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kenthefruit 08-17-2013 08:39 AM

Bring back Events
 
Plain and simple, events have been basically ruined on Classic.

- Admins can only host 1 event per session.
Ex: Neo hosts Chance, and once it's over he's done hosting.

-Admins hardly host anymore, and when they do ^^^.

Why is this? Why would you narrow event activity when there's basically nothing to do on Classic but afk and socialize. Events are (for the most part) very entertaining and enjoyable, but they are hardly hosted now, and with only 1 event hosted whenever they decide to host.

I think bringing back more event activity should be highly considered. As of right now, events are butchered. You should also consider making a donation option, I don't really see why this isn't an option already. Someone wins with the hat hosted but already has it, no one gets anything.

Britneyxox 08-17-2013 02:36 PM

I agree with all of what u r saying

iTaco720 08-17-2013 04:12 PM

yes

ufoburan 08-18-2013 06:50 AM

1. Rufus decided to nerf event's to keep hats rarer. I don't get that, but whatever. I would like to see more events,but atleast I don't have to watch event guilds dominate every event except chance any more.

It also cuts down on event guilds idling in graal city waiting for events to start. I know there are a few admins who don't run events but as they hire more hopefully those admins will run events as long as admins run events regularly I don't think the current set up is that bad.

2.What do you mean by donate? If you mean when a player wins the event and they all ready have a hat they can give the 2nd one to a person of their choice? Then no they shouldn't that's just plain stupid and besides that's what 1k hats are for.

2-a.I went on a diatribe(rant) on another hat chasing thread about this. In every single admin event broadcast message it clearly states if you have this hat you cannot win it. Yet everybody and their grandma go bat **** cray cray when an admin does an event and run for the warper reguardless.

IMO before the event starts the admin should give ppl notice that if they have the hat they have on,and they win that hat will be removed from their inventory. Imo the ones doing this should be penalized and there for discouraged from doing this. If you give them time before the event starts to see the hat then they will know they have it and have no excuse.

Admiral 08-18-2013 08:51 AM

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2.What do you mean by donate? If you mean when a player wins the event and they all ready have a hat they can give the 2nd one to a person of their choice? Then no they shouldn't that's just plain stupid and besides that's what 1k hats are for.

2-a.I went on a diatribe(rant) on another hat chasing thread about this. In every single admin event broadcast message it clearly states if you have this hat you cannot win it. Yet everybody and their grandma go bat **** cray cray when an admin does an event and run for the warper reguardless.

IMO before the event starts the admin should give ppl notice that if they have the hat they have on,and they win that hat will be removed from their inventory. Imo the ones doing this should be penalized and there for discouraged from doing this. If you give them time before the event starts to see the hat then they will know they have it and have no excuse.
@2. How is that stupid? Justify please. You have that option on iZone and it seems to be working fine.

@2-a No, all players should be able to play events whether they have the hat or event, and certainly should not be penalised for it. If i'm bored one day and a member of staff broadcasts they are hosting chance or whatever for a hat that I already have, I'm still going to try and play it just because i'm bored.

Maxy 08-18-2013 02:25 PM

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Posted by Reece (Post 400902)
@2. How is that stupid? Justify please. You have that option on iZone and it seems to be working fine.

works really well actually

Ryan 08-18-2013 02:31 PM

Automated events maybe?

Xavier 08-18-2013 02:50 PM

It may be true that there have been fewer events throughout the day lately, but event frequency is not something that is regulated. Staff don't have a quota, nor are they limited to a specific number of events for a given amount of time. Personally, I try to host one event every day, but it all comes down to how much free time a staff member has and how well the server is under-control.

Classic has had a significant playercount boost lately, and that means a lot more reports and general shenanigans. If there aren't very many staff members online, doing an event can increase the amount of player-related issues on the server; one event can put the staff member out of commission for a decent amount of time, having to sift through several hundred PMs, answering questions and looking for anything important.

In summary, events have been more difficult to host recently unless several GPs are online. Yesterday we had quite a few. Maybe some of you saw the "Mega Event"? :)

MLB13 08-18-2013 04:07 PM

The mega event was a really cool concept. I liked being able to choose between different events to participate in & I really hope it happens again because I'm not really a fan of the single-event rule.

Christopher 08-18-2013 04:14 PM

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Posted by MLB13 (Post 400959)
The mega event was a really cool concept. I liked being able to choose between different events to participate in & I really hope it happens again because I'm not really a fan of the single-event rule.

me too

Cervus 08-18-2013 05:45 PM

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Posted by ufoburan (Post 400881)
2-a.I went on a diatribe(rant) on another hat chasing thread about this. In every single admin event broadcast message it clearly states if you have this hat you cannot win it. Yet everybody and their grandma go bat **** cray cray when an admin does an event and run for the warper reguardless.

