Sponsoring Districts for Canthan New Year 2010

I'm not sure how others do it, but we always have all the ingredients on one person as a runner (with another person with a complete set as backup)

Since CNY started DVDF has done a total of nearly 180 districts and ran them for the full 24 hours and never missed a district. If I remember correctly, 7 times we've had a disconnect from somone during the running.

Had we not had the backup runner those districts would have failed with the resulting players not getting the full reward.

OFC it's entirely up to guilds how they do it, just that we like a belt and braces approach.

I still don't think you get it. The goal isn't for that guild to fill up the district with guild members. That guild will send from 1 to maybe 3 people to that district to supply the items required by the cooks.

There are 5 cooks looking for a combination of 22 different items from all the different campaigns, including EOTN, to use make a special dish for dinner. This is like Nicolas on steroids.

For crying out loud people, look at this list -

Iridescent Griffon Wing, Tangled Seed, Fiery Crest, Smoking Remains, Alpine Seed, Guardian Moss, Celestial Essence, Dragon Root, Archaic Kappa Shell, Mantis Pincer, Kraken Eye, Naga Hide, Igneous Spider Leg, Ebon Spider Leg, Bonesnap Shell, Azure Crest, Unctuous Remains, Truffle, Ebon Spider Web, Half-Eaten Blob, Azure Remains, Icy Lodestone

All CT (and any other guilds who sponsor a district) is saying is that his guild will send a couple of people to that district with all of the items required and guarantee that you will get all 16 gift bags and 5 crates of fireworks and you don't have to do a @%$# thing but be there.

I just gave you the list of stuff required - either you thank the guilds who have already collected everything and are going to sponsor districts for us or get your butt out there and start collecting all this crap - and don't complain if all you get is 2 gift bags and no fireworks.

This thread is useless. You could have just done it when the time comes, like one guy said. Just see if that particular district is not already 'sponsored'. Now I give you about a 3% chance of not having any other guilds trying to 'sponsor' those districts you reserved.

Is it a troll, or someone who doesn't understand what this "reserving" stuff is all about? Hmmmm.....

To the person who doesn't understand what the OP is talking about: Reserving a district for CNY is not to have a private party, but to play hosts to everyone and anyone who happens to be in that district by providing all the ingredients for the feast. The hosting guild/alliance may also have give aways/games for everyone in the district to enjoy.

To the trolls: Shut up and go away.

TY for the info.

to everyone else. the early bird gets the worm.

Well, if it actually counts....

SSW Alliance plans on sponsoring American District 55 again this year. The whole like, half dozen of us. Items are already farmed and ready to go. Anyone that wants some freebies are welcome to join us.

Call Time: Dec 15th, 2009, 3:26pm EST

There will be probably 200-300 districts I honestly don't understand your flame. Just sit somewhere else... jeeez. You are reacting like American 69 will get 2 stacks of ectos from the celestial and Spanish 1 will get an alpine seed and a charr carving
The alliance wants to be together so fair enough, I won't deliberatly sit in those districts

da guild i guess will be in polish 9 like last year. anyone wants to buy complete sets of finale items we have 66 for sale. contact me or hrefna asynja.

(laughs at the 'reserving' flames - you guys are a hoot).

Personally I think the whole reserving thing is a bit childish. "I don't want any non-alliance member is this district so I'm going to post on some forum that will some how enable me the right to do so!" I don't mind sponsoring, but isn't this going a bit too far?

Why is nobody actually reading and comprehending the things said in this topic?

Did you bother to read? They are talking about sponsoring. Please, PLEASE post a quote from anywhere here saying that they are reserving private districts for only their guild members. In fact;

They actually say, right there, that they are reserving the districts for the community, not for [bots] or any other guild/alliance.

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They are saying;

"We [insert guild name] are reserving the sponsorship of district [insert number] so that all may join us and be assured of getting the full festival prize. We are "reserving" this district so that there is no squabbling come Canthan New Year, and so that people can plan ahead and know which districts will be sponsored."

I think an issue might be the usage of the word 'reserving' instead of 'sponsoring'. Though why people have such a difficult time with that I have no idea.

I think its great work from the guildies, saves most people lots of time. I hope the districts aren't that full so I am able to join.

This is part of the problem. Huge mega alliances or whatever think they are doing a public service by hosting every damn district under the sun, which leaves fewer districts available for the smaller guilds/alliances who are trying to host a district for their own little group. With fewer districts available, people start getting into pissing contests because toes will get stepped upon when the smaller groups are crowded into a smaller space.

Our guild has hosted a district (singular) since the beginning as well. We'll let our allies know where we're afking and monkeying around and carrying on and such, and whoever else manages to share in the rewards, good for them. The problem occurs when, let's say during the 2nd/3rd/4th years, when DVDF or whoever would host, oh I dunno, let's just round up and say 100 districts that year, it left approximately 50 or so districts for the rest of THE ENTIRE GODDAMN POPULATION OF GW to try and host for the community as well.

