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  • JulesJules Member Posts: 1,080 ✭✭✭
    edited March 2016
    Calais, what are you expecting the outcome to be?

    Also, for the mechanics, I get the impression that the idea was to make the event have a PK element on paper, but not -really- have a meaningful PK element.  The other Shade event was sort of this way too, and the only real reason we got any fights was because the other side actually did decide to engage - sometimes.  The fights we got were in spite of how the event mechanics and rules were set up, not thanks to them.  

    What is kind of bad about this one is that if a small number of people are actually bothering to collect for one side (whether they are people who hate PK period, or people who don't mind), and the other side is big and bored enough, they can actually set aside a team to basically stalk the few people bothering to collect for the other side - because that's the situation where it makes the most sense for PK to happen.  So when there is a PK element, it's going to tend to be sort of unsavory - because it's probably going to be coming from the side that was absolutely, positively, going to win that round anyway, and are so secure in their win that they can say "hey, we have plenty of people collecting these things, let's go see if we can pick off these guys that might be collecting for the other side".  

    Having reflection collection be more overtly a team activity to begin with might help.  Stealing some elements from CTF could be somewhere to start.  Right now it probably pays off to have your team fan out and collect... Although it's not part of CTF, one thing might be making it so that a single person actually can't collect a reflection.  Maybe require three people.  That's a good number for a skirmish, too, and even if there weren't overt notifications, seeing people clustered in a random spot like that during the event could be a pretty good indication that they're collecting.  
  • AnetteAnette Member Posts: 814 ✭✭✭
    I still think that the panacea for this thing is to give me a reason to want to be collecting.  I don't really have one.  What's the sell?
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  • CaelyaCaelya Member Posts: 383 ✭✭✭✭
    edited March 2016
    There were some tedious aspects of the event, I'll agree, but all in all it was an amazing, huge lore drop. And now we have to deal with the last (first?) God, so there's that.

  • IvelliosIvellios Member Posts: 63 ✭✭
    @caelya

    Yeah about that lore, I can't read it. Cause only one person can use the orbs at a time, and every time I apply mass I got sucked in by the void and died. So yeah, fun ****.

    Anyone have the memories copied so I can just read them?
  • AnetteAnette Member Posts: 814 ✭✭✭
    So that's why everyone was going to space.  I wondered.  That ... does not seem like a fun thing.
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  • KhizanKhizan Member Posts: 2,648 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It does one big asphyxiation damage hit

    Hrm.

    If only there was some easy way to avoid a single big asphyxiation damage hit...

    ... too bad we don't have anything like that.

    "On the battlefield I am a god. I love war. The steel, the smell, the corpses. I wish there were more. On the first day I drove the Northmen back alone at the ford. Alone! On the second I carried the bridge! Me! Yesterday I climbed the Heroes! I love war! I… I wish it wasn’t over."

  • CalaisCalais Member Posts: 55 ✭✭✭
    edited March 2016

    @Ivellios - I'd look around the area. There's a quest about the void like one room away that you haven't bothered to investigate. On top of that, no one has been out there for the past three or four times I've been out there, so I'd recommend trying when they're not fresh released. Also again, just don't stand in the room with the void if it gives you the I'M GOING TO EAT YOU message upon entrance. The least of this event's concerns should be the accessibility of the orbs - they're very accessible and there's a clear way to immunity to the void for those who look for the only additional mob in the area with Void clearly in his name. Your commentary comes off as suspiciously angry and that's not what this thread is meant for. Constructive criticism is the hopeful theme.

    @Jules - I think you're missing my point entirely. To be honest, this isn't the sort of event I would've constructed personally, so it's hard for me to say what I expect the outcome to be. Additionally, I've done quite a bit of 'free' plotting for Imperian, so I'm reluctant to do more, especially when it has zero potential to be utilized. However! The outcome is very much less important to me than the set course of it, as I've said many times in this thread. It's MORE important to me that the players actions have an effect on what happens - if Eloweth wins, thing X happens. If Legion wins, thing Y happens. If the masses of disinterested mortals do nothing, problem Z could occur. So on! The result could be the introduction of pink unicorns and that'd be fine with me, so long as whatever lead-up event, lame or otherwise, matters in a way more concrete than put this slave labor in so we can have pyramids, then never think of it again.

    The only reason I've commented on the outcome is because two-three times now, it's been said that the admin promise it isn't what we think, so I'm optimistic that it'll be an interesting plot twist.

