guide i have very limited powers. I can't spawn mobs or summon loots but I might be able to coerce Rogean into helping me with some of that.

I am curious as to what sort of event you guys find the funnest. I'd like to run an event but I want it to be something people are likely to want to attend.

I'll add a poll to this and if you have another choice to add you can let me know and i'll have Nilbog or Rogean add it in.

Info I am looking for is like....

What sort of event interests you?
What sort of reward would interest you?

group v group pvp events
scavenger hunt type events
flavor/quest based type events
Large scale pve encounter type events


most fun?

[Massive Marc]

Whatever you do, don't hand out god loot or anything stupid like that. That wouldn't be the funnest.

[Filthed]

the only event i can remember from my early days of playing eq was the first halloween i played where in certain zones some mobs were changed to werewolves and bone dragons etc that dropped interesting and cool loot that i went off and adventured solo and killed. It was definetly a experience that amazed me and ill never forget, but thats just my opinion. in later mmos like wow etc i remeber the season festivals with gay quests etc that were quite forgettable and none will ever rank up there with the surprise and shock of adventuring that first halloween in eq.

[Knuckle]

Have a best of the best around May

[Mouse]

most fun?

beat me to it.

[Silikten]

most fun?

adjective, fun·ner, fun·nest.
4.
Informal . of or pertaining to fun, especially to social fun: a fun thing to do; really a fun person; the funnest game.
5.
Informal . whimsical; flamboyant: The fashions this year are definitely on the fun side.

[Nirgon]

A 6v6 tourny with server wide announcement. No loots necessary.


Announce must include side was "Carl Winslowned".


Do this once a month.

[Truth]

Amelinda, Large Things 2011

[Amelinda]

adjective, fun·ner, fun·nest.
4.
Informal . of or pertaining to fun, especially to social fun: a fun thing to do; really a fun person; the funnest game.
5.
Informal . whimsical; flamboyant: The fashions this year are definitely on the fun side.

<3

[HippoNipple]

PvP event - have a couple zones that would attract different level ranges with no pvp exp loss for a day or two. It would attract a lot of people that want to fuck around in pvp without a loss in exp.

PvE event - if you do have certain mobs spawn in zones maybe you could have some items that only work for a week and then are taken out. Maybe some cool illusions, port potions, whatever you want, as long as they only lasted a limited time and didn't screw people over long term for not attending the event.

[Autotune]

<3

don't encourage him. He knows not what he copy/pasted.

[Massive Marc]

adjective, fun·ner, fun·nest.
4.
Informal . of or pertaining to fun, especially to social fun: a fun thing to do; really a fun person; the funnest game.
5.
Informal . whimsical; flamboyant: The fashions this year are definitely on the fun side.


What we’re seeing here is language evolution in action. So the straightforward answer to your question is: yes, you can use these forms, and people are doing so increasingly often. But if your question was really asking whether it is acceptable to use them in all circumstances, then I have to say firmly that, no, it isn’t, not yet anyway. They are definitely informal and they should still be avoided
when speaking or writing standard or formal English.

Michael Quinion

[juicedsixfo]

Stop shitting up the thread you fucking dickless retards.

Voted for group PvP with the expectation of having maybe three different level ranges.

[Autotune]

What we’re seeing here is language evolution in action. So the straightforward answer to your question is: yes, you can use these forms, and people are doing so increasingly often. But if your question was really asking whether it is acceptable to use them in all circumstances, then I have to say firmly that, no, it isn’t, not yet anyway. They are definitely informal and they should still be avoided when speaking or writing standard or formal English.
QFT

Also, I blame Steve Jobs for this.

[Kassel]

While i am ignorant on the coding aspect of the game i think a fun even would be as follows.

- Spies of Norath,
Your home town has been plundered and top secret info has been stolen ! Track down the player who stole it, kill them and return the plans to your town !

In this event, every time a player is killed they have the chance to drop a no drop letter, this letter is top secret information that has been stolen from the looters home city. Make this letter rare so you have to kill like 10-15 players to get one, and such that trying to exploit it would result in the loss of a few levels. Letters can be turn in to new npc's in your home town for some loot, lets say 4 npcs pop each one gives a different reward for each letter so you can choose Caster gear or melee or whatever. Loot is NO DROP and basically a clone of current items in the game but with a new name (and maybe a tiny stat increase), IE you could copy of a mith 2 hander or SMR, with a fancy name and 3 more dex =D, no drop keeps it from being exploited. Maybe add an in game title for whomever returns the most plans or is the first to return a letter.

