What is wrong with the players?

[acmer]

We recently tried to organize a race from Hydlaa to Ojaveda. The winner would get 10.000 trias. It was a huge surprise when only one wanted to race!
After several attempts, we managed to get 3 racers, but I asked if anyone would race for 80.000 tria prize. Nobody.

So, where's the problem? Is it because everyone is so busy leveling their characters? Did I misspell the 80.000 tria prize? Nobody happened to look at the Main chat? There were too few players online?

I think it's the first one. People are so busy whacking easy targets for PP and trying to get their skills to heavens, they don't have time to do anything else. Some were chatting in the Main chat window, so people saw my announcement (which was also on auction). There were 169 players online at the moment.

If this is the direction this game is going, you could say it now, so peeps don't try to add fun to the game for nothing.

[zog]

I don't know about you, but half the time, I will ignore auctions ...especially if there are a few 'WERE I GET WEPONZ PLZZZZ!1!" or some hopeful fellow repeating his sales pitch over and over and over and over ...did you try a /shout?

[Kezzik]

peopel dont want to enter competitions they dont have a chance in, especially if they're not an avid power leveller, fighting tournaments and races all boil down to the stats players have.

and not all 169 peopel pay attention to auction, it's probably the least used tab, next to help that is.

did you put up a thread here organising it and set a date and such? that helps

oh and if we get a good amount of people I'll enter the race, but if I win the prize goes to who I feel tried hardest, I dont need Tria _^

[Karyuu]

Spontaneous events don't go over too well a lot of the time - and many people are unfortunately too wrapped up in their personal RP to stop and realize that something else of interest may be going on, and worth pursuing.

However, using the /auction channel for such an announcement seems odd - it's for auctioning off items, not announcing races You can shout, you can run around and rally people up.

But don't despair. The more events like this are put together, the more people will flock to them. So if you don't get the crowd you'd want once, twice, keep at it and your enthusiasm will catch on.

[Phinehas]

And who would want to, anyway? I mean, even if I saw it, and even if it wasn't a blatant disregard of RP for Phinehas to take part in a race, I'd still ignore it...

Just saying consider the fact that few people are going to want to take part in an essentially boring concept, despite promises of grand rewards.

[zanzibar]

If you have an event that you want to see in the game, the best idea is to go to someone like Proglin who's considered a "regular".  I'm not saying it's the way things should be, but it's the way people here seem to tick.

[sun_and_moon]

Holy I'd join in a split second! It would be fun to have a race. A nice perk to differ from the constant mining, killing, and levelling.

[Kezzik]

I dont need Tria _^

argh... Kii!!!


you stole my eye again >_>

[Phinehas]

I dont need Tria _^

I envy you.

[Kezzik]

I envy you.

if it's the tria i have you envy I can float you some.

[Suno_Regin]

To some people, 80.000 might mean 80 trias and...0 cents. =/

[Phinehas]

I envy you.

if it's the tria i have you envy I can float you some.

How much are we talking here?

Let's just say, being a wizard isn't particularly financially constructive in the game at the moment.

@Suno_Regin: To some people, 80,000 trias might sound like a hoax.

P.S. We should really start using the other forms of currency in our post. Tria's only the smallest, after all. We don't say 100,000 pennies in real life...

[Monketh]

Well, Phinehas, the only problem is that the currency system in PS is not base ten.  People do not want to do extra math.

I second that (in America, at least) 80.000 tria means 80 tria and 0 thousandths of a tria.  It also has five significant figures, so it would seem like you were measuring your tria scientifically. 

[Phinehas]

Well, Phinehas, the only problem is that the currency system in PS is not base ten.  People do not want to do extra math.

I'm aware of that. I'm saying let's get off our lazy butts and spend the extra 12 seconds per post to do the math.

[Suno_Regin]

No.