    *then than whatever, get over yourself, English. :(

  • KhizanKhizan Member Posts: 2,648 ✭✭✭✭✭

    For what it's worth, you can also just brute force the Void and tank it. 

    H:669/669 M:447/449 B:0 <eb> <db> K:0 R:0 D:100
    The void claims you by sucking your body into its vortex.
    Damage Taken: 534 asphyxiation (raw damage: 879)
    H:134/669 M:448/449 B:0 <eb> <db> K:0 R:0 D:100

    "On the battlefield I am a god. I love war. The steel, the smell, the corpses. I wish there were more. On the first day I drove the Northmen back alone at the ford. Alone! On the second I carried the bridge! Me! Yesterday I climbed the Heroes! I love war! I… I wish it wasn’t over."

  • IniarIniar Member Posts: 3,213 ✭✭✭✭✭
    When I saw the the words Moon Forge, all I could think was:


    HOLY CRAP THEY'RE RELEASING MOON SAGES.
    wit beyond measure is a Sidhe's greatest treasure
  • KhizanKhizan Member Posts: 2,648 ✭✭✭✭✭

    One of the big problems I had with this event is that a lot of people I know just don't give a damn about Eloweth or Malkav. The Gods were dead long before lots of our current players came around and lots of them don't know anything about those gods because of how unimportant(read: dead) they are in the modern game. 

    When the event started, I had to explain who Eloweth was to people, and this is an exchange I had with one citizen today:

    Citizen: What happened with the reflections?
    Khizan: Eloweth ended up with more memory orbs and we got a memory orb from Malkav.
    Citizen: Who's Malkav?

    A lot of people I have talked to didn't find this event compelling at all because the Gods are basically just nostalgia for old players because the gods died more than 3 RL years ago. A ton of my active players started playing after the Gods died and have never even dealt with them. There just wasn't any motivation here.

    Honestly? I think you should make the gods much less important in future events. If you wanted the Gods to be relevant in 2016, you shouldn't have killed them off in 2012. 

    "On the battlefield I am a god. I love war. The steel, the smell, the corpses. I wish there were more. On the first day I drove the Northmen back alone at the ford. Alone! On the second I carried the bridge! Me! Yesterday I climbed the Heroes! I love war! I… I wish it wasn’t over."

  • IvelliosIvellios Member Posts: 63 ✭✭
    @khizan Yes, I have hold breath, yes it was bad of me to have autocuring on and happen to apply mass to lose it and die. But I was with someone who doesn't have hold breath. It's still dumb.
  • AnetteAnette Member Posts: 814 ✭✭✭
    edited March 2016
    [eh, you know what. not worth it.  redacted]
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  • JuranJuran Member Posts: 909 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Khizan said:

    Honestly? I think you should make the gods much less important in future events. If you wanted the Gods to be relevant in 2016, you shouldn't have killed them off in 2012. 

    The game lost a lot of magic when the gods died. The atmosphere of the game and almost a decade worth of story was built around these gods, and the fantasy was lost when they died.

    If you can somehow instill a sense of who they were and bring some part of their purpose back to the game, I'm all for it. When there is no one in authority to enforce the consistency of the story, you get players who will intentionally reject the consistency of the story.

    That said, it's been four years. The window of doing that is probably past.
  • OhmOhm Member Posts: 333 ✭✭✭
    Echoing what @Caelya said, the story is about Legion and His relationship with the Gods.

    Also - I really appreciate that they have been listening to us and making changes to events based on our feedback. That is all I can ask for honestly. 

    Not every RP or event will appeal to everyone. That is just the fact.
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  • CalaisCalais Member Posts: 55 ✭✭✭
    edited March 2016

    @Ohm - I agree wholeheartedly - I appreciate that the administration has been listening and reacting to the feedback on this event. That's all anyone can ask for. Now, a mini-rant in response to @Caelya -

    I appreciate that you like the event and that's fine. It's actually very awesome that you like it, and I'm glad for that. I honestly am frustrated with the events that have been held in the past few years and am perfectly allowed to voice my opinion in a polite, friendly way. I don't expect the RP or the event itself to appeal to everyone, but there was also a very, very large group of people who weren't impressed with the mechanics or with the caliber of the event - and that's okay.

    Most of the posts in this thread aren't negative, in my opinion, they're just asking for more foresight in the construction of events - and as a game that quite a few of us have paid hundreds of dollars for, I don't really think that's too much to request. I very rarely post on the forums and even more rarely do I do so about an event in any vein of negativity - but if no one says anything and everyone just complains on OOC clans when things like this happen, the administration doesn't get honest feedback and will not adjust any future attempts in order to react to that feedback.

