Thoughts on GCs?

[Mark Sir Link]

Originally Posted by MysticX2X

Despite the amount of cheaters/idlers/insufficient amount of players.

I'm not sure what you mean by the gc's only "saying start/stop", but for how long I've played/hosted GC events, i have always seen unique events being attempted. It may not be very creative all the time, however, but still unique.

I guess nobody took my 'decimated value of the ticket' point into consideration at all.

edit: DC misses Night.

I don't think anyone is taking your decimated value of the ticket point into consideration because it is not a valid point. People keep throwing this out there as the reason why people won't play events when in reality, they are just really boring and feel robotic.

I'm 100% sure there are the same amount of prizes if not more than there were pre-NPC server and nobody whined about ticket inflation then. I already suggested bringing back the GC statue auction at least once on the forum if people really are paranoid enough to believe having a ton of tickets is an issue but nobody listened and instead came up with ideas like giving in game advantages for tickets, which would have severely thrown off the balance of the game for a considerable amount of time considering the amount of tickets some people had amassed.

[Kamaeru]

I just wanted to say that I personally think GCs can suck it.

[Nataxo]

Originally Posted by Kamaeru

I just wanted to say that I personally think GCs can suck it.

Originally Posted by Gladius

Don't get mad, get glad.

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[BlackSolider]

Originally Posted by Mark Sir Link

I don't think anyone is taking your decimated value of the ticket point into consideration because it is not a valid point. People keep throwing this out there as the reason why people won't play events when in reality, they are just really boring and feel robotic.

I'm 100% sure there are the same amount of prizes if not more than there were pre-NPC server and nobody whined about ticket inflation then. I already suggested bringing back the GC statue auction at least once on the forum if people really are paranoid enough to believe having a ton of tickets is an issue but nobody listened and instead came up with ideas like giving in game advantages for tickets, which would have severely thrown off the balance of the game for a considerable amount of time considering the amount of tickets some people had amassed.

I really don't want to get in a back-and-forth argument, especially when this thread was about getting ideas to improve GC this time around, but I feel the need to say something.

The ticket economy, or lack thereof, did play a roll in the decline in events. The sheer massive number people had (Laura had 1k, I believe,) combined with the fact that either A) everyone had all the GC prizes, or B) no one wanted to buy any since they were useless, severely damaged competitiveness in some events. It is human nature (and dino nature,) to try a little bit harder when sometime desirable is on the line. Why else would men go to such extraordinary lengths to impress a female (usually.) Why else would kids tear through gift wrapping with such a frenzy on xmas morning?

The point is, if people want a specific GC prize or two, they might try harder in events to win the tickets necessary to buy it. When you have a hundred tickets and all the prizes already, you weren't really motivated in events. Sometimes you just went through the motions simply because there wasn't anything else to do on the server. Winning is a great motivator by itself, but that little extra was just missing, in part due to the ticket economy, or lackthereof.

[MysticX2X]

Originally Posted by BlackSolider

It is human nature (and dino nature,) to try a little bit harder when sometime desirable is on the line.

I can attest to this, considering I was just learning about reward theory in my psych class this past week.

The problem with nobody caring about tickets years ago was because Graal was a better game in general due to the higher playercount. Now that the playercount of each server has more than halved, there has to be another incentive to play.