Had an idea not sure how it would float....but if the event ended the moment it reached 17.5 m kills regardless of time left.
Actually, I like this idea a lot. At first reading I thought it was ridiculous - on second thought though, I realized what this would mean, and I appologize for not understanding it immediately. Essentially, clearing the time-frame would mean shifting the benefit to those who don't employ a tactical wait untill the last 1-2 hours before the event closes. The only thing that should be somehow figured out, is how to make it still somewhat of a challenge to get to ruby.
this event has only ever not reached ruby once and that was last year ..locking the list 24hrs would be unfair to those for many reasons dont do events till the last day ..the problem you have of those waiting till we are going to get ruby b4 they move has some merit but the truth is many of the lazy players who want the reward without the effort do it at the start and get there pathetic 5k kills. now someone with limited stam or max stam i fully get.. but thoses with 20-200k stam its just lazy expecting others to do the work while they reap the benefit...sadly there is many like this and its them that make us never reach the goal ..myself i always do the potions ones i always burn more then i need to ..this one however will have to wait till monday as christmas cleared most of my stam..we have never had this event so early in the year
True about this particular event's history. The same stands for the halloween event. Where I will NEVER forget Grim's initial statement - demonstrating and wrapping up perfectly the year 2014 in terms of FS "community" events: "The community never fell short of ruby during Halloween, it won't this time, either"(regarding initial fears in chat). Well, it did. As was so in any other potion-yielding event.
As for the 5k'er vs multik'er issue: that was not my point. My point was that many simply do not make the push even at the end, due to one sole reason. They deem ruby impossible - while actually, it would be a simple thing, if everyone just kicked on their afterburners.
So, you're basically saying, with this, that you're prepared to effectively 'punish' those, that due to work/school/life cannot make it online to hunt in the opening stages of the Events? Because it's not just those that decide to 'wait and see' that you'll be catching out, but those that have a legitimate reason. Only once, this has been me, admittedly, logging on to find the total already passed, but I'm sure there have been others that this has happened to.
Not all of us can get online to check up on things every day. Life intrudes.
I like the time-frame. It gives us, all of us, a real chance. . It even gives us a chance at Ruby II on the rare occasion that we impress the Cows. It's an interesting idea, but I don't think that this is the way to go about it, to encourage participation.
In my opinion, you'd be defeating the community spirit of the event, and making it more a every man for himself scenario.
The event lasts 5 days. This includes a full weekend, with 2 workdays before it, AND 1 after it. Although I do see the truth in SOME people not being able to check in every day - but if the first 4 days (2 weekdays(1 of which is a week-ender weekday), 2 weekend days(yes, I understand all too well that some of us have to take the kids here'n there, get the stew boiling for the family, etc) isn't enough for a massive stam-burn, then that last day shouldn't mean much. Generally. In very rare cases, it does. But the cases where the hunt could be done one day earlier in terms of technical issues outweighs the not-so case nearly 100 to 1, I believe. But if that last day is SOOOO important, then I could easily settle for another solution, too: let it be 5 days then, till top100-lock, and give the rest of the _COMMUNITY_, who had their reasons not to hunt just like anyone playing tactics till a few hours before the competition part ends have their chance to contribute, and get us all what we worked for.
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Those who "bother" to do the 5k are making a bet on the probability that the community will complete the maximum goal AND are making the evaluation that it's worth it for them as a player to "waste" their stam on it.
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MY PERSONAL REMINDER:
This is supposed to be an FS Community event.
Currently, I see no box messages for help on the event.
I see no advertising of an FS Forum that gives good advice on where to go or what buffs to use.
Everyone who does the 5k minimums is actually a good contribution. I know you weren't referring to me here, I just want to emphasize on this myself, too: anyone doing 5k IS doing a great contribution - and in the end, I'm sure they add about as much, if not more, to the event's total as do the high-stammers. We just need more of them - and if we want this, we need to find out how they would participate - given the fact that HCS did calculate with them when setting the 17.5M goal.
I also understand the second part of the statement doesn't completely relate to me. Last round I tried everything theat came to my mind (as I've stated) which does not involve using my fsp's (I make a grand total of 28-30 fsp's a week from hunting, have no adverts to generate 3-6 fsp's a day like when I was in the UK for 3 weeks). The results:
-about 10 people read my forum post.
-A very professional member of the moderator team pretty violently, nearly banning me, restricted my ability to post the link of _THIS FORUM_ (!!!!!!!!!!!) in chat OR my profile to give advice to the community on how to start, and how to do well with the pinatas(or whatever the event was, could have been the spooks of halloween, I think I'm confused here). So I just pasted the help in my bio, which probably no one read at all.
-No one reacted from my guild to the call-to-arms (hardly any of them are active anymore, anyways.
-my pm's with suggestions and request for aid from random, fullstam players was mostly unreacted-to, or in two cases, I just recieved an iggy - with only one player saying thank-you, and actually started doing something.
Not all of us have FSP's to spend, and without those, we can't do much more. Raising community awareness to forums and help is one thing-but with so many uninterested, or simply, braindead modern players - mostly, only fsp-options work.
Edited by NicramDuel, 17 January 2015 - 14:02.