    [Editing out a long, off-topic mostly rant and here, this is back on topic - ]  so, I am quite frankly, not obligated to be positive in the slightest if I don't have much I feel particularly positive about, thank you very much. I am, however, obligated to be polite and I've done that.

  • JulesJules Member Posts: 1,080 ✭✭✭
    I don't ever want to see us being horrible obnoxious jerks (and I have no doubt people would be reined in well before that happened), but I also don't want things to be like they are in some of the other IRE games - one of which -actually- has an explicit rule that you can't criticize anything the gods/admin do in any way, whether that be something like an event, or the latest mechanical tweaks, because it might make them "reluctant" to interact with players (fine, so don't, thanks).  And that is not an overstatement.  They will close threads at the slightest hint of mild, polite criticism.  It's sort of incredible.  I dabble in that game, but that alone is a major reason I'll probably never meaningfully commit to it.  And that is probably one of the biggest problems with the existence of godmin, is the role overlap, which ends up coloring interactions even with "godmin" who are specifically builders and not part of any storyline.  

    And then there is the other game where people might mildly critique occasionally, but even then, their critiques are so couched in asskissing it's hard to find the critique.  I have said before, one of the things I like about this game, and why this game gets my money, is that we can have a conversation with the admin and be not be treated like we should send an engraved Thank You card every time we plunk down an insane amount of cash for text trinkets.  Not putting us in the position of worthless peon in no way reduces admin's power to take action against a player if necessary, but spare me the "you will treat me with extreme deference at all times" treatment.    

    The fact that I choose Imperian over all of the other games (including other IRE) and spend way more money here than on any other game says a lot.  Again, part of that is because we can have a discussion like this and not have the thread shut down outright.  At the very least, in the other games, we'd have about 10 "omg, you are being so awful to the godmin" posts in response to any post hinting that the event was less than amazing in every way.  In fact, Calais would likely have been flamed into oblivion for her OP out of the gate, actually.  I hate it when people try to gain brownie points by not so subtly shaming people for having the audacity to politely critique something like this.  No thanks!
  • JulesJules Member Posts: 1,080 ✭✭✭
    I think it is frustrating for players when an event is in truth focused on one or two things, but feels it has to pay lip service to something else as well.  Basically, if the lore or PK element (or whatever else) isn't going to be fairly robust in that particular event, and it feels like you're sort of shoehorning it in because "we have to give -something- to the guys who want to PK", just yoink it completely.  A player like me, for example, might actually switch modes and take interest in the event for what it is, depending.  It is certainly nice when an event manages to have multiple robust components, but as long as you are rotating events and I know there is going to be one that focuses more on my interests (which is the case), I am fine with that.   
  • LartusLartus Member Posts: 487 ✭✭✭
    I liked the event
  • OhmOhm Member Posts: 333 ✭✭✭
    I enjoyed the event

    - trying to collect for reflections competitively was fun during the later stages 
    - the lore and the different sides of the same story, the shades of gray are awesome

    If you add the egg hunts, pirate ships and other small RP opportunities - I've had a lot of fun IG over the past month or so. (except the wheel, you know my problems)




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  • IvelliosIvellios Member Posts: 63 ✭✭
    @elokia

    I like lore, my problem isn't the event, it's accessing the new lore happened to be a pain in the **** last night. I'm thankful you guys are finally, 4 years after the fact better late then never, getting the story of the game moving forward. That's cool. I found reflection collecting boring but maybe that's just cause I happened to pick a bad time to do it.

    My major complaint was the getting killed by the void while trying to read the new lore we spent so much time collecting. And before the 800 health $10,000 characters say just tank it bro or hold breath, some people don't have those skills. Seems like a dumb thing for the lore to literally only be accessible at a place that can kill people. Especially if it's a newer character and might get turned off from a stupid death.

    So that's my two cents, change where it is located or something, cause the whole dying to the void while trying to read the damn lore is dumb. 

    looking forward to next event!
  • ElokiaElokia Member, Moderator, Immortal Posts: 137 mod
    edited March 2016
    Talk to Hvost - you can avoid being killed by the Void. It is part of Hvost's quests.