I think this is fun because you must kill other players ! (find the spy who stole your towns top secret plans and return it and claim your right as hero)

Make it so only a few zones are turned on for the drop, lets say WC to Oasis or Gfay to SF so players of all levels are packed into a few zones

Just an idea, tweak as needed.

[Truth]

evolution in action

[Massive Marc]

I would like to suggest a "Rift" type event ( not sure if you can spawn "portals") but just have giant god like mob spawn in (preannounced) zones. that require 20+ people to kill ? you know some good ol' epic god shit.

Rewards without power:

Titles
Illusion Clickies
Open Fear.
etc...

[Kastro]

The halloween event in EK was pretty crazy. Half of the server packed into a few zones.

[SearyxTZ]

I ran a few events when I was GM on VZTZ. These were lame/smalltime compared to what was on live (or here), but the two events that everybody seemed to like were:

1.) On Easter I summoned "Jesus" (zombie NPC) who had all kinds of AoE abilities and healing spells. I guess this would qualify as a PvE raid encounter.

2.) Catch The Bard. There was a high level bard on the server that everyone hated - his name escapes me - and I enlisted him to participate in this event. I buffed him with everything and broadcasted that the first person to kill him would get a blue diamond. He did his part and managed to stay alive for almost an hour running across the world before someone finally killed him.


The one that I regret doing was a FFA PvP rumble. The zone ended up crashing. People broke rules. People started killing eachother when they weren't supposed to when we were organizing it. Etc. I think those large-scale PvP events are a lot of fun but you have to prepare for the shit to hit the fan anytime you gather 50+ people together in the same tiny zone on a FFA red server.

[SearyxTZ]

Also on live I was a sucker for the scavenger hunt events, where they broadcasted vague clues or riddles. Those were a lot of fun.

[Slave]

While i am ignorant on the coding aspect of the game i think a fun even would be as follows.

- Spies of Norath,
Your home town has been plundered and top secret info has been stolen ! Track down the player who stole it, kill them and return the plans to your town !

In this event, every time a player is killed they have the chance to drop a no drop letter, this letter is top secret information that has been stolen from the looters home city. Make this letter rare so you have to kill like 10-15 players to get one, and such that trying to exploit it would result in the loss of a few levels. Letters can be turn in to new npc's in your home town for some loot, lets say 4 npcs pop each one gives a different reward for each letter so you can choose Caster gear or melee or whatever. Loot is NO DROP and basically a clone of current items in the game but with a new name (and maybe a tiny stat increase), IE you could copy of a mith 2 hander or SMR, with a fancy name and 3 more dex =D, no drop keeps it from being exploited. Maybe add an in game title for whomever returns the most plans or is the first to return a letter.

I think this is fun because you must kill other players ! (find the spy who stole your towns top secret plans and return it and claim your right as hero)

Make it so only a few zones are turned on for the drop, lets say WC to Oasis or Gfay to SF so players of all levels are packed into a few zones


So basically, you want item loot. Except instead of having to run to your town every time you got a note, you could just loot the item right off the victim. Think about it lol.

I think a scavenger-hunt style game with PvP competition for each point of interest would be awesome. But seeing as it's either everyone for themselves, or giant guilds of giant dicks, I'll just wait for the next box.

I want the sense of camaraderie and us-vs-them that a team brings, without the humiliation and hassle of being subservient to an inner echelon of mouthbreathing basementdwelling 20somethings.

[Caravelle1]

EVERYONE LISTEN

options 2 3 and 4 ALL MOTIVATE GROUP PVP
SO PLEASE CHOOSE THOSE.

[jrwriter]

Pvp events we're u. /rand an put grps together so no super Teams roll every team

[Fireapple]

I remember on Rallos Zek a GM held a small little scavenger hunt where an extremely rare item (i think it was an egg) was put on the Giant Spiders loot table in EC, the first one to return it to the GM won something (i didnt win :/)

Max lvl they allowed to participate in that was 13 i think.

(noobs were slaughtering eachother over spiders it was great)

[Potus]

Santug Claugg should show up and murder Lovely back to level 30.

[Nirgon]

Don't do a GM event that results in any kind of item on a pvp server.

A title is safe.

Catch the bard was fail.

