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[Undjuvion]

im gonna throw some stam in a bit, its really daunting though, is there no way we can get some higher global boosters hoof, x4 makes me a complainer

[Pardoux]

im gonna throw some stam in a bit, its really daunting though, is there no way we can get some higher global boosters hoof, x4 makes me a complainer

 

Higher level boosters would definately be nice - 10x 15x 20x even

[Soulas]

We are doing fine. Less talking, more killing!

 

A killed x global creatures medal would have made better motivation for the less stamina blessed people to do more than 5000 kills. But initialy it was the idea to give different types of global events, so I believe that is the reason why it is the top 100 medal like it is now. It works similar, but you leave a lot of players left out. Since you need 20k kills minimal to get in top 100 a lot of players who don't have the necessary stamina are being left out in the race for the medal and keep it to the required amount of kills for reward.

 

Maybe we can increase the variaty of global events with all the current aspects of the game we have. Some examples and possible themes:

- a titan like creature that moves every 5,000 kills or so. (theme: giant | ranked by amount of kills)

- a potion making event (theme: valentine, witches | ranked by amount of potions made)

- a community group attack (like guild groups, but bigger) against verry powerfull creatures (theme: dragons | ranked by amount of groups joined multiplied by factor depending on won or lost battle)

- find items (theme: easter bunny lost his chocolat eggs | ranked by amount of eggs found)

yeah that would be good , like group attack versus some dragon , that has much health and creature that moves , and e.t.c

[Saxon]

I hope everyone does pitch in for the community event, I am going to drink a global pot for AM500 and CONS500 and blow all the stam I have - 68,500

 

I will be doing this later today when I get the time to do it.

 

COME ON FSers, PULL YOUR FINGER OUT!!!!

[C4RPY]

I hope everyone does pitch in for the community event, I am going to drink a global pot for AM500 and CONS500 and blow all the stam I have - 68,500

 

I will be doing this later today when I get the time to do it.

 

COME ON FSers, PULL YOUR FINGER OUT!!!!

 

Maybe we'll see a few doing the same... I'll be doing similar in 24 hours when I have even more stam, hopefully around 25k to boost us a little closer..

 

A higher level Booster Pot for future events would certainly be useful and add a further gold sink for a short time

[paingwin]

Sadly, yes it would be possible to obtain ruby tier if thoe with the biggest stam banks would dig deep and give. Yes, it would be possible to obtain ruby tier if more players would just kill the creatures to begin with. But in past global events the ruby reward was "5" potions, in previous global events the top 3 got avatars done by an HCS staff member, in previous global events there were inventables and collectible items involved. This global has been downsized in reward in my opinion, though i will be hunting out my stam bank tomorrow after i get off work. If you want people to hunt the events, then you have to pay them to use their stam. The ruby pots are nice i must say, but the amount of them is the biggest downside to the event. I say the reward for ruby should be 5 chests the same as all the past events i have participated in. And as i have said many times over, higher multiplier booster potions are needed f you want us to kill 17.5 MILLION critters

[C4RPY]

Player Incentives added... check Shoutbox... for top 100 at end of the event... if we make Ruby Tier... be nice to see a few more add to the POT!

 

Pyro

08:20 23/May/2013

1 FSP to each person on the Top 100 if we reach Ruby Tier when the Global Quest end.

 

C4RPY

08:28 23/May/2013

I'll match Pyro's offer. So that's 2 FSP for each person in the top 100 once the event ends if we reach Ruby Tier. Anyone Else want to add to the POT?

 

gilby90813

08:33 23/May/2013

ill add to carpy and the other guy but since im not that wealthy ill add 30k to the pot for each person in top 100 so youll get 2fsp and 30k

 

FS Box

Mormon8r says: I am in the Ruby Incentive Pot for 1 FSP to each 100 contributo​r! Lets do this FS!

 

EricaTNG

08:35 23/May/2013

Make that 3 FSP and 30,000 gold. =)

 

[watagashi]

current stam 3647,, I literally moved to the tile the last of my stam would be used on and saw the first yeoman. I had spent a whole 8900 to hunt. Ill try and do the best I can on the last day but I got the shaft on timing this time.

[tharzill]

I'm just letting stam build as much as possible right now.  I'll have around 14,000 more to throw at it before it's over. 

[Belaric]

I do not think adding more chests is a real incentive to get to ruby. I suspect that HCS realised they were way overgenerous with the chests from the third global through fifth (the abundant 500 level multi potions), and have backed off. As has been speculated, with such awesome free potions floating around they may have seen a dip in donations. They have to balance that out. 3 vs 5 at ruby isn't so bad. I still have a royal chest from last time out, and a bunch of vampiric chests too. I'd have more if I had not missed out on the last global. I cannot be the only one.

 

I knew some would equate not hitting target with game death. And thus ask for an easier time. Nope. At the first Global we were well under 1K a day population, indeed we were recovering from a low similar or worse than now in late 2011. (Go find the prognostications of doom posts from October-December that year - I believe we were hitting 400-500 here and there, depending on time of day) Numbers were picking back up healthily over 700 again by Zogrom Shroud I. Not so different from now, though I do not deny that numbers and activity are again falling, and from a player perspective it just seems a little quieter now... I attribute this to Eldevin beta testing TBH. See how the game feels when the beta closes, and then when Eldevin goes live.

 

The lowering of tier target idea. I ******* hate that idea. If we had not been pandered to in the past and had targets lowered we would not be so entitled now and be unable to imagine how to get by on free 400 level buff multi pots (the crystal tier reward we re currently on track for). Good grief. I almost feel that ruby should be all but impossible and take a huge community efort to get to. Kudos to the shoutbox incentive offerers. Droppping the targets in the past was a horrible mistake because it created an ugly precedent the cuckoos in the nest will always shout for later. Aaargh.

