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Re: GM Events, a couple of questions.
« Reply #30 on: March 13, 2007, 01:59:36 pm »
I cant, im used to the Gms giving me links to type out a,b,c,d,e Im sorry. I dont want to write that all out. Make the events a bit like the ojaveda invasion, and if you do a scavenger hunt put a sphynx giving riddles or a boss who will challenge you to a duel.
We all know ylians have the package, the looks, the brain, pretty much all of it, I feel guilty.

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Re: GM Events, a couple of questions.
« Reply #31 on: March 13, 2007, 02:38:20 pm »
Honestly, how much effort does this survey take..?
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Re: GM Events, a couple of questions.
« Reply #32 on: March 13, 2007, 02:48:06 pm »
It's really easy, quote it, take out the unneeded top and bottom and then just delete the answers you don't choose.

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Re: GM Events, a couple of questions.
« Reply #33 on: March 13, 2007, 11:52:27 pm »
Honestly, how much effort does this survey take..?

Heres a general idea question you could ask:

Have our latest Or past events totally sucked?
a) no
b) yes! *sees karyuus whip and changes mind* wait...no...
c) couldnt care less.

Negative of me, but yeah, I dont Gm events much if it concerns working hard.
We all know ylians have the package, the looks, the brain, pretty much all of it, I feel guilty.

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Re: GM Events, a couple of questions.
« Reply #34 on: March 13, 2007, 11:56:53 pm »
Why post in this thread if you're not going to take a few minutes to do what's asked, though? It's like saying "I'm too cool to do this survey; I don't care." Seems like a waste of effort, and then you get people like me bugging you about it.

Next time consider if it's really worth it.
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Re: GM Events, a couple of questions.
« Reply #35 on: March 14, 2007, 11:36:33 am »

1) What time-zone do you live in?
  c) GMT+6/GMT+8

2) How many GM events did you participate in as a whole?
  b) 1-2

3) What Type of events fo you prefer?
  a) Role-play

4) Do the events last to long?
  a) Yes

5) What do you dislike most when it comes to events?
  e) When everyone gets involved in one GM event because they know there's a reward in it for some lucky player. For example, one GM event had a Carak...Carkas...Carac...well...the death realm flying monster appear on the Plaza. Everyone swarms round this poor mage whos magic went wrong and everyone shouts at once. "Are you OK?", "Do you need help?", "Are you in trouble?" and "OMG! There's a death realm bat in the smithy!". It then takes about 15 minutes to work out what the GM wants from you and then...everybody runs away. But realisticly, not everyone in a 100km radius is going to drop everything and look for this guys antidote.

6) GM events are made so that the players have a 99% chance of winning. Is it a good idea to lower this chance, making it so that a player can loose?
  c) Sometimes


7) Small events always tend to be more realistic. Big events are always... big. Do you prefer Big epic events, or small events such as a woman in need of herbs?
  b) I prefer small events


8) If you joined in one, do you enjoy GM events?
  a) A LOT!

9) GM events are random, cause otherwise it would be OOC. Do you prefer random events, or would you like to see a forum post announing one?
  a) I like it random, just as Role-play is supposed to be.
 
10) And at last, rewards. What do you tink about the rewards in the events. Think realistic for this one.

  d) Some are good, some are not. tough question, dunno.


Good idea for a survey, Proglin.  :thumbup:
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Re: GM Events, a couple of questions.
« Reply #36 on: March 14, 2007, 04:04:22 pm »
1) What time-zone do you live in?

  a) GMT+0/GMT+2   --- GMT+2

2) How many GM events did you participate in as a whole?

  c) 2-5

3) What Type of events for you prefer?

  e) No preference.   --- Any of the events mentioned is nice.

4) Do the events last to long?

  c) Some of them

5) What do you dislike most when it comes to events?

  a) All the walking
  b) OOC interruptions
  c) The length

6) GM events are made so that the players have a 99% chance of winning. Is it a good idea to lower this chance, making it so that a player can loose?

  a) Yes, it increases excitement.   --- It's about the story, not about winning or losing. But it's just like in a movie, when you expect a happy end, rescuing someone from the deadly claws of [insert thug/monster here], probably people expect to achieve that.

7) Small events always tend to be more realistic. Big events are always... big. Do you prefer Big epic events, or small events such as a woman in need of herbs?

  c) A mixture of both   --- But I'd go with long epic ones really which span for days or weeks even, in real life. They don't really need to start and end in the same day, although small things like clues and prerequisities can be given in a short timespan, by the way of mixing.

8 ) If you joined in one, do you enjoy GM events?

  b) Yes, quite.

9) GM events are random, cause otherwise it would be OOC. Do you prefer random events, or would you like to see a forum post annoucing one?

  a) I like it random, just as Role-play is supposed to be.  --- Besides, consider this: a casual person in Yliakum needs help and and all of a sudden all the would-be adventurers just loom up around his/her place? Has to be IC and random to make it believable. As a general advice, try to think of the fun in the events, but also the target for them and the way it's presented. Just like UtM said, they need a background story, a beginning and an end which overcome that "feel" of suddenness.
 