[inimegalg]

don't encourage him. He knows not what he copy/pasted.

autotune whos the chick in ur avatar, mad hot bro

[Nirgon]

Lastly, be very careful with illusion items. We can use them to do repeatable faction city quests etc.. keep any reward extremely minimal.

[Massive Marc]

Lastly, be very careful with illusion items. We can use them to do repeatable faction city quests etc.. keep any reward extremely minimal.

I totally agree with this, I was hesitant to suggest it, but I'm sure some slick dev could come up with something that doesn't affect gameplay.

[Nirgon]

Winning anything, regardless of prize, announcement or whatever. The players will take screen shots and have their own fun with it etc.

[Knuckle]

Lady Amelinda has heard the plea for Best of the Best.

[Autotune]

autotune whos the chick in ur avatar, mad hot bro

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[burkemi5]

it would be cool to see some sort of capture the flag or domination (like in the modern warfare games) kind of pvp event.

[Softcore PK]

Make us have to cooperate with our enemies, imo. Get creative with this.

[Scrooge]

My vote goes to Grp PvP events, WITH an audience!

With your support, there wouldn't be any "nasty surprises" waiting for willing participants, or would there...!?

Maybe something like the types of PvP scenarios Guild Wars had, where you'd have several groups in the same zone, fighting for whatever the goal is set by the event.

[Dfn]

Don't cater to the zerg.

[philanthropy]

e.) wipe

[Nirgon]

When this server goes to Kunark or gets caught up with Blue (wtfever), a red vs blue event with character copies would be fun.

[L1ch]

let Lulz Sect control a raid world boss in game for lulz

[Srs Not Ames]

most fun?

biggest virgin on forums?

[Arillious]

Any pve content will just promote everyone getting together to pvp anyways.

One pvp idea: Group free for all. Have every guild select their top 5 players and stick them all in one zone and see who is the last guild standing. No rules. Probably need to wait about a month or more for more guilds to have lvl 50's.

The key here is that the reward isnt anything huge.

[Darwoth]

1v1 or 2v2 pvp event

[Silikten]

What we’re seeing here is language evolution in action. So the straightforward answer to your question is: yes, you can use these forms, and people are doing so increasingly often

[Ninja]

FROLOK ILLUSION..... GIVE......

[Melveny]

Neat rewards are pvp oriented items. Crushbone pvp event used these as rewards.

Golem wand, 10 dose DS potion, heal over time potion (lvl 50 one)

Ideally consume-able items that don't have a impact and or give anyone gear advantage.

[Lemons]

red
blue
blue
blue

[Cfred0-]

Give a title, doesnt change game play at all, and have next person who wins get it the next time

[Combobreaker]

If theres a BOTB, can I get temp lvl 50? :D

[Ninja]

FROLOK ILLUSION..... GIVE......

[Ninja]

Not everyone has a full group of friends that can be on at the same time, so I think something that could involve everyone would be better then like a 6v6 event or whatever.

[Smedy]

id love a pvp event that ended up with global ooc / global chat channel + zone wide yellow text on pvp death

needed for server growth imo.

[Xix]

Anyone remember those more recent p99 kunark events where 300 people (some not even 55+) zerged that hell hole zone in Kunark and everyone and their brothers running in circles trying to find the event, only to come to find out we were crashing the zone and had to call it quits.

Anything but that.

[Hairybuttwhole]

best of the best

[PureLo]

how about an event on Blue.... red can just PVP each other for good times/event.

[pojab]

yes an event on blue. transfer all red99 chars to blue and enable pvp.

[Jon Lemon]

orgy

[Nirgon]

yes an event on blue. transfer all red99 chars to blue and enable pvp.

Red invasion time.

[Cast]

the events i win, are the events i find... fun

[Hairybuttwhole]

selling amelinda's identity for 7 us dollhairs

[oldfish]

how about an event on Blue.... red can just PVP each other for good times/event.

I agree with this, world pvp happening daily is 10X better than an event once in a while, because it requires no GMing effort.

Turn down xp loss completely in some zones on a rotation, some random clicky drop and see what happens if you guys cant bring yourselves up to bringing down xp loss on the whole server.

[Darkatar]

Well, before I start on things >I< would like to see, I'll start with what I actually see when an event is announced/started.

#1. Event announced, entire serverwide group disband happens.

#2. Everyone starts grouping up with guildies/friends, or is stuck alone, and confused.