 

No stam use witch hunts. People are free to join in or not. During the first global there was a lot of "show us the names of folk who just hit minimum target", as if doing that was somehow wrong. At the time it seemed these folk might get PvP'd if named, for not showing enough 'community spirit'. That seemed way bizarre, and thankfully did not happen. Just because we might not make ruby does not mean we have a right to hassle folk into participating. This event caught people out - no advance warning, but that was because BG listened to folk on the forum and released this event as a result - he even avoided it being a darksun following feedback. Way to go BG for being so responsive. I'd have no issue with darksun by the way.

 

Changing tier requirements per stam bank size and stam present at the start of the global would be an idea, in FUTURE events, but would I imagine be a nightmare to code, and would be unfair to low stam bank players. The tier requirements are low to allow the global to have a shot at being democratic. It is a global. It is for ALL. In the hunt for more overall kills we are suggesting ways of making the rewards, certainly the biggest and best rewards undemocratic, available only to those who are already successful. That is a way to strangle the roots of the game. Yeah a level 75/low stam bank player (who could be level 1000 with persistance) may not have as much use for an AM, AL,LIB,CON etc. 500 pot, but can still use it currently and have a great time, a big fat rush at using the biggest multi potion in the game. But if he or she sees that there is no way to qualify for it, and others will, no matter how much effort that level 75/low stam bank player puts in, can you see how disillusioning that would be? Way to create an underclass. It tells them : "You are only worth the 300 levl pots, now run along and be grateful, you smelly low level and/or small stam banked oiks!" We are top heavy enough as it is as a community, no need to institutionalise it in our globals.

 

Maybe there should be more incentive, but an incentive is another way of saying freebie. So we want freebies for getting the freebies we get from doing an event that is free to participate in. Does anyone see that is a little tweaked?

[hades8840]

i am curious but its bugging me lol on the world map the progress bar is broken into 5 main sections now i assume eash section is 3.5 mill each .now does that mean you need to clear a section to unlock it or just entire the tier? its not very clear or i missed it ..i ask because at 11 mill we are at we wont do the ruby but if you only entire the last tier to unlock it (i would assume entiring something unlocks it or you wouldnt have access) then wouldnt we only need to get just over 14 mil?

[C4RPY]

i am curious but its bugging me lol on the world map the progress bar is broken into 5 main sections now i assume eash section is 3.5 mill each .now does that mean you need to clear a section to unlock it or just entire the tier? its not very clear or i missed it ..i ask because at 11 mill we are at we wont do the ruby but if you only entire the last tier to unlock it (i would assume entiring something unlocks it or you wouldnt have access) then wouldnt we only need to get just over 14 mil?

 

It says it clearly on the original news post that

 

'For each tier that the community completes the reward will increase as follows'

 

So yeah, we'd need to hit 17.5 million, as that completes the Ruby Tier

[Mister Doom]

i am curious but its bugging me lol on the world map the progress bar is broken into 5 main sections now i assume eash section is 3.5 mill each .now does that mean you need to clear a section to unlock it or just entire the tier? its not very clear or i missed it ..i ask because at 11 mill we are at we wont do the ruby but if you only entire the last tier to unlock it (i would assume entiring something unlocks it or you wouldnt have access) then wouldnt we only need to get just over 14 mil?

 

You have to fill it, otherwise the first tier would be automatically unlocked, right?

[hades8840]

cheers that answered that i seriously couldnt be bothered reading the whole first post

[Mister Doom]

You should still get yourself out there and do more than the bare minimum though mate, this game doesn't HAVE to be about getting more out of it than you put in.

[DomCorvis]

if anyone out there has LF/AM they could spare I'm gonna hunt another 2k of my stam towards this to try and help community more.(was hoping for top 100 but my stam bank isn't going to allow it).

 

Thanks ahead of time for any who buff me and cheers to those pushing harder than required to try and help everyone

[hades8840]

You should still get yourself out there and do more than the bare minimum though mate, this game doesn't HAVE to be about getting more out of it than you put in.

i am gonna i thought about it and heck i sit over flowing stam anyway problem is using a am 500 pot will see how many i have if i have a couple will use one and sit on a spot but i really really would like a bigger global doubler i aint looking forward to burning my stam at x4

[Mister Doom]

i am gonna i thought about it and heck i sit over flowing stam anyway problem is using a am 500 pot will see how many i have if i have a couple will use one and sit on a spot but i really really would like a bigger global doubler i aint looking forward to burning my stam at x4

 

Yep I hear ya, getting large kill counts is mind numbingly boring doing the old AM500 routine, I tend to just find a nice quiet spot, (or try to) get comfy and use the 1,2,0 on the numpad. Bridge my thumb across them and just spam away. Can even watch telly or something while you're doing it that way.

 

EvilGrim, if you're listening, hows about a larger global doubler? If people are going to have to do larger kill counts to make up for those who can't/can't be bothered, at least give use a x10 or something to make it a 'little' less brutal. lol

[thisple]

can anyone confirm if conserve is working?  I have had a few mates tell me they haven't seen conserve kick in while smashing these little zombies

[thisple]

Yep I hear ya, getting large kill counts is mind numbingly boring doing the old AM500 routine, I tend to just find a nice quiet spot, (or try to) get comfy and use the 1,2,0 on the numpad. Bridge my thumb across them and just spam away. Can even watch telly or something while you're doing it that way.

 

EvilGrim, if you're listening, hows about a larger global doubler? If people are going to have to do larger kill counts to make up for those who can't/can't be bothered, at least give use a x10 or something to make it a 'little' less brutal. lol

 

+1  I would love a greater multiplier