Event Idea: Running Riot

[Fiberwyre_P2P]

It would basically be FFA, but with a twist.

Your kills and deaths are added together to give you a running score.

1 kill = 1 point, 1 death = -1 point

Edit: This thought just occured to me, it would probably be more fun if it was just 1 kill = +1 damage AND 1 death = +3 health, rather than them being mutually exclusive.

Depending on your score, you get different bonuses.

If your score is positive, you get +1 damage per point.
If your score is negative, you get +3 health per point.

As an example, if you got 5 kills and 3 deaths you would have +2 damage.

Say you got 3 kills and 3 deaths. You would have +0 damage and +0 health, because you would have 3 kills and 3 deaths (meaning no net points).

You could either win by getting to a score limit, or having the highest score at the end of a time limit.
Score could be calculated a few different ways:
Kills,
Kills - Deaths,
Kills + Deaths,
Highest absolute value (highest kills or highest deaths)

(Could be an event or just an addition to the PKing system in general. Though if it was an addition to the PKing system in general, it would need to be a running score within a time span. For instance, your score would be your kills minus deaths in the last 10 minutes.)

[Kohola_KinG]

It could work but we both know it's not going to happen. Unfortunately era doesn't have enough developers or require the developing skills to work on events they claim to be busy doing something else (which I'm not doubting).

It's worrying because they don't realize how important events are. When new events are getting made they are just races by Zao. So well done to him for trying. Though we need PK events & current PK events to be fixed.

Events don't get enough attention.

[Fidel Castro]

Originally Posted by Kohola_KinG

It could work but we both know it's not going to happen. Unfortunately era doesn't have enough developers or require the developing skills to work on events they claim to be busy doing something else (which I'm not doubting).

It's worrying because they don't realize how important events are. When new events are getting made they are just races by Zao. So well done to him for trying. Though we need PK events & current PK events to be fixed.

Events don't get enough attention.

Since when is Freefall a race? We've released 5 new events in the past 2 weeks. I know some of you PKers want some more pk minded events, but those take a little bit longer than some of the ones we released. We have ideas in the works, but have a lot going on at the moment.

There is a lack of developers on Graal in general, as of late. Also, it's not a matter of just hiring someone and getting them to work immediately; this person has to prove they can be trusted with rights they would receive, etc. It's not as simple as plug and play, unfortunately.

[Kohola_KinG]

Originally Posted by Fidel Castro

Since when is Freefall a race? We've released 5 new events in the past 2 weeks. I know some of you PKers want some more pk minded events, but those take a little bit longer than some of the ones we released. We have ideas in the works, but have a lot going on at the moment.

There is a lack of developers on Graal in general, as of late. Also, it's not a matter of just hiring someone and getting them to work immediately; this person has to prove they can be trusted with rights they would receive, etc. It's not as simple as plug and play, unfortunately.

Honestly? I've never played Freefall. I always thought it was that event that was made many months ago but never finished so i can't answer on that one.

Zao has made new races, he always did make races and will continue to make races only because if he did make the levels for a PK event then nobody would script them. I was ETA twice and i had levels done for PK events but just nobody ever interested in scripting them. We have to many of these race events. I don't think some of us 'pkers' want 'some' new pk events. Shouldn't new events be getting pumped out every few months or so? This doesn't happen.

Like i said, I've been ETA twice under 3 different managers and not one give a toss about events. I know you have been ETA before Fidel and I'm sure you can agree that nobody really cares about events.

And the PK events that we do have. You play them, they break and then they are left to rot. When i was a PR not long ago the ETA (seph) was always asking for one of his events to be fixed(one of the most played events) and was always ingored. It got to the point where i went to the event myself and summoned melon and he fixed it. It shouldn't have to come down to that.

And for example, Fiber just gave you one of his ideas. If you like it (which i see no reason why you wouldn't) then what's wrong in going to one of your scripters and saying, look can you do this for me and ask how long it would take and see if he could do it. It's that simple. If there's other more important things to be done then that's understandable but you can at least turn around and say look we have to much going on at the minute but when theirs a slot where we could get this done then we will and make it happen. Instead of putting it to the side and then never getting done like every other idea that's brought up to you guys.

All I'm saying is. Events side of things needs more attention.

[Fidel Castro]

I wish it was as simple as you make it sound. I don't disclose every little thing that the Era staff team does, or has to do, or has going on, but if you / others were to know you'd understand why it's just not that simple. There are projects going on, other projects that have gotten green lights that are waiting to be worked on, and ideas that still have to get a green light to begin production.

I agree events should be updated more, and it's something Ice and I open dialogue over on a consistent basis, which has led to some good ideas and things I'd like to see done. Ice alone has fixed over 5-6 of the PK events you speak of.. so I'm not sure which events you are referring to there.

I do like his idea, but as I outlined above, it's not as easy as saying, "hey, go make this." Scripters, as they are in a limited amount at the current time on Era (worded weird, I know), are all currently tied up in projects that we had discussed before. That being said, I have been thinking about doing an open hiring thread for scripters, as well as general devs, which I could specifically assign to certain parts of the server (such as events).

