What is wrong with the players?

[Phinehas]

No.

It wasn't a request. I said do it.

[Suno_Regin]

I like being lazy.

[neko kyouran]

I don't see the word Tria being translated to the Penny.

More like Tria is just the standard word for the currency.  Just like the dollar is.  so 80,000 tria, to me, is the same as $80,000.  It's just confusing I guess, since one of the currency denominations is the triangle.  We don't go around say $25 as I have 1 one  10 dollar bill bill, plus three 5 dollar bills.  We just say we have 25 dollars.

[Kezzik]

How much are we talking here?
Let's just say, being a wizard isn't particularly financially constructive in the game at the moment.

4 circles per glyph from Levrus, an average of 2 hexa and 4 tria per session of theory (+1 pp too)
so tell me, are you looking into using all the ways of magic, or just some select ones, scorching mind.

[Under the moon]

Steel coins would be pennys. Check the Settings, folks.

As for people ignoring 'events', yes, they do. People are often too caught up in their single person, or selective group RPs.

I give my 'un-common cold' RP/event/quest as an example. Many people know about it, but very few are actually taking part. This makes it hard on the other players, as the RP was designed to operate with a great number of people working together for a common goal.

That is the effect you get, though, when the game focuses so much on leveling, and nothing on story. Keep trying, and the players can solve this.

*goes back to ploting worldwide, all inclusive RP #2*

ps, a tria is not a dollar, she is one of my characters.

[Irri]

Back on-topic, Irri did hear the announcement and might have participated, but was busy with other things at the time. Much like ourselves in RL, our characters are often busy with their endeavors and are rarely free to drop everything on the spur of the moment   

[zanzibar]

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

It's not a problem if you're familiar with the European system.  It's just as valid as the American system, and since PS is an international community, we should be open to its use.

I give my 'un-common cold' RP/event/quest as an example. Many people know about it, but very few are actually taking part. This makes it hard on the other players, as the RP was designed to operate with a great number of people working together for a common goal.

That's less to do with people ignoring other RPs and it's more to do with people not reading the forums and descriptions.  There are also aspects of the cold RP that a player might find objectionable and will therefore ignore.  IE it's operating outside the game mechanics, OOC behaviour like hanging around harnquist just to sneeze on people, etc.

Back on-topic, Irri did hear the announcement and might have participated, but was busy with other things at the time. Much like ourselves in RL, our characters are often busy with their endeavors and are rarely free to drop everything on the spur of the moment   

Not surprising.  In addition to having people help you out, it's also an idea to give advance warning about such events and using the forum as a resource to do so.

[Phinehas]

How much are we talking here?
Let's just say, being a wizard isn't particularly financially constructive in the game at the moment.

4 circles per glyph from Levrus, an average of 2 hexa and 4 tria per session of theory (+1 pp too)
so tell me, are you looking into using all the ways of magic, or just some select ones, scorching mind.

I actually have all those, I'm not penniless. Just annoyed by my lack of funding comparatively speaking. I can't exactly go out and do anything requiring a large amount of money...

[Kezzik]

mkay ,that makes it simpler, what ways do you want to advance?

[acmer]

I really think there should be a bulletin board in each city to quickly find some jobs, see the latest news and for players to announce their events/quests/whatever. I'll try posting a race announcement here on the forums, and we'll see what happens.

[Nyramael]

I don't think most people would be particularly excited about a run either. Right now we all run at the same speed, not even variations across races. If we had a 'sprint skill' then i'm quite sure we'd have a lot of fun with races and things alike.

Something i'd love to see is mounts that can be trained and jockies

Any event usually takes a lot of organisation and preparation to run successfully. As said earlier spur of the moment things don't work well, and any idea tends to start small. Do it with your friends and eventually the word will catch on.

[zanzibar]

I don't think most people would be particularly excited about a run either. Right now we all run at the same speed, not even variations across races. If we had a 'sprint skill' then i'm quite sure we'd have a lot of fun with races and things alike.

Something i'd love to see is mounts that can be trained and jockies

Any event usually takes a lot of organisation and preparation to run successfully. As said earlier spur of the moment things don't work well, and any idea tends to start small. Do it with your friends and eventually the word will catch on.

Except that not all roads to Akkaio are equal.

[Datruth]

I'm sorry but 10 tria or 80 tria is very low lol 

But if you meant 10,000 tria, or 80,0000 tria then i get your point and there is a simple answer.

You weren't popular enough.

Simple and to the point.

If you were in a very big and well organized guild and you advertised 10k ojaveda race, you would have atleast 5 contestants.

The fact you had no contestants doesn't mean the players don't want to do it, but that not enough players heard it.

~~Datruth

[Miaua]

Back on-topic, Irri did hear the announcement and might have participated, but was busy with other things at the time. Much like ourselves in RL, our characters are often busy with their endeavors and are rarely free to drop everything on the spur of the moment   

Same reason as Irri here...
Miaua was there too. And had the same PR reason why not to race. 80k trias would be useful for her, but there was more important things to do...   

[drah]

Ahhh... this seems so familiar...

Our guild (Outlaws) did a competition in the form of a race from one end of the DR .. pretty much to the other.

And it didn't turn out too bad... not as good as we'd hoped.. but not as bad as we feared it could!!

(We had approx. 17 racers)

My advice on this would be...

#1) Get another guild or two sponsoring/supporting the event, even just as referees... because they'll help get the word out to the players they already have an in-game relationship with and a few established guild's names will help add credibility.

#2) Many regular players won't budge unless there's either a strong RP element to it... or there's a prize of at least 100k... so maybe upping the prize to the 100k mark might have helped.

#3) Have prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place (I think we did 100k, 50k, 25k) - then people will feel as if there's more of a chance of them actually getting a prize.

#4) In-game, in-character... have your guild ask people if they would like to win some trias... spread the news about the race... bug people if need be (but do it in-character, in-game and keep a note of who you've asked already so you don't bug the same people twice!!!) - Make a list of all who express interest so you can /tell them more once you've got a list of people who'd be interested.

But, the above is all just opinion ... just from the experience we had with our DR race.