X-Mas Event

[Greneth]

ideas for next year if this is redone.
since as it is now the winners will
be those who can bot 24-7 for two
weeks with no scriptfails or net outages

lets pose you can grow turkys in different ways such as:
1 combat turkey: turkey gets a percentage of combat exp
2 crafty Turkey: turkey gets a percentage of general xp
3 social turkey: turkey gets pet by the highest number of individual players
4 explorer turkey: the more rooms a turkey sees.
5. scavenger turkey: by searching corpses and rooms you can find turkey treats
6. rp turkey: turkey receiving the greatest variety of different directed emotes from other players*smiles at turkey*
7.jinx turkey: you died a lot with this turkey
8: vorpal turkey: Participated in pvp (win or lose) with this turkey
(hubby suggests this could also be jagged black turkey)
turkeybot: pritty much this years event.
9: balenced turkey: person with the best average of all catagories(after removing highest and lowest)
10:super turkey: highest over all combined turkey score.

obviously not all catagories will be viable at one time.
each viable catagory gets a prize. this kind of event will ecourage all sorts of interactions
that are common in the donut some will be botable others require active play or interaction
thus all styles of player can be rewarded.

A truly awesome idea, Snowrose! It'd probably wouldn't be something I could code in a 24 hour period, though, which was the reason I could justify creating this little event!

I'll definitely refer to it for future years. It would be a lot of fun.

G.

This could be something worked into a x-mas event if someone has the time just change the Turkey's to Reindeers. Let the reward be to keep the raised Reindeer as a mount that even a goblin could ride till next year. Magical sleigh's could be available for purchase, much like a saddlebag. The Reindeer are able to be called by whistle and return to where ever Reindeer hide out. Santa has eight Reindeer so...

Dasher - Most Rooms Explored
Dancer - Most Emotes Uses on Reindeer (I'd suggest a list of emotes chosen and only one of them will give exp, if you choose the wrong one the chosen emote will reset after two or three tries)
Prancer - Most Deaths From Other Players
Vixen - Most Treats Found (Randomly scattered)
Comet - Most Combat Exp Earned
Cupid - Most Pets (Much like the Census quest only one person per recording)
Donner - Most Crafting Exp Earned
Blitzen - Most Time Spent Online
Rudolf - Highest Average of All Combined (And don't forget his red nose!)

While guilds such as the Noldor may find this pointless I would offer them a voucher for a good portion of Quest Exp and able give it away to someone else to claim the Reindeer. (Perhaps make it an auctionable item?)

[Snowrose]

or us noldor could just have two mounts one to ride one to hold the extra saddlebag : p
or do the event on a non noldor alt. this kind of event can really only be done on one character.

[gorboth]

Creative!

G.

[Bromen]

Christmas event:

Imbues will drop at 10 times the rate.
Nullstones are 80% off.
Zero death penalty.
Xp is doubled for 3 days.

yes?

-Bromen

[gorboth]

Christmas event:

Imbues will drop at 10 times the rate.
Nullstones are 80% off.
Zero death penalty.
Xp is doubled for 3 days.

yes?

-Bromen

Sure. The event will also last for three seconds, and be unannounced.

G.

[Amberlee]

How about any imbuement stone of your choice?

[Bromen]

Lol... had to try. How about a gift that is waiting for you when you log in? If you grind or quest, the better the chance of a good item or stone being inside the gift?

[Greneth]

Or we could do a white elephant?

Bunch of random presents under a tree, you can go to the tree every 30 minutes and [Roll Dice]. First time you roll doubles your able to [Claim] a present and open it to see what you got, your present will be recorded on a board for everyone else to see. If you roll doubles a second time you can either [Steal] someone elses present to trade with your current or [Keep] yours. After a gift has been stolen a random amount of times it cannot be stolen again (Each present would need a random number attached of how many times it can be stolen that is hidden from everyone, this is to prevent people from just waiting right before the gift reaches the number before it can be locked). Extra rewards and titles could be given out to the person who steals the most, most failed attempts to roll doubles, rolled the most doubles.

Most Stolen Gifts - Grinch of the Realms

Most Doubles - Chosen of Lady Luck

Most Failed Attempts - Accursed of the Realms

Presents can range from Imbuements, Weapons and Armours that last for the next month, However long? Guild Buff, Pet's that can only be obtained through events (Monkey that can steal coins from others etc.), Special Introduction Titles, Large amounts of QXP, Obtainable Spells. Or whatever anyone else can think of.

[Snowrose]

I do like the go to tree every X amout of time idea.
or you can make it so people have to collect ornaments that drop durring combat and or hidden throught the realms to turn in for gifts, maybe mke different colour ornaments grants different gifts so people can mix match with friends like easter event.

but having a log in once a day to collect gifts (or get more with luck or grinding) could be a good experiment to see how many people stay on and if its social or antisocial.