Our guild would have been camping out in some random, high numbered district before the event started, only to have other well intentioned guilds come in and start all caps shouting how they are hosting the district now. This would happen all... damn... day. We'd get bumped out of "our" () original district several times cause the other do-gooders or would-be self-promoters were also trying to host districts. Ofc there would be some nice ppl that would come in, asked if the district was hosted, find out it was, say "cool" and move on. More often than not tho, there were the knucklehead types that came in and essentially spammed how awesome their guild/alliance was because they are (now) "taking care" of the district.

I'm not trying to dump on DVDF necessarily, but what I described does happen. While hosting districts is a nice gesture, complications come with trying to perform a public service, especially when it isn't necessarily welcomed or otherwise creates headaches for similarly well-intentioned players. Remember that idiom about the road to hell?

i think thats all good points well made.

personally if my little gang find that someone is shouting loud about 'hosting' - let them shout. we still need to deliver the items as we all want our little glowy animals at the end of the day. as far as im concerned the rules for my lot go as follows: i have a couple of thousand items to hand in - ill do the main ingredients, you hand in the surplus and keep half the tokens for the effort.

at least all this 'hosting' means that everybody can lag more in other districts when everyone hops to grab more pressies... >: )

Actually we have and always have had a policy, that if another guild was in a district first we'd move and find a new one. The first couple of years (esp the first one) there was no competition for districts since other guilds had'nt gotten organised in time.

It was only last year(and I suspect this year) that district hogging became an issue.We would always announce that we were intending to use this district and if anyone else said 'Hey we got here first' we'd move. I think on one occasion we had to move to Italian because the others were full.

Last year we frequently offered a district we had found empty to a smaller guild/alliance so as to give them a chance to do their thing.

The only time we never moved a district was once we had posted the locations on guru on GWO, and that we always did 10-15 mins before each event to give us plenty of time to find a spare.

As I said I expect this year to become even worse for district hogging, and so it would be great and in the spirit in which the whole CNY thing started off if others could make the same pledge.

I.e don't take over a district if someone else is already there and if there is'nt a spare, then share it giving equal credit.

The event lasts for 24 hours so theres enough time and slots for everyone to have a go

I think you may mean the lunar fortunes:

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Lunar_Fortune

Red Gift Bags give:

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Red_Gift_Bag


OP should have put this in the Community section, would not have gotten all the hate from people for something is done repeately every year by many guilds/alliances.

Never have seen anyone argue over a district. What is the point of that? What does that look like anyway?

Guild 1: GTFO we are going to use all the items we spent a month rounding up in this district.

Guild 2: WTF ever, we are going to use our ingredients you ahole

Guild 1: We are finishing that dessert dammit!!!

Guild 2: Too late numbnuts HAHAHAHHA.

Guild 1: Just for that we are going to line up all our ele's w/chaos gloves and sync dance in your face!!!

Guild 2: Well we are all going to turn into Yetis and sit on your ele's so noone can see them.

Do these guilds have such a need to get "credit" for this event that this turns into an arguement? Seriously?

It gets better,

Last night one of my guilds allies was trying to big up the fact that they 'sponsor' chinese districts 1-3 just because 'they have a blade radio dj (oooh *shivers*) and gaile grey will be coming to visit'....

big deal.... shes only a person, allbeit a person whose name happens to appear prominently in the staff section of the game. she still just comes to an office, does some work goes home again... the whole bragging rights thing is pathetic. everyones off playing aion anyway...

Is it just one each of there these items?

yes it is - one each of those handed in at a finale event will see the celestial tiggy all happy and many presents and fireworks for all

You need a minimum of one for each event.

I don't think there is a problem with Guilds or Alliances sponsoring an event. It is a really awesome thing to do and helpful to those people in smaller Guilds or without any at all that lets them enjoy all the benefits of Canthan New Year.

Our Alliance usually tries to 'sponsor' an event and we'll just try and find a random empty district when it goes live and then most people just go AFK between events anyway. I'm sure most people looking to help out aren't too bothered if they come across one that is already populated, they will just move on. Most people aren't too bothered which district they get either.

If people are QQing over trying to get ID1 or AD1 or whatever then just move on.

^This. I wish more people felt the same way
I really don't see why some posters are acting like it's a huge competition?
Always remember:
1.) Be courteous to the sponsoring guild/alliance.
2.) Be gracious to said guilds/alliances, for they gave you the opportunity to enjoy the 'high-end' part of the festivities!
3.) Thank your sponsor, (you don't need to kiss ass, just a thank you will do.)
4.) Dance! have fun! TALK to those in your district!
Seems easy enough to me?
I like the idea of knowing I won't have to 'stress' over whether or not all will be prepared for the feast, a generous guild/alliance has thought of it for me.
Have fun guys, I know I will!