    **If this is not the case - if you are still dying to the void after completing his quest - please tell me.
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  • IvelliosIvellios Member Posts: 63 ✭✭
    @elokia


    ((In all seriousness, i'll find the hvost in imperian and see what he wants. :P))
  • IniarIniar Member Posts: 3,213 ✭✭✭✭✭
    What is this void thing? I stood in the room forever and didn't get hit at all? :S
    wit beyond measure is a Sidhe's greatest treasure
  • AnetteAnette Member Posts: 814 ✭✭✭
    edited March 2016
    Elokia said:
    Hi guys,

    I normally don't allow myself to get pulled into these things, but I want you to know a small aspect of what is going on - just so maybe you can understand.

    We listen, we hear when you don't like an event, we try to take that into consideration when planning other events.

    One complaint we hear is "Not enough PK" - so we try to do PK events.

    Another? "Not enough story or lore" - So we do an event on this - in fact, this whole year is to move the story forward from the death of the gods, as one huge complaint is "Where is the story now that the gods are dead." - We get you feel they are not relevant, but the story stalled out when they died, so unfortunately, we might have to touch base a bit to expand what is happening now that they are dead. History is key!

    If you will look back on the events we have had since January (One fairly  "large" one every month now - and we plan to continue to do this) Each one is different. One focuses on PK, one focuses on politics, one focuses on PvE/lore. We get you don't like them all, we get you are annoyed with some but think of it this way. We are testing to find out the perfect fit. It is difficult to please the entire game, and during each of these events, we had both sides of the "I really hate this event" to "This event is amazing, we love it."

    We are hoping, moving forward, we can address more issues that have come up, and, since we got many complaints last year, we are trying to produce more events and to clean up lore that has holes in them. It's a long process, we're doing our best, and we are listening.

    Sorry, you hated the event, maybe next event will please you more. If not, sorry?
    I can't speak for anyone else.  But let me speak for myself.

    I offer what feedback I do - be it the various TYPO or BUG reports, the handful of messages I've exchanged with yourself or other admin, asked questions, and tried to engage about the ways I think this game can be improved, because I care for the game, and I recognize that you care for the game to.

    If I thought you didn't, it would be a waste of my time to try to engage you, because I'd just think you'd ignore me, or worse ban me or something for speaking up.  You don't.  You've been very receptive.  I appreciate the time you and some of the other admin I've interacted with put into the game, and trying to keep it lively and going.

    I didn't enjoy this event, and I try to say why I don't, so that someone who's reading that is an admin, can go "hey this is a thing she doesn't like, we can take that into consideration."  The collection mechanic was tedious, and it felt like basically, to get to the really neat thing that I enjoyed (the lore) I had to do something I really didn't enjoy (watching my screen for a minute at a time with absolutely no interaction hoping someone didn't kill me).  I think were I the one designing it I would have made the reflections something you had to get to follow you or the like, to a certain location.  This would have made it interactive (gather an entourage, bring back) and also solve the PK identification issue (hey, she's got a bunch of reflections following her, go get er!)

    I feel this thread has shifted in it's locus of discussion though.  I don't think anyone here truly thinks that the admin "just don't care."  If you didn't, you wouldn't still be here, and if the admin didn't care, they wouldn't be interjecting into this discussion, and indeed modifying the event based on feedback as they did with the qhonors, as an example.

    Far be it for me as the one who's been banned to say it because I'm no one to talk, but I think put it personally on the admins isn't very cool.  They are obviously trying and I don't think @Calais was trying to suggest they weren't.  Rather, he was trying to offer constructive criticism as to what he didn't like.  Somewheres along the line the tone kind of shifted, and eh, I'd rather not turn it into the false dichotomy of "they're just not caring if the event doesn't come out in a way I like."  That's not true.  It's entirely possible for very talented, enthusiastic people that are intending to make this game better to make something not to my tastes, which ultimately, I suppose, is what happened here.  Not every event is for every person, and I get that, my own post was just to say why didn't like this one.  And you guys listened to the feedback I thought was constructive, so I have few complaints at the end of it, save that I probably didn't get as involved as I might like in this one.

    @elokia, I appreciate all that you and others have done for Imperian, so let me end my waffling with saying that much.  You've been very great to work with about the various doodads I've wanted like the house and great about answering my probably-annoying questions about free item tokens, and I enjoyed the drinking games event for my part.  Not every event is to everyone's tastes.  That's fine.  This one wasn't to mine, and that's also fine.  At the end of the day you have no obligation to listen to any of our feedback, but I certainly feel you've tried to address me when I've had things I've brought to your attention.  It's appreciated.
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  • KhizanKhizan Member Posts: 2,648 ✭✭✭✭✭

    This is another reason why I have a problem with the heavy God flavor of this event. Here's the help files for the Gods involved.

