Holiday drops

[TravXl]

i think it would be better keep the robes for prosperity and something to hang on your wall in your house. also you would want to keep it cos it would be very rare you getiing picked to be laanx, and what happens to the person in the cave do they have to stay there untill the end of the celebration or can they just take the robes off and join the party, it would be good if they had to stay in the caves as a kinda punishemnt.

[swift]

hmmmm........

Santa hat drops? Sounds like a game I used to know....

Think of all the trouble that caused them - I recall a certain notice about the complaints taking the mailserver down.  Also another notice about traffic limits.  

While I think that the celebration of holidays would put a lot more life into the game, I don\'t think anything should be dropped.  The value of drops would escalate far too much, destroying the realism - after all has anybody ever offered you $75,000 US for a santa hat ?

Holidays should be celebrated with dancing in the streets, new music, ribbons etc.  but no items should be dropped. \"Perishable\" food and drink might be a possibility - it dissapears after 24hours.

[TravXl]

1)what is with the $75,000
2) maby a raffel wher your name is automaticly put in a drum and like 25 names are drawn and that person gets a prize and i think the food should be free.

[Icefalcon]

Originally posted by TravXl
1)what is with the $75,000

Uh...runescape... RS

[TravXl]

yeah what is the game that shall not be named

[Shadowfalcon]

sorry, I didn\'t know that t-g-t-s-n-b-n had santa hat drops. Ive never played it, so... But i still dont think it\'s a bad idea, as long as theyre not worth anything, just for looks and being festive. And why cant we have RL holidays in PS?

[ArcaneFalcon]

Shadowfalcon:  PS is trying to be more RP oriented.  This means that bringing real life things into PS is a no no.  However, I don\'t see why you can\'t have ooc events and such.  I think it is a great idea (though I was thinking more of  something like putting a Christmas tree and holiday quest in temporarily rather than a cheesy santa hat drop).  Even the RP server on EQ (otherwise known as Firiona Vie server for you EQ\'ers) had holiday events.

:emerald:

[TravXl]

two things
1)what is the name of the game that should not be named
2) real holidays would destroy the realisim of it, i am not saying that it shouldnt have real holidays based on our holidays maby they could have a christmas on like the 20 of may of there new years could be on 7 of feb or somthing like that.

[swift]

If holidays and festivals are implemented they should certainly be very different from those in the real world.  

I mean:

Christmas and Easter mean nothing without Christ.  
Guy Fawkes - no citizen of the ps world knows that on the 5th of November an anachist tried to blow up the houses of parliament and was later hung, drawn and quartered.  
Halloween couldn\'t happen in a world where ghosts and magic are so commonplace - what would there be to celebrate.  

But festivals such as the Chasing the Demon festival and Otarch Day would bring variety to Planeshift.

[TravXl]

on another point say that PS has a Chrismas based holiday would there be weather patterns such as the enitre town is covered in snow and everyhouse has decritive lamps outside of there house.

[Shadowfalcon]

i have the perfect holiday to celebrate in PS! CB release festival! An anual celebration in comemoration of the day CB was released. It would also appear to coincide with christmas...

[TravXl]

yeah i was thinking of that but wouldent it be better if it was new years

[swift]

I would prefer Christmas - if the release is on New Years I think I will die of boredom.  

But an Anniversary Day would certainly be cool.

[TravXl]

well since it is getting released around the real christmas i now think it would be better and more fun.

[Diamondcite]

Drop free events might be the best, since anything that is drop based will have complaints an not every player can be present for it.
Even if there are drops the items should be temporary and vanish when one logs off.

I would love to see parades in town.