10) And at last, rewards. What do you think about the rewards in the events. Think realistic for this one.

  d) Some are good, some are not. tough question, dunno.   --- Not sure about it myself, but yes, they should be as close to reality as possible, in terms of the rewards themselves (whether it's money or anything else), and of course... not all events need to have several winners.
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Re: GM Events, a couple of questions.
« Reply #37 on: March 16, 2007, 05:10:14 pm »

1) What time-zone do you live in?
  a) GMT+0/GMT+2

2) How many GM events did you participate in as a whole?
  b) 1-2 The rouge plague in Oja... was there an end I missed?

3) What Type of events fo you prefer?
    e) No preference.

4) Do the events last to long?
?

5) What do you dislike most when it comes to events?

  e) Other. no dislike

6) GM events are made so that the players have a 99% chance of winning. Is it a good idea to lower this chance, making it so that a player can loose?
  a) Yes, it increases excitement.


7) Small events always tend to be more realistic. Big events are always... big. Do you prefer Big epic events, or small events such as a woman in need of herbs?
  c) A mixture of both

8) If you joined in one, do you enjoy GM events?
  b) Yes, quite.


9) GM events are random, cause otherwise it would be OOC. Do you prefer random events, or would you like to see a forum post announing one?
  c) Couldn't care less.
 
10) And at last, rewards. What do you tink about the rewards in the events. Think realistic for this one.
  b) To low. I want more stuff for the job I pulled.
 


So I have seen only one big event with a lot of rogues... but the end was very very unclear to me... or was it a start of something I still don't see... accept of the new sword trainer


Cheers,

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Re: GM Events, a couple of questions.
« Reply #38 on: March 16, 2007, 09:24:57 pm »

1) What time-zone do you live in?
  b) GMT+3/GMT+5 --> GMT +3

2) How many GM events did you participate in as a whole?
  b) 1-2  ---> Just Ojaveda's Rogue invasion  :'(

3) What Type of events do you prefer?
  a) Role-play
  c) Riddles and puzzle solving.
  d) Scavenger hunt, collecting items and bringing them to the characters requesting them.

4) Do the events last to long?
  e) I don't know really

5) What do you dislike most when it comes to events?
  b) OOC intteruptions

6) GM events are made so that the players have a 99% chance of winning. Is it a good idea to lower this chance, making it so that a player can loose?
  c) Sometimes

7) Small events always tend to be more realistic. Big events are always... big. Do you prefer Big epic events, or small events such as a woman in need of herbs?
  c) A mixture of both

8) If you joined in one, do you enjoy GM events?
  a) Yes

9) GM events are random, cause otherwise it would be OOC. Do you prefer random events, or would you like to see a forum post announing one?
  b) I like them pre-announced, so I can join in the ROle-play.
                 at least a warning to be alert and organize my time to join!!  :woot:
 
10) And at last, rewards. What do you think about the rewards in the events. Think realistic for this one.
  e) I don't know...  :'(

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Re: GM Events, a couple of questions.
« Reply #39 on: March 17, 2007, 01:15:38 am »
Just would like to give a big thanks to all that participated in this seriously, it'll help the GM's and their events a great deal. You all are allowed to post for a little while longer and when we have enough oppinions I'll present you with avarage results and the plans on how we as a team plan to go about events after reviewing the answers you all gave me.

Thanks peeps!  :flowers:

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Re: GM Events, a couple of questions.
« Reply #40 on: March 17, 2007, 01:19:38 pm »
Thanks Proglin :thumbup:

I have no doubt you are going to use this information to make GM events better, I for one, have enjoyed a few of your pre-GM events and I know many others did aswell. It seems you 'get it' when it comes to events, not that other GM's dont  :surrender:

Cant wait to see what you come up with :)

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Re: GM Events, a couple of questions.
« Reply #41 on: March 17, 2007, 04:55:02 pm »
1) What time-zone do you live in?
  d) GMT-1/ GMT-4

2) How many GM events did you participate in as a whole?
   c) 2-5
(Small part in Oja invasion, especially during the only npc part, end missed, plus the Polymorph glyph, and a small part in the foreigner with plate armor)

3) What Type of events fo you prefer?
  a) Role-play
  b) Fighting, hacking and slashing.
  c) Riddles and puzzle solving.

(All three are good, in mediums.  Not too much of any one, balance in everything, and all that.  As a player, I don't find searching for items all that much fun (unless it's getting it from a person), and as Garon, scavenger hunts that don't promise large rewards would be OOC to take part in... for instance, helping a Wizard or rich merchant find something promises a good reward, but Garon wouldn't help some old lady without good reason--if that old lady happened to seem to be rich however...)

