I have played PA for almost 3 years now, played during Christmas Event 2010 back when I was still a noob back then that event had the pokemon spawn inside spawns only 1 amount and it spawned always at the same place, this allowed for easier points gain, but harder item gain. Either way I was a no lifer back then so I managed to get 2 box 3. (Didn't choose the other reward) which was a johto box of 3 starter pokemon. Also there was eggs which allowed you to get togepi. That was kinda cool. Halloween event 2011 it was pretty hard, the items especially the items for box 4/cloned box was much harder to get than Halloween event 2012. There were also way less spawns too. It was basically KS party at cities all the time, sure there were some spawns in other pokemon spawns but it was no way nearly enough. The rewards got changed like 3 times by Alba. I can understand that, but even that event should have been planned better, at least that time they sticked to the date. Which I'm afraid they didn't on halloween event 2012, and there was really no other choice, Hohenheim would have needed to either change reward requirements or nerfing the spawns in order to keep the event going until today. If he had done that, if he had nerfed spawn it would've been worse than ending event sooner, because then people would feel that it was unfair to those who started late, also the no lifers would get even more points... If he had changed the requirements only the no lifers would get rewards, and everyone would be MAD!
I also know the reasons/unfortunate things that happenend which slowed down the event from starting. Which was beyond Hohenheim's control.
So in my honest opinion there's 2 critical things that the staff should consider before making
any event.
- Do not give dates when event start if you can't keep them. Use the best word in this world, "Soon" but say soon however within a "month" (Ehm.. Do not use this for update stuff) Then there's no problem.
- Stick to your dates no matter what, by that I mean start of event ---> end of event. If you really can't do that it shows us as an unprofessional staff, and that's bad.
If this Halloween Event 2012 had started when it was supposed to, and lasted for as long it was supposed to, then this event would've been much better than last halloween event, considering the spawns and drop rate.
Ok that was about previous events. Now I'm going to talk about an idea for future events like christmas event which is due "Soon".
In order to make the event more fun and remove some of the grinding I propose a change in christmas jynx.
- Remove points all together.
- Add christmas event items for every pokemon depending on their spawn sizes and level, it should be easier/harder to drop certain event items.
- To make things more interesting add random spawn to 3 event boss on X random places on the map Like a raid
Like these:
Snowlax,
Abominable Snowlax, and make a new sprite of
Big Snorlax with christmas outfit.
- These event bosses shouldn't spawn together, and they should spawn at a random place on the map (A notification msg should show up, like a raid) When it's starting to enter world.. and it shouldn't say exactly where it is, like a normal raid. It should give an estimate like let's say it's gonna spawn in viridian forest as an example, then the raid msg should say it will spawn somewhere between viridian and pewter, people would then need to use their brain in order to find it, so players gotta explore themselves. This raid needs to be more advanced too, it shouldn't spawn at same area of the map every time.
- These event bosses needs to be pretty strong, but depending on the area that they spawn at, their lvl will differ. So for example when it spawns in viridian forest it shouldn't be lvl 200+. More like lvl 80 (Add loads of HP to them), but not too much strength (Lower lvl) when they spawn in newbie areas, this will give every newbie a chance to attack the event boss.
Most important thing loots from event bosses:
- Rare candy, higher amount of event items. And chance to get CASH something like between 100 hd and 500 hd.
- Drop rates will differ depending on the level of the event boss. (More items, from higher level bosses) And 100% drop rate from all of the bossess
- Special token item (Required for best reward).
Here comes the best part, Christmas Jynx should obviously not play rock, paper, scissors with you. But allow you to exchange event items for tokens which then allows you to change them for rewards.
To make it more fun, add a broadcast message every time someone loots the rarest item from event.
Player X looted a special token from a Snowlax, CONGRATULATIONS!
Well this was my idea of a new type of christmas event, I think it could be very fun, and EVERY PLAYER WILL HAVE A CHANCE TO GET SOMETHING.
And about the christmas bags, allow the christmas bags to be exchanged for different tokens that is usable in Christmas Jynx 2012, in order to compensate for the extreme long time we've waited for using our rewards since Christmas Event 2011. That's one year..I propose something like a johto box 1 and a TM Box These can only be acquired from christmas tokens 2011 gained by exchanging christmas bags with Christmas Jynx. For the other rewards in christmas jynx you guys decide, but make many rewards available so any player with any level has a chance to get something.
