Holiday drops

[TravXl]

it would be fun to have a  parade where if u want to enter u get a costume then u can wonder round the grounds and join the festivities

[Isolis]

I like this idea , espically because i like free stuff =) , ive heard of this  on some other MMORPG games, ultima online i believe is one that does it also.

[MercenaryVII]

I think i good idea would be to have big parades and celebrations every year on the 11th of july. For those of you that dont recognise the significance.

Taken from the news page:
2004.07.11
 
  Searching through our documents and emails, we found the first email send by Talad to the developers to start the PlaneShift 3D project. That email was sent exactly 4 years ago, 11 July 2000. Today is the 4th anniversary of the birthday of PlaneShift 3D! Happy birthday PS!

[davo]

I do not want to see ideas borrowed from rewnscape ever.  that is the shittyest game ever and i hate it.

and what really annoyes me is when little wankers come onto the game and calle it \"planescape\" cause they play  r unescape so much.

But it is a good idea, but i wouldent want t to be incorperated with the outside world.

[Diamondcite]

Originally posted by davo
I do not want to see ideas borrowed from rewnscape ever.  that is the shittyest game ever and i hate it.

and what really annoyes me is when little wankers come onto the game and calle it \"planescape\" cause they play  r unescape so much.

But it is a good idea, but i wouldent want t to be incorperated with the outside world.

I can\'t tell if you were tyring to break the censoring or something else...

I used to call this game PlanetShift.. little did I know...

All we need to do is invent PS holidays, though I think for players sake most specials should last atleast 2-3 days... single day events should be in-significant and localized.

[TravXl]

first of all i hate runescape i think it is S$%t and seccond of all many games use holiday drops and third and finaly what the hell is with the planescape thing?

[MercenaryVII]

i think he was trying to complain about jerks playing this after playing spoonscape thinking its funny to call this game planescape but it really boils his potatoes, but dont get distracted by that what did u think about my idea for new years eve kind of celebrations on the 10/11 july as mentioned in the post above davo

[swift]

Local festivals should be a must - that way party-addicted players could travel around the world to see the lot .  

Festivals should be of varying character - drunken parties to the invite only balls of the upper classes (mug some npc for a ticket or sneak/bust in).  

But I\'m  certainly still against permanent, rare drops.  If anything is given out, it should be fairly common eg. Chocolate Cake and readily available.  Hyper inflated prices will ruin the game - just look at WoW, Lineage, Conquer, Tibia, Everquest etc.

[Diamondcite]

Common items will work out to, so no one liked temporary drops which vanish when you logoff?
I thought temporary drops would be nice since then you can litter the area with it or give it out for free and there would be no loss for any player.. or do people think that they want to keep festival items for a keepsake?

[MercenaryVII]

I like the idea of temporary drops or basic neccisities drops you know ale, cake, ale, meat, ale, did i mention ale. Also maybe for keepsakes they could make them so there very common. If your there when the celebrations are on your almost guarenteed one but they should be untradable so that way if your there you can prove it and there isnt the ridiculous prices for hats and stuff like in other games.

[Diamondcite]

Originally posted by MercenaryVII
I like the idea of temporary drops or basic neccisities drops you know ale, cake, ale, meat, ale, did i mention ale. Also maybe for keepsakes they could make them so there very common. If your there when the celebrations are on your almost guarenteed one but they should be untradable so that way if your there you can prove it and there isnt the ridiculous prices for hats and stuff like in other games.

Interesting way of handling things, nice

[err... dunno]

The game that shallnot be named is RuneScape

>.<

Im currently playing it, the way i stumbled ovr this site is of a fan site of runescape.

RuneScape has its highs and its lows.

Holiday drops were one of the worst things what happend to the game.

People making money unfairly. What happened was, on these special occasions (chirstmas, easter + haloween) they dropped items realted to the holday, the first ever i believe was pumpkins on halloween (these simply heal all your Hit Points). Then it was chirstmas crackers on the next christmas, you pulled these, got a party hat + an item or two.

The game came out in around the year 2000. These christms crackers, and party hats are incredible high in value, because they have never been dropeed since, nor can you obtain another one (unless from another player) christmas crackers are 30 Million gp (gold-peices). The average money  of what people have on the game probably cant even afford 1/10 of that. Simply people make money of these simply by picking them up and selling them a couple months later.

I would highly recomend not adding these to your game.

[TravXl]

i totlay agree the only way there could be a ps related drop would be if eveyone recived the item like a costume or a special painting or sulpture.
and if everyone had the item them it would take 10 years for it to become rare again so the drop must be inserted into the inventory of eveyone that plays the game.