Discussion: Captain Mako Week Events!
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Posted on: 2012-08-03 13:38 in News, Events and Announcement Discussion
I'm one of those West coast people who works late and shows up just as the event is ending. Unfortunately Zwillinger had technical difficulties which ended things prematurely on Justice on Friday. Even so, I thought Captain Mako Week was fun and hope that there will be more of these hand-spawned events in the future. I think they do add something to the game that canned/programmed content, even good canned content, doesn't have.
I'm sure that with experience and feedback, these can become more interactive and less labor intensive. It might even be worth a little development time to create tools to facilitate this sort of event.
Anyway, I wanted to thank the Paragon Studios team for putting it on.
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I only found out about an hour in to the event on Virtue (I started on Talos Island 2) that this was all happening manually, which still floors me. That's SO much effort, and dear gods, you guys are awesome for coordinating that even with the hitches in the system that occurred.|
Originally Posted by Freitag
As far as the duration of the event is concerned, the situation is two-fold. Firstly, people start getting bored. We have certain mobs that we're able to spawn for you all. Those get boring after a bit. If they're not extremely tanky (like, say, the Goliath War Walkers in the Praetorian Invasions last year), then they die very quickly, which means we have to rush back to the zone a lot faster. Since the number of enemies is limited, there's only so long you guys will want to kill tentacles, Coralax, Flyers and Arachnos.
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I know why I heard a lot of complaining in various zones--Shark Week, I think people wanted more Mako than anything else--but seeing the half-ring of tentacles around Talos Island was phenomenal, and all the flyers crowding around various locations were great fun, too.
That, and y'all gave my wee fae healer Thistlebeam bragging rights for ETERNITY--because Mako called her out. OPENLY. Honestly, I think I giggled like a schoolgirl for half an hour.
In short:
You all rock.
As a live event, this went better than some of the planned events I've played in other games, so I wouldn't take the complaining seriously.
Thistlebeam now gets to tell everyone she's Mako's nemesis (
)And the parade of tentacles and Rularuu in Pocket D after made my night.
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Makes me a little sad folks can't be happier. Maybe they just don't know how it works? |
Originally Posted by midgard2
Have to say, this has to be one of the lamest special events to record since I started back with City of Villains in Issue 6. Hope they learn from this and make the next event more enjoyable.
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It was fun. A full league taking on dozens of the giant tentacles and squid/octopi, waves of others. Even got in a couple of the zone GMs. Finding Mako and then going 100 v 1.
Nice change of pace between BAFs. It's a bummer they barely had time to hand out the event titles take some pics and try to hand out some prizes. 7 pocket Ds on Monday and that was just on one of the two servers (Virtue and Protector). That's a lot of players showing up.
Tru
Great game while it lasts.
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Yup, I was on that league. Good times. |
Originally Posted by Vexen777
I was in Shark a few minutes ago. They had a new wave and there were plenty of Corlax. Over all I had a lot of fun. We had a full league, the Devs called me out and our league gathered up for a group photo. Plus we had the Supernatural event happen minutes before Mako was to come, so with us all there, we hit those too. Walked away tonight with 25 Incarnate threads, 70 new Reward Merits, 5 badges, new friends, and overall a happy attitude. Thanks Devs for a fun night. I'll get you next time Blackie!
-Pure Inferno |
We did have some downtime between waves, but the logistics of trying to run something like that manually must be tricky, to say the least. I thought the community team did a good job over all and appreciate the effort; I had fun.
I think the funniest part was Mako commenting that us crashing his computer is not a valid response for his snark. (Paraphrased, I don't remember his actual words.)
Ran it on Virtue last night.
Honestly, while I enjoyed the fighting stuff of the event, the Community Reps really hurt it a lot. The constant Red Text chatter was mostly inane babble totally unrelated to the event, or insane ramblings by Mako... who apparently now likes LOLcat humor and tired jokes about My Little Ponies that people have been telling over and over and over for over six months now. It wasn't funny. Telling the same joke for the 500th time or going "Bronie!" isn't humor, nor does telling that same joke enough times make it suddenly amusing.
It felt like... well, very Barrens Chat, to be honest. Or like the bizarre Broadcast chatter you hear in Pocket D or Atlas Park on Virtue. Or parts of 4chan. I expected Captain Mako to be there as Captain Mako, not... well, Zwillinger and Black Pebble mostly yammering at each other and making everyone in Virtue listen, unable to escape their terrible jokes for hours on end.
Heck, I don't think anyone actually saw Captain Mako. We never battled him. He made no appearances. Kind of a let down there.
There's this real feeling that official events, rather than being events, are devolving into a bunch of stupid internet humor with some stuff. If we're going to do events, why not make the effort of playing it straight? I'm fine with more lighthearted events or some comedy, but this is ridiculous. I mean, if this was what the event planner's idea of dialogue and story was? Good grief.
Playing Mako like this, with the overused memes and Bronie jokes, lessens the tension and threat, is out of character for a supervillain like this, and is just dumb. If Mako had been played straight, as this rather bloodthirsty pirate sharkman who's gone off the deep end because the television (or The Television) is making sharks look all cuddly and hurting his street cred, and wants to remind people what he is? That'd be fine! It all works in-character for him to be cheesed off and pulling this stuff.
You lost all that the moment you use the word "Bronie." And it went downhill from there.
So, yeah. Please, don't do events like that again if you're planning on making them like this. This is doubly true if you're running it on Virtue. You know we're an RP server. Wanna pull these jokes on Freedom? Knock yourself out. But spamming away with bad jokes is bad treatment of the RP community.
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I was in Shark a few minutes ago. They had a new wave and there were plenty of Corlax. Over all I had a lot of fun. We had a full league, the Devs called me out and our league gathered up for a group photo. Plus we had the Supernatural event happen minutes before Mako was to come, so with us all there, we hit those too. Walked away tonight with 25 Incarnate threads, 70 new Reward Merits, 5 badges, new friends, and overall a happy attitude. Thanks Devs for a fun night. I'll get you next time Blackie!
-Pure Inferno