my wish

[Akkaido Kivikar]

I don't think we need more GMs to make more events. GMs make events tailored to the average everyday player. What XilliX and others in this thread have pointed out is that it can only go so far. If GMs started tailoring even one event to a certain faction of player, there would be complaints (trust me, there have been in the past) that they're being biased. If they don't tailor to different factions, they're too mary-sue for alot of players.

So I suggest that rather than complain, you do as XilliX said. MAKE events. Start your own story, make a rich, deep history and cater to certain styles of player. Be creative. Make a guild that isn't just a hollow name and an extra chat tab, make it a business, a priesthood, a militia, a band of thugs, or even hunters. If you're thinking of making your own guild but see another that has this specific purpose, join them! Support guilds where hard work has been put in to make it unique, purposeful, and authentic to PlaneShift. There are many guilds, alliances, roleplays that need more support to get off the ground.

Putting in some effort and researching your character's race, giving him a well-thought out description, choosing a career, and either joining or creating a specific, goal-orientated guild that is in character to Yliakum and the world of PlaneShift is what makes the game for me. Trying to figure out whether someone is deviously tricking my character or really in need of my help, deciding whether or not to follow that suspiscious menki down the alley, running small-scale Roleplays with characters I randomly meet on the street...

...these are things you could be doing rather than writing paragraphs as long as mine about how everyone else isn't doing enough.

[Rigwyn]

I would strongly encourage anyone who can role play reasonably well and who has the interest to go ahead and take a stab at it.
If you need feedback or advice try PM-ing someone who has run an event that you liked.

After playing in a few events I had an idea of how to do it but was still unsure about it. I asked another player (Tadano Hitoshi) for advice after playing in a few of his events and was quite surprised at how willing he was to teach. This was enough for me to get started and to get enough confidence to try a few more.

Some things that are helpful:

1. Look up "Dramatic Structure" on Wikipedia. Learn to spot the introduction, conflict, rising action, climax and denouement  in stories and movies. Try and include these elements in your event.

2. Look up "36 plots" on Google. You can get generic lists of plot ideas that can easily by applied to the game's settings.

3. Focus more on providing an opportunity for enjoyable rp than on giving out free stuff. The people that join for the rp alone will add more to your event than those who show up for trinkets.

4. Take it slow. Don't be in a rush to bring things to resolution. If your on a quest to retrieve a powerful glyph from an evil wizard who lives in Bronze Doors, then make a quest out of it. Bring some healers, mages and swordsmen with you. Take a day to hike half of the way, perhaps camp overnight at the explorer's outpost, then resume your journey the next day. Perhaps on the way back you may OOCly invite some Outlaws to attack your party, or arrange to have a religious guild purify and destroy the wicked glyph for you.. The slower you take it the more opportunities you may find to include other players.

Just food for thought.

[Akkaido Kivikar]

In my honest opinion, epic quests for rare items controlled by evil geniuses are overdone.

I suggest something as simple as a farmer wanting to expand a farm over land owned by a rival farmer, basic stuff, everyday life. Less epic, but make a plot require more socialising, where the reward is as simple as a carrot, and the experience.

[Enonel]

I've noticed that a lot of small-scale RPs gradually build up into small events. Who knows? Maybe the guy you're about to speak to is a young fool who wants fame and fortune and other stuff like that. You can attempt to guide him on his quest, or you can talk him out of it altogether. The key word here is 'Choice'. Anything can happen. The only limits are the settings of PS and your own imagination.

-Edit: Added a bit of extra stuff

[Akkaido Kivikar]

You can get the most epic and enthralling RPs just by organising a simple meeting.

[Enonel]

Like that Alliance meeting.. It could easily have turned into into a brawl, given a push in the right direction. That meeting could have ended in so many different ways. But, (un)fortunately,  the result was peaceful   

[wargenie]

I don't like the walking animations for some of the races like the female dermorians and dwarves.  What about the diaboli, hammerweilders, lemurs, etc.