IMO before the event starts the admin should give ppl notice that if they have the hat they have on,and they win that hat will be removed from their inventory. Imo the ones doing this should be penalized and there for discouraged from doing this. If you give them time before the event starts to see the hat then they will know they have it and have no excuse.

Are you serious. You should be able to participate in events no matter if you have the hat or not. Events are for "entertainment" and just cause you have hat you cannot participate? And if you do and win, you're all **** guy who can't listens to instructions? I think what you're saying comes from 100% of your jealousy and wanting hats cause you cannot get them by yourself. Events are not for a hat, it's about the win. And just cause you have hat you shouldn't be not able to feel the victory.

kenthefruit 08-18-2013 09:10 PM

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Posted by Xavier (Post 400945)
It may be true that there have been fewer events throughout the day lately, but event frequency is not something that is regulated. Staff don't have a quota, nor are they limited to a specific number of events for a given amount of time. Personally, I try to host one event every day, but it all comes down to how much free time a staff member has and how well the server is under-control.

Classic has had a significant playercount boost lately, and that means a lot more reports and general shenanigans. If there aren't very many staff members online, doing an event can increase the amount of player-related issues on the server; one event can put the staff member out of commission for a decent amount of time, having to sift through several hundred PMs, answering questions and looking for anything important.

In summary, events have been more difficult to host recently unless several GPs are online. Yesterday we had quite a few. Maybe some of you saw the "Mega Event"? :)

Then tell me why I haven't seen ANYONE host more than 1 portal event? I remember (before events were butchered) they would usually host 3 rounds and then sometimes a bonus round. This would include any event (HnS, Chance, Sumo, Bush Race, Freezetag etc).

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Posted by ufoburan (Post 400881)
1. Rufus decided to nerf event's to keep hats rarer. I don't get that, but whatever. I would like to see more events,but atleast I don't have to watch event guilds dominate every event except chance any more.

It also cuts down on event guilds idling in graal city waiting for events to start. I know there are a few admins who don't run events but as they hire more hopefully those admins will run events as long as admins run events regularly I don't think the current set up is that bad.

2.What do you mean by donate? If you mean when a player wins the event and they all ready have a hat they can give the 2nd one to a person of their choice? Then no they shouldn't that's just plain stupid and besides that's what 1k hats are for.

2-a.I went on a diatribe(rant) on another hat chasing thread about this. In every single admin event broadcast message it clearly states if you have this hat you cannot win it. Yet everybody and their grandma go bat **** cray cray when an admin does an event and run for the warper reguardless.

IMO before the event starts the admin should give ppl notice that if they have the hat they have on,and they win that hat will be removed from their inventory. Imo the ones doing this should be penalized and there for discouraged from doing this. If you give them time before the event starts to see the hat then they will know they have it and have no excuse.

Johnny wins chance, he already has the hat hosted, OH NO!
Johnny can donate to anybody he wants.
Johnny donates his hat win to Bertha.
If Johnny didn't want to donate, no one would get anything.

CZDark 08-21-2013 05:32 AM

i hate chance.

ufoburan 08-21-2013 06:48 AM

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Posted by Reece (Post 400902)
@2. How is that stupid? Justify please. You have that option on iZone and it seems to be working fine.

@2-a No, all players should be able to play events whether they have the hat or event, and certainly should not be penalised for it. If i'm bored one day and a member of staff broadcasts they are hosting chance or whatever for a hat that I already have, I'm still going to try and play it just because i'm bored.

It would cause a lot of bitching when ppl who all ready win their fair share of event hats start donating to their buddies. This would just add to what they all ready get from the complaints/controversy/drama/hatred/rage from 1k hats. Go ask ryfly how much he is hated now because of 1k hats and supposidly being helped by friends to get event hats and giving them unearned 1k hats in return.

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Posted by Cervus (Post 400980)
Are you serious. You should be able to participate in events no matter if you have the hat or not. Events are for "entertainment" and just cause you have hat you cannot participate? And if you do and win, you're all **** guy who can't listens to instructions? I think what you're saying comes from 100% of your jealousy and wanting hats cause you cannot get them by yourself. Events are not for a hat, it's about the win. And just cause you have hat you shouldn't be not able to feel the victory.

I guess you must have missed it when I won a bush race last week. There for I most not have problems winning myself an event hat because I do have more than 1. I forgot how sensitive you hat chasers are about your events.