I have no doubt there are others that echo your sentiment, so perhaps I'll speed up the process of looking for a few more devs that I could assign strictly to event-related purposes. It's not a "snap my fingers and done" kind of thing, but you have my attention, and I won't just forget about it and move on. Let's see if we can work together to get some of these things done.

I appreciate your input, as well as every other player that has constructive things to say. I do not frown upon it, so feel free to add more ideas/suggestions in this thread or via forum PM. I am tied up in 20 different things at the moment on player (a lot of which I cannot discuss) so, as you saw, answering PMs for me is a bit tasking at the moment, though I try to open myself up late at night (as you saw the other night) to be able to talk, etc.

Hope I covered what you said, if I didn't, I can try to cover what may have been misconstrued by myself.

[BlueMelon]

> One of your scripters

I happen to be non-stop busy when I log onto era, scripting, fixing bugs, etc. As of 2 days ago we lost another scripter due to an incident.

There are not as many available scripters on era as you may think... We also have other projects we are working on.

I for one don't have that much time after work for graal, and during that time I am not always tapping away on graal.

Its funny how players say events need more attention, gangs need more attention, businesses need more attention, quests need more attention, etc. But they don't even notice that time/attention IS given to them. (Sometimes in a way they don't see)

Which brings me to me to another point, we as staff should provide change logs. x-x

[Kohola_KinG]

Originally Posted by Fidel Castro

I wish it was as simple as you make it sound. I don't disclose every little thing that the Era staff team does, or has to do, or has going on, but if you / others were to know you'd understand why it's just not that simple. There are projects going on, other projects that have gotten green lights that are waiting to be worked on, and ideas that still have to get a green light to begin production.

I agree events should be updated more, and it's something Ice and I open dialogue over on a consistent basis, which has led to some good ideas and things I'd like to see done. Ice alone has fixed over 5-6 of the PK events you speak of.. so I'm not sure which events you are referring to there.

I do like his idea, but as I outlined above, it's not as easy as saying, "hey, go make this." Scripters, as they are in a limited amount at the current time on Era (worded weird, I know), are all currently tied up in projects that we had discussed before. That being said, I have been thinking about doing an open hiring thread for scripters, as well as general devs, which I could specifically assign to certain parts of the server (such as events).

I have no doubt there are others that echo your sentiment, so perhaps I'll speed up the process of looking for a few more devs that I could assign strictly to event-related purposes. It's not a "snap my fingers and done" kind of thing, but you have my attention, and I won't just forget about it and move on. Let's see if we can work together to get some of these things done.

I appreciate your input, as well as every other player that has constructive things to say. I do not frown upon it, so feel free to add more ideas/suggestions in this thread or via forum PM. I am tied up in 20 different things at the moment on player (a lot of which I cannot discuss) so, as you saw, answering PMs for me is a bit tasking at the moment, though I try to open myself up late at night (as you saw the other night) to be able to talk, etc.

Hope I covered what you said, if I didn't, I can try to cover what may have been misconstrued by myself.

Yeah as i said i understand other things are going on. I've just seen that many ideas come and go and a lot from Fiber. I'm sure Fiber can answer to this. That guy is full of ideas but ask him how many have been implemented.

Also the 'event development' idea has been tried a million times and fails every time.

I'm not here to blast you Fidel. I'm just simply giving my opinion.


@Melon

I know scripters are scarce on era i never doubted that. Infact I've nothing even to say about you melon, i know your a work horse. That's why i summoned you to fix that event one time because i know you would and you did.

Yes, events need more attention. Why? Because that's one fun thing to do on era. What else is there to do, honestly? Most people idle at unstick and when events come up that they like they will join them and play. So yes, if events where given more attention. This would better peoples game experience and more people would play.

Are people always hanging around businesses? No.
Are people always raiding? No.
Are people always playing quests? No.
Are people always playing events? Yes.

So does that not speak for it's self.

[Fiberwyre_P2P]

Originally Posted by BlueMelon

> One of your scripters

I happen to be non-stop busy when I log onto era, scripting, fixing bugs, etc. As of 2 days ago we lost another scripter due to an incident.

There are not as many available scripters on era as you may think... We also have other projects we are working on.

I for one don't have that much time after work for graal, and during that time I am not always tapping away on graal.

Its funny how players say events need more attention, gangs need more attention, businesses need more attention, quests need more attention, etc. But they don't even notice that time/attention IS given to them. (Sometimes in a way they don't see)

Which brings me to me to another point, we as staff should provide change logs. x-x

I think you're right about that. Change logs would be great. I remember Chris Vimes had a change log thread on this forum, I think. Or it may have been someone else. But either way, I remember there being a change log and it was cool to see all of the little changes, rather than just the ones that are big enough to put up on either the forums or the news GUI.

[Fidel Castro]

I can attest to what Blue said. We certainly do need a change log.

I understand your concerns, but you also need to understand players care about different aspects as well. We can't work on everything at once. Like Blue said, people talk about something, we do it, then they're on to talking about something else. It's tough to see within this mess all of the updates that are actually made, glitches that are fixed, problems that are solved, especially to long-term players that have focused for a while on particular aspects of gameplay.

[Kohola_KinG]

Change log would be great.

[Supaman771]

Agree with change-log. Agree with more events. Agree with the words Fidel/Melone spoke.
Also, Pie needs more attention.

I should probably like.. do stuff though.

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