Thoughts on GCs?

[DarkCloud_PK]

I like the concept of GC, it is an excellent system that brings a level of creativity, uniqueness, and variety into events(provided the GC didn't blow and/or barely used their GC tool to spice an event up), that a scripted automated event hosting system just can't provide. But with all concepts with anything, they have to be implemented and maintained properly to survive.

This wasn't done, who's to blame?


First, you have the LAT Admins that would dramatically change the direction of the server or needlessly redo the scripts of the previous admins(sup Hell Raven). I think you can quote me saying "we've had more movement systems than quests", whats sad is, what I said was true. This stagnated the speed of development of non event content dramatically, stagnating anything not related to events.

Then, you have Storm, who allowed every LAT Admin, and GC Dev dept.(I admit we really shouldn't have made the GC practically all the content of the server), to take full control of the overall developmental direction the server went Master Storm did barely any of his duties he should as a Manager, both from chronic inactivity and his indecisiveness.

I personally think the say regarding the servers direction should be equal parts of the LAT Admin, Manager, and players general opinions. But anyway.

I guess you have to blame some of it on Night somehow being stupid enough to work his admin position for 100 years or so and getting lucky and nabbing good devs plus getting help elsewhere every once and awhile. This allowed GC development to maintain a consistent direction and fairly frequent updates while the main development team lagged behind.

[maximus_asinus]

Originally Posted by DarkCloud_PK

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The GC bringing the ability to make unique events. I stress ability because though there was certainly ability, no one was willing to go out of their comfort zone and actually host a unique event. Eventually it degenerated to the point GCs hosted events with a strict structure in place and nothing else. Games like Bazillion Questions fell by the wayside for events like CTF. When the GC's hand was forced and they had to host one of the non structured events, they'd mess up, and they would use the event's poor showing to continue the event's hiatus. This cycle is what lead to the stagnation of the GC team, and was the final weight to break the server's back.

This is why I hope with the new Classic they use an automated system for events BUT allow GC events to be held as well. With this, there would be restrictions on how many times X event could be held. It would allow players to experience all different games. With this system I would ALSO like player hostable events, which would be as official as either event type mentioned above. The prizes for such events would come out of the player's pocket.

[MysticX2X]

Originally Posted by maximus_asinus

The GC bringing the ability to make unique events. I stress ability because though there was certainly ability, no one was willing to go out of their comfort zone and actually host a unique event. Eventually it degenerated to the point GCs hosted events with a strict structure in place and nothing else. Games like Bazillion Questions fell by the wayside for events like CTF. When the GC's hand was forced and they had to host one of the non structured events, they'd mess up, and they would use the event's poor showing to continue the event's hiatus. This cycle is what lead to the stagnation of the GC team, and was the final weight to break the server's back.

This is why I hope with the new Classic they use an automated system for events BUT allow GC events to be held as well. With this, there would be restrictions on how many times X event could be held. It would allow players to experience all different games. With this system I would ALSO like player hostable events, which would be as official as either event type mentioned above. The prizes for such events would come out of the player's pocket.

Gladius summed it up well. GC's did attempt all the 'underhosted' events you're talking about. The amount of players who join those events is extremely low that make the event not fun/cancelled.

I don't see how an event bot will be beneficial to this problem at all.

Edit: I think we all are forgetting the real problem was the dead value of a ticket.