Make Halloween mobs drop the halloween tip
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Forbin_Project,
Posted on: 2011-06-18 09:06 in Suggestions and Ideas
The Halloween tip requires that you be in a costume to get it. Even if they did make such a change, the tip would only be available during the Halloween event, for 2 weeks after (until the costumes expire), and to people who have the convention hand-out costume codes. Wouldn't help most players at all.
@Roderick
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The original Halloween tips only dropped from "treat" doors, so I'm not sure why changing/adding the requirements to defeating banner event mobs wouldn't help most players.|
Originally Posted by Roderick
The Halloween tip requires that you be in a costume to get it. Even if they did make such a change, the tip would only be available during the Halloween event, for 2 weeks after (until the costumes expire), and to people who have the convention hand-out costume codes. Wouldn't help most players at all.
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Maybe the suggestion could be refined to having the tip drop from the actual Banner defeat, or the Greater Mystic Aspect to encourage people to actually complete the event.
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Was it? I thought it was from defeating "Trick" spawns while in costume. Either way, the costume was required. I think the OP is asking for the change so that the tip (and thus, the badges from it) would be available year-round, instead of just during the event.
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Originally Posted by Snow Globe
The original Halloween tips only dropped from "treat" doors, so I'm not sure why changing/adding the requirements to defeating banner event mobs wouldn't help most players.
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@Roderick
Keep the Halloween Tip to the Halloween season. Still bugs me that zombies/banners happen all the time, but the Winter stuff is restricted to winter.
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It's irrelevent how it's done durring the halloween event, because I'm asking for an additional method of having it drop from halloween mobs. And yes this is to make a method that is available year round.|
Originally Posted by Roderick
Was it? I thought it was from defeating "Trick" spawns while in costume. Either way, the costume was required. I think the OP is asking for the change so that the tip (and thus, the badges from it) would be available year-round, instead of just during the event.
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Originally Posted by Xzero45
Keep the Halloween Tip to the Halloween season. Still bugs me that zombies/banners happen all the time, but the Winter stuff is restricted to winter.
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<shrug> How it was earned isn't relevant to the suggestion.|
Originally Posted by Roderick
Was it? I thought it was from defeating "Trick" spawns while in costume. Either way, the costume was required.
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Originally Posted by Roderick
I think the OP is asking for the change so that the tip (and thus, the badges from it) would be available year-round, instead of just during the event.
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Devs opened the chalet during the Praetorian invasion, and I didn't see any presents or Winter Lords wandering around. Same goes for whenever they've used it for things like small player events like weddings. So I don't think it works like that.
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Originally Posted by William_Valence
It's irrelevent how it's done durring the halloween event, because I'm asking for an additional method of having it drop from halloween mobs. And yes this is to make a method that is available year round.
The winter stuff isn't really restricted to winter as much as it's restricted to whenever the devs open the chalet. People horde candy canes so whenever it opens they could get stuff ASAP, and the chalet is opened from time to time for events and such. |
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No, but you can access the candy cane vender. I see banners and zombies, but there are still no unseelie or halloween gms. I still can't ToT. I just think adding the tip, and obviously the badges/rewards, to the halloween mobs, then more people might actually do the events. I'm not asking for the whole halloween event to become year round.
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Originally Posted by Xzero45
Devs opened the chalet during the Praetorian invasion, and I didn't see any presents or Winter Lords wandering around. Same goes for whenever they've used it for things like small player events like weddings. So I don't think it works like that.
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Murphys Military Law
#23. Teamwork is essential; it gives the enemy other people to shoot at.
#46. If you can't remember, the Claymore is pointed towards you.
#54. Killing for peace is like screwing for virginity.
The Halloween GM's are up year round in Croatoa.
And no more people won't do the events if the Halloween tip mission is up all year round. People don't like the zone events because they are a pain in the ***. Adding the tip mission isn't going to change that. All it will do is ruin one of the good things about the Halloween event because it will no longer be special.
The devs should ruin the event for everyone else just to satisfy you? Screw that.
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Not the halloween event ones that give the badges "Hallow Spirit" and "Iron Warrior"|
Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
The Halloween GM's are up year round in Croatoa.
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Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
And no more people won't do the events if the Halloween tip mission is up all year round. People don't like the zone events because they are a pain in the ***.
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Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
Adding the tip mission isn't going to change that. All it will do is ruin one of the good things about the Halloween event because it will no longer be special.
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Murphys Military Law
#23. Teamwork is essential; it gives the enemy other people to shoot at.
#46. If you can't remember, the Claymore is pointed towards you.
#54. Killing for peace is like screwing for virginity.
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Calm down.
