What kind of GM events would you like to see?

[Vonor]

I'm trying to go more into eventing and event writing and would like to know what kind of GM events you people would like to see.

Would you like to see pure RP events with long backstories going deep into the settings, quest like events, hide and seek like events, pvp based events or whatever?
Please don't post whole event ideas, for that use the Community input request for GM team improvement thread. In this thread I only want to hear about your preferred type of event.

And please stay on topic. If it goes too much off topic I'll request a closure of the topic.

Thanks,
Vonor

[Farren Kutter]

I think events like hunting/seeking/tracking/protecting would be beneficial to guilds such as mine And since it would be beneficial to my guild, i like those kind and would like to see more of them.

[Donari Tyndale]

I'd like to see any kind of event, however WITHOUT the NPC label. People just join GM events where they can see the label in order to get a reward. And for a reward they go OOC and turn their character from being an evil villain into a saint that cares to find the child's lost doll.

[Sen]

I somewhat remember this poll - my vote there is still valid http://www.hydlaaplaza.com/smf/index.php?topic=33181.0

Sen

[Donari Tyndale]

Since Vonor kindly informed that this is no thread for criticism:
I would like to see more long lasting events from the GM side. Maybe a vigesimi of somewhere with whom player can interact. Or travelling merchants selling rare goods (They were there but are gone..).

[Farren Kutter]

Oh, oh, I'd also like to see some sort of hint of plotline in PS events. not something gigantic and majorly effecting the PS story, but some string of events and stuff changing in the game perhaps to reflect it.

[khoridor]

Events that express the general setting, like festivals, religious days, military parades, appearances of the Octarch, etc. The GMs make the official program of the day, and players can fill in with their own event in the main one. No plots, no rewards, but an atmosphere.

[Mathy Stockington]

An event that is on going, which has a story behind it; one that could be role played by us as it goes on. In other words, I would like to see a GM event where the role players help with the story line and conclusion.

[Vannaka]

I like the pvp based events 

[Mythryndel]

I like the idea of longer events with NPC interaction/quests and the like. One idea I had put forward as an example... would be a overpopulation of Ojaveda with <insert mob here>... a few NPCs added at Brado's that can't get back to Hydlaa... a few quests offered for supplies (food, weapons, etc)... maybe some quests to deliver messages to loved ones in other cities telling them what is going on... other quests offering rewards for proof of X kills... more mobs of the appropriate type running around aggressive so that it is not safe to travel to Ojaveda without banding together or having higher skills/stats...

Basically a fully immersive storyline that could be augmented with live GM events.. but runs for a couple of weeks or a month... This is the type of event I would like to see more than any other.

[EDIT] Backstory and lore being added in would make it all the more immersive... and I like Karyuu's suggestion of personalizing things a bit... which I hope I expressed, though not as well, when talking about food and weapons and proof of kills... not every character can do each of these things... but all would be able to participate in their own way.

[Irgendwer]

I'm trying to go more into eventing and event writing and would like to know what kind of GM events you people would like to see.

I don't like events with a deep storyline. I like good stories, but if they are told in a series of events, it's too easy to miss a part. A good event is one, that you can join any time while it is ongoing, so you can come in late, when you are held up with something else. In short: Events, I'd prefer look pretty much like quests, just with a smarter set of NPC, that allow for more interesting interaction (additional benefit: Such events are more or less automatically reuseable, meaning popular ones can be repeated with less work overhead).

[Mordaan]

As someone who has been seeking events yet has come across 3 in 3 years...ANYTHING!   
For my guild, certainly events requiring finding something/someone or having to know the terrain are attractive.

[Hrothbert]

I would like to see events, like those mentioned earlier, that will continue and grow the people and characters and atmosphere, but the challenger here would be to make the events not to difficult for others to join in the middle, fact is in life events happen all the time but not everyone is affected by the beginning of it and/or only play a small role somewhere in the middle, or just hear about it from those that were there. Size for the amount of people doesn't matter to me.

[zanzibar]

I think GMs should be allowed to play the game using non-GM characters and, while doing that, they should be able to spawn unique items for themselves and elicit the cooperation of other GMs to help facilitate things (ie playing NPCs and monsters).

If GMs masquerade as normal players, then players will be more quick to help one another and interact with one another.

Masquerading as a normal player can also help GMs catch trouble-makers in the act.

[Caarrie]

I think GMs should be allowed to play the game using non-GM characters and, while doing that, they should be able to spawn unique items for themselves and elicit the cooperation of other GMs to help facilitate things (ie playing NPCs and monsters).

If GMs masquerade as normal players, then players will be more quick to help one another and interact with one another.

Masquerading as a normal player can also help GMs catch trouble-makers in the act.

this thread was about gm events, i dont see a mention of a request on how to do a gms job.