Curse

cup-o-noodles · Jun 15, 2006, 07:19 PM // 19:19

Introduction:

Every once in a while we have events like Wintersday, and Halloween. And suddenly my interest in Gw is suddenly reignited. Just running around completing silly, trivial tasks. Seeing people in the holliday spirit. People being nice, friendly. Putting something diffrent in the chat box besides the usuall WTS, or WTB. And then I hear stories of beta weekends with exploding gnomes, and murderous gwens. I don't think this happens enough.

Proposal:

I start of with the event district. There's always, a stickler, someone who just doesn't want to do this stuff or be forced to do it. Answer? Event district. Put this district at the bottom of the district list, and make it so that people have to choose to warp there. Maybe have the game ask you "There is an event in this city. Would you like to travel to the event district?". And so that's where stuff happens

Now, as to what happens in these districts. Anything! Just something new and out of the norm, no matter how trivial or silly. Here are some ideas:

The first and probly easiest to implement/get involved with. Scavenger hunt!!! This can be done three diffrent ways. Have the peices spawn across cities, but not make them viewable with ctrl and alt buttons. Next, you could make it like the snow man quest from wintersday. Have to talk to certain people in certain cities in order to get the item. And third make the items randomly drop off ANY mobs. This last way would make it easy everybody to get involved no matter where they are in the game, or what they're doing. Players could be rewarded for completion with the same ol quest rewards you get off anything else. Experience, maybe a little gold. The reward isn't the point, it's about bringing people together, and having something new to do.

Next(wich makes good use of the event district, for those sticklers who don't get involved) randomly spawn some giant creature in a town. Make it big, ferocious, and high lvl'd. People who spawn in the district get to use they're weapons and skills. Infact make it really powerfull, or at least give it health in the millions so the soloers and farmers can't just come kill it in an instant. Once it's dead, give it a little time, then start the event over again. This could go on for a day with a bunch of spawns by the monster.

My last idea is a very large scale battle. Make it like helms deep sized. Pick a city, and a group of monsters. Then have the monsters start towards the city.(the city being an event district) Put in a good deal of npc monks, and some other npc classes. Once people spawn into the district, they're assigned to a monk. So monk #1 takes the first 6-7 people, the next 6-7 people go to monk #2. If someone drops from the server, then add the next person in to the monks party regardless of number. Then that's it! Let the monsters advance and let the slaughter party begin!!! There could even be mutiple event districts. Like 3 districts for lvls 1-5, then 3 districts for lvls 6-10. And make the monsters in the district equal, or a little bit above for a challenge, to the lvl of the district.

Well those are my ideas. There can be more. And these particular ones don't have to be the ones, they're just ideas. What do you all think?

AW Lore · Jun 15, 2006, 08:19 PM // 20:19

i like the two last ideas, but im no programmer, so who knows how hard would be to code to be able to use your skills inside the town.

for the last idea you could offer a button that says "join the defense" or something like that, where up to 20 or maybe a bit more of people are placed together randomly in order to defend the town.

BeowulfKamdas · Jun 15, 2006, 10:26 PM // 22:26

Battling really won't be an option in a town district. I think it would overload the servers. (town districts are really like chat rooms and that's about all they can handle, i speculate XP )

As for events... well, halloween is coming up :P ANet is going to have its hands full with pumping out expansions ever 6 months so I don't think they will bother much with stuff like this (unless it is a part of the next chapter's new gameplay)

I suggest finding a guild that likes to spice things up by having events. Hopefully you will find what you are looking for