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Originally Posted by William_Valence
Not the halloween event ones that give the badges "Hallow Spirit" and "Iron Warrior"
Ok, so you don't like them. That's cool. I like them I just have no reason to do them anymore as I get nothing from it. Adding the tips to it would give me a reason to do them more. By extention, I don't think they're bad. I believe other people don't think they're bad. I think many people already have all the rewards available from the banner/zombie events giving them no real reason to do them. Adding the tips to the event would give people a reason to do them again. That's complete garbage. It won't be special? So making the entirely new thing added to the event LAST YEAR, will take all the fun from the event? It would ruin it? Give me a break. Way to overreact, you should have stuck at /unsigned and left it at that. |
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No it's not. It's actually a fact. The only reason the Chalet is still fun and exciting is because the devs restrict access to it while continually add to it. Players can't get bored of it during the rest of the year by farming it to death.|
Originally Posted by William_Valence
That's complete garbage. It won't be special? So making the entirely new thing added to the event LAST YEAR, will take all the fun from the event? It would ruin it? Give me a break. Way to overreact, you should have stuck at /unsigned and left it at that.
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Players however are sick to death of the Zombie Apocalypse, Deadly Apocalypse, and Rikti Invasion because they happen so often. Many players either ignore them completely or leave the zone they occur in because they view them as an annoyance especially if they are trying to accomplish an outdoor mission of some sort.
Sorry if the truth hurts.
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So what, none of the other zones are fun? No zone in the game is fun except the chalet? Because if restricted access is needed for the chalet to be fun and exciting, then none of the non-restricted zones can be fun by extention. |
Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
No it's not. It's actually a fact. The only reason the Chalet is still fun and exciting is because the devs restrict access to it while continually add to it. Players can't get bored of it during the rest of the year by farming it to death.
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Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
Players however are sick to death of the Zombie Apocalypse, Deadly Apocalypse, and Rikti Invasion because they happen so often. Many players either ignore them completely or leave the zone they occur in because they view them as an annoyance especially if they are trying to accomplish an outdoor mission of some sort.
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Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
Sorry if the truth hurts.
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What's annoying is someone deciding to move from a standard get the point across, disagree without being disagreeable post, to one that crys dooooomm1!!!!11!! about how my suggestion will destroy the halloween event as we know it. And getting all hostile implying that I want the devs to ruin stuff for others so I can have shinys was a tad obnoxious as well.
Murphys Military Law
#23. Teamwork is essential; it gives the enemy other people to shoot at.
#46. If you can't remember, the Claymore is pointed towards you.
#54. Killing for peace is like screwing for virginity.
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What you want people to overlook when you make that argument is that the Chalet only has 1 mission (Father Time) and the Ski Slopes. And yes people will get bored of them very fast if they had unlimited access to them.|
Originally Posted by William_Valence
So what, none of the other zones are fun? No zone in the game is fun except the chalet? Because if restricted access is needed for the chalet to be fun and exciting, then none of the non-restricted zones can be fun by extention.
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Just like how the majority of players hate Kalinda and Mathew Burke's story arcs in Mercy Island because they are bored to tears of them.
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| Did three invasions this weekend. Saw no zombies pop up or I would have hit them on one character that needs the badges, but I ignored the banners because there was no reason to do them anymore. Fun or not, if my time can be spent doing something fun that also give a reward I'll do that instead. However thanks for deciding I don't like the events anymore. I totally wasn't aware I was sick to death of them. |
And neither I nor anyone else is deciding what you like or don't like. You are being informed what other people have said about those events when they posted complaints about the frequency that they occur.
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| Truth doesn't hurt, and even if it did your post wouldn't hurt enough to cause a tingle. |
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| What's annoying is someone deciding to move from a standard get the point across, disagree without being disagreeable post, to one that crys dooooomm1!!!!11!! about how my suggestion will destroy the halloween event as we know it. |
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I agree with Forbin ...
Yes there are other times of the year when the Devs open the Chalet in pocket D and IF you have any candy canes you didn't use before the winter event ended you can cash them in. BUT short of having ONE mission left over from Father Time that you failed to run while the event was on .. Can you do more? Can you earn more candy canes? NO you can't The only time you can get new missions from Father Time is during the Winter event.
As for Zombie invasions.. when they first appeared it was the same as the chalet. The event ended and so did the zombies BUT enough players asked for more that the Devs made that a year round event and just like Forbin mentioned I have seen people actually leave zones or stay in a sfae location and complain in broadcast until the invasion was over.. same with the Banner Event. I play on Virtue, one of the most active servers, and when these "events" occur you don't even see people advertising for teams in zone or on the multitude of Globals we have for that sort of thing.. and TRUST me I belong to all of them. Crazy thing.. all year long no one pays the banner event much attention at all {PLEASE note I said MUCH ATTENTION before the usual forum debate team members start their rant about how they have seen a few teams form} but as soon as the Halloween event begins suddenly Banner teams are forming all over.
The HALLOWEEN TIP mission, based on it's name alone, is designed to be played during the HALLOWEEN EVENT not year round. It's mid June now so if you wait about 4 months the event will be back and you cab ToT and do halloween tips for weeks. The Spring, Halloween and Winter events are designed to celebrate the season and reward players for still being around to participate AGAIN. We don't need to have them available year round or they stop being special and just like Zombie and Banners will quickly become more of an annoyance that a treat.
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You know, critters from the zombie and banner events. Let them drop Halloween tips.
Murphys Military Law
#23. Teamwork is essential; it gives the enemy other people to shoot at.
#46. If you can't remember, the Claymore is pointed towards you.
#54. Killing for peace is like screwing for virginity.