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Kook~NBK~ · Jul 07, 2008, 08:54 AM // 08:54

Of all the festivals that I've been to, I think I enjoyed this one more than most. Not for what A-Net provided in terms for content, but more for how the community in general acted during the event.

Firstly, I made literally hundreds of trades with people buying up victory tokens, and not once did someone try to scam me. There were a couple of odd moments (One guy got me confused with someone who was buying accounts - the goof), but those were made up for by the folks who kept coming back with more tokens.

The funniest moment for me came when I was down to my last 9k or so and someone PM'd me that he had "some" to sell me. I told them that I had some money left to spend, thinking that they would have the usual 20 - 50 tokens to sell. This guy had 5 stacks! Ah well, he was happy to sell the ones I couldn't afford to others in my alliance.

Secondly, I was in attendance for several of the Emperor's visits and I was amazed by the sense of co-operation and sharing going on in the districts I was in. It was a delight to see people taking turns picking up orbs at spawn points without the "GTFO noob, this is my spot" that generally goes on with these types of events. Even at the one when there was ONE person being selfish about it, he/she was the only one being a jerk and those that chastised him/her did it without the usual "STFU noob" crap. (a few "grow up" comments and that was it)

It was a refreshing change of pace and I thank everyone who contributed to the FESTIVE atmosphere that came with this festival.

Note to A-Net: Thanks for putting in that announcement concerning the Emperor's arrival, that cut down on the annoying "when's he coming" posts.

Nick Of Troy · Jul 07, 2008, 09:21 AM // 09:21

Aside from the few inevitable prats who decided to waste 20 minutes holding Charges so noone else could give em to the Emperor, and a few people also tried the "I'll steal your Charge when you drop it to avoid the Grasp", All districts i visited seemed to be really well-behaved and Troll free!

I enjoyed my vindication when the Charge thieves were killed by the same Grasp that I was avoiding when he turns around and gets 'em

distilledwill · Jul 07, 2008, 09:26 AM // 09:26

I only stuck around for one charge game and one mask pickup, the rest was spent AFKing the rings or HBing. Either way, I had a lot of fun.

fireflyry · Jul 07, 2008, 09:28 AM // 09:28

I got drunk lots.

It was good.

netniwk · Jul 07, 2008, 09:29 AM // 09:29

I afked,yea....

† LãwLiþøþ™ † · Jul 07, 2008, 09:31 AM // 09:31

Farming the quests, having my 3 accts in winning towns, loved it all

miskav · Jul 07, 2008, 10:40 AM // 10:40

I admit this was one of the more amusing events yet =)

Abedeus · Jul 07, 2008, 10:46 AM // 10:46

Afked all finales except for 3. I missed two and participated in one.

Evil_Necro · Jul 07, 2008, 11:16 AM // 11:16

fun, in the sense that I can afk and get rewards still, and the token quests are fun, quick, easy, and not really wasting our time to collect 240 just for the mask.

Much better than last year for me. Now if only I can catch just ONE wintergreen over 2.5 years playing.... =_= always super hectic during that times..

Oh well, gj anet, this month is gonna be awsome even after the event!

Fril Estelin · Jul 07, 2008, 11:31 AM // 11:31

Yep I agree, it was a lot more enjoyable than before. I spent a lot of time on beetlerace and this time, not one stupid guy who would stalk me for the whole race and put all his hexes on me, preventing me from playing and then laughing. This was the past, this year was great and Yuri's thread made the competition a lot better. The same with catching celestial charges and not too much non-sense on All chat, and also selling VTKs. It was real good, thx Anet!

eeks · Jul 07, 2008, 11:42 AM // 11:42

I agree. I stuck to the Korean district for the past couple of days and saw familiar "faces" there. Everyone was nice and as such, I had a good time.

jiggles · Jul 07, 2008, 11:48 AM // 11:48

DA korean dis1. I dare you to find me a nasty person in there.

<3 them all

jammerpa · Jul 07, 2008, 12:01 PM // 12:01

Had lots of fun!

Afk'd all 12 Kisu's with both of my accounts. Got my sweet title up to 9200 and my party title to 8700! Finally broke the 1/2 way point to Blessed Fate (yay, only need 6 more 9 rings events to max title).

Also, the community was very well behaved and generous. Many people gave away the extra few tokens to others that needed them for the mask. You didn't hear "go kill stuff u noob" , etc.

Lotsa prezzies, sweets, party items, kewl hat.. all in all it was a very fun time.

Thank you Anet!

Shadowspawn X · Jul 07, 2008, 12:06 PM // 12:06

Not a bad festival at all. I hadn't logged on in over a month before Friday so my gold was a little too low to sit on nine rings all weekend as I usually would, but I did mange to hustle enough tokens to get my r1 party animal. I did pick up some unlucky points from "rings of fortune" and got my lucky close to max with what I did get done. A good experience overall. Glad I didn't miss it.

Nick Of Troy · Jul 07, 2008, 12:15 PM // 12:15

Another thing i found amazing was the almost complete lack of beggers! There were a bunch leading up to the event, but I was pleasently surprised when i logged in and people weren't begging for gold, tokens and pressies.

Good Stuff

Witchblade · Jul 07, 2008, 12:19 PM // 12:19

300.000 luckies
stacks of tokens
mask

the usual ^^

Squishy ftw · Jul 07, 2008, 12:35 PM // 12:35

I bought 8 stacks of firewater pretty cheap so this festival was a succes to me

chfanfiction · Jul 07, 2008, 01:09 PM // 13:09

I actually spent the event with my guild in our own district, which was awesome and made things easy. However, I'm sure things went well in other districts.

Another Felldspar · Jul 07, 2008, 01:24 PM // 13:24

I really enjoyed the missions. I wasn't even aware that there were more than just one when the festival started, but was told by one of my guildies that they had completed two. I managed to get three in -- all different -- and I wonder how many there are? I did the rifts in Jaya Bluffs, Defend Tsumei Village (kill 9 waves of invaders) and Liberate Tsumei Village (kill 40 occupying the outpost). Anyone play any that were different?

Emperial Navarator · Jul 07, 2008, 01:26 PM // 13:26

As always, I get broke after these festivals... spend all my money on tickets, but enjoy it