#3. Event begins, people in guild groups get an honest shot at winning the event, however, whichever guild has the most #s on at the time gets a huge advantage

#4. Anyone not with a guild gets picked off by mobs, or gets lost and nobody is willing to help them.

#5 Event over, a handful of the server get something to gate home with


Now, I'm going to address these 1 at a time.

#1+2 Events with a set amount of people/event would be nice, although i don't know how feasible it would be, i don't expect it to be every man for himself, but balance is nice to have. People tend to group with their friends/guild in an effort to get overwhelming numbers, which always(usually) win. Setting up team slots would alleviate this.

#3. Now, I love guilds, its a group of similar people with similar interests, however, when the event consists of 50% Guild A 30% guild B 20% other, the chances of guild B or Other winning anything is slim to none.

#4. Have slightly more clear instructions for events, this isn't always a problem, but be sure people know what to do, or have a direction to go.

#5. Consolation prizes. I don't mean giving away 200 oogly sticks per event, but a little something, something temporary, or limited usage. I can't tell you the amount of times I have seen guildmates or friends who outright say they AREN'T going to participate in the event simply because they feel they are going to spend the next 1-2 hours participating, only to to be rewarded with the frustrations of the abovementioned problems.

These are just some issues I've seen on live and p99, no personal assaults these are GENERAL issues with events, nothing against the p99 staff or anything like that.

[Hear_My_Sermon]

easter egg hunt

winner gets a good dicking

[Steaks]

a fix the fucking xp event

[Hear_My_Sermon]

a fix the fucking xp event

angry little troll today are we?

i thought you weren't leveling just trading from now on?

[Steaks]

angry little troll today are we?

i thought you weren't leveling just trading from now on?

not angry , but amused by the blatant ignoring of all posts only to post a who wants to go on an easter egg hunt post by poster posting posts posted here on posting forum

btw arent you banned?

id be mad if i spent a lot of time leveling and lost it all to a ban i mean bone i mean ban

[Aenor]

I am curious as to what sort of event you guys find the funnest. I'd like to run an event but I want it to be something people are likely to want to attend.

I would like an event that does not reward people who knowingly exploited raid mobs and got to keep the gear from it with more gm-awarded gear. I would like an event that rewards confirmed non-twinked newbies and encourages them to keep going on a server that has lost so many to churn.

[Darwoth]

depop fear and let folks have a free for all in there.

[Hear_My_Sermon]

depop fear and let folks have a free for all in there.

darwoth would find the highest point in the zone to lev from and hop tree to tree as he ran across the sky

[Bkab]

OLDFISH SHUT THE FUCK UP ABOUT XP LOSS YOU FAGGOT

[nalkin]

see holocaust qq like bebes after being banned was fun. Maybe we could do that again

[Butthead]

instead of an event, jus put that time towards advertising for the server or somethin ><

[Billbike]

The type of event that players without top guilds can receive good pvp relevant gear. You know, the guys who have to shave their neck-beard for work, or the ones with a "needy" attention hungry wife.

[Albane]

6v6 PvP wouldn't be good for the server, yet. This server is still too young for that, and you would only have 2-3 groups able to compete.

A Scavenger hunt would be fun, if you could make sure that every clue cannot just be found with a ZAM search.

Anything that would combine strategy, experience, and PvP would be fun. Especially if it gave the level 20-30 population similar chances to the level 45+ population.

[fiegi]

Some sort of forum pvp event really intrigues me.

[Nizzarr]

see holocaust qq like bebes after being banned was fun. Maybe we could do that again

[Nirgon]

Save it for RNF dawg.

[Sniperfire]

its easy lvl 1 drunken race from one end of kelithin to the other...first one there without falling to a drunken death wins bd ears

[Albane]

its easy lvl 1 drunken race from one end of kelithin to the other...first one there without falling to a drunken death wins bd ears

If there was a way to make sure players do not get buffed, this would be pretty fun. My recommendation is doing this from Qeynos to Freeport, through Lake Rathe. This should take about 40 minutes or so. Place people at specific locations in each zone line and you have to hail them every zone to qualify.

[Sniperfire]

then you wont fall off the edge and die drunk.....which is the point ...also wtf buffs can you cast at lvl 1 to make it so you dont stumble off and die

[Nirgon]

We had a player hosted event on live where people had a couple weeks to level up shadow knights and have them fight in the pvp arena in neriak.