    11.4.10 Eloweth, Lady of the Arcane
    
                | Dranor, God of               Epiphany, Goddess of |
         11.4.9 < Imagination                                  Life > 11.4.11
    
    On the 12th of Naturalis, in the year 678 AD, Eloweth entered the Nexus, eradicating Herself 
    from existence. Her loss came at great cost to Her rivals, however, as She brought Anathema
    and Nytid with Her.
    and
    11.4.15 Malkav, God of Insanity
    
                | Lianthe, Lady of the          Nemesis, Goddess of |
        11.4.14 < Waters                                      Wrath > 11.4.16
    
    Malkav was slain by the combined forces of the Demon Lords Slen and Visyra, on the 13th day 
    of Vita, in the year 678 AD.

    If you want to get new players invested in events that concern the dead Gods, I feel like you should be offering them reasons to care about those aforementioned dead Gods, or at least information about those dead Gods that doesn't involve digging through libraries looking for old Order texts or searching for old timers who knew the Gods, because the only people who will go to those lengths are the people who are already interested. The people who aren't already interested tend to just go "Oh, dead Goddess of Magick, check. Why should we care about her?" 

    "On the battlefield I am a god. I love war. The steel, the smell, the corpses. I wish there were more. On the first day I drove the Northmen back alone at the ford. Alone! On the second I carried the bridge! Me! Yesterday I climbed the Heroes! I love war! I… I wish it wasn’t over."

  • CalaisCalais Member Posts: 55 ✭✭✭
    edited April 2016

    @Kanthari I think your post is highly inflammatory, but I understand and agree with your right to post it. I don't think anyone here is being excessively negative or continuing to 'dog' on the administration after they've clearly attempted to react to the feedback. As far as I've seen, everyone has attempted to mention how much they appreciate that - see @Caelya, myself, @Ohm, and even @Ivellios, who was the only person I thought came close to being purely negative - even @Khizan, who is often particularly abrasive in situations such as this offered his feedback and what he'd prefer to see. Your post comes off as very negative, in my opinion.

    No one here has offered an extensive rant about the administration - to the exclusion of the single post of my own where I edited that out in order not to derail the constructive vein of the thread. Everyone in this thread has, to some extent, stated something about how they appreciate the responsiveness of the admin in this thread.

    As for the paying customers bit - yes, I do feel entitled to being able to post my opinion (I actually hate that it's come to posting on the forums because using the in-game IDEA command, which is my preference, either gets locked down or set aside for literal years - and that the forums have become the avenue of change). I am NOT entitled to expect that change will occur because of it, but to say that as a 'paying customer', I cannot feel entitled to offer my feedback in a polite and constructive way is just...

    Well, there isn't a polite word for that, but I don't approve of the implication.

    @Elokia Specifically, I hope you see and hear that while some of us weren't keen on the event, we ARE keen on you, your efforts and your responsive dedication. If anyone comes off as hating on you directly, or indirectly, that's not the intent or desire of this thread at -all-. It is very helpful to know about the event rotation. Thank you!

  • AnetteAnette Member Posts: 814 ✭✭✭
    Khizan said:

    This is another reason why I have a problem with the heavy God flavor of this event. Here's the help files for the Gods involved.

    11.4.10 Eloweth, Lady of the Arcane
    
                | Dranor, God of               Epiphany, Goddess of |
         11.4.9 < Imagination                                  Life > 11.4.11
    
    On the 12th of Naturalis, in the year 678 AD, Eloweth entered the Nexus, eradicating Herself 
    from existence. Her loss came at great cost to Her rivals, however, as She brought Anathema
    and Nytid with Her.
    and
    11.4.15 Malkav, God of Insanity
    
                | Lianthe, Lady of the          Nemesis, Goddess of |
        11.4.14 < Waters                                      Wrath > 11.4.16
    
    Malkav was slain by the combined forces of the Demon Lords Slen and Visyra, on the 13th day 
    of Vita, in the year 678 AD.

    If you want to get new players invested in events that concern the dead Gods, I feel like you should be offering them reasons to care about those aforementioned dead Gods, or at least information about those dead Gods that doesn't involve digging through libraries looking for old Order texts or searching for old timers who knew the Gods, because the only people who will go to those lengths are the people who are already interested. The people who aren't already interested tend to just go "Oh, dead Goddess of Magick, check. Why should we care about her?" 

    I agree; these help files could at least give a brief historical context as to what the god's domain was and their importance.  Something in line with the historical guild blurbs.  If I had the knowledge, I'd TYPO suggestions myself, but I kind of don't :c
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