I don't think its right for ppl who have the hat all ready to not give a **** and compete anyways and ruin the event for everybody else.
I think instead there could be some sort of event center that runs regulated events every so often that yield gralats instead of hats modeled after zone.

kenthefruit 08-21-2013 08:07 AM

Your posts are making no sense to me.

Answer this, why is donating a hat bad? If you say "giving hats to friends is BAD, not sharing, etc. Dont bother."

ufoburan 08-21-2013 08:22 AM

IMO ppl should have to earn the hats themselves and not just be handed a hat by a friend. This is why I'm against hat chasing,and believe they should change the towering reward system.

There would also be the issue of ppl winning with 1 account and "donating" the hat to their second account. This wouldn't allow for more ppl to get hats,but for abuse so I say no to donating hats.

kenthefruit 08-21-2013 08:33 AM

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Posted by ufoburan (Post 401993)
IMO ppl should have to earn the hats themselves and not just be handed a hat by a friend. This is why I'm against hat chasing,and believe they should change the towering reward system.

There would also be the issue of ppl winning with 1 account and "donating" the hat to their second account. This wouldn't allow for more ppl to get hats,but for abuse so I say no to donating hats.

They won the hat, they should get to do whatever the hell they want with it. And this is events, not towering. I'm not sure how players can hat chase when they're earning the 1K for the hat.

ufoburan 08-21-2013 08:47 AM

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Posted by Xavier (Post 400945)
It may be true that there have been fewer events throughout the day lately, but event frequency is not something that is regulated. Staff don't have a quota, nor are they limited to a specific number of events for a given amount of time. Personally, I try to host one event every day, but it all comes down to how much free time a staff member has and how well the server is under-control.

Classic has had a significant playercount boost lately, and that means a lot more reports and general shenanigans. If there aren't very many staff members online, doing an event can increase the amount of player-related issues on the server; one event can put the staff member out of commission for a decent amount of time, having to sift through several hundred PMs, answering questions and looking for anything important.

In summary, events have been more difficult to host recently unless several GPs are online. Yesterday we had quite a few. Maybe some of you saw the "Mega Event"? :)


When was this "Mega Event"? I always miss everything.

Stocke 08-22-2013 05:09 AM

Classic CTF. All the server needs.

-Albus 08-22-2013 05:27 AM

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Posted by Stocke (Post 402278)
Classic CTF. All the server needs.

Do you even play Classic?

Stocke 08-22-2013 05:36 AM

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Posted by -Albus (Post 402280)
Do you even play Classic?

Not on a mobile device or Facebook.

-Albus 08-22-2013 05:38 AM

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Posted by Stocke (Post 402281)
Not on a mobile device or Facebook.

Well that makes sense, because you would know that there already is a CTF if you did.

kenthefruit 08-22-2013 06:17 AM

I'd also really like to see Bot Events on Classic. Not everyone gets to play in Administrative Events, due to the fact of not knowing where, PK, etc. And they aren't hosted very often like I've stated, causing boredom.

Bot Events could benefit Classic in so many ways, it could automatically be hosted every 15-30 minutes. Including events like Sumo, Freezetag, CTF, Bush Race, Survivor, and other Admin hosted events.

Events could cost anywhere between 15-40 gralats. I usually don't spend my gralats very often, but if Bot Events were added, I'd be blowing 1k everyday.

The prize could be like Zone and Era, 100-300 gralats. Nothing too major due to the fact it's purpose is to have fun, not get large prizes.

*Rose 08-22-2013 06:23 AM

yes pls more events

Stocke 08-22-2013 06:49 AM

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Posted by -Albus (Post 402282)
Well that makes sense, because you would know that there already is a CTF if you did.

Yeah, but I mean exactly like PC Classic's CTF.

Yog 08-22-2013 08:40 AM

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Posted by Stocke (Post 402302)
Yeah, but I mean exactly like PC Classic's CTF.

I hate to break it to you, but your fantasy of bringing awesome, nostalgia s*** over to this server, is never happening.

Stocke 08-22-2013 10:10 AM

It's not nostalgia. I'm talking about Thor's Classic.

-Albus 08-22-2013 10:24 AM

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Posted by Stocke (Post 402343)
It's not nostalgia. I'm talking about Thor's Classic.

Thor's classic has been dead for a while. You are being nostalgic.

Stocke 08-22-2013 08:19 PM

Goodness gracious! It's like you know who I am! Maybe you were particularly bad at CTF and I was a bit sour towards you for sucking so much?

ufoburan 08-23-2013 06:20 AM

I like ctf as a break from the monotony of towering,but the problem is with how its set up and it being unbalanced do to ppl jumping in and out of ctf all the time making the teams un even.

I like Twisted's idea bot run events with smaller gralat rewards with the normal admin hosted hat prize events thrown in every so often.


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