Spring is Coming!

THANK YOU! for announcing the event beforehand,finally i can be prepeared

Oh, great, so now we know beforehand that we'll lose a field upgrade. Thanks a lot, that makes me feel better.

Actually I like that!  It will make us want to work... and if we are to bring a fun competition between both towns... so be it!

Let's prepare ourselves, ladies and gents

This is even worse than last time, Spero is is ahead by 5 times more damage so far. Losing by a landslide was bad enough, but this time we'll also lose a field upgrade because of it. How many of these utterly unexciting events will we have to suffer through before you get that this is pointless? This is like pitting a child against a heavyweight boxer, it's not fair and it doesn't make for an exciting match.

Once we even up the score from the town games... Which ya guys have us beat by 160 weeks

I suspect it'll be more fun/competitive when there's a third town opened up, relying on if some people from spero decide to move there.

Its also gonna hurt not having your strongest fighter not participating... Looked it up and saw he's on vacation. Not saying he could close the gap himself tho

I do agree that being punished for losing is a bit harsh. 

I also don't like how rewards are being consolidated for the best players each time these events happen, which just end up giving us more gear to make us even more powerful than everybody else. I believe having a random chance to find unique or rare gear with each attack would have been better than giving them out to the top 2 of each town.

I really like this kind of event, and I think it brings people together co-operatively in a way that they don't usually. I accept the point that the disparity is so wide that it is almost not worth Camaar participating, and I guess that is a problem.

I also agree with the viewpoint that everyone knows Apoclypze will be #1 and he will receive a buff that will make him even more powerful. I'm not sure making rewards random is the answer though - as there also needs to be an incentive for players to specialise and to reap the rewards of that specialisation. Perhaps damage received could scale off damage done, as that would typically reduce the number of attacks a high-damage player could make and *might* level the results slightly, although willingness and ability to invest in healing potions would still be a big factor.

My comment is that if we want to encourage co-operation, where are the rewards for the healers?

I think an Event should be even for all Players,not the rich will get richer...
The key to it is probably scaling Monsters,which means to put Monsters in 4 or 5 Categories from weak to very strong,with receiving more damage from Category to Category.
And according to the Player Lvl you just meet a certain Category(same counting for each Category).And to top this, noone should use or buy Stam Pots or Heal Pots above cheap Lvl to make sure all the rich Player wont outbuy the others(also a max buy per day).Also the Categories should need different Stam to "meet the monster",the lowest need 10 stam the highest about 25 or so,cause the high players also have high rates of regen stamina.
That would fit somehow the "we are all even" Idea in an event,what you think?

I was thinking that the event should increase the winning sides random field and not destroy any on the losing side.

As for the event I focus on combat but it doesn't really give me all that much of a leap ahead. I may have spent years on combat but I also spent the first year getting my herbalist and alchemy to 100%. I was making a bunch of potions to get funds for equipment (started the event with 4 silver total). By the time the event was announced I already had 20 master health potions stocked and various other potions. They are the key to getting points. A health potion and a stamina potion can get you from low ranks to the top. Strength potions boost damage which works great. I don't really use any others but my strategy revolves around potions.

yep, potions are key.

in the end the event is a big money sink, which is good. people spending lots of money and consuming lots of stuff helps the overall game economy.

you both are right that pots are the key,so everyone who had stocked on grail stam and health pots will be top?
nope ....,or lets say not for 1 day
on the first day i used all i had, 3 grail stam and 2 grail health pots,got drunk and skilled my char for optimal damage according to my skills,and i had NO CHANCE at all,and i am a lvl 13 fighter.(for example apo had 11k dam done i had 5 k)
its like always...people who are here longer have surly better stats and money and therefore will lead,no matter what.(points to my thoughts above for an event)
and to decrease a losing side is not a good idea,it disapoints peopleand this should be the last thing we should do here

These events really do favor the strongest and most resourceful characters. But that's cause they're fighting events, its what you'd expect. Of course the most renowned and merited, as well as fastest, strongest, and most agile, warriors will be at the top if they participate.

Yes, lvl 13 combat is pretty good, but apoc is lvl 20. I'd wager that its much more difficult to go from lvl 13-20 than it is to go from 1-13. He's also an alchemist, which helps a lot for these events. Anto, apoc, and I lead the charts, and apoc is the youngest of us. Yet none of us are in the top 5 oldest players (granted we are each pretty old:P)

Potions really are key, since your stats attribute so much damage in the events. It might be a little OP but this also gives younger players more of a chance to prepare and make an impact, of course older players will do that too.

But yeah, in short, fighting events should favor developed characters more, there could be other events for more creative things, and these ones could be less often done.

I too would like to a more fair fighting event for towns. To keep it fair and still competitive. For example with this event, there could be a threshold of damage each town has to do to keep their fields from degrading, let's say 50k. So if spero gets 200k and camaar gets 50k, no one loses a field. But then keep a prizes for contributing damage, could be money, potions, etc., and split the prize for each town by the % of the total damage done... So spero would get 80% of the prize and camaar would get 20. Or even give prizes on damage done after the threshold, so in this scenario, spero would get 100% of the prize.

yea i agree about the losing side. i dont like to see any get penalized. it should be optional to participate. reward those that do participate.

not for nothing, but i spent a LOT and am still spending

one thing you might have overlooked Aro, is protection. armor isn't on the list, for protection value, only resistance.

Understood, thanks for your consideration, is all we can ask.

Thank you for the event as well. These are some good ideas and implementations Aro, and I look forward to more.

18th of Mar 2015 23:09Axel Ackland has bought your Grand Master Healing Potion with a durability of 500/500 for 2 Silver and 85 Bronze.

Seriously? I don't mind you poaching our potions normally, but right now, that's just... low.

Unlike last time, this time I'm using some of my potions myself, because my goal is to be in the top 20, but I've also sold some, so that our better fighters could make use of them. Guess that was a bad idea.

Lol well I mean spero is on a clear road to victory. The only competition is between apoc, anto, and I over first place.

I'm also stuck in camaar right now, thanks to the buggy combat I don't want to risk fighting the guard... And most of the potions I could use are in the town's warehouse that I can't access without being in spero.

Does it let you fight for Camaar? I was curious about it before, just wondering.

By the way it looks like Apoc jumped way ahead of us today.

I've got to work on my potion making skill..

It let's you fight for your own town from anywhere on the world map... Helped me steal the lead last time cause I went to finish it out in the grail monastery, pocketed some stamina from the weekly quest after all potions had been exhausted, so i posted up there till the end

Been working on my alchemy skill ever since that event ^_^