4) Do the events last to long?
  c) Some of them
(Multi-day events can be problematic, especially when it's an interesting plot, but takes place at midnight for you, so visiting it on Monday night is kind of unrealistic, even if you could visit it on Sunday night and Saturday night--this causes issues with the rewards, among other things.  However, the last multi)

5) What do you dislike most when it comes to events?
  d) the times when they are hosted.
(Midnight, as I mentioned, is not a good time for me, especially when I have school the next day :P)

6) GM events are made so that the players have a 99% chance of winning. Is it a good idea to lower this chance, making it so that a player can loose?
  c) Sometimes
(Only when it's realistic that they would lose, for instance it's unlikely that they would lose a mushroom finding scavenger hunt, but it's more likely that they would lose a war)


7) Small events always tend to be more realistic. Big events are always... big. Do you prefer Big epic events, or small events such as a woman in need of herbs?
  c) A mixture of both
(Epic events can be made realistic, you just have to have them few and far between, and have them easily accessable to all who want to take part, because of their rareness)

Cool If you joined in one, do you enjoy GM events?
  a) A LOT!

9) GM events are random, cause otherwise it would be OOC. Do you prefer random events, or would you like to see a forum post announing one?
  a) I like it random, just as Role-play is supposed to be.
  b) I like them pre-announced, so I can join in the ROle-play.

(Depends.  For Epic events, as I mentioned earlier, such as the rogue invasion, it would've been nice to have notice... I nearly died when I came to Ojaveda on a trip to visit Trasok and a shadow rogue came after me, it would make sense that ICly, Hydlaa would have posters noting the Rogue invasion and town criers spreading the news... some way to get it out to all players that "Ojaveda has uber rogues in it that will kill you if you aren't good at running away or really really really strong", however, for things like collecting herbs, that wouldn't really get town criers and the like)
 
10) And at last, rewards. What do you tink about the rewards in the events. Think realistic for this one.
  a) They are good as it is. No wonder you don't get a suit of heavy armour from a mushroom collector.

(More events that give out suits of heavy armor would be nice, however, especially since the rich are much more likely to try to get someone else to do their work for them... the poor are much more likely to go and get something themselves then some rich merchant is)

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Re: GM Events, a couple of questions.
« Reply #42 on: March 17, 2007, 11:53:20 pm »
2) How many GM events did you participate in as a whole?
I've been in a grand total of 1 - one of the first ones that happened.  It was to collect x number of ores.  After time passed, I sent the GM a /tell to see if it was still running or if I was just wasting my time.  The GM didn't write back.  I got the ore, came back, and the GM told me that the event had ended and he or she just didn't feel like answering my /tell.  Thanks a lot.

They're never happening when I'm around, or somehow I end up "missing" them through no fault of my own.  It's peculiar.


3) What Type of events fo you prefer?
No preference since I haven't been able to participate in enough to know.

4) Do the events last to long?
No clue!

5) What do you dislike most when it comes to events?
That I always miss them!

6) GM events are made so that the players have a 99% chance of winning. Is it a good idea to lower this chance, making it so that a player can loose?
First off, this simply isn't true.  Of the events which I've seen, many of them had only a single winner of all the participants.
Secondly, I think failure should be a possibility but there should also be multiple quest endings.  I gave some quests to Cha0s a while back as examples of quests with multiple endings.

7) Small events always tend to be more realistic. Big events are always... big. Do you prefer Big epic events, or small events such as a woman in need of herbs?
I prefer anything done well.

8. If you joined in one, do you enjoy GM events?
If it's done well, sure.

9) GM events are random, cause otherwise it would be OOC. Do you prefer random events, or would you like to see a forum post announing one?
This seems like a stupid question.  Why do things need to be random to be IC?  RPing is "random"?  I must be misunderstanding you, because that seems like a really foolish thing to say.  Roleplay doesn't need to be random.
 
10) And at last, rewards. What do you tink about the rewards in the events. Think realistic for this one.
They need to be realistic and they need to be fair.  They should not give participants strong advantages over non participants.
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Re: GM Events, a couple of questions.
« Reply #44 on: March 18, 2007, 10:32:17 pm »
1)  What time-zone do you live in?
     GMT -6

2)  How many GM events did you participate in as a whole?
     a) 0
     I don’t think I’ve been on when many of them have taken place.
 
3)  What Type of events do you prefer?
     a) Role-play
 
4)  Do the events last to long?
     No idea. I haven’t participated in one yet.

5)  What do you dislike most when it comes to events?
     The lack of prior notice that there will be an event.

6)  GM events are made so that the players have a 99% chance of winning. Is it a good idea to lower this chance, making it so that a   player can loose?
    There does not always need to be a “prize”. Some events require a prize, a role play event can be rewarding on its own merit as a role play event.

7)  Small events always tend to be more realistic. Big events are always... big. Do you prefer Big epic events, or small events such as a woman in need of herbs?
     c) A mixture of both.

8 )  If you joined in one, do you enjoy GM events?
     Not applicable in my case since I haven’t participated in one yet.

9)  GM events are random, cause otherwise it would be OOC. Do you prefer random events, or would you like to see a forum post announing one?
     I have to agree with Zanzibar on this one: I’m not sure why a forum announcement puts an event in the realm of OOC. An IC "role play" event does not necessarily have to be entirely random.

10)  And at last, rewards. What do you think about the rewards in the events. Think realistic for this one.
       No idea.
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