Shoutouts to the Hour-Places/Zones

I hear so many Players whining about having too less Gralats.
But actually, they do nothing to get their Gralats. In fact if everyone would go to the Hour-Places/Zones again and Farm, everyone would also make more money because when many People are there, Gralat-Drop Chances Increase Greatly, right? When Gralats were Changed once and all the Gralats couldn't spawn next to "eachother" people stopped using the hour zones and started running around through graal basicly doing nothing. - The Hour Places have become so awfully empty!

so what I think is that in the next week, a staff member should send out a Broadcast message once or twice a day to remind people of the Hour zones.
In this message he could say something like "hey fellow Graalians, don't forget to check out the Zone/Fan/Resort/Grotto to make some money!"


Please comment what you think about that.  

They're empty for a reason..people don't farm  

Posted by *Rose

They're empty for a reason..people don't farm

People did farm before the rate got trashed like a year or 2 ago.  

@Rose
that's why the Broadcast-Message could get more People interessted in Public Farming

@GotenGraal
You seem to not know that the Gralat-Drop Chance has only been decreased by 10% and is now 20%. Each Player close to you increases the chance by 5%.  

I find it hard to believe the rate has only dropped by a little bit. I remember horse farms used to be awesome, getting reds took maybe 5-10 mins if all the other horse slots were filled with people and maybe 1-2 outside the farm area. You do this now, with even like 10 people around you, you still won't get gralats nearly as fast, hence why horse farms are dead and all public farming areas. A broadcast message wouldn't fix these, only returning the rate to normal would.  

Posted by Christopher

@Rose
that's why the Broadcast-Message could get more People interessted in Public Farming

@GotenGraal
You seem to not know that the Gralat-Drop Chance has only been decreased by 10% and is now 20%. Each Player close to you increases the chance by 5%.

Farming areas are also pk areas so with a broadcast message 40 people will be pking in the farming area so then no one will be able to make money and it'll be laggy as hell, duh.  

Posted by *Rose

Farming areas are also pk areas so with a broadcast message 40 people will be pking in the farming area so then no one will be able to make money and it'll be laggy as hell, duh.

the Pkers.. well, learn to fight back
Saints can still farm.

Posted by GotenGraal

I find it hard to believe the rate has only dropped by a little bit. I remember horse farms used to be awesome, getting reds took maybe 5-10 mins if all the other horse slots were filled with people and maybe 1-2 outside the farm area. You do this now, with even like 10 people around you, you still won't get gralats nearly as fast, hence why horse farms are dead and all public farming areas. A broadcast message wouldn't fix these, only returning the rate to normal would.

Trust me i tried so much to make 'em change the rate. Even Rufus said they won't change it back.  

A broadcast message every once in a while really wouldn't have much of an impact on farming. The first few times it may work, for only so long. People will come just because they see a staff broadcast. They'll give it a whirl, but will probably soon give up due to lag and PKing like Rose said. The next time they do it, less people will are likely to show up. Then even less after that. Eventually you'll end up with what I call the Julius effect. Julius was the former GP Chief and everyday he would broadcast warnings about scamming, inappropriate guild pictures, and harassment. These messages were probably highly effective. More people assumingly took heed of these messages. However, eventually he started broadcasting these like every half hour or so. It went from: This is a helpful reminder and forewarning. To: Ughhhh again? Shut up, we understand already! Needless to say, it'll just get annoying to the point where nobody really cares anymore. This is why idea this most likely bound to fail. People will lose interest after a while and return to the way things were.  

Posted by Blueh

A broadcast message every once in a while really wouldn't have much of an impact on farming. The first few times it may work, for only so long. People will come just because they see a staff broadcast. They'll give it a whirl, but will probably soon give up due to lag and PKing like Rose said. The next time they do it, less people will are likely to show up. Then even less after that. Eventually you'll end up with what I call the Julius effect. Julius was the former GP Chief and everyday he would broadcast warnings about scamming, inappropriate guild pictures, and harassment. These messages were probably highly effective. More people assumingly took heed of these messages. However, eventually he started broadcasting these like every half hour or so. It went from: This is a helpful reminder and forewarning. To: Ughhhh again? Shut up, we understand already! Needless to say, it'll just get annoying to the point where nobody really cares anymore. This is why idea this most likely bound to fail. People will lose interest after a while and return to the way things were.

Hehe you said my name  

Remove the zones, make another tower that is designed for just PK but there's no flag and the tower can't be captured.

Make swamp non-PK? And why can't there be a set timer (perhaps 15 seconds) so the gralat farmer can actually take his gralats without being pked or gralats stolen.  

Posted by *Rose

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The reason they ruined the rates is obvious, beforehand you could get 20-30k gralats per hour farming in hour zones. Now that the farming rate, you are much more likely to give in and buy gralat packs.  

Posted by Xenthic

Remove the zones, make another tower that is designed for just PK but there's no flag and the tower can't be captured.

Make swamp non-PK? And why can't there be a set timer (perhaps 15 seconds) so the gralat farmer can actually take his gralats without being pked or gralats stolen.

Whhhat? These two things have nothing to do with eachother.

A fake tower just for PK? No. There doesnt need to be a SET place for PKing (however believe it or not there already is: the PK Zone! but no one uses it)

Why on earth would you make swamp non-pk? Balamb has grass and nonpk, go there.

OT: To you people who claim farming rate was decreased in the past: no, the rate has always been 20%, farming with other players on your screen increases this rate, bu this rule was removed for a 1yr period and is back. That is why you think it decreased.

OP: no. Most public farms can only hold ~5 people max for row farming. Making a broadcast and having several hundred people rush into a public farm because adiams told them to? no.  

Posted by Xenthic

Remove the zones, make another tower that is designed for just PK but there's no flag and the tower can't be captured.

Make swamp non-PK? And why can't there be a set timer (perhaps 15 seconds) so the gralat farmer can actually take his gralats without being pked or gralats stolen.

No more towers for now geez.. Just go back to dry humping MoD  

Posted by Ryan

No more towers for now geez.. Just go back to dry humping MoD

Heheheh