My ogre made it to the final round and was faced by a red con dark elf shadow knight with harm touch. He was handily squished for in the name of house Greenblood. I received all of his bronze armor and serpent sight axe for winning.

Not a bad event, everyone could fairly compete and it had some RPish themes.

[Tassador]

how about master of the crafts event. people use there tradeskills and we see who the real jewlers and smithers are on this thang here.

[Darwoth]

would be a fun event, although twinking would kind of ruin it, though that could make it more interesting to as lev 50s fought over gear spots for their twinks.

should also be more like make a level xx shadowknight (or whatever) instead of "make one" since folks could have one powerlevelled to 35+ in short order.

[Nirgon]

Make a vendor with full large bronze, some kinds of weapons and summon in the interested players. Have a /level and /skills macro made to quick click each contestant. And, IMO, let people keep the free starting bronze and average weapons (only these will be allowed).

It kills a flock of birds with one stone. People having trouble getting started get some starter gear, we get a pvp event, nothing of game breaking value is gained, and everyone wins for their participation. Maybe give them a title like ", Neriak's Champion or some such".

Afterall, isn't the Shadowknight the most celebrated twink character in Everquest?

I know a lot of the live events and those I do remember I know which ones went well and which ones didn't on RZ. I also could spend a little more time trying to remember what player hosted events there were on RZ.

Lemme know!

[Steaks]

spend some time remembering for us n irgon id love to see the look on your face while you try to remember stuff

i bet it looks something like your sig

[Nirgon]

I do try to emulate my role model, Officer Carl Otis Winslow, when bringing down justice or giving my fatherly talks to the many Eddies of this server.

In fact, that's exactly the face I was making thinking of fun GM events from live to have here.

[Nirgon]

Something was stated by I think a certain project manager that says if you don't have something nice to say gtfo.

[engelbert]

weekly 6v6 events. no rewards. just yt.

[Bkab]

a harrison killing himself event would be fabulous too.

[Steaks]

who is harrison's actual character on red99 or is he keeping it a secret?

i feel bad for the poor guy id probably bake him a fresh stack of muffins or pies

[Bkab]

he's too fat and bad at MEPS to play on r99

[Filthed]

rare mobs for lone wolf adventurers like myself all over norrath!

[nalkin]

how bout one of those events with a misplaced decimal point, like the multiple ones on blue, where a ton of people get lustrous russet, manastones, and scimitars of mistwalker.

[Pitborn]

You are asking for trouble when trying to organize large pvp events with a very small staff, and an impatient group of bloodthirsty retards as a player base.

I was around for the events Searyx mentioned and they were both decent, and probably didnt require a ton of manpower.

IMO, randomly spawned PVE raid-style gimmick mobs with some " raid quality " loot would be the best and easiest thing you can do.

They create PVP , as they will require at least a few groups to take them down.

Throw in a World wide emote, so everyone knows its there to go for, and it should be pretty decent. Put them in random places so people need to actually look for them.

Best of the Best has been done 200 times, and nobody gives a shit at this point about who's the Best of the Worst.

[Jon Lemon]

Ohai guys.

As a senior guide i have very limited powers. I can't spawn mobs or summon loots but I might be able to coerce Rogean into helping me with some of that.

I am curious as to what sort of event you guys find the funnest. I'd like to run an event but I want it to be something people are likely to want to attend.

I'll add a poll to this and if you have another choice to add you can let me know and i'll have Nilbog or Rogean add it in.

Info I am looking for is like....

What sort of event interests you?
What sort of reward would interest you?

group v group pvp events
scavenger hunt type events
flavor/quest based type events
Large scale pve encounter type events

Believe me.

If I started murdering people there would be none of you left.

Because my children are coming.

I told you twenty years ago.

[IronLikeALionInZion]

a capture the flag / regicide type of deal. a small zone. like maybe unrest or crushbone. 2-4 grps. 6 people each. each person has a leader. if that leader is killed the group loses.
wouldent have to summon items, maybe each player could cough up 50pp . so tht could be a 900 pp win for a 6 person group. 150pp each.

have 1-10, 10-20, 20-30, 30-40, 40-45, and 46+ be level brackets.

OR summon everyone to a zone, let it be FFA pvp, and have a royal rumble, last man standing wins a real nice item for his race/class.

[tsaC]

easter egg hunt